I know exactly what you mean.

My father's Aunt has been researching our geneology a lot. She has my paternal side back to the late 1700's where a Patrick McKeown came over from Ireland. She had a hard time going back farther than that, and so switched to other parts of our family.


She has traced one line back through European nobility, on down to Lady Godiva and a couple others. I'm actually about to bust out the file and start scouring through it right now (primarily looking for more Scot surnames of course )