Been whacking away at my family history since 1970...its an addictive adventure for sure. The Internet sure helped a lot.

Main thing I've done is share what I've found with siblings and cousins and nieces and nephews. They not only enjoy the info...some cousins have offered things with info they had handed down to them.

But the main reason for sharing it is so maybe at least one copy of what's been learned for sure so far may survive and save someone doing duplicate work.

The big tease for me now is to figure out where my 5 great grandfather Ludovic Macdonald served under an officer he admired named Gray so that he named his son Gray Macdonald. Ludovic was from Uig, Skye and was born about 1750...so he would have been of military age during the American Revolution...

Roughest part is wading throught the common name lines like Scott and Lewis...or deadending in parts of the world that kept few records, or lost them... like Vermont.

And really cool to meet distand cousins on line and find out how similar we are.

Ron