You are truly lucky that you communicate with your cousins. All of my McGrath cousins are either dead or so strung out on drugs and there will not be another generation other than my son and my brothers two boys. On the other hand, my mother's siblings (9) have given me at least 15 cousins, most in the Mid Atlantic region. The next generation has exploded and some of those have their own kids. So the Moore Clan is well established. I can trace my Father's family back 5 generations without leaving Wash. DC. Heaven only knows (and a good geneologist) just where my roots are.