Soooooo......

[BarTopDancer]

That's pretty awesome!

I need to pick up where my dad left off. A cousin did some in-depth [for the time] research years ago. Most of our records were destroyed during WWII but this cousin worked for the government and had friends in very, very high places in both domestic and foreign governments and was able to find some more stuff and it's all compiled into a family tree printed out on a dot-matrix printer.

Problem is, my dad doesn't seem to think that we'll ever find more than what the cousin discovered in the late 80s-early 90s because of this government connection turning up all he could. Um, that's where networking and technology will come in to play. You never know who has what information from their parents, grand parents, great-great grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc...and how it will all fit together. Our "very small" family could be much larger.

Cindy, what forums do you use? I am inherently against Ancestry because of their LDS connection but it seems that most people use it and it may be the path of least resistance to finding more information. I don't really care if they baptize posthumously. It's ceremony I don't believe will change anything over a name on a piece of paper. I just don't want to give money to them if I can avoid it.