Ancestry.com

As part of the research for the book I'm writing, I've been using the genealogy website Ancestry.com. This is the premiere site for research, and although I try to avoid the obvious and seek out information in all the obscure nooks and crannies of the internet, last night I spent a few hours building my family tree. What's nice about the site is that it gives you "hints" about documents or other family trees already on the site that might contain the person(s) you're looking for. I now have 176 people in the tree and that's only on my father's side of the family!

This screen shot doesn't show it very well, but the generations keep going to the right...I have 10 generations back all the way to an ancestor who was born in 1670 in Germany. It's addictive.

(Totally unrelated photo I took today of my Shell Dish / Coin Bank!)