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Did anyone ever get lost in Ancestry.com?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tiapet" data-source="post: 612137" data-attributes="member: 455"><p>Ugh that site! LOL yes, I have gotten lost to it more then once. I joined it like you thinking just something quick and got sucked in. Ended up being on there for 3 months and built an extensive tree. Left it for another 6 months or so and then it called me back for another 3 months and I built on even more. I finally was able to tear away from it. It is very fun, very frustrating at times. More so when ancestry is over seas and records are in foreign languages or missing records, etc. Gets sooooo confusing when families are very large (when there is like 12 children and then you track each child and their children, etc). I am a 2nd generation to immagrants on 2 sides so that's why it's harder. My maternal grandmother's family immigrated from Scotland and my paternal grandfather's side immigrated from Germany. Then you add in a common last name (maternal grandfather) and it gets even wilder. Add in miss or changed spelling through immigration and wow! But I love a good puzzle and ancestry work is like a giant puzzle and you get drawn in so badly to fit all the pieces together and get them to fit and then you want to find "just 1 more piece" and then another and another and then you create a gap so you have to fill that one and.....well you get the picture. It's a very vicious cycle you create for yourself but geesh it's sooo fun and fascinating! I too have learned about stories, saw pictures and even learned about health situations that run in the family (including mental health!).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tiapet, post: 612137, member: 455"] Ugh that site! LOL yes, I have gotten lost to it more then once. I joined it like you thinking just something quick and got sucked in. Ended up being on there for 3 months and built an extensive tree. Left it for another 6 months or so and then it called me back for another 3 months and I built on even more. I finally was able to tear away from it. It is very fun, very frustrating at times. More so when ancestry is over seas and records are in foreign languages or missing records, etc. Gets sooooo confusing when families are very large (when there is like 12 children and then you track each child and their children, etc). I am a 2nd generation to immagrants on 2 sides so that's why it's harder. My maternal grandmother's family immigrated from Scotland and my paternal grandfather's side immigrated from Germany. Then you add in a common last name (maternal grandfather) and it gets even wilder. Add in miss or changed spelling through immigration and wow! But I love a good puzzle and ancestry work is like a giant puzzle and you get drawn in so badly to fit all the pieces together and get them to fit and then you want to find "just 1 more piece" and then another and another and then you create a gap so you have to fill that one and.....well you get the picture. It's a very vicious cycle you create for yourself but geesh it's sooo fun and fascinating! I too have learned about stories, saw pictures and even learned about health situations that run in the family (including mental health!). [/QUOTE]
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