I haven't because someone on my father's side of the family spent 5 years totally dedicated to tracing the family all the way back to the early 1600s and then made it into a hardcover bound book and gave a copy to every member in the family.
On my mother's side we can't trace her family back further than her parents - many have tried but both her parents were German Jews who managed to get out of Germany during the holocaust. Both of them lost all their family to the chambers/camps and we've never been able to recover any records. They came in through Ellis Island and changed their names here and then got married a couple years after arriving here (they didn't know each other in Germany).
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