Researching your Ancestry

[ColleenSwerb]

Dude. Has anyone else done this?
My husband and I are going on a huge trip this fall, and for a big part of it we're meeting my family in Ireland and exploring. My paternal grandfather was born in Ireland, so we've started digging into our ancestry to see what towns and areas we should be SURE to visit.

Ancestry.com is like CRACK to me right now. It is SO COOL to find this stuff out and find out where you came from!! I just discovered a ships manifest for my great grandfather 25 years before he actually immigranted here with my grandfather. We had no idea that happened! Even MORE amazingly, he came over to meet his sister. He had a lot of sisters, but only 3 would have been of a reasonable age to be married and come over with their husbands/family and 2 of them were presumed to have died as infants! (Irish records are a little spotty, lol!)

We're finding TONS of info on my paternal grandmothers family, including a civil war soldier! We're excited to dig into my maternal side as well, as there's a rumor in the family that we're from the line that the MacKenzie River in Canada is named after!

Anyone else looking into their ancestry, or done it already? I'm thoroughly obsessed with finding out more information about my family, it's just so COOL!! Anyone have any tips?

Paula, where are you? Don't you do this sort of stuff for a living or something?? LOL!