[cbmare]

I have been chasing boobalah's family and lost ALL the Kneisls in 1910. I've been going to the national archives for years and couldn't find them. Since it is a holiday weekend, ancestry.com is having some free searches and it happens to be the 1910 census. I found them! They are a big family. How could I not find them? Seems they moved to a different county in Minn. I just wish I could find Chriselda. She is in the 1900 census and the 1920 census. She is my fav,

Anyone chase dead people?

[jules1216]

My Dad was adopted and very closed about what he knows about his birth parents...My Mom's family on the other hand is Mennonite and I have record books for both the Martins and Ebersoles way back...

[theox]

I was on ancestry.com earlier today, looking at the free 1910 census records. It's awesome that you were able to find some of your people!

I didn't have a whole lot of luck with mine - common names and a high degree of mobility (and possibly a tendency to rural settlement and distrust of the government) has made tracking some branches pretty hard.

[time2loseit]

I have a big tree at Ancestry. I love family research.

[ElisabethCK]

I love genealogy too! I know how exciting a find like that is, cbmare. Congratulations!

[niafabo]

I always loved geneology but my dad is adopted and he never wanted to know who his birth parents were and now that he has died I guess I will never know. My grandma on my mother's side has a family tree from my grandfather's side that dates back to the 1800s though. Family trees are really fascinating to look at. Maybe one day I will be able to make one of my own.