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Does anybody else enjoy seeing their 19th, 20th and even 21th and twenty-tooth great grandparents? I do

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Every single time I try to confirm such a line, there are errors or just made-up stuff. Every single time. That pretty much destroys my enjoyment.

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I actually prefer closer relatives.  When I found my missing great-grandmother, that was cool. If I could find my g-g-g-grandfather who died in 1864, possibly in Missouri, that would be a major accomplishment.  And I confess to a fondness for my New Netherlands ancestors.  But mostly, when you get back that far, my certainty that these people actually were my ancestors goes way down.  For example, according to Wikitree, you and I are 13th cousins, sharing an ancestor named Edward Frost.  But I know nothing about that ancestor, not even if he is really mine, so I find it difficult to get too excited about him.

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Of course finding someone close is most meaningful..that first bit was meant to be humor. About distant relations being taken with a grain of salt there is a flipside. Much of each of our ancestry and their siblings are not profiled or connected yet. Could be closer