OK, We have lots of posts on this site from folks looking for records of dead people . Someone explain to me, whats the fascination with tracing your ancestors ? , I used to think it was something that occupied insecure retired Americans , trying to justify some long lost hope hope that they were descended from royalty and not just some white trash who sailed the ocean either under a court warrant for being a thief or some poor itinerent trying to make a better life .
Now it seems everyone wants to know where they came from ...Why ?...........the past is gone .....the future hasn't happened ....we are only here now ....so who gives a dam if your 4th cousin twice removed (whatever that means) was the illigitimate son of the King of England .
