I got back into gen.

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3. I started out with Ancestry but then got turned on by Family Search, which is free.

That is the one which connected us to royalty and took us way further than any other site. I still haven't gone the full route, but my grandson has. I had other data that hooked us up into the 1400s which just supported the new data. I need to find out why one relative was beheaded and one was chased out of Ireland for fighting with and being a captain for Robert Emmett. Fortunately, my g-g-grandfather kept a diary of the trip to the US, so we know a lot of the background.

Once you get into it, you can hardly turn your back as there are still a lot of facts out there. I spent years going to the library. Wish I'd had the Internet at the beginning of the search.

Sweden is tough. I was fortunate to have a cousin who continued to communicate with the original family in Sweden, so she added some key data. Otherwise, I would have been lost as the church where the records were kept had burned years ago.

Good luck!