I just reactivated Ancestry to brush up my family tree a bit. Got a few shockers

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Kind of mind blowing - if the various linking trees are correct, Sir Walter Raleigh is an 11th greatgrandfather on my mom's side - in the Gibbs family (which I've traced back to the Norman Conquests - Albert de Guibe in the 1200s.

Then - looked at another of his lines and found that William Brewster (Puritan/Pilgrim, came over on the Mayflower) is an 11th greatgrandfather.

Kind of makes one feel odd to learn some of this stuff. Another in that line goes back to Wales in the 700s...

So I worked on my wife's line and found that she has another of the Mayflower Pilgrims in her line, on her mother's side - John Howland, as a 9th greatgrandfather.

This stuff is addictive for sure.