i have added hundreds of names to my family tree. thanks to rootsweb
contacts and mailing lists and web frorums. I also used to buy into the membership on ancestry, myfamily and genealogy.com.

I have met several relatives on-line since researching them and visited them, and attended family reunions too.

most of my searching was inspired by trying to find out about my
grandfather who disappeared when my mom was 4, leaving grandma and the three children to live in the prairies before there was welfare to help. I have found out about several generations before my grandpa
and also several generations after, but it is still a mystery about him.