Recently, I started researching my family tree. The whole personal-history-thing has always interested me, my mom even said so of my younger years: asking questions about my extended family. But just this past week, I bit the bullet and actually signed up for Ancestry.com's pay service.
Surprisingly, I was able to get pretty far. Although, I haven't determined too many dates just yet. The furthest I have been able to get is my father's father's mother's father's father's father and mother. Phew. Which makes Daniel Nalty (or Nulty, there is discrepancy) my Great Great Great Great Grandfather! How exciting.
I snapped some screenshots and, feigning privacy, blurred out my last name, just incase anyone is interested. (note: click on the images to see them in full glory)
(second note: the little leaves - for those of you without A.com accounts - pop up when the website does an automatic search of the name you put in, and comes up with possible relevant documentation/information)
Firstly, as much of my family tree as can be shown at once;
and secondly, my paternal grandfather's family tree, which reveals up to the farthest I have climbed.
The only problem: I signed up for the Ancesty.com US package. And wouldn't you know it, by now they're all in Ireland! A.com won't let me see any information they have unless I pay another $100 or so to see their international package. That's how they getcha.
Most excitingly [not a word?], I found in their databases a scan of the Passenger Log for the S.S. Manhattan, the ship my father's mother came to America on in her teens. That got me really excited. I also found records of my Grandpa Tom's WWII enlistment papers, though that didn't excite me quite as much since it wasn't an actual scan of the documents - it was just the information.
