Kondor3
Cafeteria Centrist
Yeah... I managed to drag a skeleton out of a Grand Uncle's (dead for 40 years) closet when his illegitimate son found my online genealogy file and spotted his father's name on it... next thing you know, I'm getting bombarded with email inquiries from a 3rd cousin, etc., and ruffling some feathers amongst surviving in-the-know family who never mentioned the Long-Lost Tribe of Israel before.
And, of course, the further back in time you go, the less reliable, the Census data and paper records and medical records and diagnoses, and stories.
My own favorite resources were a paid subscription to Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.com and RootsWeb.com Home Page, as well as the Mormon (LDS) microfilm library (which houses millions of non-LDS church registries and records from around the country, on microfilm, going back a couple of centuries). Those, and a good database (I used Family Tree Maker, myself).
And, of course, once you publish online, it's amazing how often you're contacted by others - including long-lost, never-known 3rd and 4th cousins and the like - for yourself and your spouse - heck, I'm still getting an average of 6-10 email inquiries per year, and it's been two years since I published my last online update.
Fun stuff (genealogy), when the fever is upon you, and when some of the family who are actually somewhat interested, begin to enrich their own understanding about family history, but you can burn-off cash pretty quickly with remote or overseas research proxies, and you've gotta watch yourself re: credentials and reviews, etc.
Hope you're having fun with your own experience with such things.
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