It's lots of fun, isnt it? It is my new obsession too. Through researching my family I have recently discovered a 2nd cousin that I had no contact with before. She has been researching the family for several years and it is nice to have her to research with. We have been able the swap quite a lot of stuff, including very old photographs.

I have never discovered any ancestors who came from anywhere exotic - Scottish on all sides as far back as the early 1700s.