I'd love to be able to search out relatives of my paternal grandfather. I think we have his parents names, but as far as I know, we've never been able to find out anything about them.

My grandfather came up here from Texas. We have his birth certificate and he was born in Houston. We dont know if he had any siblings, other than the fact that once he mentioned to my grandmother that she reminded him of his sister. I think we've got his parents names too, but no one I know has been able to research any further back than his parents. I know they were Irish. (we have a really really common Irish last name that I'm not mentioning because I dont want to give away my real last name)

He died in the early 60s before I was born, so I never got to meet him and interrogate him on the family history. Apparently my dad and his siblings and my grandmother never asked him any questions about his family.

I know that my sister and I would have had him under hot lights, asking him all sorts of questions about his family. I would hope he would have answered our questions, but I dont know what he was like. I dont know if he would have answered any questions.

At least for my dad's mom's family history, one of my aunt's has done the research for her family (and luckily had my grandmother and her siblings to ask questions of) I think they still doing the research tho. They've gone far enough back that they've been getting information from family members that are still in the European country that my grandmother's parents came from.

My maternal grandparents had the family researched back to the 1600's. I think they got as far back as the part of England her Smith family name came from. (not the famous Smith tho) I need to get copies of the research...what I do know about that is about 120 to 140yrs ago, a few of my mother's maternal grandparents were Choctaw and one or two other Southern US Indian tribes. (possibly Cherokee) I think it was far enough back that I couldnt really claim any specific tribe. It's just cool to have the mention in my family history. (it was enough to interest me in learning about various indian tribes...altho I did more research into the Plains Indians than any other tribe...instead of reading about the ones my mom was distantly related to)

I know about my dad's mom's family, and my mom's family history. I really want to know about my dad's dad's family and am seriously disappointed that we havent been able to get past his parents.