re: #183 freetoken

Be warned - online “genealogy” sites are full of pitfalls.

The biggest problem is that people are not really interested in genealogy.

Rather, so many people are looking for their somebody-ness. The easiest way to be a somebody is to be related to a well known somebody. So several of these sites exist to give you that somebody connection.

Consider the geni.com page called “People”:
geni.com
as an example.

On the other hand, through a message board on Ancestry I connected with a 3rd cousin back in “the old country” who is doing a lot of research on the family. Perfectly ordinary people, all.