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.

I’m not really related to anyone famous, but thanks to having a relatively unusual last name, we were able to track back to one of our earliest ancestors to a Roman centurion in the last Empire who shares a name with a Italian villa established in the same region.

So I’ve got that going for me.