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Message:: [QUOTE="Hiddendragon, post: 6732558, member: 25270"]Since everyone's telling their genealogical journey, I'll share mine. I was really into doing the research 15 years ago before I was married and had a child. My mom's side is Polish and one of the hardest things was figuring that side out. Name spellings change and no one knew where anyone was actually from. Once I figured that out, I was able to get Catholic Church records from the LDS church. Fortunately they're written in Latin instead of Polish. I'm good with languages and I was able to figure out a lot of Latin based on my Spanish and English knowledge. It's interesting to finally figure out who an ancestor was and then go back in time and make the connection between that person's parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. My ancestor left Poland, which was then part of Austria, right before World War I, supposedly to avoid conscription into the army. Fortunate that he did as he almost certainly would have been killed and my grandfather wasn't born yet at the time, so there would have been no me. The most interesting thing I found in my research was seven ancestors on the Mayflower. Supposedly ten percent of Americans were descended from a Mayflower passenger, which is amazing considering 52 people survived the first year.[/QUOTE]