re: #189 calochortus

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.

My family, too, despite Crazy Aunt Doone and her contention that we were related to Sir Walter Scott.

One fun thing I did was to use the 19th Century Pittsburgh City Directories that the Pitt library has online to figure out where my ancestors were living and when, and then to find the places on Google Streetview. By doing that, I found the spot where my Great Grandfather had opened a Tobacco shop, where my Grandfather was born, and which went under, probably during the Depression 0f 1893. There is a costume shop there now, and I contacted them, and sent them a pic of my GGF, resplendent in bowler hat and moustache, standing proudly in front.