Last night I entered the 1,000th person into my family tree. When I started this project, I said that when I hit 1,ooo people I was going to quit because knowing I was related to 1,000 other people was enough. Something tells me I'm still going to be searching and adding. On one hand, 1,ooo people seems like a lot, but when you figure at least 30% of those people are related by marriage, not blood, you're looking at the same population as my graduating class in high school. When you look at it like that, it doesn't seem like a whole lot of people.

I can trace back 7 generations on both sides of my family. I'm lucky, most of the research was done before I started, I just had to gather and compile it. Most of my current road blocks are due to the difficulty of obtaining records from outside the U.S. without leaving the country. I have traced all of my lines to the countries they emigrated from before settling here. At this time, getting records from Scotland (via Canada), Russia, Romania, and Sweden, is proving to be a little difficult. Mainly due to the fact that the records aren't in English, but also because places like Russia don't have a lot of records posted online.

In honor of my ancestors,
In anticipation of my descendants;
Here, is where my past meets the future.
Here, are my bloodlines made solid .
Here, is who I am.

http://www.ancestry.com/oft/Pedigree.asp?Reload=1&NumGens=5