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RE: My Creepy Hobby: Gravehunting
What a great application of crowd-sourcing. I don't think it's creepy at all. Far more creepy to deny our mortality and live like we're going to last forever, I say.
The find-a-grave site is great. I came across my father's grave on there recently, and it was a bit of a shock. I grew up with the story he'd died when I was very young, but it turns out this was either a lie or a misunderstanding on my part.
The best part of this story is that I was able to contact relatives in England who are related to Elizabeth! This is one of few family lines that came to this continent recently enough to track back to Europe before 1600. The rest were all quite early arrivals.
Sorry to hear of your discovery. That's somewhat more disturbing than me following one family line up, then following another line up, and having them converge on the same set of parents 6 generations ago!