We Are Family

If you trace your ancestry back far enough, you will find that we’re all connected.
We Are Family
If we looked at the last 10 generations of our family tree, imagine all of the relatives we would discover. Karin Hildebrand Lau/Shutterstock
Barbara Danza
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Recently, my family has enjoyed using a variety of online resources to trace our family tree. The maturation of the internet has facilitated the ability to dig deeper than ever before into one’s genealogy. It’s amazing what you can find out, and in what detail, about your family history, sometimes going back many generations.
An interesting realization emerges when one fills in more and more details of one’s family tree. As you go back, the tree continues to get broader, and with today’s ability to congregate vast amounts of data, you realize that at some point, the branches of everybody’s trees are going to be connected. 
Barbara Danza
Barbara Danza
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Barbara Danza is a contributing editor covering family and lifestyle topics. Her articles focus on homeschooling, family travel, entrepreneurship, and personal development. She contributes children’s book reviews to the weekly booklist and is the editor of “Just For Kids,” the newspaper’s print-only page for children. Her website is BarbaraDanza.com