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My personal journey into the world of Genealogy began as a Boy Scout in the 1960's in Indiana. After high school and college I was too involved in my own work and household to devote time to further research of my family tree. Besides, genealogy research in those days was hard! It required trips to libraries and court houses all over the country!... However, after my parents retired in the mid 1970's they found that they enjoyed the search. Specifically, they visited aged family members and collected their recollections of the previous generations; they wrote notes on whatever was at hand - note paper, an old envelope, the back of a folder. They had several generations of ‘word of mouth' family history; however, they had only one primary document: my great-great grandparents' marriage license which they had made a copy of, and hand traced over the faint lettering... I purchased my first computer-based genealogy program in the late 1980's. My first project was to sift through the..