I've worked on my family tree for over 50 years. I've used primarily the US Census' (1850-1940) to verify most of my recent ancestors. Before 1850, links have been added from other people's trees and have not been 100% validated. I also use documents from Ancestry.com to validate my information.

My primary interest is my family [Crouch/Shewmaker (Kentucky), Prather/Patton (Kentucky)], my ex-wife's family [Elliott/Alkire (Indiana) and Ahrens/King (England)], my fiancee's family [Voorhis/Paddock (Michigan) and Jacobs/Gilbert (Indiana)], my brother-in-law's family [Chrisman/Dodson (West Virginia) and Knotts/Goss (West Virginia)], my first son-in-law's family [Van Weelden/Elmore (Ohio/Iowa) and Paulus/Ingle (Ohio)], and my second son-in-law's family [Abram/Mohr (Minnesota/Missouri) and Horn/Schmitz (Missouri)] .