I've been researching my family since about 1978, working with my father mainly on the portion of his family that came overland to the Oregon and Washington Territories, and then on the many branches of our tree.

My ancestor surname interests include:
Ball
Beyer (San Francisco)
Bingaman/Bingamon
Bolling (Benjamin and Patsy Phelps)
Brieman (Ukraine)
Burniston (UK)
Cantril
Craven
Crowley
Cummins
Findley (Quaker?)
Goldman (Ukraine)
Gordon (Mary Gordon m. William Smith New York Grange (Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire)
Hamburger 9Hungary, Romania)
Hancock
Hart (Lydia m. Joshua Hancock)
Hartmann (Hungary, Romania)
Hoadley (Barnsley, Yorkshire)
Hobbs
Holly (Mary Holly m. JC Wick)
Hopwood (UK)
Kimsey
Kincaid
Klatt (Finland)
Kleinman (Hungary, Romania)
Krivoruk (Ukraine)
Lieberman (Ukraine)
McCracken
Narod/Narodetsky (Ukraine)
Ozeran/Ozeransky (Ukraine)
Plise (Panama, Colombia, Italy?)
Polvi (Mary Klatt, aka Maria Andersdottir Polvi, Finland (Russia))
Rains (Elizabeth Catherine m. Richard Chesley Craven)
Richardson (Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire)
Ross (Lucy Ross m. William Bollin Savage)
Savage
Simpson
Smith (John and Julia Cummins)
Smith (Willard Huntington and Mary Johnson, New York)
Stewart (Benjamin and Deborah, Massachusetts)
Strausz (Hungary, Romania)
Sugar (Hungary, Romania)
Taube (Ukraine)
Walker (Jeremiah, Missouri)
Weisz (Hungary, Romania)
Wick
Williams (Britton and Elizabeth Bolling)
Williams (David Allen,Fayette Co, Pennsylvania)