My family like many are spread across the USA. Now that I am 70 I wish I could learn more of the family history locked away in parents and grand parents memories and gone. The circle of life amazes me now as I lost my mom and gained a grandchild in must a few months apart. My mom would have loved to watch her granddaughter become a mom!

A few of my surnames are unique and some are not.

Caspole Boston and San Francisco areas
Kespohl (many variations)Boston area and Germany
Mathers, Wilson, Lavery, Walker, Cummings from Belfast N Ireland
Dingwell of Prince Edward Island Canada and Boston MA.
Mayo, Huston, Higgins, Hopkins, Murch and Drew in Bangor, Mt Desert, Eden, Bar Harbor and Patten ME and Cape Cod MA areas.
Wilson/Rattray/Mowbray/Leys in Detroit MI and London to Sombra Canada area

My wife's family is from the Steubenville/Toronto Ohio area with surnames

Villies from Steubenville Ohio,, Wellsburg WV and Louka Greece area
Karatza of Steubenville Ohio, Wheeling WVA are and Thana Greece
Peters, Ault, Morrow, Moreland and Gearen from Toronto Ohio

DNA seems to connect James Benton Twaddle to my wife's maternal side. Very high DNA matches suggest a shared child of james and Martha Luella Gearin from Pravo and New Somerset Ohio born 1898. Surnames in that tree would be Grim, Starn, Haney and Saltsman