LoisLane,
My family lineage on both biological sides is fairly clear cut. My mother's grandparents were the first to arrive from Germany (LOL, not what we were told). Sorta lost my Italian heritage somehow by doing the DNA. But, the family sure loved their Italian food. My great grandmother's sister also came along for the ride and married a local boy. Both of these women proceeded to populate the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania. I affectionately refer to them and their children as "never not pregnant". The original 2 produced 16 and 18 children. Each of those had no less then 6.
My biological father was born to an equally large family who consumed the western end of South Carolina. When I got the initial report from Ancestry, my daughter said you can walk up to anyone in these three towns and I am sure they must be your cousin.
By going through obituaries it was very easy to determine who had moved away as I was born in a city completely away from either of these two locations.
Not only did my mother do this to me!! This seemed to be a family thing. Her mother did it to her and I have been trying to determine from this monstrous list who her father was. It has to be one of these families that does not fit on "My Mother's Tree" or "My Father's Tree".