Gosh, I wish I would not have come across this! I told myself once I retired I would get a subscription. One of my cousins traced back my father's side. According to this cousin we are related to a signer of the Declaration of Independance. This cousin was a drama queen, and I have the records, so I've tried retracing the history. I worked on this several years ago and just got too busy. There is a break in the history which makes me question how accurate the records are. Knowing my cousin she could make the leap. Our family name was Stone and the signer was Thomas Stone from Maryland. She also has us connected to royalty in England. All of this is a little hard to believe considering my father came from a family of 11 kids born to a dirt poor farmer in western Kentucky!