My cousin is a genealogist and she has traced my fathers (her mother) side as far back as she can get. She has found relatives that have settled all over the world. No one has done my mother's side but they all came from around the same place in Russia and fled the pogroms so probably no surprises. Mr Stitchnripper did his DNA because there were some mysteries in his fathers side and the results confirmed a few things. He won some hours at an auction with a genealogy company and had them look into his mother's side. No surprises there. All very interesting.