Looking Back (Way Back)

As I've been working on recreating this journal written by my maternal grandfather (which will be a book by December), it's inevitably led to some family tree research.Over twenty years ago, I picked up on my mother's love of genealogy and created a binder of information for her. Lots of pages, many, many branches of a tree that went all the way back to King Alfred the Great. ('Mom, if we're descended from royalty, why do I have to work?' 'Someone married for love, that's why.') Of course, the argument can be made that we're all connected, and the more I do this research, the more I believe it.My husband's mother was born in Salzburg, and we have documents, official certificates of births and marriages and deaths. I have Zeinzingers back to the late 1700s, and Strauss, Altmann, Eder. Everything in German!This has helped! So has my online friend Eva Merryman - her translations have been valuable in figuring out the who, the what, and the where.So, how about you? Do you look back? Have you discovered something wonderful in your family history?