As long as we're sharing..... I want ancestors with names like Rudimentary Montagnard or Melchizenick von Steubenhoffmanschild or Spetznatz Giafortoni, not William Brown or John Taylor or Mary Smith. I want ancestors who could read and write, had their children baptised in recognised houses of worship, went to school, purchased land, left detailed wills, had their photographs taken once a year (subsequently putting said pictures in elaborate isinglass frames annotated with calligraphic inscriptions), and with informative inscriptions on their well-preserved headstones. I want family members who wrote memoirs, enlisted in the military as officers, or served as schoolteachers, councillors, or town historians. I want kin who were patriotic and clubby, joined every local society they could find, who kept diaries, had paintings made of their houses, and who put a date on every piece of paper they touched. But most of all, I want ANCESTORS I CAN FIND!! (Unknown)