I contribute just about every time they plead for help, which is about twice a year.

I was lucky to get a free subscription to Mundia.com before it was acquired by insanely pricey Ancestry.com. I have built a family tree back to the early 1600s which includes over 1000 entries. Right now, it is tantamount to a beautiful Arbor Vitae. If I back-filled it with all the descendants from the treetop, it would be more like a giant blue spruce, with hundreds of thousands of points. I keep adding, but it gets cumbersome navigating the hierarchy and keeping up with there I left off. It gets to the point that you "can't see the tree for the forest". Then, following the "tips" leads to conflicting names, dates, relationships, etc.

The biggest name in the tree is world-renowned Andrew Jackson who married my 3G Aunt Rachel. Oddly, they had no direct offspring, but adopted a child from my side of the fam, Rachel's nephew, whom they named AJ Jr. They also adopted a native boy named Lyncoya. Rachel was living when Jackson was elected but died before he was inaugurated. Rachel's niece, Emily served as the White House Hostess, and her husband served as Jackson's Secretary. I have her cup that her brother, my 2GF, gave to her which she took to the WH with her.

Lyncoya was discovered as an infant clinging to his dead mother's body after the Battle of Tallushatchee, and was taken in by Jackson and named after a Jackson acquaintance. He was raised in the Jackson household with Andrew Jr.