...but also a few Black Sheep.
Like a Granduncle killed in a Trainyard while being chased by police and hit by a train.

One of my Canadian ancestors was one of the lead engineers to construct the Canadian Transcontinental Railway.

Then there's Samuel Morse, Eli Whitney and Walt Disney...

I spent many years researching my genealogy and was the reason I first got a computer back in 1987. I went back 24 generations, but started hitting too many Brick Walls, so I figured I'd gone far enough, so I moved on to another hobby, of which I have several.

Hobbies keep this old mind ticking along...