RE: 250 Years, Immigration, and Me

"My one regret is that as I trace the different lines of my family tree the record goes cold at a certain point."

That bugs me, too. One line of my family tree is easily traceable to 1418 A.D., then goes cold. If I lived overseas in the area where that line disappears, it might be possible to pick it up and continue, but it's tough to do it from afar. The other branches become untraceable long before that. But yeah, we might have had a common ancestor a couple hundred generations ago! 😁