Upon retiring from teaching in 2000, my plans included jumping into tracing my family roots. Thirteen years later and I'm just getting a good start at it and am finding it both fascinating and frustrating. Find A Grave and Ancestry.com have been very helpful to me thus far. I am doing both my family and my husband's. We both are from Dixon, Illinois, but our roots go back to Ireland, Scotland, England, and Germany.

Upon retiring from teaching in 2000, my plans included jumping into tracing my family roots. Thirteen years later and I'm just getting a good start at it and am finding it both fascinating and frustrating. Find A Grave and Ancestry.com have been very helpful to me thus far. I am doing both my family and my husband's. We both are from Dixon, Illinois, but our roots go back to Ireland, Scotland, England, and Germany.