“I’m just the kind of person who likes doing detective work, and it fits into the idea of solving a puzzle — finding out who all of your ancestors were and putting it together into a story is really fascinating.”
“When my parents began doing their family trees, that gave me my first peek into genealogy,” says Lynn Bancroft, vice president of the Mecklenburg Genealogical Society (Olde Meck) in Charlotte. “I’m just the kind of person who likes doing detective work, and it fits into the idea of solving a puzzle — finding out who all of your ancestors were and putting it together into a story is really fascinating.”