re: The Nuremberg Trials

And if you ever dig really obsessively into your family genealogy using online databases like Ancestry dot com you will end up crossing wires with other cousins from all over the country who you never knew existed. I have had so many conversations with 3rd, 4th, and even 5th cousins who are scattered all over the US. It is interesting to hear their family stories and how their branch ended up in Arkansas or Texas, etc.. Most of our families from the late 1700s to the late 1800s usually had 6-12 children in households and they eventually, with time, scattered all over the place setting down roots far away from where they were raised. I have connected a lot of dots this way. I usually focused only on my direct lineage and didn’t try to hard to uncover what became of the 9 siblings I saw on a particular 1800s census but with the technology of today and so many people researching it becomes inevitable( if you actually manage a family tree online) that you connect with all of these distant cousins.