> My Grandfather DeBoe -- a real character -- used to joke that he once paid a man to research the DeBoe family tree.
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> After reading the initial report, he offered to pay the man double to *stop*.
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> Iss "at least, I *think* it was a joke" achar

My uncle tried to research his family line. I saw the family tree, once. Let's see, on his mother's (my grandmother) side, it goes pretty far back. On the paternal side, it goes through a name change, about three generations or so further back, and then stops. Why? It gets lost. "The quagmire" is now the official family term for the bloodline.

Sun"mud"dragyn.