Soooooo well said, Gilmore! The enjoyment for many is in building the "tree" and, along the way, finding out all sorts of things that make you who you are today. We breed horses and dogs and birds to develop desireable traits and conformation; we generally don't do that with humans, so when we go back in our lines we can come upon all sorts of surprises. In Highland Scotland there are very few records pre-1770, so most often there are big gaps that cannot be filled except by taking guesses. In finding your way back to The Bruce, Erikm, you must actually have found your way into the Bruce line much more recently. Yes?