I love these bits of history. Some old churches have a nice archive. My grandfather managed to trace back the family to the 1600, and we could see how they did, who they have been and their struggle true history. I write this, as it is related to old books, as he found in some old medicine book, a reference to one of our ancestors and a town where he lived, and going to the towns church, we could build up some good generations of the family tree.