So I want to thank the genealogists who traced my family tree.

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After using the Ancestry app on my iPad and adding records to my family tree, I easily synced that data with my desktop software by clicking a top-right button when I next opened the Family Tree Maker.

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The iPad app was the most enjoyable way of exploring my family-tree records.

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Last year, my colleague Brian Solomon put together a family tree in an effort to break down their fortune.

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"My family hasn't sat under the same oak tree for the last 500 years, " he said.

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The title of this CD is called "The Pecan Tree" because the pecan tree, which in his case, he was from East Texas, which is also where my family is from.

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