FWIW, a free site for finding and preserving info about your ancestors, near and distant, is at https://www.familysearch.org https://www.familysearch.org . I u

FWIW, a free site for finding and preserving info about your ancestors, near and distant, is at https://www.familysearch.org https://www.familysearch.org . I used to work there; they have put a lot of resources into making this available and preserving the data long-term, permitting collaboration with others who have overlapping lines, etc. I believe it also has a feature somewhere for determining how closely related you are to someone. My wife and I discovered we are 13th cousins (or so). And it has a really broad wiki to help you do accurate genealogy, with many country-specific tips and other pointers to other resources. It will not disclose info on living persons, in the tree, except to that person (and maybe their children? I forget). Lately I have not been active on the site and get less than one email per month from them, I think.