Occasionally Snarky and Meta

I've been, but like you, I wasn't able to get too far. Part of the problem is that my family immigrated fairly recently for immigrants - I think the earliest came in the mid 1850s. I know that's hardly recent, but that was still not even 200 years ago. It was hard enough getting anything from my Canadian side - there's a separate site for Canada, ancestry.ca, but it still kept bringing up people in New York and Illinois. Trying to find anything not in North America was like pulling teeth, so I gave up. :/