drifterlee opened this issue on Jan 14, 2008 · 35 posts
ockham posted Mon, 14 January 2008 at 1:27 PM
In the first couple years that I used the web, I kept running into
references to my great-grandfather (my namesake) while searching
for all sorts of completely unrelated things. He wasn't famous at all;
but for some reason many of the words or topics I looked up would
lead to genealogy pages including his name. This stopped
after a while ... probably because genealogy was among the
first heavy uses of the web, and other things quickly drowned
out the family trees.