Shaking the Family Tree

I finally got around to working on Ben's side of the family tree and I think I've created a monster..lol. Let me back up a little first. Not long after Ben and I were married two years ago he told me that family rumor had it that he was related to Pocahontas. Well, being told that you're related to someone famous is a common occurence in genealogy so I took it with a grain of salt.

So I decided to start my internet search for his family tree with his Dad, and went to my favorite gen. website (LDS) and typed my FIL's name in their search engine.....BAM.....not only did it have a hit, it was out of the ballpark!

A living, but distant, relative had already traced Ben's tree from my FIL all the way back to, you guessed it, Pocahontas! It's complete with documentation, etc. and I am in the process of sending for copies of my own. Upon hearing that his family rumor was actually true, my husband looks me square in the eye and in his best Hollywood actor voice says, "How!" (and I don't mean in the form of a question).

I'm almost afraid to shake my MILs side of the tree..lol.