Genealogy Anyone?

Today I was adding some of my relatives to my family tree on MyHeritage.com and I made several interesting discoveries, one being that both my sister and myself share birthdays with two of my maternal grandmother's brothers. I had already known that I shared a birthday with my Great-Uncle Ernie, but none of us has realized that my sister was born on Great-Uncle Jefferson's birthday. I found it rather ironic -- not that we shared birthdays with relatives, but that two sets of siblings shared birthdays. Maybe I'm just weird and it's not that big of a deal, but it was a surprising discovery for me.

I also found out that one of the girls (Mildred) listed as my maternal grandmother's sister was actually her cousin. Apparently her mother had when she and her siblings were very young and her and her brothers were 'doled-out' among the aunts and uncles who raised them as their own children. My mom told me that Mildred always referred to her real father as "Uncle ..." when growing up as she didn't know that he was really her father. When they eventually told her the truth (if my mom remembers correctly what her mom told her), it created a huge rift between Mildred and the rest of the family. Isn't that sad?

So, there are some random facts I discovered during my family-tree making quest...one of these days I'm going to join a genealogical website so I can delve farther back and learn more about my family history. I want my children to know where our roots were.

Does anyone else reading this have as much of a fascination with genealogy and family history as I do? What have you done to learn more about your roots?