You also can find out, once and for all, just what your connection is to Kevin Bacon. Take six degrees of separation one step further. What used to be a preoccupation limited to spinsterly great aunts and those looking to inherit is now fascinating to many of us. You might think it's too much trouble to see how you're related to the great or humble figures of history, but using the 'Net to research your family takes a fraction of the time that you'd spend otherwise, writing endless letters to libraries, historical societies and town clerks, or traveling to read gravestones. Thousands of civic files are abstracted for your convenience.
Genealogists are on tap, ready to dispense advice on how to find the family's missing link.
Heritage groups are bursting with cultural as well as contact information. Of course, you might find some scoundrels and slimedogs while looking for glorious ancestors.