I was recently researching my family's ancestry. I was able to trace the last 500 years with surprising ease using Ancestry.com. One of my ancestors joined the Hore's voyage, one of the early British expeditions to North America, landing in present-day Canada in 1536. Later another ancestor, Zachary Wade, immigrated from England as an indentured servant in the early 1600s. Later in life, he ended up serving in public office and owning four thousand acres of land in then province of ...