Researching your genealogy could result in your inheriting billions, which is exactly what happened to two brothers who were so poor they lived in a cave outside Budapest, selling junk to buy food.

According to the article, the two bothers Geza and Zsolt Peladi, were abandoned by their mother who also severed ties with her wealthy parents. Their mother has since passed on.

The brothers’ grandmother passed away in Germany and her estate rests at over 4 Billion British Pounds. (more…)

Genealogy is about researching and preserving your ancestry. It’s one thing to find your ancestors but quite another to organize them all in a family tree chart that makes sense and that keeps you from tearing your hair out trying to remember who was great aunt Bertha.

A family tree chart is a great way to organize your family tree and keep small important information available at a glance. Most family tree charts have room for names, dates of birth, death, marriages and perhaps a fact or two such as a place or occupation. These are all important bits of information that you might want to share. But it saves you the trouble of having to haul your entire filing cabinet full of photographs, photocopies, and records with you to every family dinner, birthday, or luncheon.

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