Yes both my daughter and I have researched our ancestors, and it seems that on my wife's side her family ancestry traces back to a French duke,
and I assume that many people doing research might also have a French hugonaut connection. considering the closeness of England to France,
the first origins of the English side of my wife's family appear as living in Cornwall and Devon. basically they were wheel wrights,
where as on my family side, I believe originated in Lancashire,
it is all very interesting and pain staking, when doing this research, including cross referencing , checking dates, and so on, and at other at times I look at other members of my family trees, and some times come across interesting tit bits that add a little colour into the life styles that the ancestors led.
for example by brother is a half brother, being as we had the same mother but two different fathers, how ever when I researched into his family tree
I discovered a relative that was a sailor, and he had two families one here in London, and another in Liverpool. how he managed to do that was amazing, as it obviously takes money to keep two families going, and I assume he must have been a very convincing person to be able to remember and lie his way,
as he went back, and forth, for a few years, for sure he was a juggler, and he did this for a number of years before he decided to go and live permanently with his first wife, so yes ancestry is fun, and very interesting too, in finding out where we originated from.