Any other single no kids, no grandkids aunt or uncle who feels invisible at the holidays with family?

[Staph]

26. I'm one of the genealogy geeks in the family.

I can trace my mother's family, name by name, back to Switzerland in the 1500s (though the "glorious history" of the Judy/von Tschudi family goes back to Yost Schudy who was knighted in 870 AD). Her maternal family came over from Germany in the mid-1700s.

My dad's maternal grandparents immigrated from Denmark in the 1880s, but I've got Danish census records going back to the early 1900s. I was named after Dad's Danish grandmother, my great-grandmother. Dad's paternal line came over from England about 1700.

So, yeah, I know a bunch about my grandparents and great-grandparents and so on and so forth. But it saddens me to look at all of those ancestors and realize that those who didn't have kids, the dead end branches like me, disappear.

BTW, we have an annual family reunion each year, with the descendants of my mother's parents. We usually have 50-60 people there - my cousins and sisters, their children and grandchildren. We West Virginians are big on family!