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'''Social Media Project''' The Valentine family line goes back farther than I have been able to trace.  I started with myself and then went through my dad back to his great-grandfather, thats when I hit a wall.  Seems that nobody knows whether he is French or German.  The town he is from is right on the border between the two and the region was in turmoil while he was alive.  My dad has been trying for years to come up with more information about him, but to no avail.  I do not think I am going to have much luck either.  Over the weekend, I sat down with my dad and added several family members in various lines of the family.  My dad is a walking encyclopedia of family history, and has provided me with plenty of information about the family.  I do not know how much he knows about all the family lines, but as long as he is capable of feeding me information, I am going to keep ''leafing'' out the family tree.  ''is this 300 words yet?''  I do not want to put up specific family info on a public site, so I am '''not''' making this ''through'' like the instructions say.  Anyway, I am now tracing any and all of my family lines as far back as possible.  My mom's side of the family might be more difficult to trace because the genealogy buff on her side is my grandmother and she has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, so she is not always coherent.  So, I am going to try to catch her on a good day to see what she knows, and try to fill in the rest myself.  Of course, my dad has information about my mom's family too, so maybe he will have enough to suit my needs.