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The worst part is there is cool, if very boomer dad coded, ancestry research. It however involves reading a lot and lot of bureaucratic documents from hundreds of years ago and attaining quite some fields of knowledge to figure out how names shaped over time, how the bureaucratic institution in $time and $place work and such.
A friend of mine does it and he can trace one root of his family back to the 15th century within like a 30km radius circle. It's really cool to see where, when, and therefore likely why, his family moved about for 500 years to end up where they are now instead of getting "you are probably from europe and 2% neanderthal"