Historical Society launches family tree project.

CLINTON - Did you ever wonder who your second cousin once-removed was? The Clinton Historical Society has launched The Clinton Family Tree Project Web site to help you figure that out.

This new feature of the Clinton Historical Societies website allows

users to build a family tree online and to share the information with others in Clinton and throughout the world. This service is provided at no cost and the only requirements are that the users have some ancestry in Clinton and they agree to share the information they compile with the Clinton Historical Society.

"One of the most common requests we get are from people looking for information on a relative who once lived in Clinton," noted longtime Historical Society board member Terry Ingano. "This new tool will help to document and identify family relationships in Clinton, and as new trees sprout on this website, we will eventually grow a forest of family trees that will help to map the many family connections in Clinton."

According to project administrator Joel Frisch, "The Web site is easy to use, but very sophisticated. You can link photographs and videos to people in the database and you can do things like calculate the exact relationship to people in a family."

To address concerns about privacy...