Most people I know have lived in my area all their lives and so have their ancestors. If people move it’s usually less than fifty. As for me and my husband’s family the ancestors are in North Carolina. Once you get back to the 1700s it gets harder. When paid genealogy sites has free days I have tracked my family back to the very early days in Ireland and Scotland. Back to the first years of AD time period. It’s too much to attempt to write down. Our county (states divided into counties) register of deeds office is where local records are kept. Records are also at the state capitol offices. I’ve never had a lot of time to go to these places during the week when they are open. Local libraries have a genealogy room. If the area is very poor there’s not much help. Everything is on old microfiche. The graveyard site has probably been available about twenty years. It’s available in Europe also I believe.

I certainly understand language barrier. There are lots of Spanish speaking people here and I don’t have a clue what they are saying.