Nothing particularly cool but it has been fun finding out things about people and making them more 'real'.

For example: We'd always thought that my great-grandmother's mother was named Jessie Ross or Jessie Rosse and we knew that she died before my GGM was five but that was it. After a lot of digging and finally looking at the scanned pages of the registers from Motherwell, Scotland, I found out that her name was Jessie ROSE, she was 30 years old, occupation 'Spinster', when she married Archibald Paul in August 1880, one month before she gave birth to twins (my GGM and her brother). Jessie died in February 1882 shortly after giving birth to another son, that baby died a week later, and by September of that year, Archie had emigrated to the US, leaving the twins in the care of his mother.

I later found the passenger list that included GGM, Maggie Paul at age 5, her brother Andrew, her uncle James and her grandmother, Isabella Paul, when they emigrated in 1885. I'd never known that my 3xGGM had come over from Scotland. We have a photo of her (age 50) with the twins, probably taken before they left Scotland.