My Tate Family Origins

 I was curious about my Tate ancestors, not being around many of them growing up. My mother and father divorced when I was about 10 or so and my sister and I lived with my mother. My father remarried when I was in my early teens.  Mom had a few near misses, but didn't remarry. I have a step sister from my father's second marriage. I've seen a lot of Ancestry.com commercials, I figured I would create an account and see what I could find out.
   You can create a free Ancestry.com account, but it's not obvious how. Ancestry.com does its best to get you to pay them money or sign up for a trial account which converts to a paid account in 14 days unless you cancel. Anyway, after the initial account creation, I got stuck on one of their screens to choose the account type, unfortunately, free wasn't one of the choices unless you choose the 14 day trial. Hmmmm. I used the browser's address bar to navigate back to Ancestry.com and bingo, I was back on the home screen.
   If you hover your mouse pointer over the "Family Trees" button, you get a drop down box of options, I chose the "Start a new tree" option and I was off and running. When you click on "Add a new person", you start by entering your information and there is a check box indicating the first entry or home person is you. You can change this later if you need or want to. I entered my basic info, name, birth date and birth place and hit save. There is an option to enter your spouse information that shows up underneath the home person, so I entered my wife's information as well.
   After I entered my wife's information, Ancestry.com gave me a pop up box to name my new tree and to select whether I wanted it to be private or public. I chose to make it public with the knowledge that Ancestry will "hide" anyone in my tree that is living.
   I added more info for my wife and I using the "+Add Fact" command button. I entered our marriage date and place. I entered our children's information and started with our parents. After entering our parents info, I moved on to our grandparents. Things started getting a little tricky here for us. Time to makes some phone calls to our surviving parents, aunts and/or uncles.

Here's a screen shot of the results so far...