I know how to ride a unicycle (poorly), and it’s not half as weird as these hobbies.

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"Say you're in Vermont. You trace a relative who moved out to California in the silent movie era. They died out there. But you don't exactly know what year. You know they're in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. On Find-a-Grave, you can ask a volunteer who lives out there to take a photo of the marker for you and upload it to the relative's memorial online. You can add the information to your family tree, and now you've been able to see it and pay respects."