Art Crocker uses his laptop to research his family’s genealogy. “It’s interesting, the different little pieces you come up with,” Crocker said. “It’s like playing detective in a sense.” Malinda Just / Free Press.

The story is straight out of Art Crocker’s family history. Crocker, Hillsboro, a hobbiest of genealogy research has discovered interesting pieces of information about his family since beginning his research in 1999.

“It’s interesting, the different little pieces you come up with,” he said. “It’s like playing detective in a sense.”