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This is interesting.
There are two paradigms happening nowadays. One is that you are getting a lot of people "retiring", more like moving into less time-consuming jobs. This gives them a lot of time to spend with their nationals, as well as nearby chapters. Especially for those nationals with mentor programs.
The second is genealogy. Back in the dot-com boom, I was the Systems Engineer helping the LDS Church modernize their genealogy centers. They were migrating from microfilm to databases, and they told me, that there is a "tipping point" in genealogy. Once you reach a point of documenting the family trees of, say 10 or 15 percent of an ethnic group (say Polish-Americans), then another 60 percent of those family trees just fall into place. I recently ran into a descendent of the Wright Brothers (Wilbur and Orville never married, but had siblings who did), which reminded me of genealogy.
So, tracing the descendents of "Uncle Billy" (Sig Ep) or Warren Cole (LXA) isn't hard, anymore. One can join ancestry.com, and a few others, for a few bucks, perhaps we should create a google group of "Greek Genealogy" and swap research?
If you have any Masonic ties, some of this gets done in "Lodges of Research", and they may have some tips.
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