Blame it all on my roots aka Fighting a losing battle

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I wrote about this earlier, probably one of my first new mylot posts. I'm trying to research my family history again, centering on my father's side of things as I have a very very good grasp on my mom's side. With my dad's side of things though, well it already doesn't help that I don't have much to go by. I know my father's name, my aunt's names, my grandmother's name. I even know my grandfather's name. Names are all well and good, and they are bringing up results... but well these results aren't branching out to more results. Not immediately anyway. I'm getting there. I am having to alternate between searching JR. and II. Both of them mean the same thing but some people use JR and some use II. My father is a III and from previous research (I was using a higher ranking membership on free trial then) I already know that a lot of my ancestor's (The males) have variations of the same first name. The fact of the matter is, it's starting to get complicated past say my third great grandfather because the name changes. I can look up general info on the surname to see where most descendants originate but I want to know WHERE we came from. Ugh, I'm giving myself a headache with this.