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Beyond those folks, though, all I have is names, dates, and cities going back several generations, because no one did anything significant enough to turn up in a history.

Eventually, there are a few folks in the line who did something significant. A several times great aunt was the first woman to operate a newspaper in the state of GA, and possibly in the country. There are books about her, although they're ... I mean they're not especially informative. They're the kind of zine style, self published thing that you get from museum bookstores (because that's what they are! That particular ancestral home is a museum, and that museum publishes a couple of slim volumes about her.)

I know enough to know that, on my father's side, most of the family lines settled in GA in the 1750s - 1800s, and that they were mostly poor/working class folks. Even the bit of the family that ran the newspaper... I mean Sarah ended up taking it over because it was their only source of income and no one else knew how.