What some of my friends and readers may know is that besides travel, one of my great passions in life is family genealogy. I am completely gaga about researching my family origins (ping me if you’d like help with this – seriously) and I now have upwards of 11,000 or so souls entered on my own personal family tree.

What began as a historical interest became a time-sucking passion during the pandemic, and has now extended far and wide across the globe. In discussing this with my cousin recently, he inspired me to start telling these tales to a broader audience. And since I already have this blog, guess what, you’ll be treated to my offerings.

I haven’t found any kings or queens or pirates or scientists. For the most part, my family has been generation about generation of the most common and humble trades – farming, sailing, tailoring. But among the sheets, as it were, there are some intriguing overlaps with history and I hope you don’t mind that I take you along for a few of these rides.

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