Category Thoughts & Musings

General thoughts and information on genealogy, family, history, and this website.

A Bigger Story

As I researched the lives of my grandparents and those of their ancestors, I began to realize that their stories weren’t just a collection of names and dates and isolated events. Each one was connected to something much larger — the settlement of new lands, the founding of a new country, and the exploration, infrastructure, and industries that helped it grow.