Fifth Generation

Of all my interests, history is probably my greatest. All my life I was interested in reading about history, especially the history of Europe. I loved looking at the portraits of kings and queens of the past. The more realistic the history the better I liked it. I do not like when people use a lot of fantasy, speculation, and politics is history. I love raw history, the kind that sticks to dates and records. The story that is told in the end is far more interesting than the fantasy version of history. I heard there is a new school of history that focuses on learning about history through the genealogical records. You can’t get more raw than sifting through thousands of birth and death records and reading hours worth of pedigree charts to see patterns of disease, war, and death and how it affected families. What better topic then to blog about?

I have had some complaints that my blog isn’t as interesting because I shifted to writing almost exclusively about my family. I have found a way to reach people not related to me. I can combine my passion for history and genealogy into one. I can connect what was going on in my family with what was going on in history and how those historical changes affected my family members and caused them to migrate, immigrate, or sadly . . . die. In the end, I can connect the story to current events and prove that history repeats itself.

I will finish the story of my fifth generation so that the family can be studied in a more organized way since the research on my family goes back way too far. I hope this will entertain you a little better as I know it will entertain myself.