Welcome to my attempt to take my children to visit their ancestors and the places they were from. We'll go back, generation to generation, identifying the people from whom we came and learning something about them, as well as something of the places they lived and the circumstances under which they likely encountered themselves. It should be fun. Come along if you'd care to!

I feel compelled to begin with something by way of a brief introduction. I had long ago reconciled myself to the idea that bachelorhood was to be my fate. Apparently, however, I was mistaken. A few years ago a sister-in-law elected to introduce me to a friend of hers, with whom I "hit it off" - pardon the parlance - and now I find myself - at the age of fifty, no less - not only with a lovely wife, but two beautiful children, ages four and seventeen months, as well. How wonderful it is to love and be loved.
My own parents have both passed on, but the desire that my children come to know them lingers. My wife's parents live in Alaska (we're in Wyoming), so the kids don't see them very often either. In any case, we'll take grandparents one at a time, progressing then to great-grandparents and so on, until we've met everyone in our lineages that we can identify. We'll try to learn something of the places they lived as well. So, here's to family - past, present and future - as we seek to know from whom (and whence) we came.