Genealogy’s Big Picture

 
Think about it. For centuries genealogy has been a subject that has been explored, figuratively speaking, through a microscope; small bits or segments of information are viewed in great detail.
 
This is a worthwhile and enriching perspective that will always be beneficial in genealogy, but this perspective is severely hobbled by the limitations of paper-based knowledge, [...]

Britney Spears and a Pivotal Moment at Jamestown

I just came across an interesting entry in a lineage book of the National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (NSDCW). It said that Richard Pace “PREVENTED THE ENTIRE COLONY OF JAMESTOWN FROM BEING ELIMINATED BY WARNING AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE OF THE INDIAN MASSACRE OF 22 MAR 1622.”
 
According to the ancestral history already digitally [...]

One Million in Four Centuries

There is a rule of thumb I use when estimating the number of descendants a person in the distant past may have today. It is based on a claim from The Mayflower Society which I have seen over the years.
It has been estimated that there are between 30 and 35 million living descendants from the [...]

Probably Your Castle

Or more precisely, I mean your ancestral home. It is in La Mancha, in Normandy, France and it is called either Briquebec or Bricquebec Castle.
Our research and development leads to the estimation that
quite possibly one in six people alive today have ancestral pathways,
that lead to the person who built  the castle.
Today, those descendants of Baron Anslech [...]

Misnomer: Information Age

The word information is so commonplace that most of us have never considered its roots, and what it was intended to mean.

World famous chef David Brown has a fascination with words, and he especially likes those words whose usage does not match their intended meaning. He gave me an enlightening new perspective on information.
 
If you [...]

Paris Hilton’s Prison Genes?

Can genetics be a factor in the likelihood of doing jail time?
I ran an abbreviated (only ten generations) Family Forest® kinship report of Paris Hilton and noticed several people in the report who also found themselves in a similar situation to the one Paris is in today.
One of the more famous ones of today is [...]

“The Tudors” on Showtime

When Kristine and I recently saw an episode of “The Tudors” on Showtime, we turned to the Family Forest® as a program.
 
In this application we used the Family Forest® not so much as a program in the software sense; it is similar to a digital version of a program one buys at a baseball [...]

Hello world!

 
Welcome,
 What can I offer you for your time and attention? New and precisely documented insights into who you are and where you came from.  Information that until recently did not exist – at least not in a useful way. 
For the past twelve years I have been on a fascinating journey into the past. The purpose [...]