re: #213 klys (maker of Silmarils)

My husband’s side of the family is like that, wide spread between generation. He was born in ‘55; his dad in ‘15, his grandfather was born in 1869. Our son was born in ‘98, so we kept up the tradition.

On my side, my mother has a picture of her mother’s family that goes back to 1603 in Norway. Some of her dad’s ancestors landed in New York before the Revolution. My dad always said his ancestors were a bunch of barefooted Southern horse thieves, but my sister has traced one of his lines back to New Amsterdam. (Mind you, that was the guy who got kicked out of New Amsterdam for selling his wife to another colonist…)

Genealogy is fascinating when you get into it. I’m eternally grateful to the sister who’s doing the actual work on it.