@thickurt@woof.group @James@woof.group My mother has been my family's de facto genealogist since the '70s. She has done research over the decades tracking birth, marriage, death, and immigration records through ancestry.com, as well as municipalities and governments throughout Northern Europe. She found a brochure/leaflet mentioning one from Bunker Hill, another tracing lines to the Battle of Hastings, her own grandmother's line into Norway, and connections my father didn't even know he had deep into Ireland and Scotland. All of the pursuits were done to deepen connections and understanding of the past, never for "purity's sake".