Genealogy is really very useful and it opens very wide the personal perspective. It is often much more effective in its impact on ourselves, because the identification with historical events gets a more handy quality. I think everyone should deal with the ancestor line at least once in their life, if not much more frequently rather than always only in the historical events of the world, which in turn get much more to do with you once your own ancestors have been wrapped up.

So you and I are much closer, aren't we? As Americans, you can assume much more that there is something European to be found somewhere or other continental migrations such as from Russia or the Caucasus. The chance that my ancestors have Indian blood (the natives of the American continent) seems to me to be somehow smaller. But that can be deceiving, can't it?

The other day, in the episode of Startrek Discovery, the screenwriter had the brilliant idea to wrap the entire bridge crew in chaos because the Universal translator was defective. All of a sudden, Babel ruled and nobody understood the other colleague anymore. It was hilarious! In real life, of course, it's anything but funny, but I found this idea simply brilliant!

Imagine if we could talk in seven other languages besides English. How wonderful that would be. I envy everyone who speaks more than two languages.

Have you investigated any more details for Thomas Baxter? Who were those people you call your ancestors, do you know more about them on a personal level?