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Sailing and Ancestors
I've enjoyed following your sailing the Tsamaya for years...before you crossed the Atlantic. I look forward to your next sailing season. As for ancestry, we started with Ancestry.com in 2002, but stopped until recently when the site became more useful with others' family trees, documents, and hints. I also use Wikipedia, Geni.com, Google Books, and other sources to include going to the Devon Heritage Center to search for original documents to confirm information, especially when the link is to famous people or aristocracy. I also hear from distant relatives who help fill in gaps. It is like detective work following clues. It has been fun especially during the Covid shutdown when I couldn't travel overseas. I hope you do pick it up again and take the opportunity to visit where your roots are.

Priceless...
This effort to find ancestors is intended to be a legacy for my children, as you said. It is also a very good theme for traveling. My previous, and continuing theme was pilgrimages, but I'm not so good at walking long distances anymore. Thanks for your comments.

Response to yur questions
Thanks for reading my blog and for your comments. Here are some answers to you questions: 1. Along the way I stayed mostly at farmhouses where the bedding and towels were provided by the host at a nominal cost. I did so to meet Norwegian families. Also not having to carry bedding and towels lightened the load in my backpack. 2. I ate dinner and breakfasts with the families other than when I arrived late after the family had eaten. In that case, the host still prepared my dinner and we talked while I ate. 3. As with my Camino Frances experience, I washed the clothes that I wore that day by hand in a sink. The only exception was when I stayed at a hotel in Verdal where they washed and dried all my clothes for a nominal cost. 4. At the beginning in Stiklestadt and the end at Trondheim, I ate at restaurants with other pilgrims. Finding a place to buy food at lunchtime on the way was impossible as I was mostly in the middle of nowhere. For those days, the farm hosts would pack me lunch. One exception was Levanger, where I ate at a restaurant. On another day, I was resting near a house where a lady was doing her gardening. We talked and she invited me into her home where I met her husband. We talked about their trips to the US. I was served Norwegian pancakes! 5. I was able to use Wi-Fi at every location, and to charge my batteries. I didn't have a cell phone, but was able to borrow from people passing by when necessary. 6. Rooms averaged 400kr/night and 3 meals/day also averaged 400kr in 2017. 7. I got more than enough to eat! The food was delicious! I wish you the best on your pilgrimage!

Northcote Ancestry...
I was able to look up your ancestors on my family tree. Philip Northcote and Julian Kearne de Tresilian were my 11th great uncle/aunt. My tree indicates that their parents and on up the chain were: Walter Northcote of Crediton and Elizabeth Hill John Northcote of Uton Crediton and Alice Durke John Northcote and Joan Passimere Walter Northcote and Alice Mamhead John Northcote and Johanna Luttrell John Northcote and Isota Medford Walter de Northcote and Elizabeth Hawksworthy John de Northcote and Isolda Sutton John de Northcote and Margery de Buckington John de Northcote and Joan de Moels William de Northcote and Matilda de Hillion Andrew de Northcote and Matilda Faber William de Northcote and Margarita de Afeton Geoffrey de Northcote John FritzGaulfrid Sir Galfridus (Geoffrey) FitzWalter de Northcote I cannot find a Roger in this chain, which is well documented. You can read my comments to others here as to the ancestry above Galfridus...all the way past the Dukes of Normandy to the Earls and Kings of Norway and Sweden to 240 AD where King Fjolnir of Uppsala was born to the Norse god Freyr and the Giantess Gerd. I hope this helps!

Northcote Ancestry...
Thanks for sharing your Northcote ancestry. In my view, everyone whose last name is Northcote/Northcott/Northcutt or any other variation must have descended from Galfridus de Northcote. There are many paths one could take over the 900 years since 1073 AD and you have identified another. I'm sorry to hear that your GG grandmother got the short end of the stick so to speak. I thought families would take care of each other, or at least keep them out of poverty.

Northcote
I've responded to your email address. You should also read my next blog where I research the Northcote pedigree in the British Library where I got a library card!

Incredible
Thanks for reading my blog and finding it "incredible." I love researching ancestors, and recently took a very deep dive into my wife's ancestors in Scotland.

Husband's family...
Honor Northcote is my 11th great aunt. I have her, her husband John, and their 3 children Elizabeth, Thomas and Ann Furse in my family tree, which is also very large. It got so large (over 10,000) that I recently deleted almost everyone who was not in my or my wife's bloodline or a brother or sister of someone in our bloodline. The reason I did so was that it took me over a month to review all the hints provided by Ancestry, and this was without adding the supporting documentation to each individual...I just checked to be sure that the documents were supportive. My wife and my bloodlines intersect in many places. With help of a distant Northcote/Northcott/Northcutt cousin, Dina Northcutt (a descendant of Sir John Northcote's grandson John who moved to the British colony of Virginia and then Kentucky). I was able to track the Northcote ancestry from Sir Galfridus Fitzwalter de Northcote to his father, Walter le Ponz, to Mauger le Ponz, Archbishop of Rouen, to Richard II "The Good" 3rd Duke of Normandy, to Richard I "The Fearless" 2nd Duke of Normandy, to William I "Longsword" 1st Duke of Normandy, to Rollo "the Viking" who was given Normandy by the French King in return for keeping other Vikings from attacking Paris, to several Jarls and Kings of Norway, who themselves were descendants of the Yngling Kings of Sweden, whose lineage is traced back in the Yngling Saga to King Fjolnir who was born in 240 AD from the Norse God Freyr and the Giantess Gerd. our 59th great grandparents according to the myths! It was great hearing from you!