"The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." Winston Churchill Many cultures memorize their family trees, first passing them on orally, and then documenting them in sagas or in written text such as St. Matthew did in Chapter One of his Gospel which lists the 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus. I am blessed having descended from cultures that valued their genealogies; including the Scots, the Scandinavians, and the various tribes of Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, which eventually combined into nation states and empires. I have been able to trace ancestors back 60 generations to King Fjolnir of Uppsala (240-300 AD), Sweden and for many others back to the the 6th century...going back further is a work in progress! Creating my family tree and my ancestry blogs are meant
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