| Dear Fellow Genealogist,
History buffs are equal parts excited and skeptical about the new blockbuster film version of The Odyssey, which opened this week in US theaters. How will the movie balance a mythological Greek story with historically realistic costumes and setting? Faithfulness to the original story with adaptation to a modern audience?
We wrestle with these questions in telling our family stories, too. Odysseus’ lineage (which we’ve boiled down to its essentials in the article below) is messy, violent and contradictory—not unlike some of our own!
Researching your ancestors can feel like an odyssey in and of itself. For one thing, stories (as opposed to data) can be hard to find—an article below provides suggestions.
For another, saving those family stories for future generations can at times feel like a Herculean task. We close this newsletter by examining a different kind of myth: those about preserving archival scrapbooks.
Buttering popcorn,
— Andrew, Editor of Family Tree Magazine
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