What if one part of your DNA had been quietly passed down, unchanged, through every generation of women before you?

Families may scatter through migration, but the records they leave behind allow us to trace their paths and bring those stories back together.

In genealogy, when the trail of an elusive ancestor goes cold, I stop looking at them and start looking at the community surrounding them. 

What happens when a family legend rests on nothing more than sound?

It’s easy to be impressed by scale.