You’ve spent decades waiting for the right travel companion, or maybe you’ve lost one, or perhaps you’ve...
The restaurant near your hotel has an English menu, pictures of dishes, and servers accustomed to tourists....
You’ve researched the best photography spots, studied lighting conditions, and packed your gear carefully. Then you arrive...
You’ve seen the Eiffel Tower. You’ve photographed it from multiple angles, checked it off your list, and...
Your hotel concierge seems knowledgeable, speaks English fluently, and offers to arrange everything for you. It’s tempting...
There’s something seductive about those perfectly packaged tour itineraries. Day one: Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Seine cruise. Day...
People often come to genealogy and history looking for certainty. They want a definitive birthplace, a clean...
DNA testing feels like a shortcut through history. You spit in a tube, and a report returns...
For most of modern genealogy, history ran in one direction: you used records to reconstruct families, and...
Genealogy sometimes feels like a negotiation between two forms of truth. On one side is cultural memory:...