Things you do as you get older…

 

I just spent a couple of hours going over some old family documents, and I can now trace my family (or at least the bit whose last name I carry) back to 1648, when my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Jacobus Colberg, as an adult to be Senator in the town of Lychen, was born. I’m not too sure what to make of all that, though - I guess I haven’t lived long enough in the US to develop a deep fascination with all things ancestral.