It is for this reason that I have struggled with the linear path genealogy that many folks take. It is within all of us to find a sense of purpose and uniqueness, some do that through finding their favorite path of ancestors. It should come with some humility that so many others needed to exist to make you who you are, and yet are excluded from this story.
To be fair unless you come from some special kind of nobility or a particoularly nomadic lineage, it’s likely most of those thousand of people were from the exact same locations.
It is for this reason that I have struggled with the linear path genealogy that many folks take. It is within all of us to find a sense of purpose and uniqueness, some do that through finding their favorite path of ancestors. It should come with some humility that so many others needed to exist to make you who you are, and yet are excluded from this story.
To be fair unless you come from some special kind of nobility or a particoularly nomadic lineage, it’s likely most of those thousand of people were from the exact same locations.