We will have ~ my father did a book that begins with a listing on the Revolutionary War vets in the lineage ~ and goes from there up to the present time. i’ve worked backwards to Brittany and Sweden, and, to a degree, to Spain and Italy ~ whole new piece of history for me ~ Brittany used to be a major European power.
“A relative was the editor in chief of the Catholic Encyclopedia a century ago ~ and he seems to have made sure every single relate we ever had in the hierarchy got a nice piece written about him. Digesting a bunch of that stuff currently ~ there’s a pope and what seems to be a couple of anti-popes in there. That relative knew some stuff I am sure. “
What an incredibly rich history that is being captured...
Most of this wasn’t possible until we had the internet ~ searches are so much faster and there’s this incredible amount of material written in Bible front leafs showing up. Sweden had a fire that burned ALL their records in roughly 1686 or thereabouts ~ they are recovering it all from private sources ~ first, the land titles and descriptions have been put on the net ~ and court transcripts. Then private individuals have something to hang the information on