“This reads well”, she said and I felt I should fill the ensuing pause with an intelligent, perhaps even witty, comment.  “Let’s do it”, I replied.  Okay, not really intelligent or even witty, but as a result I found myself sailing with my mother and 140 others, along the Rhine and Danube Rivers, through Eastern Europe recently.  While the focus of this journey was not my family history, there were several experiences, genealogical by nature, that I very much want … Continue reading