ABSTRACT
Perhaps the most conspicuous thread throughout all nine preceding chapters is the personal identity quest involved in doing genealogy and family history. Place is also essential to family history research. People lived, worked, and played in places. Throughout history they migrated from place to place, building trails of homelands and multiple place-bound identities. While the primary focus of genealogy and family history is people, the importance of ancestral connections to place is unmistakable.
