Welcome to the Tight Genes genealogy blog!
This is primarily an American history/genealogy blog, but you can’t thoroughly understand American history or genealogy without learning a bit about the world at large. Whether your ancestors came from Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean, the West Indies, Africa, Asia, or were native to the Americas, at some point, we will dig our toes into their soil or sand.
The majority of what will be discussed here will spring from my family tree. But, this tree includes over 22,500 persons and spans close to a thousand years, meaning its branches are far reaching. Will you find your own families’ history represented here? You just might.
There will be stories of politicians, poets, pirates, witches, rebels, religious separatists, heroes, and outlaws. The one thing genealogical discovery guarantees, there will be triumphs and there will be tragedies, but our ancestors’ lived experiences brought us to where we are today. The more we know of them, the better we know ourselves.
So grab your favorite beverage, and let’s see if we can fit into these Tight Genes!
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