Back to the quilt.  Back to the quilt.

We've been pondering why it's not been easy to match ancestors to existing genealogies.  We're thinking sometimes it's been fashionable to have strong ties to nationality and sometimes it's not, so there were eras in history when whole families were generally cited as Protestant as opposed to having specific denominations.  Or, it was more acceptable to be "Dutch" than from a specific place in the changing landscape of Germany.  Plus, details of family story got lost along the way and most people only knew vague tidbits about their roots.