I’ve been learning a lot about our family through this genealogy project that we’ve undertaken. The most personally relevent so far: my grandmother was a photographer. She took the requisite billion-and-one shots of her kids, but she photographed other stuff too, and a lot of it is really amazing. I can’t wait to get a scanner and start sharing her work. She died sometime around 1969, when my mom was 11, and it’s interesting to find this kind of a connection with someone I’ve never met. It makes me want to learn a lot more about her.