Will Rogers once said something like, "live so you won't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip." I don't know anybody who has ever really lived that way, but it's a lovely thought. I'm more interested in a parrot who has spent time among the flawed than one that has been raised by the perfect. This blog chronicles my personal genealogy habit, following what it's like to do the research, rather than the product of the research itself.