Your Greatest Grandmother

And mine, too, as we grasp the really big picture of ancestry

DNA technology and online ancestral records have sparked a new interest in tracing ancestry and linking modern families to long-ago history, learning for example from our DNA how Neanderthal we are.

I am getting a kick out of reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind by historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari.

Noting that Earth is 4.5 billion year…