This entry of yours prompts me to ponder my eight great-grandparents and to realize how little I know about them. I don’t even know the names of two of them. All but one were born in the U.S., six were Southerners, probably born to Southerners. (I was born in and grew up in North Louisiana, but had progenitors from Alabama and the Carolinas. Oh, and this or that Yankee along the way.) Anyway, thanks for giving me the occasion to think of them. Do you have any wish to visit Syria? (or Wisconsin?)