Modern tribes: the amateur genealogist

My great-grandmother Smith used to treasure these slippers from the days when her mother was a famous Spanish dancer whose beauty inspired Thomas Hardy So, remember I said we’d found out my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother on my father’s side was related to Anne Boleyn’s lady-in-waiting? No, not the one who owned most of Lancashire – that was her second cousin who died in childbirth who they think could be Shakespeare’s Dark Lady. I mean the one