Introducing Family Lore

So, here is what I want to understand. Yes. What made you so interested in all these ancestral lines and ancestral influences?

So, I've been interested in it for so long that I can't remember when it started, but all I can tell you. I'm going to do like in childhood. Did you do the DNA test? I've not done that. I wasn't all that interested in the statistical breakdown of my DNA.

I'm more interested in the stories of my ancestors and the circumstances that moved them around the planet. Every family has its stories. Your grandparents met on a blind date, or your great-grandmother passed through Ellis Island. But every once in a while, you'll hear something a little more unusual. I have a really vague memory of somebody saying, did you know your great uncle killed somebody?

I've heard my whole life that she invented the margarita. He gets a patent one month before the Wright brothers. Oh my god.

Some of these stories are hard to believe. Others are hard to imagine. And as these tall tales get passed down through the generations, they become something more than a family story. They become family lore. Mm-hmm.

My name is Lloyd Lockridge. And in this podcast, I'm going to have people on to tell stories about their families. And then we're going to investigate those stories and find out how much of it is true. To go into the archive and find what you think is like not just the secret of your family's life, but the explanatory secret of your family's life. Wow.

You know, maybe this old family story that I overheard in my grandmother's kitchen is true. This is family lore. A new series from Odyssey Podcasts. You're always wondering why your dad is a certain way.

Well, here's one answer. I love when I hear somebody say, I have a boring family history. They didn't do anything. I say, it's because you don't know anything about your history. Please follow and listen to Family Lore on any of your podcast apps.