Ramblings for Tuesday, June 13, 2017       About 10:00 am on the second day of our journey we headed east from Montreuil to the ancient town of St Pol-sur-Ternoise, the seat of my medieval forefathers, the Counts de Saint-Pol. My previous research about this community and its significance to our family history did not prepare me for what I was to find. The earliest … Continue reading Exploring the Château de Saint-Pol

Ramblings for Monday, June 12th, 2017 It was with a degree of tragic irony that I departed the WWII Leubringhan Cemetery and headed to the ancient port city of Boulogne-sur-Mer. Unbeknown to my uncle Henry Sambells, the very lands of the Pas-de-Calais upon which he fought and died – was the original homeland of his clan over a thousand years earlier. At that time the … Continue reading Geopolitics & Genetics