Anthropology

Here’s an example: no country fully claims my last name. I finally saw a chart of Scottish clans and allied families. It showed my family name in western Wales and northwestern Scotland. The guy who had the map said I’d have to know which group I was descended from. On the way home I realized that it probably was one group just on both sides of a trading route. My dad’s family apparently has always (from what I can determine) been in transportation or business. Because if you were going to go between those places in those days, I think the hazards of the seas were far less dangerous than the hazards of dragging a bunch of goods overland.