I'm a lifelong, proud West Virginian of Eastern European, Western European, and British Isles ancestry. I'm a wife, mother, grandmother, and medical microbiologist in my real life, and a baseball nut, world traveler, and amateur astronomer in my fantasy life. I've been doing genealogy on and off since I can remember and doing it seriously since 1998. I love knitting and photography and calligraphy and I'm a science and science fiction nerd. I'd love to time travel (forwards OR backwards). I can't whistle. I can't sing, either, but I do it anyway.