Thursday, September 6, 2007

Chasing ancestors


Corsicans built villages high above the sea to escape raids by Genoese, Berber pirates, Romans, and anyone else sailing by.
Here's Olgiastro, near the village from where my ancestor migrated to Wanganui 150 years ago.
Why did he leave? What was it like back then? What would growing up in Corsica be like?

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