For anyone interested in how ancestors might influence later generations, do take a Look Inside "Finding a Future"—fun to write as a family record. It's a personal story and reminiscence, recording some first steps to see what I could discover about the ways nurture, nature, and necessity influence who we become and the life we lead, using genealogy and recall. As a glimpse of one family's history, by analogy the story might resonate with life experiences in some other families. From the trails of genealogy and memory, I've sketched * details of ancestors in the 1800s and earlier in poor areas of northern Europe (England, Germany, North Ireland, and Scotland), * journeys and new settlement of voyage takers in the family, to Australia, New Zealand, and North America, * efforts of grandparents, parents, and other family in new lands, and * what it was like growing up in subtropical Australia in the 1950s through the early 1970s, to find a future. Beyond curiosity about who were my ancestors and the everyday conditions of living in earlier times, I wanted to see whether some hints of values, norms, and habits were evident across generations, within the largely unspoken past of one family’s history.