Take chances, make mistakes.  That’s how you grow.  Pain nourishes your courage.  You have to fall in order to practice being brave. 

~Mary Tyler Moore

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I won’t make a habit of this, so don’t worry, but I saw this quote and it seemed exceptionally meaningful in relation to our quest to find our collective Ancestral Homelands through the Genealogy paper trail and Y-DNA research.

As I embarked on the DNA trail well over a decade ago I initially only saw failures. Nothing matched at all and I felt defeated. But time after time I picked the banner back up and tried again and what we have today is a broad understanding of Babb migration patterns as well as a dozen unique genetic lineages with far more diversity than I ever expected!

While the specific answer I sought to find has remained elusive, I have discovered new worlds of Babbs that I had no idea existed. I expect that I’ll live out my days in this quest and hope that someone will pick up the mantle when I am too old and feeble to continue. But for now, finding those answers is still on my Bucket List, where I expect it will remain for some time.

In 2021 we will make new discoveries that continue to alter our understanding of the Babb origins and I can’t wait to find out what they will be!

Happy New Years!
Daniel