An eclectic mix of adventures, photography, and the stories that bind ’em all together.
This past year’s project was updating our Family Photo Tree. And that meant reacquainting myself with the Windows computer platform (ugh!) in order to use a remarkable piece of genealogical software called Gigatrees . For a Mac person, navigating the Windows operating system to edit code is not intuitive (frankly, editing code in ANY platform isn’t intuitive). Onward I slogged, following notes written a couple years earlier in the event I’d still be around to update our tree. What I didn’t realize at the ti
Sooney and I are officially the elders in our stateside Viani family. Were one to consider the entire Viani clan, my cousin Pietro Viani (in his mid-80’s) is the patriarch. But he’s over in Italy, growing grapes and pressing olives in Villa Viani . So, I’m taking on the task of compiling the tree for him and Vittoria. And, of course, for the hundreds of relatives I’ve been able to identify and add to our tree.