Genealogy can be dead boring. So to speak. An overly analytic, "descendants' tree" approach to genealogy, whilst it might show connections that may not previously have been known, can ultimately become very utilitarian because we may know nothing of the personalities or lives of the people on the tree. They are just names and dates. So the author resolved to try to write it another way. Keith Warren delves into the backs of cupboards and old crocodile...