Upon Further Research

Digging around in the public records we see that our ancestor, Hugh Calkins, came to America in about 1640 and was living at Norwich, Conn., at about the same time that Thomas Tracy was living there, having apparently abandoned all claims to ownership of Sunderley Castle and the English crown of Egbert, whatever that means. So perhaps Hugh and Thomas met there in Norwich but that was 350 years ago. In our generation we really don't live in the same town or have the same ideas about how things ought to be done. Debbie Tracy only wishes she had the Tioga County connections of Charles Chapin Tracy, the missionary in Turkey who was a faculty member at Anatolia College. The California Tracys are obviously gold-diggers all the way back, not really with any missionary breeding in their bones, so they would not be able to understand what we are talking about if you want to be so Middle Ages about it, a time not really so idyllic in case everyone has forgotten. This is not the Norman Conquest. You only wish you were fighting on the right side of history.