Eight Generations Revisited

<p>Eight Generations Revisited continues the<br />story of our family published in 2011 in<br />Eight Generations and adds more than<br />two centuries of details in the lives of our<br />ancestors in Erin Lietuva and America.<br />Eight Generations Revisited leads from<br />nineteenth-century huts built of wood<br />and thatch to the teeming tenements<br />of twentieth-century New Jersey and<br />from turf fires and lime kilns to home<br />computers and the Internet. The story<br />leads from naive superstitions taught in<br />hedge schools to graduate degrees from<br />renowned universities.<br />There are no kings or queens in the story<br />only a chronology of princely people<br />none of whom escaped the events of<br />their time. The townlands and villages<br />and cities where our ancestors lived are<br />places enmeshed in the history of their<br />time. Napoleon's invasion of Russia the<br />trenches of World War One the Great<br />Depression the destroyers of World War<br />Two the social anarchy of the 1960s the<br />nuclear-powered carriers that carry war<br />to our enemies-the story of our family<br />occurs in this tumultuous context.<br />Eight Generations Revisited leads from<br />people born before the American<br />Revolution and it concludes-but it doesn't<br />conclude. The story that commences in<br />these pages progresses from the finite<br />past to the illimitable future that awaits<br />youngsters who with God's grace will greet<br />the dawn of the twenty-second century.</p>