May 2026

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Mari K Flowers

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It’s May, the Lusty Month of May

Lyrics from It’s May by Alan Jay Lerner from the Musical, Camelot

It just happens to be the month of May which is where Chapter One of The Second Wife’s Story, The Dragon Makers, begins. Of course it was well over a millennium ago, but I finally found the not-boring history of the patchwork that is Wales and where the real Britons can be found. No offense meant to the remaining Brits in the UK who weren’t already Brits. Explanation forthcoming.

That’s the story-telling process, and that’s why I love genealogy. Once you can connect history to real people, the stories make themselves known.

I have a whole lot going on at Stories From the Past, including menu name changes, new pages, and weekly posts. Just to make things easier for me, I will be adding things to the lists below as they come to my ADHD brain.

Watch for a large portion of the following changes and additions between now and June 1st. Refer back to this page regularly as I will link each change as they occur.

I expect that the most apparent changes will appear as Newsletters on the first day of each month, and blog posts every Wednesday without fail. Both will be scheduled for 10 AM eastern time, except when the first of the month falls on Wednesday, when the newsletter will post on the last day of the previous month. For example, July’s newsletter will arrive on June 1 of 2026.

The Second Wife’s Story

Chapter 1, The Dragon Makers
  • new landing page
  • Chapter one preface: addressing pedigree collapse
  • The Red Dragon of Wales
  • Additions to King Arthrwys ap Mor (attempts to identify reality and fun with the legends) myths and legends

Dad’s autobiography

Selected Stories approved by Dad
  • Burning Down the Garage
  • Sent to bed without any dinner
  • Shorty and the Bear

a new menu

About
  • Why We Tell Stories
  • The Original Untold Stories
Stories
  • The 2nd Wife’s Story will have its own landing page
  • All short stories will appear as landing pages with links to the people and places involved
  • When I begin a new book, it will become a landing page under stories as well. I expect that book to be Mary Damron’s Story, but things could change.
People
  • Cymry (plural for people)
  • Britons (original inhabitants of Britain, excluding Scotland)
  • King Arthrwys Ap Mor (probably who you think he is)
  • King Coel Hen (Old King Coel, yeah, he’s real too)
  • King Einion: brother to King Arthrwys ap Mor and why he matters
  • Tewdr :
  • What’s-His-Face Maximus
  • Cousin Connection: A way to find out to whom you are related and how.
Places
  • Wales, UK: AKA Cymru, Ynys Prydain
  • Roman Britannia
  • Olean, New York
  • Plain City, Utah
  • Potter, Pennsylvania
  • Kobersdorf, Austria
  • Neunkirchen Austria
  • Maly Trostenets,Belarus (Maly Trascianiec, Belarusian: Малы Трасцянец, “Little Trostenets”)
  • My Bucket List (stories I’ve found in the 50 US States I’ve Visited so far)
Unsolved Histories:

Identifying photos and other mysteries that build walls in our search for people

Brick Walls: Figuring out the hard things in genealogy
  • pedigree collapse (it’s how the Davis family is likely to be related to King Arthur)
  • primogeniture

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