Oh, hey, 2026 Allie here with a well-deserved encore of an episode that I love.

Perfect timing also for Black History Month.

And if you go to alleyware.com slash ologies slash Black History Month,

you'll find a wonderful catalog full of great ologists and all of the causes that they chose for us to support in their name.

So we'll link that in the show notes, but onto this chat that I love. Okay. Oh, hey, it's your fourth cousin, twice removed,

Allie Ward, back with a familial historical episode of Ologies. So you were here because people

made babies with each other. And out of all of the gametes, in all of the gonads, you became a collection of molecules.

And you're suspended in a web of family.

Even a cockroach technically has grandparents and cousins.

Isn't that weird?

Your cat might have an uncle.

And if you have children, gaze at them. They may have

children who have children. And then those children might not even know your damn name. They'll

just know you're dead. But before we get into it, first, a quick thank you to the select

slice of listeners who are also patrons. You know who you are. You make the show possible. Thank you to

everyone spreading the word with your mouth or by wearing my face on your chest via ologiesmerge.com.

Also thanks to everyone who boosts this show for others to see by hitting subscribe and by

rating it and telling friends, I read all your reviews such as this fresh 2026 one from Birds for Brains who

wrote not a single uninteresting episode in the bunch, not to mention life changing. Birds for

brains, thank you for letting us change your life. Okay, genealogy. The first topic ever to not be

an ology. Look at it. Genealogy? What is this? The Berenstained bears? It's an allergy? What the heck, man?

So genealogy comes from the root word, Gina, meaning to give birth to, like Genesis. And

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