Hey friends, I have good news and bad news today.

The really bad news and I literally have a tear in my eye right now is that Mia is sick

and she is not going to be with us today for this episode.

The good news is today our guest is someone who is equally

maybe more passionate and can nerd out with me on family history stuff so I'm

so excited to introduce him to you. But I want us all collectively

together to think of a question, how many generations ago did your ancestors start

speaking a different language than you are speaking right now?

Or another way to phrase that would be how many ancestral languages have you lost?

I think this is such an interesting question and so I'm going to go

ahead while you're thinking out there I'm going to go ahead and answer this for

myself. My first language is English, American English, since there's lots of forms of English.

And so I speak Mexican Spanish because there's lots of different kinds of Spanish as well.

But my Spanish isn't perfect.

It isn't the same as my first language English.

But if I'm looking at my Irish side,

they spoke English but also Gaelic and then I have Swedish ancestry and

Norwegian ancestry I also have indigenous Mexican ancestry which they spoke no wall.

Oh Italian is another one.

No one in my family speaks Italian anymore even though I have a very Italian last name

Franconi. There is a lot of language

loss in my family and if this is not something that you've ever really thought of, today

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