I can't imagine wanting to spend the time to trawl through inane trivia from generations of my ancestors. Just because there's a genetic link between me and my

I can't imagine wanting to spend the time to trawl through inane trivia from generations of my ancestors. Just because there's a genetic link between me and my great-great-grandfather, it doesn't follow that he was an interesting person. We already have so much information about the past that we need historians to curate and organise it, and present us with the interesting and relevant fragments in a coherent fashion; otherwise, we're just drowning in data. It's only going to get worse.