I've done quite a lot of family research and I'm fairly young (I think????) being just 30. I'm somewhat of a history buff and while History generally happens t

I've done quite a lot of family research and I'm fairly young (I think????) being just 30. I'm somewhat of a history buff and while History generally happens through some great event, big time general or king or the like. history with a small h happens through the people simply living their lives. I live in Sweden and the records we have available are extensive enough from say mid 1700s and onward to give you glimpses into my relatives life. I can reconstruct a story of how my great-great-great-granparents met while both working on the same farm, eventually moving into their own farmstead and later having children. I can see how one of my relatives _really_ didn't want to be in the military since he fled three times, eventually the military just gave up in collecting him the third time. Or how one of my relatives moved to America to make a new life for himself. To me it really brings history within touching distance and makes it more human.