Trying to make family history fun and relevant to others, I recently hosted a tea party with some relatives to honor a British pioneer ancestor’s birthday. Ellen Williams died a hundred years ago this month. We have a handful of photos of her, but she didn’t leave a journal or personal history. I don’t know if she was excited to exercise her newly-granted right to vote in 1920 a few years before she died. And I don’t know if Ellen thought much about her descendants, and what life would be like a century later. However, being a family historian, I often think about being a good ancestor as well as…