52 ancestors 2021: Beginnings

I've decided to continue on with this challenge this year because it keeps me from overly-sloppy thinking and research, and has let me consolidate some of what I've learned into one place that can be accessed by my children.  It's the 4th of January and the year has already gone downhill a bit, with the death of our 12-1/2 year old Golden Retriever Kolbe.  I know that his loss is sad but not tragic:  he lived a good life, in all senses of that phrase.  He kept us moving all of last year, getting outside for walks twice a day even at the various peaks of the pandemic surrounding us:  I suspect we are much healthier physically and mentally because of that.  Not to mention all of the love he gave us over the years.  

So, beginnings.  I'm not sure where to start (ha!).  There are a couple of Mayflower ancestors so obviously people who were there at the beginning of the English colonization of Massachusetts.  There was the Prewitt ancestor who ended up in Virginia in 1636, also a pretty early inhabitant.  I could talk about the beginning of my interest in genealogy but basically I've always been interested in family history, even when no one wanted to talk about it.  

I think I will let this stand as written (it's now the 19th of January).  It was a tough start to the year, and national events did not help.  And I can see right now that not all of the topics for this coming year are going to work for me so I'll try to just keep up with the weeks that I enjoy, and see where it takes me!