A game

Find 15 things

Everything in this picture is somewhere your family really lived. Tap a numbered dot — or scroll down and read the list.

Left on a half-carved block. Two of the Croatian great-grandfathers cut stone for a living — the parish book calls one of them a lapicida.

This is the trhonoša trade: loading horses and walking them over the Vratnik pass. It was the whole reason the town of Senj existed.

Ljubomir was a mornar — a sailor and fisherman. He took to the water after a railway killed the carrying trade.

Falco is the Latin word for falcon. Somebody was nicknamed “the falcon” hundreds of years ago and it turned into a surname.

In a church like this at Arienzo, on 24 October 1767, a priest wrote down the oldest Falco anybody can prove.

That is Etna. Sebastiano Mazza was born at Piedimonte Etneo — a name that means, literally, “the foot of Etna”.

The Sicilian side. Of all ten families this is the shallowest — it stops after four generations, at a man with no dates at all.

Scilla, on the strait between Sicily and the mainland. Rocco Arena came from here — and Rocco is named after him.

Swordfish boats. That long prow is for the man with the harpoon. Angela Polistena grew up in this town.

Briatico, in Calabria. This is the deepest line in the whole family — nine generations, back to 1697 — and it arrives through a grandmother.

Chatham, in England. A major of the 39th Regiment sailed from here in 1826 to guard convicts on the way to Australia.

Pablo Armando Lerena trained racehorses. His passport gives his job in one word: Trainer.

This is the Karoo. Windmills pump water up from underground, because there is very little of it on the surface.

The grave at Burgersdorp. It is still standing today, and it still names George Kolbe and Margaret Downing.

A Queenslander, with a mango tree beside it. Great-grandpa Kenneth fell out of one as a boy, straight into his father’s bucket of manure.