The Royal Clippers

Tom has a set of gold finger clippers that his Grandpa gave him for his mission. They are in a nice box and consist of a pair of fingernail clippers, toenail clippers and some other fancy gadgets. (And at this juncture I can't be for sure what exactly those others are because I have not been allowed to see them.) He has deemed them "The Royal Clippers" and unless you have royalty in your lineage you cannot touch them, look at them or heaven forbid use them. To let you know the extent this has been carried on, Tom researched my lineage to see whether I would be allowed to use them. And he couldn't find a single king, queen, prince or royal jester for that matter in my genealogy (and of course he had to point out the numerous times they showed up in his). Thus we have been going for 3 1/2 years. The rest of the peons in this family have just had to go on in life with lesser clippers. Well, last week we got this joyous email from my mom: I'm trying to get Dad's family information into the computer and have been going online to the church website for information. I found a couple of lines that go way back. One went back to "Fornjotur King in Kvenland" born about 0160 of Finland. Another was "Iorwerth Apgwgon" born about 1100, Denbighshire, Wales. This is on the Porter line, more specifically Bisbee-Whitmarsh. I'm not sure which lines to follow to get there, (I lost track since I didn't print it out) but it's facinating to follow them back and know someone has done a lot of work to trace them back so far. So hand over the royal clippers, honey--we've got some royal clipping to do! Life is going to be good now :)!