#Chapter 503: The Coded Journal

Nina I flipped to the next page of the ancestry book, humming to myself as I took notes in a separate notebook. “Interesting…” I muttered under my breath. I traced the text on the page with my other finger, thoroughly fascinated by the information I was uncovering. Of course I knew that my father’s family tree had roots that ran far and deep, but this sort of information was so much unlike the type of information one would typically find in an ancestry evaluation. I was uncovering old secrets, love affairs, hatreds and friendships. Finally, though, I finished the book; or at least, I finished the current volume. It ended with my great-grandmother, but I was certain that there had to be other tomes elsewhere that depicted my family tree both before and after the generations outlined in this book. Snapping the book shut, I leaned back in my chair with a sigh and clasped my hands behind my head. I glanced up at the towers upon towers of books all over this massive lib