Brad Verity
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Introduction | I love the area where history and genealogy meet. Both have been passions of mine since my youth. When I merged them with my passion for anything medieval - King Arthur and his Knights, the Wars of the Roses - I found my true calling. My website, Royal Descent, focuses on Edward I and the various families which descend from him. And my blog connected with it chronicles my experiences researching in English history. I hope people will enjoy it for the research itself, but also for my perspective on it. I'm an American from a warm, Jewish family, with no descent at all from royalty or peerage, no matter how far back. I'm an individual who has not been schooled formally as an historian, or trained and accredited by any professional genealogy association. I'm a guy who loves England as much for its New Wave music, great nightclubs, and awesome filmmaking, as its castles, abbeys, libraries, and gardens. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby |
| Interests | Medieval history, genealogy, movies, theater. |
| Favorite movies | Age of Innocence, Billy Elliott, Camelot, Empire Strikes Back, My Fair Lady, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Room With a View |
| Favorite music | Erasure, Enigma, Billy Joel, Don Henley, Annie Lennox, George Michael, Celtic Woman, Lorena McKennett, Anonymous 4, Hildebrand Ensemble, Gregorian chants, Hildegard van Bungen, Broadway showtunes |
| Favorite books | The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, Yale English Monarchs series |