The primary purpose of LookingBackwards.net is to provide a central repository
for family history for the combined families of Katrina Vanderpool and Herb Mitchell.
Additionally, our website
documents other activities and pastimes our family enjoys.
Our site is presently undergoing revision and rearrangement; portions of the site may be
temporarily unavailable. If your selection is not available, please revisit us in
a day or two and attempt it again.
Our ancestral lines include Mitchell, Clark, Jones, Moore, Allbright/Albright/Albrecht,
Robinson, Phares and Brough ancestry for Herb, and Vanderpool, Gibson, Guinn, Campbell,
Brashears, Brazil and others for Katrina.
While a registration is not needed to access most of the website, registered family members do have additional access to information on living family members. To register for an account with us, please complete the New User request form in the Genealogy section of the website.
Our Amberwood pages recount the founding of the Shire of Darkwell (now Wintermist) in the Kingdom of Caid, as well as background, awards and such of some of the members of the Household and Shire.
After several years of employment at Microsoft, Katrina was presented with an apportunity to begin a new career. Read here about her adventures in Funeral Services, and what you can do to help her out.
Weregaming:
a term Herb created circa 1976 when the gaming group at the Defense Language
Institute was looking for a name for their unofficial organization. There was
already a wargaming group, who focused on
SPI's games such as
War in Europe, War
in the East, War in
the West, and War
in the Pacific (among many others, but you can grasp the concept). As "our"
group focused on the newly emerging Role-Play Gaming, epitomized by TSR's
Dungeons & Dragons, Herb called the bunch were-gamers. Clever pun, yes? No? Ah,
well.