LookingBackwards.net

Welcome to LookingBackwards, a personal and genealogy website.


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.

All Our Relations, LookingBackwards at our Family History

Family TreeOur 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.

 

House Amberwood, our Household within the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.

SCA registered badge for House Amberwood

Katrina and Herb have been intermittent members of the Society for Creative Anachronism for as long as they have been married; in fact, it was through the SCA that they originally were introduced by mutual friends. Herb's association with the SCA goes back to 1972.

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.

 

 

A few words about Katrina

Sketch of Katrina by and copyright (c) M.M.Mitchell

 

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, or 'they were dead before we met them...'

Gaming graphic from http://www.openclipart.org, an open source art repositoryWeregaming: 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 EuropeWar in the EastWar 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.