The statement "Genealogy is History and History is Genealogy" is meant to emphasize the need to know that trying to do genealogy without knowing the history is like trying to fly without wings. There is a lack of historical awareness abundantly evident from many online family trees, including much of the FamilySearch Family Tree. As we build our own part of the world's family tree, this class explains why knowing the context of the history of our ancestors avoids drifting off into never never land.