A Start

My sister and my niece recently got me thinking about history from kind of a family angle. My niece has begun using DNA tests to learn some family history.
My sister has been following our family genealogical paper-trail for some time.
Something my niece told me caused me to brag that I could tell her about Trans-Iberians. She said something like, 'So tell me.'

My surname is Irish, so probably Celtic. I think that the Trans-Iberians are part of the Celtic migrations across the Iberian peninsula to Ireland. I think that those migrations that were part of the great Indo-European expansion that begin about 6000 years ago. That expansion has some relation to ice age movements of men 40,000 years ago. Which is related to the great dying of giants about two-hundred thousand years ago. Which is probably related to my surname.

The fact is, I don't know much. I checked on-line and didn't find anything on Trans-Iberians. I guess a Frenchman heading to Portugal could be called a Trans-Iberian.

One encounters mysteries in history. That which isn't mystery is opinion. The proceeding, and what follows here, is my opinion.

Mystery started out meaning, a kept secret. Those who hear those secrets and kept them were called initiates. By telling you information I have kept to myself, I am making you an initiate.

The words 'story' and 'history' came into Anglo-Norman from the Latin 'historia.' The underlying meaning of 'history' is knowledge. In Greek a 'histor' was a learned man. 'Historia,' meaning knowledge gained by ones enquiries is derived from 'histor.' The Greek word comes from earlier Indo-European for wit, see, and know. By our enquiry here we are making history.