here's a map that shows the migration of my ancestors from acadia to troy - see previous post for complete story up to this point. To recap - the Kings of Troy (blogger puts a weird gap right below here and i don't know why):

King	Length of Reign	Dates - BC
Dardanus	65 yrs	1477-1412
Erictanus	46 yrs	1412-1366
Tros	40 yrs	1366-1326
Ilus	49 yrs	1326-1277
Laomedon	44 yrs	1277-1233
Priamus (Priam)	52 yrs	1233-1181

The following information is related to the story as told so far, however it also represents a branch of my ancestral family that splits off and moves to Rome, Italy. I will come back to this branch eventually with "the rest of the story" but for now here's how it all got started with their moving to Rome.

Following the fall of Troy, Aeneas, son of Priam, a Trojan hero second only to Hector, fled the fortress; he lost his wife in the escape, himself carrying his aged father on his back and leading his young son by the hand. This is the way Virgil, in the first century before our era, imagined the beginning of Aeneas’ travels; but already before Virgil, the fate of Aeneas was the subject of poetic tradition. Virgil’s creation is regarded as the greatest of Roman epics; Virgil, however, studied the subject drawing on Greek authors.

Upon visiting Thrace and the islands of the Aegean Sea, and following a sojourn on Crete, Aeneas and his little band of companions landed at Carthage; there Queen Dido fell in love with him; his refusal to make Carthage his home and Dido his wife caused her, upon his departure, to take her own life.

Aeneas’ further wanderings brought him finally to Latium in Italy, the land of the Latini. According to the Roman legendary tradition, he became the progenitor of the Romans through his son Ascanios, the first king to reign in the new capital of Latium, Alba Longa, of which Rome was a dependent city; or, in another version, through Numitos in direct descent from Ascanios. But a more popular tradition had Aeneas himself as the founder of Rome; the Greek historian Timaios (ca. -346 to ca. -250) followed this tradition. A still better known legend has Romulus for the founder of Rome; sometimes Romulus is made a descendant of Aeneas and Ascanios.

Rome was founded, according to Varro, in -753.1