My ancestors were pretty risk-averse, but yours did exciting stuff.
Yes, they did, and it didn’t start in the last 200 years, either!
I just got a phone call from one of my nieces in AZ who is trying to help clean up the place her dad and step-mother lived in. She’s been putting aside a few things for me and ran across a book of my dad’s that I’ve been wanting since I was a kid. She’s going to send it to me after I get back. :o])