When Jake Smith’s neighbor—Stratton Bundford Audray, Ph.D.—invents a time machine, Jake volunteers to be the first human traveler in order to solve a vexing problem about his own ancestry.
I’ve been tracing my family tree, and ’ve reached this dead end, because Smith is such a common name, and I’d really like to volunteer to make the first manned expedition into the past.

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  1. “A Matter of Time: A Romance of Genealogy” by Robert Reginald, in Katydid & Other Critters, edited by Robert Reginald (Ariadne Press, June 2001).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Robert Reginald