Two years ago, I was exploring Austria and noticed many businesses named Mann, like my last name. It was one of the most beautiful places I’ve been, so I was hoping I had some Austrian ancestors — turns out I’m 100 per cent that Mann.

I was recently invited to an Ancestry event that highlighted Melissa Joan Hart, best known for playing the titular role of Sabrina the Teenage Witch , and her genealogy.

The event brought some of Hart’s family history to life, including a featured glass ball, representing her great-grandfather, Moses Brush Hart, who was an “earnest believer” of Northport, Maine’s “famous colony of spiritualism” — a belief system that includes spiritualists, clairvoyants and mediums. Over 100 years later, Melissa Joan Hart would play a supernatural witch for sev

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