Searching for what?

In putting together the outline for my paper I continue to bump into this need to search for more... be it our searching our family roots, our search for a safer or better life, our search within ourselves for some completion. I have immigrated to Israel and here everyone seems to be or have been involved in this need to find out more about themselves, their place on earth or their understanding of it. I know that not all people seek these things. Why is that? So, I am looking at the lives of the Carvajals, El Mozo and El Viejo y Las Senoras, and of my ancestors through that context or lens. And I want to talk about what it is to immigrate, to leave a known world, comfortable or not, to seek something better. The question of "should we stay or should we go" reveals a lot about the people, the crypto-jews, we are studying.