Wolf, if you do learn it is your family’s minhag
Well, therein lies the tale. You see, I’m a ba’al teshuva – my father, my grandfathers and my most of my great-grandfathers (all of whom died before I was born) were all not frum. As such, I have no “family minhagim.”
Therefore, I adopt minhagim based on whether there is a reason to do so. I agree that if I had some ancient family minhag to do so, I probably would have continued to doing so for the sake of the minhag. But since I don’t have that, I simply adopt the minhagim I wish to.
The Wolf