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I’ve been learning a lot about our family through this genealogy project that we’ve undertaken. The most personally relevent so far: my grandmother was a photographer. She took the requisite billion-and-one shots of her kids, but she photographed other stuff too, and a lot of it is really amazing. I can’t wait to get a scanner and start sharing her work. She died sometime around 1969, when my mom was 11, and it’s interesting to find this kind of a connection with someone I’ve never met. It makes me want to learn a lot more about her.
Oh, I’ve just started researching my family history and building a tree! I’m having so much fun … there are all these little stories hidden among the stats. I’ve managed to go back as far as the 1700s in some places. And it’s so strange, I’m seeing these pictures of people who lived and died forever ago, and I can still see family resemblances. It’s amazing.
Yeah, it is pretty amazing how distant relatives bear an uncanny resemblance to my parents, myself or my siblings.
What I’ve really loved is hearing about the lives of my greatgrandparents and second cousins and so on – some of them did really cool and interesting things, and it just makes them more…I don’t know, more real and important than I ever knew.