tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post4673417791816329613..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Who do you think you are? by Eve EdwardsMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-31830508065686151072011-10-04T13:55:59.896+01:002011-10-04T13:55:59.896+01:00It sounds as if you have some very interesting fam...It sounds as if you have some very interesting family stories to explore - how can you resist? Whether or not you use them - or little bits of them - in your writing!Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-7819774749769386172011-10-03T10:03:09.014+01:002011-10-03T10:03:09.014+01:00Very interesting, Eve! I will be writing about how...Very interesting, Eve! I will be writing about how I used my family photos when I was writing my first full-length children's novel on November 7th.adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-83361246144049832432011-10-03T09:51:42.826+01:002011-10-03T09:51:42.826+01:00P.S. I feel especially strongly about the 'spr...P.S. I feel especially strongly about the 'spread' of the family tree because the spread is so often the women... in the sense that people often trace their surname, which usually comes exclusively through the male line, and even if they trace their mother's family tree, it often becomes that of their mother's male ancestors. Reclaiming the 'spread' means reclaiming the women!H.M. Castorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716936870601385683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-31174802350801702972011-10-03T09:48:34.119+01:002011-10-03T09:48:34.119+01:00I love this post, Eve. I too have a fascination wi...I love this post, Eve. I too have a fascination with Who Do You Think You Are? and yet a frustration with it too... expressed perfectly by Boris Johnson who - when told he was descended from a Georgian king - remarked that by that point (in the family tree) he was descended from at least a thousand other people too (which was a breath of fresh air after some guests on the programme who have seemed almost visibly to puff out their chests on the discovery that they were descended from ancient royalty!). So your point about Merlin and Charlemagne is very well made. The rate at which the ancestor-spread multiplies when you look at the whole tree - as opposed to following one line - can feel quite surprising. I once worked out roughly how many people of 1520s/30s I was directly descended from and it was well over 200,000... in a way this is less romantic than imagining just a few people who were 'mine' walking around at that time... yet in another way I find it wondrous!H.M. Castorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716936870601385683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-7612943593590884592011-10-03T08:29:32.069+01:002011-10-03T08:29:32.069+01:00Yes, fascinating. I have a cousin (eldest son of t...Yes, fascinating. I have a cousin (eldest son of the eldest son...) who has taken on the responsibility for the clan history in Australia. I have helped with some of it and it has been fascinating. Are there books in it? Almost certainly!catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-73312327783369474872011-10-03T07:21:07.414+01:002011-10-03T07:21:07.414+01:00Fascinating, Eve. I do think that to record these ...Fascinating, Eve. I do think that to record these things is wonderful - imagine two or three generations on discovering these facts which might otherwise be lost. My sister has just found some old photographs and letters in an attic relating to our Victorian family - and I am so excited to see them.<br /><br />PS I love Who Do You Think You Are!Essie Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04611324005960689918noreply@blogger.com