Comments on: Genealogy in a Multicultural World

By: satimaflavell

satimaflavell — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:18:31 +0000

They certainly will, Liz, and already do. Who sired whom and in what context can be a very vexing study sometimes!

And the joke, of course, is that short of DNA testing everybody, we’ll never know. Sometimes even the mother isn’t too sure:-)

By: Liz U

Liz U — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:56:59 +0000

This is certainly food for thought, Satima. Another interesting topic for a future post might be the difficulties today’s ‘blended families’ will pose for genealogists.

By: satimaflavell

satimaflavell — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:19:37 +0000

I’d love to read that some time, Mabel! You know, I like to think of family history as social history, writ very small. All those certificates, all those stories, all those old letters – pieces of a jigsaw for which we’ll never have all the bits, so sometimes we have to guess at what they might have been.

But ah – to fictionalise or not? Material for another post!

By: Mabel K

Mabel K — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:41:24 +0000

A delightful piece of observations and thoughts. I’ve just completed an historical fictionalised memoir of my husband’s earlier life in Vienna, Auatria. One of his grandsons who lives in Nuremberg said it nearlt made him cry. Family stories are what makes a family a family.