Untangling the past

Hello!

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I’ve been doing research regarding stuff my mother taught me regarding my country, my family, my o my is it hard for me to disprove most of the big stories she had told me. I’m sure it’s not her; she heard the same stories from her mother and her mother probably from hers; although my grandmother was fairly young when her mother died….wonder who made this beautiful story up?...  Switching to voice recognition…

I have been doing genealogy research for about a year now, and in this year I have been able to rectify whatever I had learned from my mother.  Here are a couple of things:

1- My grandmother was only seven when her mother died.  No!  Although she was young my grandmother was 15 when my great-grandmother past away.  On the same lines, my great-grandmother didn’t die at an early age, she was 50!!  The only truth about her death was that she died of asthma.

2- Your grandmother was born December 18th 1899.  No, and I don’t blame her for this, she was born July 25 1899.  I am baffled why my grandmother decided that she was born on the 18 December.

3- My mother was born in 1943.  Once again, no!!  My mother was born in 1938, one day before she says she was born.  She was four when my grandfather died.

These are some of the examples that I have had to be the bearer of bad news towards my family.  I am not dissing my mother, is just that her reality is always mixed in with the truth.  I have now become a legend hunter…  It’s complicated, trust me!

Take care folks!

PS now I have to find a war that my great-great-grandmother took part in and this war just happens to be 20 odd years before she was born…  I blame my brother for this, he made me into a logical/cynical man…