{Turandot} in Europe is doing 32 things including…

Be able to name all 16 of my great great grandparents

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{Turandot} has written 2 entries about this goal

1/16 Christmas was perfect time for this! 10 months ago

I had the occasion to go and visit the very old members of my family and had them talk about our ancestors.

Funnily I got the first name of my great great grandparent and also hit a wall at the same time.
He was abandoned as a child (I don’t know exactly how little he was) at a hospital in a nearby town. This means that it will be easy to find official records and that probably all they say is the date when he was abandoned and no clue of the parents, where they came from and real birth date. Ah!

But I discovered many interesting things, I started to note recurring illnesses and common traits. It’s all very exciting and somehow bewildering even grieving. I found out women in the family who commited suicide with poison, drown brothers, almost a nomadic near past I had no suspect of.



PurpleHeather's fault 11 months ago

if I take up this new goal
that I have no idea how to deal with.
With time, I imagine
and some help by 43T fellows sharing this goal!

next action:
write down what I know already as a starting point
and see how to move on from there
[feels exciting]

also: all this talking about my supposed “gaulish tenacity” made me really curious
not that I really imagine to be able to go back to that time!



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