looking into the past

[the_siobhan]

Another link from improb.

An article in the Telegraph states that genealogists want psychotherapy to be made available for people who stumble across unpleasant discoveries while researching their family history.

Comes a time when there is a distinct advantage to already knowing that a sizable chunk of your ancestory comes from assholes.

Comments

[ex-unagothae16.livejournal.com]

My mind boggles. I guess there's at least one benefit to disowning your entire family because there isn't one person in the lot who isn't a thief/drug addict/alcoholic/abusive son of a bitch. My mother only escaped when my dad died. My brother was protected by his developmental disability.

I'm just a stubborn bitch with my own emotional baggage cart.

Somedays I think it would be nice to be sheltered enough to be shocked by finding out there's a deranged criminal in my family tree.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Somedays I think it would be nice to be sheltered enough to be shocked by finding out there's a deranged criminal in my family tree.

I so want to quote this. :-)

[ex-unagothae16.livejournal.com]

Please, feel free :)

If you would like to attribute it, I prefer `Una :)