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

[markeris.livejournal.com]

I`m trying to think of any horror in ones family history that deserves something more than a complimentary "grow the fuck up" on the way out and failing. I`m assuming here that genealogists are not the medium one would use to find ones biological parents (on the basis that in the absence of this knowledge a genealogist would be somewhat up shit creek anyway).