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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 50. Lines

 LINES

This is another week when I was unsure of what to write to interpret the theme, but after consideration, I decided to write about, where I 'draw the line' when writing about my my Ancestors.


Some of us have family stories which can be unsavoury or difficult to write or read, does this mean we should not write about them?

I am somewhat perturbed at recent global events that have suggested the rewriting, erasing or changing of history, because they are unsavoury in todays social climate. I do not countenance much of what occurred historically, but to sanitise or erase it does not allow us to learn from past failures and mistakes.  But to counter that arguement, that's all well and good but if these circumstances had touched my life would I be so arbitary in this statement.

So this is where I draw the line. If the event  occurred in the dim and distant past, I would relay the story in a hopefully sensitive way. However, as I have discovered within my own family history, if the event occurred within a generation whereby surviving persons may have been adversely affected, then I am afraid that whilst I would not disregard the information privately. I would in fact censor that information and not write about it in the public domain.



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