Most of the women on my matrilineal side share the hobby of doing extensive research in family history. Like tracing the family tree back to the 1500s level. It’s kinda cool being able to have a cohesive story of where my family has been and what they’ve done or been through. It still seems kinda….feudal adjacent in a sense.
Idk my lefty self-crit sense is tingling. What’s the line on this? Obviously there is a great deal of white privilege in even being able to, but often enough privilege seems to be something everyone should have rather than nobody having it. Thoughts?
Eh, the fact that my dad is from a royal family (before the soviets came and rightfully expropriated them) let’s me trace my lineage really far down and that’s a good thing in my opinion. As long as you’re critical about your ancestors actions and beliefs, simply knowing about them and researching them does no harm and is fairly enjoyable.
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Different Soviet republic which I won’t disclose for opsec reasons.
I'm placing my bet on Georgia.
Extremely critical support, but it reminds me of when Anderson Cooper went on a geneology show and found out that one of his ancestors was a slaveowner who got killed by one of his slaves, and his reaction was basically "lol owned"
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Thank you, I was afraid I was problematic simply for caring