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?

    • kristina [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      thats more of a 23 and me thing, you can find records via contacting the governments of various countries. czechia for instance has a national archive that is pretty easily accessible and has a fuckton of records dating back centuries. like a lot of it is in german and latin because we got colonized, and they even included records from gravestones in the archives too