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?
i have a feeling this is a maths joke i'm too thick to get
A lot of European royalty, most notably Charles II of Spain, have family trees with a shape as distinctive as that of their chins.
Note that in 200 years and 7 generations, his family tree had 5 ancestors feeding into it. it becomes 3 if you explore the in-laws parentage extensively enough.
ah, got ya