what do you mean i have ancestors?? someone was just walking around in medieval times and now i’m here? i want to know all the people that came before me.
The most mind boggling thing are the high odds that someone out there in my bloodline from like 800 years ago has the same face as me, and im like wow!!!!! in another life our faces have seen this earth before!!!! crazy shit!!!!
YESSS like grandparents? Great! Great grandparents? fine! Great great great grandparents? Ok! Distant ancestors from 800 years ago? What the actual fuck
tracing that family tree back as far as possible is exciting and insightful af.
I’ve spent a couple of hours looking over photos, reading stories, and crying over people that I will never meet but played a part in inventing me lol
I started because I need to gtfo of the US, BUT, I was able to go all the way back to my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather in Northern Germany
Trace your lineage if you're able, it's a fun rabbit hole
i love having insane family lore like a family member that died on the titanic (she was 3rd class and moving to the us at 21) and a great grandpa who was in a plane that crashed in the wilderness
my grandpa has a whole room full of archives about our family which I feel like I definitely didn't appreciate as a kid but now think is very cool
i don’t want to have a “thick skin” about everything, maybe we should all just be nicer to each other. when did we come up with the concept that being sensitive is bad? i’m sensitive and i like it. the world doesn’t have to hit me and i just get back up, maybe i will cry a little bit.