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Evelyn replied to the topic The Art of Telling True Stories in the forum General Writing Discussions 7 years, 1 month ago
@emberynus-the-dragonslayer Okay!
@eden-anderson The actual copies? I don’t know if the actual copies exist but the typed (that is… typed by typewriter) copies that my Great Grandfather owned were passed down to my Great Uncle (I think) when he passed away with all the other really neat things. Photographs. Letters. Research. Wills. Certificates. There was a lot my Great Grandfather collected. I wouldn’t know my ancestry up to late 1600s if not for his research. So really I haven’t done a lot of grunt work on this. 😛
Though recently I did ask my Dad to pull out what he has of that sort and looking through it for dates. And! During that we found some poetry in a notebook of my Dad’s grandmas! He said that her husband thought it was just poetry she would find and write down but the pages didn’t have the authors noted so I’m planning to try to hunt and figure out if that is true.
On that note, I was looking back at what I said and O.o *facepalm* I meant to say late 17th century. 😛 My bad. @elisha-starquill
Sadly I haven’t been able to get very far (probably because my ancestors were from France and there was the whole revolution thing going on) but what I have been able to find is pretty cool! They were originally from around Lyons, and at some point they immigrated to Saskatchewan, Canada where my great-great-grandparents (or was it three greats? xD) lived in a community with Native Americans. And I found out that my grandfather’s first language was French, which might be a part of why I love that language so much.Wow that is sooo cool! There must be some way to figure out more… I would hope at least. I’m still new to all this so if you know a good way to go about researching, let me know!
I want to compile all the stories I’ve heard and all of my own (real-life) stories and pass it down to my progeny. And order them to do the same in my will.I love it! That’s such a cool idea. My great grandfather began doing that once… writing stories about his childhood in Kentucky during the Great Depression. In fact I think my dad might have a copy of what he wrote up… I’ll have to look around….
I have thought of it but never really written out a family tree. Normally I don’t know much about my character beyond their parents, grandparents, and maybe an Uncle or two. It might be something I do more in my worldbuilding project of my Anielian Dwarves though because I’ve been working on their history.
Have you done it? If so what is it like? How far back did you go?
@eden-anderson Have you ever made a family tree for a character?
@kayla-skywriter Wow, that is a sad story… and that must have been really hard on the family. I have known many families who have adopted from all over but nothing as hard and long as that not working out. I use to not understand the difference between foster and adoption though, so maybe I didn’t understand what was going on in these families. Now my pastor and his family are just coming out of fostering this cutest little girl. They almost lost her one month, but now the paperwork is going through. (:
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