#i guess its cool to know the exact hospital he was born at cuz i didnt before but like i wouldnt have even been able to find that | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

br1ghtestlight · 23 days ago

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it's weird how some families have so much physical history and documentation going back generations and memoirs written by their great-great-grandfather etc and like in my family. i dont even know my grandfather's name. nobody does lol we dont know his identity. like how can some families be so well documented and then in other cultures its basically impossible to find that history especially if it was destroyed by colonization or war

#it seems like this is a particularly american thing tho idk why they always have like the full name and history #of like their great great great great grandmother's second cousin or whatever #i tried looking into my family records once online and literally the only thing in existence is a record of my fathers birth in the 1960s #in a london newspaper #i guess its cool to know the exact hospital he was born at cuz i didnt before but like i wouldnt have even been able to find that #if i didnt know some extremely specific information already #its just weird hearing about other families and how much they know!!!!!#txt

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