#i think these records all being photos of the actual handwriting adds to the reality kinda

[sugarsugarmp3]

i was going thru genealogy archives which is kinda a little rabbit hole i’ve gone down lately but anyways for a lot of old death records it’s just a page full of names from that day and their name and how they died, and i was looking for a great x3 grandfather and while i don’t think he was there i was looking thru one page, and i was like oh it says suffocated in.. coal? ok maybe it’s ns, and then the whole page is like that. in one day. and that was one page of probably a dozen that would have said the same thing and it was the very first mine disaster in canada in 1873 and 60 men died which was just really… fascinating to see the physical record made that day and it definitely made monumental impacts on that community and family but it was sobering seeing a list and just realizing the scale