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Genealogy: A Novel | Maud Casey
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Meet the Hennarts: Samantha Hennart, a poet with writer's block; her husband, Bernard, obsessed with the life of a nineteenth-century Belgian mystic with stigmata; their son, Ryan, a mediocre rock musician; and their eighteen-year-old daughter, Marguerite, who is quietly losing her mind. A meditation on family, faith, and mental illness, Genealogy is an operatic story of one family's unraveling and ultimate redemption.
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Mowen036
Genealogy: A Novel | Maud Casey
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Holy cow! Working on my husbands genealogy/family tree tonight and I figured out that he‘s related to the gentleman who helped start the library that I work at. My husbands 3rd great-grandma was the gentleman‘s aunt. I was like omg omg omg and my husband be like meh that‘s cool.🤦🏼‍♀️I‘m going total history nerd over here!

ReadingSusan That‘s awesome!! 6y
Crazeedi How cool! 6y
Craftylikefox That‘s so cool! 6y
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PirateJenny
Genealogy: A Novel | Maud Casey
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My #nonreadingpursuits other than TV: cross-stitch and genealogy. Pictured is some of my husband's family because he has ancestry from the British Isles and I know that language. We'll be doing our DNA at ancestry soon. I've done mine at 23andme as part of a study on depression and genetics and discovered my parents lied to me and I have a minuscule amount of British or Irish DNA and I am so thrilled.

TricksyTails This is so cool! Also, I wish I could watch TV and cross stitch. I end up stabbing myself more than the fabric! 6y
Melissa_J Cool! I love genealogy 😊 (edited) 6y
RealBooks4ever Way cool! I've been doing this too, but I don't have any fancy paper like that! 6y
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8leagueboot This is so beautiful. What an amazing gift to have this record! 6y
PirateJenny @RealBooks4ever The internet is an amazing place 😊 I've been working on it as a gift for my husband. He's already calling it the family bible. 6y
PirateJenny @8leagueboot I am actually the one making it. Tony never knew much about his family growing up and I'm finding all sorts of amazing things. I'm going to do one for me too, but it's harder becuase I can only get back so far without knowing some other languages. And the Polish records are gone. 6y
PirateJenny @tricksytails It's not a proper cross-stitch unless some of your blood is in the project! 🤣 6y
RealBooks4ever One thing I love is finding the stories of good guys and bad guys in the family tree! 6y
PirateJenny @RealBooks4ever Yes! I write the bare bones in this and then I will go research the story. Unless I know it already, which has happened because history nerd. Still looming for pirates though. 6y
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Genealogy: A Novel | Maud Casey
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My great-grandpa's wife was really into genealogy too, and got this huge book bound up with all the family research they did. I was always skeptical of the Middle Ages research (the book goes all the way to Charlemagne, haha); but I've been going through the book this morning, checking against records, and I found a huge error in 1790s Rhode Island. So sad, because that means everything before that (like 2/3 of the book) is wrong!! 🙁

drokka 😮😳🙁 7y
howjessicareads @drokka I know! Sorta strangely glad my great grandpa passed away 2 years ago, so I don't have to decide whether to tell him or not. 🙈 7y
Seshat Bummer. That's why I don't trust the trees Basel Stadt had on my Swiss ancestors completely. I don't know who did them and they go back to the 1500s. My third great grandmother's memorial booklet seemed to indicate at least some of it was correct. 7y
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