... keeping thyself from spiralling away from life further
Collating the family history from the maternal, paternal and maternal line for a daughter reacquainted with belongings from the paternal line that is astray and skew whiff in time
The maternal line in files of my late fathers we went through. Some of the documents destined for the shredder, others to pass on to those who are interested in the past generations. A photo of an old home of Dads in correspondence with his grand daughter. His brother taking his great niece, my daughter on a tour of Southampton, where Dads family had lived. One of numerous homes from their childhood. A trip with this family line at their caravan in their fond county of Dorset, on the demise of my husband. The family giving my daughter space elsewhere away.
A break away from life post crisis in her uni holidays to adjust ... without her deceased Dad.
Those same Auntie and Uncles born in such various places which mean much to each individual. Kent, Dorset, Somerset, Cornwall, Hampshire, West Sussex. Six of them born in no same place, in Dorset, alone.
My paternal Granny and Grandad meeting in Northamptonshire.
A family line so huge now with those already marrying in my daughters generation, with the next in the making ...
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