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Post by Corey Blake on Oct 19, 2007 16:56:35 GMT -5
Check this out.Pretty crazy, huh? What's weird is that when I was a freshman in high school I interviewed my grandmother on my father's side about a whole bunch of stuff for a class and recorded it on tape. She's since passed away but my father still has the tape. For a family that never spoke about much, I guess this is a pretty big treasure for him. So I can definitely understand the appeal. Pretty cool idea. I know the guy who runs the company and he's very talented.
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Post by Ziska on Oct 19, 2007 18:19:04 GMT -5
Neat idea (though I would guess some would argue anyone with a computer could do likewise).
I would personally be screwed in this task. My maternal grandmother wasn't much of a talker about the past (and the bits and pieces I know more than explain why). Due to World War II, no pictures of my olden family survive, and when my mother and grandmother fled what was then Chekaslovakia, nothing really came with them. My father's side has a similar story, where after World War two they lived in encampment for many years.
Now, on my father's side, I'd have been double screwed. Not only did no history come with them from post war Poland, but they more than embelished what they were willing to share. So I wouldn't know where the truth began or ended. Sure, there are some funny stories, but a lot of lies (Grandpa's version. He was the grandson of the yougnest son of a nobel man and had a fine horse estate where he was training fine race horses. My eldest aunt's version [she is from his first marrage] No clue when we stopped being nobel, but the farm was a run down place where at best he had one work horse and when he had to sell the horse he drank all the profits away that night).
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Post by Corey Blake on Oct 20, 2007 13:07:02 GMT -5
Wow. My family is pretty boring in comparison.
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Post by Ziska on Oct 20, 2007 15:34:04 GMT -5
And here I haven't even told you anything.
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