Similar book, better binding
This afternoon, the good people at PBS presented a documentary on one of my favourite pastimes, genealogy. I’m a believer; the jigsaw puzzle has nothing on the ancestor game. It appears that many other people feel the same way.
The difference with this program is that it brought us the results of research done for, not by, somebody. When you are as wealthy as O, a media person that no longer needs a family name as an identifier, you are in a class apart. Even the Queen, who reigns and deigns to adorn all my coinage has a family name or three. O doesn’t need one, now that the accumulated fortune could pay down a national debt.
I guess that’s why a team of researchers took the time to do what genealogy requires first of all, to identify the family names of the ancestors. By knowing who they are, you can put that part away, in a volume on a shelf, or on a PBS documentary stored on media that doesn’t fade away. The results fill a similar book, in a better binding, to what you might aspire to.
I’m now challenged. No more storing my generations away as paragraphs. The full-size reproductions of census pages, clearer than the originals, will be a goal. The movie footage of tombstones, cleaned up so that the text can be read at ten paces, (without damaging the original, for sure). The interviews with historians that will explain each footnote in my new identity.>
Note to self; you will have to be a bit richer before you go for the single name identity, though.
