Running behind this week...
Mar. 16th, 2025 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chicating(So these are Friday Five)
1. How far back can you trace your family tree? I know I had a relative in the Trail of Tears, so 1830s?
2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?The Native side of my family? Crazy into nicknames. I don't know anyone's name on their birth certificate. My mother's birth certificate doesn't have anything to do with RL either...I used to think that maybe my grandfather did something classified or something, but now I think they just took the American passion for reinvention to the next level.
3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?If I'd had a daughter and her last name worked with it, I might have used my grandmother's given name, Magda, which she never liked.
4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional? We might have been, but, for a lot of reasons we are making it up as we go along. I'm kind of torn about that. It's nice to feel modern and new, but it might have been nice to see myself as a link in a chain and all that.
5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?Most of our rituals have been adapted for either my disability or because my parents broke up. Not sure I'd want kids to deal with either of those things.
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1. How far back can you trace your family tree? I know I had a relative in the Trail of Tears, so 1830s?
2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?The Native side of my family? Crazy into nicknames. I don't know anyone's name on their birth certificate. My mother's birth certificate doesn't have anything to do with RL either...I used to think that maybe my grandfather did something classified or something, but now I think they just took the American passion for reinvention to the next level.
3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?If I'd had a daughter and her last name worked with it, I might have used my grandmother's given name, Magda, which she never liked.
4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional? We might have been, but, for a lot of reasons we are making it up as we go along. I'm kind of torn about that. It's nice to feel modern and new, but it might have been nice to see myself as a link in a chain and all that.
5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?Most of our rituals have been adapted for either my disability or because my parents broke up. Not sure I'd want kids to deal with either of those things.
Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.
