tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post6475698319420758473..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Lived ExperienceAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-49929126424678771432022-04-28T12:39:01.124-04:002022-04-28T12:39:01.124-04:00It's an interesting tie-in to genealogy, as I ...It's an interesting tie-in to genealogy, as I have done a lot of the back-tracing in our family. Some lines immediately went to work that had already been done, by thorough people who recorded all siblings and children. I was never interested in anything but the steady growth of the tree going back to my direct ancestors. Occasionally there would be an interesting side-story, like the wastrel brother who married a niece of General John Stark and proceeded to spend through her inherited fortune before dying in the poor house. But yes, in such a line the childless would quickly become invisible to succeeding generations. I do have a cousin who keeps track of all those. It is the opposite of another chart we have in the house, of all the descendants of two of the immigrant ancestors, so we can find out how people are related to us and where they come from in the tree. My great aunt was the composer of that, as she kept track of her siblings and cousins and even many second cousins in her life, including some back in Sweden. It is ironic, I supposed, because as beloved as she was, she was unmarried and childless and will disappear pretty quickly when living memory of her has died out. She died in 1983, so that's not going to be 2-3 more decades. Because of the intensity of her involvement and the rescue of relatives she very much had "lived experience." Yet even as a young man I could tell she was an exception in that.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-33779568382453576822022-04-28T10:18:21.922-04:002022-04-28T10:18:21.922-04:00It is hard to be charitable to the entitled.
You,...It is hard to be charitable to the entitled.<br /><br />You, I, we, anyone, can have many worldly goods and success, but lack the connections that limn life's forms.<br /><br />In noodling about with our family's genealogy, primarily through Family Search, I've noticed that a great deal of the work is done by volunteers reconstructing their own family. That means that people without children can be left out. <br /><br />They vanish from the record, as if they never existed. <br /><br />Do the annoying entitled, without family or real friends, know that? I don't know. But they vanish from the longer record.Cranberryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14192766384424717627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-48503768176297007612022-04-27T22:01:22.792-04:002022-04-27T22:01:22.792-04:00There's still room for "lived experience&...There's still room for "lived experience" in more restricted domains--for instance to assure a newbie that the tedious aspects of the job are worth it and that there can be non-monetary rewards. But yes, critiquing the football plays when you've never held the ball or taken a hit--why should anyone listen?jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com