As someone periodically into genealogy, I would love to see the everyday life of my ancestors, how their material conditions and lifestyle changed over the centuries.
Occasionally it blows my mind to think about that my ancestors lived through all those historical eras I learned about. They were always there, going about their life somewhere while the large events happened around/elsewhere.
Also on the flip side, when looking at some Roman ruins in Budapest the other day, that those stones really have been there for ~1900 years. Like just imagining medieval/Renaissance people living around them, what did they think of them? I usually think of history as distinct periods, but (at least in Europe) people of most eras lived in/on the works of earlier civilisations.
Yeah, absolutely! It would be amazing to see the world through their eyes, which events they lived through, what they thought of it all at the time. Knowing which events end up in the history books and which way they’re represented, and what it was like to be there. You could even use the ancestry studies to map it, seeing where distant relatives were located, at what times, and what occurred locally for them.
As someone periodically into genealogy, I would love to see the everyday life of my ancestors, how their material conditions and lifestyle changed over the centuries.
Occasionally it blows my mind to think about that my ancestors lived through all those historical eras I learned about. They were always there, going about their life somewhere while the large events happened around/elsewhere.
Also on the flip side, when looking at some Roman ruins in Budapest the other day, that those stones really have been there for ~1900 years. Like just imagining medieval/Renaissance people living around them, what did they think of them? I usually think of history as distinct periods, but (at least in Europe) people of most eras lived in/on the works of earlier civilisations.
Yeah, absolutely! It would be amazing to see the world through their eyes, which events they lived through, what they thought of it all at the time. Knowing which events end up in the history books and which way they’re represented, and what it was like to be there. You could even use the ancestry studies to map it, seeing where distant relatives were located, at what times, and what occurred locally for them.