I truly wonder if anyone has ever experienced envy or jealousy from other relatives or non relatives concerning genealogical research,?.
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Jealousy & Genealogy
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 Anasteasia |
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Posts: 4 (02/07/06 22:11:42) |
I truly wonder if anyone has ever experienced envy or jealousy from other relatives or non relatives concerning genealogical research,?. |
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dutchfam7 |
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Posts: 3 (02/27/06 07:41:53) |
I don't know if I would call it jealousy or envy but there is tension with my immediate family for doing a family tree. My parents are divorced and my mom finds it appalling that I want to know my dad's side of the family. Then I did find one distant relative, a neice of my maternal grandmother, and when I told my mom she got very upset saying that they were never part of the family. This lady is also doing a geneology and we clicked very well. My mom told me not to tell her anything because she and her family were never around and that she never came up and said hi when we were at our aunts (her mom's) funeral. I told mom that maybe she was preoccupied with the death of her MOTHER to deal with social greetings. I am still persuing my roots however. I guess they just don't understand my yearining for knowing the past in our family. What problems are you expericncing?
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Anasteasia |
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Posts: 4 (03/05/06 18:32:21) |
How truly silly some people become and react to those seeking even the smallest amount of information in some family tree's and circles.
For us, it was discovering that much of the family's history( photo's , bibles ect) has now passed to non blood relatives / non blood descendants, whom are in no hurry to share anything with anyone. They will not even allow any blood descendants of the family to have copies of anything.They appear, (although we really do not know them all too well), jealous /envious ect. It's just a shocker after meeting so many wonderful generous folks who sacrifice much of their time to preserve and share family history. Its a sad deal. but one never knows for sure just what or "who "you'll find in a family search..and its quite true that not everyone is open or willing to share or has an interest or a fair amount of knolledge of history & family. You just have to take the good with bad, and know when it's time to quit.  Good luck in your search.. |
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Tazette |
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Posts: 1 (12/12/08 17:24:24) |
some people work very hard at gathering information for the family tree, others "fall in to" the information...still others take it without
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I am not a jealous person when it comes to genealogy- I am very willing to share what I know- but only to those that can prove they have a valid interest. Sadly, though- there are those out there that have the information you may seek, and they seem to hourd it jealously... to those people..I say... how sad it is for that you (they) are not willing to open their teeny world and welcome others into the fold of what could be a very extended global family- even if only via email. A new experience/person to meet up with can only bring some form of expansion of a personality. Good luck to you all- stay positive- it's not all bad... |
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