"Over the years, certain stories in the history of a family
take hold. They're passed from generation to generation,
gaining substance and meaning along the way. You have to
learn to sift through them, separating fact and conjecture, the
likely from the implausible.
"Here is what I know: Sometimes the least believable
stories are the true ones."
from A Piece of the World
by Christina Baker Kline
–Nancy.
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Sometimes a little bit of history is shared, and the hearer jumps to an incorrect conclusion.
ReplyDeleteThat's so true, QuiltGranma, and perhaps truest for beginning family historians with great imaginations.
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