Family stories
Genealogy
mostly deals with facts, indications of places and time.
Most data can be found in birth, marriage and death
certificates. At first sight it seems a dull business, in
which we hear very little about the real life of our
ancestors.
However,
when we try to imagine people’s lives and their families’
hidden behind the certificates, these documents may tell us
a lot about what life really looked like in previous
centuries.
In this
chapter we collect stories of people and families as they
can be found in documents and certificates.