Published on 12, July, 2020
What is your specialist subject, the thing that makes you feel happiest and eager learning about? That makes life feel better?
I think mine mine is Ancient Civilizations. I’m listening to lots of different Books on Audible. Lots of Great Courses, which are amazing, as they are university level lectures presented by doctors who are absolutely passionate about their subjects. I’m listening to one about Mesoamerica another about Native Americans and an audio book about Ancient African Kingdoms. No one I know cares about any of these though. Nobody ever talks to me about their academic passions. I have no clue if I’m on any spectrum but all the people I have known in the past who said they had Asperger’s were much more cerebral than the average person.
I'm a documentary historian ... I work with old written stuff. Sometimes I change history, in small ways..
I have a pretty interesting last name, that lent itself well to WW2 propaganda, so my family history searches uncovered that my family members children and citizens and wartime stories, were often in newspapers in wartime.. so I’m quite fortunate in the history department..
DeSpereaux said:I have a pretty interesting last name, that lent itself well to WW2 propaganda
Churchill? (just kidding!)
According to a pedigree created in 1913 by Charles Bernau, one of the founders of the London Society of Genealogists, I am Winston Churchill's 9th cousin once removed. However, the pedigree might not be entirely reliable - but it does exist, I have a scan of a version of it drawn up in 1933.
On surname distribution maps, I can see when the family of one of my gt grandmothers moved from London to my home county, just before the 1871 census. This is because the name count goes from zero to being the third most populous in the whole country. There were 8 of them!