Just got off the phone.
Usual Friend. Usual chatter. Just today it was about meri saat pedhiyaan.
Family trees have always been a source of fascination.
Who were the grand-parents of my grand-parents ?
Where did my family originate ?
What did my ancestors do for a living ?
What ticked them...what they ate...how they passed their days... their motivations ...the school of thought they belonged to...
And finally why am I the way I am ?
Do I have someone in the tree I have taken after ?
I learnt about my seven generations yesterday. Well. Not everything. But good amount enough for the time being.
I already knew about four and getting to know more about the saat peedhiyaan had proven to be difficult. But yesterday, during a family reunion, amidst lots of laughter, buffoonery and some real and fake hugs, I learnt about where my ancestors came from and what they did for a living.
Digging out all that there is on Mattas will always be a labour of love. I can't pin it down to a single reason.
I don't even know what I will do with the Family Tree, that is, if it ever gets completely made.
I am sure I wouldn't want to get in touch with all the cousins. Definitely not.
Yet, filling in the blanks would make me happy.
Cut to the "Phone-a-Friend". All I got from my friend was some laughs, lots of his usual blah and blah and general disinterest in talking about his Roots.
Yet another showed a mild disinterest in the topic and waved it off over chat.
A colleague dared to laugh when I bubbled with excitement over this whole business.
Heck even my cousins couldn't stop laughing over my wide eyed expression as I drank all the information floating around yesterday.
Really, are people in general not interested in their History, Culture and let me be a little mean here, their roots ?
Or Do I really get excited about stupid things ?
6 comments:
ok...there is one thing in which we both have common interest...I have always being interested in knowing family history, infact just a couple of month back (count 5), I actually created a family tree from My Dad's side and Mom's side in excel (yeah...in excel, laugh at it for me being such a nerd)...but unfortunately I just created this tree of four and three generations respectively...seven generations is way too much...but good idea!!!
@What's in a name - I am almost in tears to find out that we have atleast "one thing" in common :)
Btw, maybe you should share how you went about collecting all the info. Might be useful for me too.
i knew about the last three generations...which would comprise of my Grandpa, dad and then me...uske upar ka not too sure, so made the sheet with whatever info I had...u want me to mail you that sheet???
@Whats in a name - Yes please. might be helpful. thanks.
Nice idea...Even I shd try this one...tho m not much interested unless my ancestors are from some royal family :)
@allthecrap - Oh then pls start the "digging" and let us know if hail from some Chittor ke Rajwado ke ghar se.
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