User blog comment:TenshiAkari12/So... yet another boo-hoo worthy blog post./@comment-53539-20140613172952/@comment-32500188-20140614120202

That's pretty sad. :-( If one thing is for sure, using force to try and fix a situation that requires the willingness of others to cooperate always turns out ugly and makes the issue so much worse. That pent up resentment will definitely explode in that type of setting. I'm glad you were able to get out of it though.

I've always found family history to be an interesting project to take on. Between me, on of my cousins on my mom's side, and one of my cousins on my dad's side, we love learning more about "the old days" and trying to trace back the roots of each family tree. (Of course, there's not much in terms of how far we can go back, I think the furthest on record that we could ever trace back to was to the late 19th century.) Sometimes, there's a lot you'd like to know, and wish you could find out about... but then there are the things you wish you never knew, especially about the current living generations or the more recent bloodlines altogether. It takes a lot to be able to handle the "family historian" position, that's for sure, and I can see why you and your brother would take a pass with your family situation. Some people tend to try and impose their version of "history" instead of what actually happen, just because we weren't around then, and it's hard when you have two heavily conflicting version of the same story clashing with each other, figuratively and literally. :-P