Alive. Busy. Impressed with other peoples' summaries of the past year! I wish I could do a similar thing but can't, too much would be forgotten in a great haze of grief about mum and Other Stuff
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excrescence?fayrobertsJanuary 9 2009, 11:55:29 UTC
I'm intrigued! That reminds me - I once had a typing-and-designing-and-producing job for a lady who was getting her mother's childhood memoirs from the 2nd World War typed up and produced (laid out, bound, funky front cover, etc.) as a present. It was a lovely job as a) it was really interesting and well-written, b) the woman had decent handwriting!, c) it was a start-to-finish project, which is always more fun, d) she was a genial, happy client who loved the finished product.
This one sounds incredibly epic, though - nearly 200 years of your own family's history. Wow... :)
Re: excrescence?kutekitty1981January 9 2009, 16:38:32 UTC
Well, from the 1830s onwards should be qualified slightly - it's three generations of the family with diaries and letters etc, all three are men, and all three are named Benjamin, so throughout the 19th century roughly. I'm into about the 1850s at the moment, and about one third of the way through it. One of the Benjamins had a wife named Ann. They also had a daughter, Annie. No imagination!
Your project sounds awesome :)
I'll let you know what the word was when I can check properly later tonight :)
Invective. I kinda understood excresence :)kutekitty1981January 9 2009, 22:43:57 UTC
"Invective" was the word - which I actually had to look up on dictionary.com to make sure I was spelling it right, and to check what it meant.
The diary goes from roughly 1820 to Christmas day, 1886. This was intended to be the third book written based on these diaries though, the previous two are "A Norfolk Diary" and "Armstrong's Norfolk Diary". I don't know exactly what time periods they cover, I believe that the Armstrong of the title is the eldest Benjamin but I could be wrong.
Re: Invective.kalya_2ndJanuary 13 2009, 00:25:52 UTC
What DOES it mean?
Also - that is VERY cool! A family diary! We were happy we could trace any of it at all, even though it was just names! I'd love to know nore about mine. It must be fascinating!
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This one sounds incredibly epic, though - nearly 200 years of your own family's history. Wow... :)
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Your project sounds awesome :)
I'll let you know what the word was when I can check properly later tonight :)
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The diary goes from roughly 1820 to Christmas day, 1886. This was intended to be the third book written based on these diaries though, the previous two are "A Norfolk Diary" and "Armstrong's Norfolk Diary". I don't know exactly what time periods they cover, I believe that the Armstrong of the title is the eldest Benjamin but I could be wrong.
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Also - that is VERY cool! A family diary! We were happy we could trace any of it at all, even though it was just names! I'd love to know nore about mine. It must be fascinating!
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