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Current Talk '08 II / Re: Discuss: '91 Series - Ep #10
« on: December 03, 2008, 11:14:47 PM »
It's good to see that lively discussions have been going on over the past few weeks when I've been absent. I'm a bit relieved to find that several others have also fallen behind in their intentions to contribute to this discussion. I was enjoying the revival series, but other things began to take precedence. In my case, I became involved in tracing some genealogical links that have proved to be beyond anything I ever hoped to find, and which no one going into genealogy can reasonably expect to find. In going through some notes I had taken from a mailing list posting about a year ago, I noticed a reference to an article in German that was said to refer to one of my family lines in northeastern France. I was able to obtain a copy of the article from a library in Mainz, and with translation help from a co-worker (as well as laboriously typing long segments of the article into online translators with mixed results), have learned that my earliest known ancestor, who is mentioned by name, was part of a line that has been traced back an additional 300 years. It's really almost too much to take in.
I had also set aside the 1991 series because I was getting ahead of myself, and instead began watching my DVDs of the 1995 and 1840 segment of the original series. It's a little hard going back and forth between the two because they seem to evoke two different worlds and I'm unable to fully engage in both at the same time.
Hopefully I'll be able to post on the 1991 series again soon. But as someone else has mentioned, much of what I have thought about the episodes has already been well stated here.
P.S. Hard to believe it's December already. The Christmas theme here came as surprise. Very nicely done but a little hard on my eyes. I put the posts in "print" mode and can read them better that way.
- Philippe
I had also set aside the 1991 series because I was getting ahead of myself, and instead began watching my DVDs of the 1995 and 1840 segment of the original series. It's a little hard going back and forth between the two because they seem to evoke two different worlds and I'm unable to fully engage in both at the same time.
Hopefully I'll be able to post on the 1991 series again soon. But as someone else has mentioned, much of what I have thought about the episodes has already been well stated here.
P.S. Hard to believe it's December already. The Christmas theme here came as surprise. Very nicely done but a little hard on my eyes. I put the posts in "print" mode and can read them better that way.
- Philippe