unravelling tangled family ties

breezeknight · 2019-03-26 20:30:59

so i was born right now to a single woman, she was no Eve, she had no town
i didn't know where we were or what my mother was up to
the only thing i knew was i had to survive, since as it looked, i was the only daughter & my ma wasn't getting any younger
we were scouting the terrain but at some point went to where sort of a basis was
a full set of steel tools lying around, so i figured, we were to set up a colony

i had another two siblings, both /died, then a triplet set, after first died, the other two as well
my ma was now too old, so i was the only one surviving kid, enough, just needed to stay alive & get kids, daughters

after i made my home marker i went to fetch some rabbits
after some trips too & fro, i had my own backpack too
then kids starting popping out, one after another, /die /die /die /die
didn't look good

in the meantime my ma at the basis, set up a berry farm & started to make tower base sheep pen
the land was good, the base set up in gray gray badlands but lots of milkweed around, no wolves, only few boars, very few mosquitos, some banana trees, some berry bushes scattered, quite a few ponds & lots of rabbits around, would be a shame if the settlement had to die out
but then i had a son, he agreed to stay, so that was already something
we went back & by now my ma was dead

thank Jason, the son knew how to not only survive but even how to make a sheep pen out of tower bases, so he continued where his grandma stopped
i thought meantime to be too old for kids, but then a daughter came, that was enough to keep the line going & justify all the efforts done
but then even a second daughter was born
soon after i was old, did fetch some more rabbits, helped with the berry bushes at the corners of the sheep pen, which drained the last water from the shallow well
i knew, i had the last minutes to live, so i rushed to find four milkweeds, made the rope, made the boards, made the bucket, rushed to the adze, made the stanchion kit, made the deep well
& died

then went to see what the family tree was like
& then realised ... i was already today not only a direct ancestor, but i was a participant of another unusual story in that family

my name in the first family i told above was Juliana Milk, my mother was Gayatri Milk
i was the 11th generation, a bunch of generations earlier there is an ancestor, in the 3rd generation of an Eve, with the name Coco Milk & i was today already that exact Coco Milk

my story from that life was nothing special, some life in some town, not bad, in fact a nice life, but fairly unspectacular
only now it gains some more depth
i didn't pay much attention to it as it happened, because it was not that strange, but now, generations later, it becomes very special

as i was born into that town, my mother asked me if another woman is allowed to name me
as far i recall, i agreed, or maybe my mother agreed as the woman asked her, i'm not sure
anyways, fact is, i was born to a mother with the name of Cloie Boots, but the woman who named me was a different one, one with the surname Milk
& so the family line i was the ancestor of was not Boots but Milk
i was adopted to be the bearer of the family name Milk

as i looked for today's Eve Milk i found the missing link
the last words of hers were "You are coco"

http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=3904429
http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=3904429
http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=3902542

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BlueDiamondAvatar · 2019-03-27 00:06:58

That's super sweet.

And not just because it involves chocolate milk....

JonySky · 2019-03-27 08:33:41

I think the family tree should give more information about the character ... a few days ago someone wrote a post with a photographic report of the people with whom I had lived ... we should definitely have cameras and the possibility of attaching those photos in our family tree

Psykout · 2019-03-27 10:55:37

I would like to be able to see the trees graphically like a tree. Checking through lineages for causes of death and who's kids end up dying out or living on is tedious. The other day I was trying to look through a lineage because there was a LOT of 50yr-60yr old deaths and it was painstaking opening tabs for each female to see their specific line.

Something like this but with the OHOL portraits and last words + cause of death.

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