Family Tree and Family Photos

[muqawwee123]

Re: Family Tree and Family Photos

@Jolie

I don’t think we have a recorded version of family tree, all the links are pretty much in people’s head and I’m not sure if such things will ever be penned down for future generation to see. It would be nice if they do. I’ve always been fascinated by maternal Grandmother’s Iranian roots, next time she comes to visit, maybe I’ll do a little genealogy session with her.

We have photographs of our grandparents and paternal great grandfather, but none of the traditional life size framed photograph hanging in the hallway trend is followed.

By the way, I love looking at portraits, but don’t enjoy sitting for them. The idea of sitting down slightly turned in an unfamiliar setting, facing the camera with a tilted head and trying to silently engage with a camera, not knowing exactly which aspect your personality it’ll decide to capture and how true the representation will be. I would most certainly feel quite vulnerable and exposed in such situation. But I do love looking at portraits, love reading them, interpreting them and if I am fascinated by certain image, I can look at it for ages.

verbal version of family tree can’t exceed four generation. I myself just know upto my grand grand father’s name (father of my grandfather) and that probably becuase my dada named his elder son similar to his father ( as his father died before birth of his son).

The tradition of keeping family tree was never popular in lower class or at least in local communities except Brahmins.