OLETYMS: 1880 US Census Sheet

Arkansas, County: Nevada, Township: Taylor

Families Are Webs

Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing then I was born.....Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole.

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

From the Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Sunday, August 22, 2010

1880 US Census Sheet

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