X-Factored - family stories
Xanthe HallScottish-German artist, writer, gardener, actress. presently unemployed, almost a pensioner but not quite. Used to be a nuclear disarmament campaigner but taking at least a year off from political activity to get my head straight and my body healthy.
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Review: My first year on Substack
I’m a bit late with this, but I wanted to review my first year on Substack. It was very intense and I met a lot of new people, mostly US-Americans, some Australian and Canadians, a few British and Irish, a Greek, a Norwegian, and a German....
The Woman I Inherited
Storyteller Tuesday Challenge: Ancestral Women 2026
At the beginning of last year I got my DNA results from Ancestry. Nothing spectacular. Except for 1% from India.
That got me wondering: how? Who? Who was the woman I inherited this DNA...
Ada – A Woman with Agency
Robin Stewart Genealogy Matters Storyteller Tuesday Challenge: Ancestral Women 2026
What does it actually mean: to have agency? It doesn’t just mean someone who can make decisions, we all do that. It means someone who has the capacity to m...
The Woman Who Carried The Family Through
Robin Stewart Genealogy Matters Storyteller Tuesday Challenge: Ancestral Women 2026
If there is one woman in my family that is a paragon of endurance, it’s Martha. Life in colonial India before the Raj was not like we know it from “Passage...
RootsTech Ride-Along from Berlin
I managed to catch up on a few sessions from my schedule yesterday, although I was too busy on Thursday to go online to RootsTech. My head is still buzzing from all I’ve learnt!
The first, and the most useful for my current research, was K...
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Scottish-German storyteller, family historian, artist, photographer, gardener, actress. Originally from the UK, now living in Berlin, and half the year in Greece. Editor of an online lexicon on nuclear weapons.
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