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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Popsie's later life
So far, in Part One of Popsie Ruegg’s story, I have attempted to write everything down chronologically. That is not how the research was done. I jumped from one part of her life to another, discovering new information and then returning to...
'Popsie' Ruegg's story
This story was researched using the "negative spaces” method, that I recently learnt from Dr. Sophie Kay1. I had found many records, but they simply didn’t match up. Something seemed off. Either my 2nd great-grandaunt went off the rails, or...
Tales of a Grandfather
I received this story from one of the members of the Stanes family, twenty years ago. I wanted to use it as a source for my family history work but I can’t find it anywhere. So I decided to publish it myself, as it is now 100 years old, and...
Mary's Wedding
I wrote this piece responding to a prompt from for Genstack Coterie. It is a first draft depicting one scene in the life of Mary Byrn, my 3rd great-grandmother. This is a fictional piece of writing, drawn from a marriage record. I am activ...
The Drunken Gardener, Part Two
We continue with Grandaunt Flora’s memories that take up the story in the hill station of Simla (now called Shimla), Punjab, India, in 1871:
“…so he [Henry Bwye] was employed to construct the public gardens at Anandale, and subsequently...
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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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