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Were premodern (especially Medieval) commoners interested in their family history? Literate and illiterate. Would they be told about ancestors they never knew like great grandparents? Further back if they were especially cool? Did literate commoners without noble blood keep family trees?

by /u/EqualSky in /r/AskHistorians

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