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Tweet on Family History Initiates Discussion on War & Migration

Anecdotes that emerged ranged from poignant to creepy and unbelievable.

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The Indian subcontinent has experienced many wars and migrations and as an inhabitant of this diverse part of the world, one may not be entirely unfamiliar with long and complicated family histories. We all have numerous anecdotes to share!

A Twitter thread that invited responses for a “a cool bit of family history” has initiated a discussion on Twitter about war and migrations in a world where borders are burning topics of debate.

Anecdotes that emerged in reply to this tweet ranged from poignant to creepy and unbelievable.

Check out some of the responses below.

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Of World Wars and Narrow Escapes

There were some interesting World War family stories.

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Of Migrations and Identities

Then those about migrations and identities.

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The creator of the thread, Amanda Deibert, responded with the following tweet, after her initial tweet received a large number of responses.

“My fav things about this thread so far have been at least a handful of people discovering they are related to one another on the thread... (sic),” Deibert wrote on Twitter.

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