tonymaillman Posted May 8, 2007 Report Share Posted May 8, 2007 Despite the loss - and slowly dwindling demise - of many of the REAL skills in crafting items, it seems that certain people 'take' to a certain craft much better than someone else, many of the people I know who produce historical items of many kinds have been quite shocked to find that when they've delved into their family tree they find that the skill they now re-create was actually the one their ancestors relied upon for their living Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted May 8, 2007 Report Share Posted May 8, 2007 A good arguement for a permanent class or caste system Tony! However, there may be something in it; as an "aptitude" for certain professions can run in families. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mary Posted May 8, 2007 Report Share Posted May 8, 2007 Nature or nurture? Interesting idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymaillman Posted May 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2007 ......... and thickens yet further :crazy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted May 9, 2007 Report Share Posted May 9, 2007 What is this information based on Tony? Or is it a theory that is not proven yet but seems to fit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymaillman Posted May 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 It just seems uncanny that quite a number of people seem to follow along the same lines as their ancestory ......... would make a good survey to find out exactly what proportion of people can adapt to skills they didnt think they had, but were part of their previous generations everyday lives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 A closer examination may identify "gene paths"; where a person has similiar attributes/characteristics to an Uncle or Aunt; or more distant relative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymaillman Posted May 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Possibly ........ be interesting to see results of something like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Look at your own enlarged family; listen to the old ones talk about Great Aunt Lizzie's antics; and you may discover someone who resembles her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymaillman Posted May 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2007 I haven't got a great aunt Lizzie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted May 15, 2007 Report Share Posted May 15, 2007 Check your geneology - you never know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymaillman Posted April 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2008 I wonder what - if ANY - skills will be passed down from up and coming generations ........... less and less are being carried on in favour of 'push button' stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted April 27, 2008 Report Share Posted April 27, 2008 Well Scottie appeared quite proficient, running the Enterprise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tonymaillman Posted May 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 I wonder what - if ANY - skills will be passed down from up and coming generations ........... less and less are being carried on in favour of 'push button' stuff  Poor old Fred Dibnah must be turning in his grave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 Time and tide wait for no man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymaillman Posted May 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2008 As King Canute found out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kateoflymm Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 My father, the middle one of 5 boys, was orphaned in 1917 at the age of 9 and brought up separately from his brothers. He was "adopted" by a childless couple who were, if you'll excuse the expression but I can't find one more appropriate, "upper working class". He was intelligent and artistic and, despite leaving school as a part-timer aged 13, went to night school where he studied art and design and gained the School Certificate. He became a printer's engraver and commercial artist until after the war when he studied to become an optician. He was also very musical and played drums semi-professionally, and sometimes piano, in a dance band. He sang too - through a megaphone! Â Dad knew little about his ancestry. He remembered his mother as a small woman who looked a lot like me and his father as a tall man who was a good singer - when he'd had a couple of pints. He also knew, vaguely, that his grandfather had been a blacksmith. Â The point of my ramblings is this. Dad was one of those people who you'd describe as "good with his hands". As an optician he also made frames, from perspex, which he sold; he was also an extremely good bricklayer and built a very professional extension on the last house he owned. As an artist he worked a lot with plastic and metal and created ornaments, clocks, lamps etc. Â Comes the time when my brother starts very serious ancestor research and what does he find? All the paternal ancestors, down to our father's father, were blacksmiths. The trade was handed down from father to sons since at least the 17th century. They were not farriers, they didn't shoe horses, they made machinery and worked metal in many ways. Research has shown that our grandfather, his 2 brothers and their father all worked on the Ship Canal bridges in Warrington at the turn of the 20th century, though this was not their home town. Â I'm "good with my hands" too, very practical. Perhaps the spirit of Harry (my dad), Jack, Bob, Harry, Bill, Bill and so on going way way back, lives on in me. It lives in my artistic, semi-pro musician son and my "I can fix it" elder daughter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 Tony said ------------- When they've delved into their family tree they find that the skill they now re-create was actually the one their ancestors relied upon for their living. ------------- Â There must have been a load of old cobblers in the Skelenbury family then! Â Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legion Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 I come from a long line of "jack of all trades" and I am true to form...and sadly master of none. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 I am afraid that almost all my skills were self taught - except the intellegence that was handed down from my parents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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