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Several things lately have caused me to ponder this question .
Photography was a hobby that my Grandfather was very interested in ( thank goodness as thanks to him I have an amazing collection of old albums ) , my Dad connected very well with is father -in -law as they both shared this interest . I have an interest in the subject and my youngest daughter has just been informed she has got an A- grade for her exam piece in photography......so it's following through the family .
Stamp collecting however is causing me a considerable amount of bother . Again Grandfather started it , Dad inherited his collection , which my brother took on after he died . Brother has done nothing with it for 6 years and has just approached me saying he is thinking of handing it over to a collector / dealer , I've said give it to me and I'll see what I can find out about the stamps via the www. wish I hadn't ! , I feel like water being sucked down the plug hole into the vortex of philately !....how can I resist the genetic pull of hobbies ?
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I doubt that they are genetic more likely just passed on.
as granny teaches baking or cross stitch so shall others pick it up.
My love of old buildings or things long dead some may say come from Dad
yes he loved old buildings and talked me tthrough them he was a builder why not. I was a barmaid so was my Gran ..(and several in our family ran pubs), my Gran cooked so did I, she enjoyed it, I didn't
etc etc
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Not so much genes but influence Amanda I think..
My own grandfather tried to research family history, and back in 1958 wrote in a book all he knew, which I now have, and have typed out and added to. He spent a lot of time searching through Parish Records but in those days, they were not all available, and then only through the churches themselves, not the records offices. He also didn't have the advantage of the internet to help him search or he would have found his Gt Gt Grandfather who lived to 100 in Kent, not Hampshire lol.
As well as that, he used to write, and had entries in several theological books, and now I write. But I don't think it's in the genes, I believe it his influence on my early years. We were very close, but he died when I was 11.
Then again, I read some letters to my mum written by my paternal grandmother, who I never knew, she died a year before I was born, and on reading them, I could have written them myself, because some of the things she said (this was in 1958 too strangely), I would have said in exactly the same way. Even my mum said it was like reading something I had written.
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Maybe it's one of those 50/50 things then. Same as the nature / nurture argument .
As it happens Teresa , my interest in the family tree began because when my Nan died , I discovered a " family tree" that my Grandfather had scribbled down in about 1914 ( no dates, just names ) . I never knew him , he had died just before I was conceived but my Mum spoke a great deal about him and I guess that might have influenced me somewhat .
But they do say that " talents " run in families , music , art etc so I think that is somehow linked .
It's the blasted lure of the stamps that is bugging me to be honest !! Dad had them all the years of my life and I can't ever remember looking at them and now they are looming horrible large..............lol
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Amanda I wouldn't worry to much it was such a thing that you was brought up with, enjoy it
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