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I'm just learning that a lot of my ancestors in the 1800s and 1900s had children and even moved away from their hometowns, yet they never told their children about things such as their family and who their ancestors are, what they, their family and their ancestors went through, where they come from and their life stories. And don't get me started on the possible secrets and family secrets. I suspect that my ancestors have gone through so much extreme racism, domestic terrorism and brutal violence due to being Black, childhood nightmares, and unsettling traumatic situations to where many of them refused to let their own children know about any of it in order to "protect them." I think that might have done more harm than good to be honest.