Maud Newton’s Ancestory Trouble

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What does your family tree say about you? Maud Newton tackles this question in her new and powerful book, Ancestor Trouble. Through this project, Newton asks probing questions about a number of her ancestors, questioning family myths and stories along the way. Using her talent as a researcher, Newton uncovers the true stories of relatives whose lives were or are complex, fascinating, and at times, troubling. As we go along for the ride, Newton teaches us about genetic genealogy, ancestor worship, and much more. Part memoir, part social commentary, Newton’s book is great to sit with as we head into the holidays.

Trigger warning: We do reference sexual assault and domestic violence in the course of discussing the content of this book.

Original air date: November 23, 2022

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to Dolls of our Lives. This is the podcast where we're reliving the American Girl series book by book except here on Patreon where we're doing anything that you or we decide is relevant. I'm Mary. I'm Allison. And we're here today with some
0:26.1	some might call it ancestor trouble. We're finally getting into genealogy on this
0:30.3	show. I knew this book was ancestor trouble when it walked in.
0:35.0	Wow, yeah, that's so real.
0:38.0	I like you have not been wrapped up in like trying to get Taylor Swift tickets but you know like we might be
0:43.8	triggering some people because it's you know a lot of people didn't get through like
0:47.9	ticket master shut down a lot of dreams in the past few days.
0:51.9	Yeah it's fascinating because elected officials in my area have finally had something to say about
0:57.5	monopolies and it was in the wake of a ticket master meltdown probably brought on by someone in their lives. I had no
1:06.2	trouble getting this book which is Maud Newton's ancestor trouble. So if you're
1:11.2	looking for like a lower stakes get this book is under $30 and you don't have to deal with resale prices.
1:19.0	I mean that's certainly true and just like Taylor Swift is going to take you through her
1:23.7	eras in that tour allegedly which I will sadly not be seeing because I did not
1:28.2	get tickets either. This book is a memoir in which Maude Newton takes us through her own life experiences in the process of trying to analyze her own genealogy and sort of reckon with her own family history.
1:44.0	So this is a book for someone who's ever wondered, what do I do with my family history or
1:48.6	like how am I processing this?
1:51.6	And we will get into that. It a lot but I mean presumably as I was
1:55.2	reading this book and as we're approaching Thanksgiving I'm thinking like what is
1:58.6	it like around Maud's Thanksgiving table in terms of like what she lays out in this book like is it awkward.
2:05.9	So Ma Newton as you say is a writer and I was listening to interviews with her in preparation for this
2:12.3	podcast and she talks about how her
2:14.9	sister is very private her sister is not very much into like the kind of deep
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