![]() But within moments of arriving in the dreaded ‘burbs, she is adopted by local queen bee Nancy (Elle Graham), who looks and talks like bad news. Margaret has her doubts about the family’s good fortunes. It’s eerily like the American dream, and almost as though the film has begun at the end. Margaret’s mother (Rachel McAdams) will be able to quit her job and become a housewife. Margaret’s father (Benny Safdie) has been promoted, so they can finally afford a house with a big lawn on a nice street. Her doting grandmother (Kathy Bates with statement hair) immediately blabs the news that Margaret’s parents are waiting to break: the family are moving to New Jersey. When we meet Margaret, she’s back in New York City after a fun-packed summer spent at camp. It helps that the book’s heroine, 11-year-old Margaret, is played with endearing reserve and self-doubt by Abby Ryder Fortson. The result, thank goodness, is lovely: tender, funny, at points very moving, and full of precise and careful performances. Now, the novel that Blume long prevented from being made into a film has finally received the big-screen treatment. Periods, sex, death, bullying: these are things that happen, Blume’s books gently warned – but they can be managed, and here are some examples of how. The book was loved by its young readers for its humour and cosy relatability but it was doing something radical, too: exposing the damper, more shameful realities of being a tween for what they really were – nothing to be ashamed of at all. If you're interested in more tools for tracking your research, have a look at our guide on Using Spreadsheets for Tracking Research.It’s been more than 50 years since the publication of Judy Blume’s seminal coming-of-age novel, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. So have a go and add some custom tags for your locations. Likewise if I am travelling to a location to visit relatives, archives, libraries, cemeteries etc, I can filter a list and know who I need to research. Now when a new record collection arrives for Ontario, Canada, on Ancestry (or elsewhere), I can search these collections for the family members by location and look for the hints that match the collection. You can only filter by one tag at a time, but it's a great place to start.Īt this stage there is no easy way to print a list of all of the family linked to a location, but at least I can find them. When I search my family tree I can then filter by the custom tags to get a list of all the relatives in that location. I've started with the country name and then the county/state name, as that way they will sort alphabetically by the larger area first. I will also set one up for Scotland Aberdeenshire and tag George with it. I’ll then add other areas in Canada as I find relatives linked to those areas. There are a number of pre-definied tree tags, but we're going to create a Custom Tag.įor George Urquhart, I set up one for Canada Ontario. You'll find the blue icon under the birth and death dates. So the cunning plan is to use the Ancestry Tree Tags and set up some custom tags for locations.Īncestry Tree Tags are found on the profile page for a person in your family tree. Yes, hints will tell if there are new records for a person within the record collections on Ancestry, but again these are person specific and within a long list of hints you have to remember to go back to a person again to see the latest hints. If you have your family tree also on a computer program then you may be able to search by location (I know I can in Brother’s Keeper) and get family associated with that location. If you use Ancestry to host your family tree and research, then you can search your tree by person, but you can’t search your tree by location. When we are researching this is mainly by person, which is great if we are concentrating on one line of our family tree, but what other ways could we research our family history? ![]() However their descendants went a little bit further afield. When I look at my family tree it shows that my ancestors come from only a few different areas of the world. We were talking about international research on Ancestry Family History Friday’s (you can see the video here) and when I was putting together my talk it got me thinking about how we research our families. ![]()
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