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Have you ever known anyone personally that writes life stories & gets things wrong about every other paragraph?

I have a sister that posts long stories on Facebook. She reposted something she wrote a couple years ago about young life on the farm. She made 6 major errors including attributing some things that happened to me or my sister to herself. Claims she was in 1st grade when JFK died, I remember sitting in 1st grade myself & having our teacher tell us & the whole classroom crying. She wasn’t even in school yet. This same sister has been writing a book about life & the family and has said she will publish it.
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4meAndyou · F
I used to have a cousin who worked with family history a great deal. She passed away four years ago. Her research was questionable. Now I am discovering that the things she wrote about my great grandmother were probably highly inaccurate.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@4meAndyou She told me that our oldest sister, who had lived with our grandmother, said that Grandma was 15 when she got married (true) but Grandpa was 17 (not true). I did some basic genealogy this past year and found out he was in his mid-20’s. Things like that are easy to prove. But when one family member makes claims of things happening within a family that didn’t happen it’s hard to disprove, like her word against mine. I don’t have a problem with the style that she wrote it in, that is very readable and like able. But to take stories that happened to others & apply them to herself after she’s heard others talking about it is pure fiction.
4meAndyou · F
@cherokeepatti Documents are your proof. And really, once you show others your documents and disprove the point she was trying to make, I doubt that others will accept her words at face value.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@4meAndyou Also saying she was in first grade when JFK died, that’s easy to prove by her birth date. I was in first grade and she’s a year and a half younger than me. I imagine if she writes & publishes a book I could take a yellow Sharpie highlighter and every page would have at least one lie in it.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@4meAndyou She has 5,000 people on her FB page, and she gets many of them to believe the crap she’s posting.
4meAndyou · F
@cherokeepatti If you have your own FB page, you can write the corrections with photos of birth and marriage documents on your own page.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@4meAndyou I have a FB page but I don’t post. I do monitor her because she has habitually gas-lighted me and I’m tired of it. It may get to the point where she will get confronted. I believe she hasn’t mentioned my name on FB because she knows better but she writes stuff about me & twists it to make it seem different. But how can she write a life book without mentioning me by name? And then writing a lot of crap.