Saturday 29 March 2025 As a daughter, a granddaughter and a genealogist, I have often wondered what the women who came before me would think about our lives as they exist now. During the COVID-19 pandemic I began to give more time and voice to those wonderings, for instance asking my husband, “How would your mom respond to this crisis? Do you think she would be more inclined to follow the isolation recommendations, or to scoff at them and go for coffee at Sneaker’s every morning anyway?” My mother-in-law passed away in 2014, less than a year after her lung cancer diagnosis, after more than twenty years without a cigarette. Then I started to think about my grandmothers. What would they have done? Now I think about that sort of thing all the time. What would my grandmas think, if they knew now about how I’ve raised my children? About how I run my household? About how we take care of our parents? About where and how we travel? About the friendships we maintain, and the family relationship...