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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I think it was probably really realistic for them to be like "Oh, wow -- I never even noticed that.  It's definitely someone...."  They lived with that stuff, but it's not like they picked it out or anything.  They said they had a librarian that was in charge of it all (and apparently on vacation or something the one day they needed him?).

And, honestly, if you pulled out your [b]grandmother's photo book[/b].....would you be able to ID the people in it?  Or would you be like "I think that was Great Aunt Phoebe.  Or wait, maybe that was Grandma's best friend.  Definitely one of those, unless it was her cousin Rose. Might have been her."   Or who [b]painted the random landscape[/b] hanging over your mother's piano?

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My grandmother had one photo of her family, and I could identify everyone in it.  My mom didn't have any paintings unless she did them herself let alone a piano.

However, my MIL had a long family history and heirlooms to go with it, so yes, I even knew who the people in the photos and the paintings were.  Sometimes she would tell me and sometimes I would ask after seeing something repeatedly for years--and I only visited.

The women should have at least known who painted the paintings, there's a few by Van Dyke and it's not as though the writers had to be incredibly lazy by inventing some never before seen character.  They have a historical advisor to the show as well lots have been written about Highclere Castle:
http://www.go-star.com/antiquing/antiques-of-downton-abbey.htm
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Ok, you know your family history, but how many friends and acquaintances know theirs?  I know plenty of people who struggle to name second cousins (people who have a common great-grandparent), let alone their great grandparents names.[/quote]

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