I'm not sure if this is the right thread to put this on, but I wanted to bring up a curious aspect of AA's story (What? 
Just one? )
I've often wondered what triggered AA/FS's mental illness. I wasn't often awake in Psych class 
, but I seem to recall that a person inherited a tendancy toward schizophrenia, and not the actual disease. (Provided that's what she had, of course!) Whether or not you became schizophrenic depended on other factors (trauma, environment) in your life.
Just for the sake of argument, let's accept that AA/FS was basing her story of the "Tchaikowskis" off of her own family, the Schankowskis. She tells us that she slept with a member of that family, and bore a child by him. This seems an odd type of relationship to have with a member of your own family.
So, in a round about way, is she telling us there was incest in the Schankowski family? Symptoms like those of AA have been recorded in victims of molestation> They become something greater in their own minds in order to rise above a situation.
So what does everyone else think? Of course, it's a terrible crime to accuse someone of, so I'm not accusing any member of the Schankowski family, as there is no proof. But, it would make sense for her to want to wipe her family from her mind after an event like this. Especially if she was told to surpress it. It would make sense.
To borrow from Bear, I will close the trapdoor now. I have to get to my Mandarin study group!
It appears this remark about "incest" is the start of the situation.
I can just imagine what went through Penny's mind when she saw this "theory".
I'm not sure how this popped into jermeny's head but hey, I have all kinds of theories popping into my head all the time. That said, I assume Penny wasn't too please with this kind of "theory" which isn't a very pleasant one. And, these kinds of "theories" would turn off any FS family member if they saw them. Since Penny is trying to locate and talk to the family, and, this kind of "theory" is presented then.... Well, I don't suppose this would go over very well with the family members. And, if this is a turn-off then the family won't answer questions.... Like a snowball rolling down a snowy hill..... that ends up smashing into a tree at the bottom of the hill, kind of scenario.
So, what do we have left? A theory. Nothing more and nothing less.
Let us all make that perfectly clear. No one has any evidence of incest.
As far as we know, Anna Anderson and FS are two different people who somehow became linked during a trial in the 1960s, then, again, through DNA in the 1990s.
To some, the DNA seem to prove that Anna Anderson and FS were one in the same. But, that was putting the cart in front of the horse, so-to-speak. What the DNA test shows is: AA is related to Karl Maucher who's grandmother Gertrude was either sister or half sister to FS. That is all the test can prove.
As for the remark about AA sleeping with other family members, please, you have to take yourself into another time period and a different way of living to view this accuately. People in those days didn't do things the way we do them today. A bed was a place everyone who could fit slept. The adults and kids. Family was family. Sometimes a friend shared the bed where it was warm.... A bed was better than the floor, especially in autumn and winter when the nights grew cold.....
Now, I believe this thread was suppose to be about proving Anna Anderson's story.
Annie asked about the long trip from Ekaterinburg to Bucharest some 2,000 plus miles and if it was possible.
I thought it was.
I asked about the weather around Odessa in Nov. . Helen replied that sometimes it snows but not always.... in Nov. .
The map I placed is far too small. I'm going to make a larger one so I'll be back.
Please, play nice while I'm away.
AGRBear
