Genealogical Imagination as an Area of Conflicted Memories: A Post-Sarmatic Case Study

n this article, I will discuss two levels of memory conflicts in family genealogies: internal – intimate and private, involving mainly taboos in genealogical practices, and external, which come from broader circles of memory, such as national myths and other collective patterns of imagining the past. The leading story in this article is a multidimensional genealogical narrative provided by amateur genealogist Iwona Sudnik from Pęgowo near Wroclaw. Her genealogical imagination as a form of living "over [family] time" (Jackson 2021) is considered here as an area of accumulated memories that intermingle, complement, or compete with each other. Through their prism, conflicts of memory can be studied in the course of in-depth ethnographic research.