This work is based on the childhood stories of my great-grandmother Tránsito and my grandmother Ofelia. In their childhoods, Tránsito and Ofelia simultaneously (or, on occasion, alternatively) fulfilled two roles: on the one hand, as child members of the family and, on the other, as domestic service workers. My main argument is that the stories of Tránsito and Ofelia show the complexity of the relationships of the girls in domestic service with their blood relatives and with their employers. This complexity is due to the vulnerability imposed by these relationships in which they can find themselves simultaneously included and excluded; inside and outside. The elaboration of this work, started from the work with family history, mainly, in collaboration with my grandmother Ofelia, which implied the use of a great variety of techniques, among which are: ethnography of the close environment (autoethnography), document analysis such as baptism certificates or genealogical charts, photographs, music and a visit to the places of Tránsito's and Ofelia's childhoods.
