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mirtlemist

horse with no name (part one)

Jul 05, 2010 09:03

Recently, I've been researching my family tree. I'll tie this into writing and to animals later, but for now I just want to tell you how big a deal this is for me. We're talking biblical here.

A little insight into my family dynamics is key. it operates on the basis of Knowledge Is Power. A corollary to that is Knowledge Is Control. Entire ( Read more... )

family trees, writing, animals

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Dreams marjwatkins July 5 2010, 16:18:45 UTC

Your dream was a splendid allegory of your daytime life experience with the ancestry info being withheld by your thieving relative and the emotional wound from it. Thanks for relating it.

Re: Dreams mirtlemist July 5 2010, 17:30:41 UTC

Strange how the mind reflects things, isn't it? Now and then a particular interpretation really stands out :)

Animals and Ancestry marjwatkins July 5 2010, 16:24:09 UTC

What is that darling tiny animal baby? Squirrelk?

I'm glad to learn that Ancestry.com has a two-week free trial period. I've got lots of ancestral lines not explored. One line lead back to Charlemagne and sparked my two historical novels (see my website: www.marjwatkins.com)

Re: Animals and Ancestry mirtlemist July 5 2010, 17:26:22 UTC

Yes, you guessed right, a baby squirrel. That one was approx three weeks old :)

All the way back to Charlemagne? That's awesome! :)

Two weeks was just long enough for me to realize there's way too much info to process in that amount of time, which is probably why they can afford to do it. lol.

My immediate family were part of the Russian migration away from the Revolution, but I've turned up links in other branches to England, Ireland, Barbados and Argentina. It's served to reinforce to me just how many people here in America literally came from somewhere else.

Re: Animals and Ancestry marjwatkins July 5 2010, 21:46:44 UTC

Now I'm back to Charlemagne's great-grandfather. My English ancestors who emmigrated to America came from Essex, both my mother's and my father's. Mother's came via Ireland--lived there for a couple of centuries.

Re: Animals and Ancestry mirtlemist July 5 2010, 23:06:41 UTC

I'm all admiration that you've been able to go back that far. My fraternal grandmother's family came from Ireland, but I'm having difficulty establishing when they arrived in this country. Apparently, the US didn't begin keeping records until around 1743, and they arrived some time before that. Wouldn't it be cool if our families knew each other, once upon a time? :)

Good luck with your research, and with your books.

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