Family trees

Whoops nevermind.

 

You make me laugh. xxx

 

I've been working on my family history for 30 years and have another 75 years worth of work to do. It is great fun solving mysteries! I've written two books, one on my mother's line and another on my father's. Now I'm revising both books.

 

I am glad someone is as passionate as me.

 

My Father was doing the whole "Ancestry" thing before he died... I'm not going to continue it though.

 

My family tree includes a tradition of passing down stories to each new generation. For example, my great grandmother was a half-breed rejected by both the whites and the Cherokee, and finally abandoned on the doorstep of a missionary family with 10 half-breed kids of their own. She weighted maybe 90lbs soaking wet as an adult, but lived a full happy life. I saw her just before she died at 93, and even blind as Stevie Wonder and deaf as a doorknob, she was happy as could be. My mother is big on the genealogy, and has found interesting stories dating back about 180 years or more.

Part of what's interesting about it, is that you are more closely related genetically to your grandparents and great grandparents then you are to your parents.

 

Wow, a story at last.
Sad story but a good one.

 

When we left the commune, I had to warn my children about Babylonians and to not tell everyone they were half Jewish. That's why we have our family stories and we still pass them down to this day, because too many people have no shame, and society encourages them to be shameless.

 

It does. I hope I get more stories.
Lest we forget the past suffering, that our ancestors went through, that paved the way for a better life for us all today.

 

I'm seeing the DNA blowing all the old family skeletons straight out of the closets.

I'm liking it.

It's happened on both sides of my family now and it's happened to the most lying, arrogant members of the families.

 

We found my uncle's son through ancestry.com.
Or he found us, I should say. We didn't know of his existence. And I'm not sure my uncle knew of his existence either

 

I have found so much on Ancestry.
I have recently found distant relatives in the USA!
Still trying to track them.

 

After the Vietnam War the US and Vietnamese people disowned all the half-breed children. Like my great grandmother, they abandoned them without a country or even a society. We tell our stories to our children, so they know not to trust their own culture any further than they can spit. It is something we wish we could forget, because the assholes will deny such issues are problems with their dying breath.

The book I'm writing contains poetry aimed at helping their children to avoid becoming their parents. You can run, you can hide, you can deny anything you want, but the truth will inevitably eat you alive. Many of their children have already disowned their parents and are helping other abused and neglected children to find sanity and hope again. Fundamentalism in particular is a mental disease by any medical standard, but its half the world's population and politically unfeasible to treat it as such officially. Thankfully, once they make a significant amount of money, fundamentalists stop breeding. They can talk about family values and community all they want, but the sad truth is they have no personal integrity and frequently drive their own children away. Once we have better contraceptives, they will start to die out fast, because all they really care about is the money and their own happiness.

 

You always post such thought-provoking things.
You are right in so many ways.

 

Its my family tradition, I didn't invent it, but its interesting to note that the KKK led US government is now begging their white constituents to make more babies. They don't want children or a functional society, so much as money and, once they get, they tend to die that much faster. Half of life is knowing what to ignore, so we need to teach our children who to avoid. Sad to say, most people in the US are white, my kids are white, and we had to teach them to never really trust white people in the US who elected a Neo-Nazi president.

 

I am humbled to know you.

 

Roots is a famous television series, and their story is just another variation on the same theme. The US is a slave culture to this day, which is why the president is a Neo Nazi. Hippies compare them to cannibals who frequently eat their own children.

 

My family tree through the men has been successfully traced back to 1674 when my nth degree grandfather came over in a ship from England, but it is doubtful he was English. There is actually an ongoing genetic project that is trying to find out where people with my surname came from. (My brother donated DNA to this project to give them another data point.) It is an uncommon name that, in the US, is found mostly in Maryland, Virginia and about three places in Kentucky. Anyway, we have an unusual genetic marker that has so far only been found in people with this name. No luck finding any Europeans with this particular marker though. It's puzzling.

 

Mmm Politics has it's place elsewhere. I watched Roots. And a slave for 12 years.