I have often thought about it since I had a step dad and do not know anything about my biological dad but his name...I do not know if I could find much without more information
I know enough with just my parents and their parents. Don't really care to go further.
If I was adopted? Couldn't say unless I was faced with it. I would be Leary of what I would find......
I spend a lot of time doing genealogy research and really enjoy it. That aspect, Owly, doesn't matter to me. For me, it's more like putting a huge puzzle together and I've always loved puzzles.
My late husband traced his side of the family back to the 17th century. It would be very near impossible to trace mine, family secrets (illegitimacy etc) meant that a whole lot of information was hidden or destroyed by my mother. Even surnames not easily traceable as they are ones that are common to the whole of Wales.
I would like to find out more about my family this time around. More wary of going into a trance to find previous lives. I think science is only just starting to look at ways where quantum physics will show that there are parallel universes. Everything is so complex in terms of "being other" that I think an interest in who we are now will soon be expandable. If that makes sense.
I can only think that the individual we are now is literally just now. Maybe some of our past lives will have been within the same family tree!
Wouldn't that be interesting if we ended up tracing a family member who turned out to have been someone we were in a past life.
Don't think I'd like to be regressed to find out. I wonder how I'd cope if I began relaying events that were experienced by my own Great Great Grandmother or someone.
Interesting stuff though.
posted by Owly1
over 2 years ago
I find ancestry fascinating. One of my sisters has traced much farther back than I have. We connected with a distant cousin online and she's doing great research on one branch. An older relative wrote a big family history a couple years ago, tracing the French branch back to the 1700s.
I've believed in reincarnation for 40 years or so now. I think it's an ARE (Edgar Cayce) belief that people reincarnate in groups. If that's so, it makes sense that some people return to the same area or same family.
The Internet opens up an entire other world of possible "soul group" (if it exists) connection. I "remember" living past lives in various parts of the world. I've always thought country, sex, language, etc. aren't necessarily the same from life to life and that people are reincarnated all over the world.
One day I was talking with some people about reincarnation and a man said he believes in thinks we reincarnate in the same family line so we could be one of our ancestors. Tabbykitten suggested that in above comments. I hadn't thought of that and the idea kind of freaks me out.
Hi Zoe,
It is very interesting hobby to have. It can be easy one minute and so confusing the next and revealing so much about the people that enabled us to be here is absolutely fascinating.
I also believe that we reincarnate in groups. Strange that we could be doing research on ourselves by trying to find out about our ancestors.
Have to say my Sister's little boy exhibits a lot of my Dad's behaviours and interests. It's quite amusing at times.
posted by Owly1
about 1 year ago
Yes, I would trace my family tree, for that is part of who I am.
I'm not ashamed of any of my family history so far from what she has shown us - it is amazing. I find that I'm closer to my Dad's side of the family and yearn for the sea like my ancestors before and have that free-spirit that they had then in their life.
My dad loved the sea. I read this at his funeral.
Sea-Fever
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.
John Masefield (1878-1967)
English Poet Laureate, 1930-1967
