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Irma, What you say about our memories of sitting around while the grown-ups talked about their bringing up (te acuerdas-----?) may be what is influencing many of us now. When I am reading the records in microfilms, I actually hear the voices of my older relatives; I hear their inflections, the way they spoke the Spanish language. When I have done a long stretch of reading films, I continue to hear the voices long after. My husband experienced that phenomenon too when we were in Salt Lake City and he helped me review some films, even though he doesn't go the the local FHC with me. He does go with me to the libraries (FHCs and university libraries in El Paso, Las Cruces, etc) and helps me. Emilie Garcia Port Orchard, WA ----
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color=#0000ff size=2>Several members of the LDS church have shared some of the
same experiences with me while I'm at the FHC doing my own research. They
believe that it is their job to bring their ancestors to their church.
Maybe this influences their visions, dreams...
same experiences with me while I'm at the FHC doing my own research. They
believe that it is their job to bring their ancestors to their church.
Maybe this influences their visions, dreams...
color=#0000ff size=2>I do not dream about ancestors that I have not met,
nor do they contact me. Being a chicken, I'm thankful.
nor do they contact me. Being a chicken, I'm thankful.
color=#0000ff size=2>My passion for finding out about my ancestors I
believe comes from my parents and relatives talking about their ancestors:
funny stories, exploits, etc.
believe comes from my parents and relatives talking about their ancestors:
funny stories, exploits, etc.
color=#0000ff size=2> My abuelito would also tell my older primo
Felipe to grab a pen and a notebook and jot down info. about his parents,
grandparents, etc., Felipe whom I haven't been in touch with for over
15 yrs., just put together a little velobound booklet on his parent's
ancestors. Maybe he's working on both of us in a very subtle
way...
Felipe to grab a pen and a notebook and jot down info. about his parents,
grandparents, etc., Felipe whom I haven't been in touch with for over
15 yrs., just put together a little velobound booklet on his parent's
ancestors. Maybe he's working on both of us in a very subtle
way...
color=#0000ff size=2>I would sit on my abuelito's lap too like Joseph, but I
would bite my lito's nose. :) This was
something only I got away with it too. My abuelito Nando's
influence as well as wanting to see if my dad's outrageous stories
were true or it.
would bite my lito's nose. :) This was
something only I got away with it too. My abuelito Nando's
influence as well as wanting to see if my dad's outrageous stories
were true or it.
color=#0000ff size=2>Irma
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[mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Josie T.
Trevino
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 6:20 AM
To:
ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [ranchos] An Unsolved
Mystery
color=#0000ff size=2>Several years ago, when I first started doing research on
my family, I was at the FHC library and a member of the LDS Church was helping
me get started. I had already made several attempts at research by
myself but could never get good results.....needless to say, I was getting
VERY frustrated! In fact, I was ready to give up! Then I
started having dreams about my ancestors and I did not even know them~~!!
You can imagine how that felt! When I told my friend at the FHC
library about my dreams she looked at me in (what I thought) was a strange
way......I asked her what was wrong and she said "nothing"...... Later, as I was
preparing to leave, she took me aside and explained to me that "she did not know
if I would understand what she was going to tell me, but that she would tell me
anyway." This statement must have come because I told her that my dreams
sometimes scared me and I did not understand why I was dreaming about
people I did not even know......and this happened several times.....not just
once or twice. She went on to tell me that "our ancestors choose someone
in the family to continue doing the search.....and that was probably what was
happening to me!" WOW! Was I shocked!
After giving it some thought, it made sense! I am the only one in my
family who is interested in genealogy and has done extensive research......in
other words, I am the only obsessed one! :-) Out of the 21 or
so grandchildren of my grandparents, I am the only one who does genealogy.
Then it all made sense to me.....the reason for my "obsession".... the reason
why "sometimes information just falls into my lap" etc, etc. etc.
After reading "Psychic Roots" and "More Psychic Roots" it all made complete
sense to me and I now look forward to these dreams......my private visits with
my ancestors........
my family, I was at the FHC library and a member of the LDS Church was helping
me get started. I had already made several attempts at research by
myself but could never get good results.....needless to say, I was getting
VERY frustrated! In fact, I was ready to give up! Then I
started having dreams about my ancestors and I did not even know them~~!!
You can imagine how that felt! When I told my friend at the FHC
library about my dreams she looked at me in (what I thought) was a strange
way......I asked her what was wrong and she said "nothing"...... Later, as I was
preparing to leave, she took me aside and explained to me that "she did not know
if I would understand what she was going to tell me, but that she would tell me
anyway." This statement must have come because I told her that my dreams
sometimes scared me and I did not understand why I was dreaming about
people I did not even know......and this happened several times.....not just
once or twice. She went on to tell me that "our ancestors choose someone
in the family to continue doing the search.....and that was probably what was
happening to me!" WOW! Was I shocked!
After giving it some thought, it made sense! I am the only one in my
family who is interested in genealogy and has done extensive research......in
other words, I am the only obsessed one! :-) Out of the 21 or
so grandchildren of my grandparents, I am the only one who does genealogy.
Then it all made sense to me.....the reason for my "obsession".... the reason
why "sometimes information just falls into my lap" etc, etc. etc.
After reading "Psychic Roots" and "More Psychic Roots" it all made complete
sense to me and I now look forward to these dreams......my private visits with
my ancestors........
color=#0000ff size=2>
color=#0000ff size=2>Josie in San Antonio
From: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of leticia
leon
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:33 PM
To:
ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ranchos] An Unsolved
Mystery
Maybe is a chip in the brain that compells us,
sort or a chip I mean, for me is an urge that started early in life, I try to
keep memories of names in my mothers chat over dinners, mostly when we had no
tv, I long for those moments... than tater after her pass of the way I dream a
lot about her very vividly, and since I started this genealogy formaly those
dreams almos stop, nowadays I dream about her now and then... thanks to my
parents use of the oral tradition I feel that my relatives I never met are part
of the family... that's for me Emilie how it is. Bye
Leticia Leon
Emilie Garcia
<auntyemfaustus@...> escribió:
sort or a chip I mean, for me is an urge that started early in life, I try to
keep memories of names in my mothers chat over dinners, mostly when we had no
tv, I long for those moments... than tater after her pass of the way I dream a
lot about her very vividly, and since I started this genealogy formaly those
dreams almos stop, nowadays I dream about her now and then... thanks to my
parents use of the oral tradition I feel that my relatives I never met are part
of the family... that's for me Emilie how it is. Bye
Leticia Leon
Emilie Garcia
<auntyemfaustus@...> escribió:
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">
This is an excerpt from an article in the latest World Wildlife
Federation Newsletter:
"For reasons not fully understood, millions of
North American butterflies from southern Canada and the eastern United States
migrate south each year to just a few mountaintops in Michoacan........the
monarchs that return to the butterfly sanctuary in Mexico are approximately
five generations removed from those that left Mexico the previous
spring.....how monarchs are able to locate the same forest ecosystem year
after year without having been there before remains an unsolved biological
mystery".
When I read this, I had also just read about the same phenomenon in a
book called "Psychic Roots", except that they said it took about eight
generations for the butterflies to make the round trip. Talk about
serendipity!
Are we like those butterflies? What is it that calls us to locate
the records of our ancestors from eight generations past when we have not
been where they lived? Why do so many of us feel compelled to
travel such long distances and endure the risks and hardships of foreign
travel to look through dusty tomes and tramp through old ruins and
panteones? Why do we feel such a thrill for each discovery?
Does our RNA/DNA hard-wire us to seek the locale of some of our ancestors,
just like the butterflies' RNA/DNA? Oooooooo. Sounds like a
Siren's Song that calls us. That is an unsolved mystery.
Emilie Garcia
Port Orchard, WA ----
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color=#0000ff size=2>Several years ago, when I first started doing research on
my family, I was at the FHC library and a member of the LDS Church was helping
me get started. I had already made several attempts at research by
myself but could never get good results.....needless to say, I was getting
VERY frustrated! In fact, I was ready to give up! Then I
started having dreams about my ancestors and I did not even know them~~!!
You can imagine how that felt! When I told my friend at the FHC
library about my dreams she looked at me in (what I thought) was a strange
way......I asked her what was wrong and she said "nothing"...... Later, as I was
preparing to leave, she took me aside and explained to me that "she did not know
if I would understand what she was going to tell me, but that she would tell me
anyway." This statement must have come because I told her that my dreams
sometimes scared me and I did not understand why I was dreaming about
people I did not even know......and this happened several times.....not just
once or twice. She went on to tell me that "our ancestors choose someone
in the family to continue doing the search.....and that was probably what was
happening to me!" WOW! Was I shocked!
After giving it some thought, it made sense! I am the only one in my
family who is interested in genealogy and has done extensive research......in
other words, I am the only obsessed one! :-) Out of the 21 or
so grandchildren of my grandparents, I am the only one who does genealogy.
Then it all made sense to me.....the reason for my "obsession".... the reason
why "sometimes information just falls into my lap" etc, etc. etc.
After reading "Psychic Roots" and "More Psychic Roots" it all made complete
sense to me and I now look forward to these dreams......my private visits with
my ancestors........
my family, I was at the FHC library and a member of the LDS Church was helping
me get started. I had already made several attempts at research by
myself but could never get good results.....needless to say, I was getting
VERY frustrated! In fact, I was ready to give up! Then I
started having dreams about my ancestors and I did not even know them~~!!
You can imagine how that felt! When I told my friend at the FHC
library about my dreams she looked at me in (what I thought) was a strange
way......I asked her what was wrong and she said "nothing"...... Later, as I was
preparing to leave, she took me aside and explained to me that "she did not know
if I would understand what she was going to tell me, but that she would tell me
anyway." This statement must have come because I told her that my dreams
sometimes scared me and I did not understand why I was dreaming about
people I did not even know......and this happened several times.....not just
once or twice. She went on to tell me that "our ancestors choose someone
in the family to continue doing the search.....and that was probably what was
happening to me!" WOW! Was I shocked!
After giving it some thought, it made sense! I am the only one in my
family who is interested in genealogy and has done extensive research......in
other words, I am the only obsessed one! :-) Out of the 21 or
so grandchildren of my grandparents, I am the only one who does genealogy.
Then it all made sense to me.....the reason for my "obsession".... the reason
why "sometimes information just falls into my lap" etc, etc. etc.
After reading "Psychic Roots" and "More Psychic Roots" it all made complete
sense to me and I now look forward to these dreams......my private visits with
my ancestors........
color=#0000ff size=2>
color=#0000ff size=2>Josie in San Antonio
From: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of leticia
leon
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:33 PM
To:
ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ranchos] An Unsolved
Mystery
Maybe is a chip in the brain that compells us,
sort or a chip I mean, for me is an urge that started early in life, I try to
keep memories of names in my mothers chat over dinners, mostly when we had no
tv, I long for those moments... than tater after her pass of the way I dream a
lot about her very vividly, and since I started this genealogy formaly those
dreams almos stop, nowadays I dream about her now and then... thanks to my
parents use of the oral tradition I feel that my relatives I never met are part
of the family... that's for me Emilie how it is. Bye
Leticia Leon
Emilie Garcia
<auntyemfaustus@...> escribió:
sort or a chip I mean, for me is an urge that started early in life, I try to
keep memories of names in my mothers chat over dinners, mostly when we had no
tv, I long for those moments... than tater after her pass of the way I dream a
lot about her very vividly, and since I started this genealogy formaly those
dreams almos stop, nowadays I dream about her now and then... thanks to my
parents use of the oral tradition I feel that my relatives I never met are part
of the family... that's for me Emilie how it is. Bye
Leticia Leon
Emilie Garcia
<auntyemfaustus@...> escribió:
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">
This is an excerpt from an article in the latest World Wildlife
Federation Newsletter:
"For reasons not fully understood, millions of
North American butterflies from southern Canada and the eastern United States
migrate south each year to just a few mountaintops in Michoacan........the
monarchs that return to the butterfly sanctuary in Mexico are approximately
five generations removed from those that left Mexico the previous
spring.....how monarchs are able to locate the same forest ecosystem year
after year without having been there before remains an unsolved biological
mystery".
When I read this, I had also just read about the same phenomenon in a
book called "Psychic Roots", except that they said it took about eight
generations for the butterflies to make the round trip. Talk about
serendipity!
Are we like those butterflies? What is it that calls us to locate
the records of our ancestors from eight generations past when we have not
been where they lived? Why do so many of us feel compelled to
travel such long distances and endure the risks and hardships of foreign
travel to look through dusty tomes and tramp through old ruins and
panteones? Why do we feel such a thrill for each discovery?
Does our RNA/DNA hard-wire us to seek the locale of some of our ancestors,
just like the butterflies' RNA/DNA? Oooooooo. Sounds like a
Siren's Song that calls us. That is an unsolved mystery.
Emilie Garcia
Port Orchard, WA ----
Do You Yahoo!? La mejor conexión a Internet y 2GB extra a tu correo por
$100 al mes. http://net.yahoo.com.mx
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