SERENDIPITY or SYNCRONICITY THE BOOKS OF HENRY Z. JONES

I enjoyed reading these books years ago and some of the stories were simply astounding while others had me coming up with explanations.  

No doubt I've experienced some research quests that involved serendipity or synchronicity.  Let me explain that as a person becomes more experienced with genealogy they know their resources and what might be perceived as block is simply not knowing resources. Generally there is a linear thought process about what to do next and why works.  However, while doing everything "right" you sometimes run into the difficulty of knowing what it is you need but not finding it where it should be. (Missing documents along the path; too many "fires" and "floods.") Even then you can sometimes find your way around.  Never the less, I think being in the right place at the right time to talk to someone else who is researching can result in acquiring the knowledge that you seek. 

One explanation, popular in LDS circles, is that the ancestors are helping you do your genealogy. What else do you make of someone who is new to the process of research showing up at a library and choosing the seat next to another researcher who happens to be related to them and discovering that within hours?

Jones has other books on the Palatine families - generally Germans (one of several groups of people who became Germans as we think of German's today) who left Germany to Ireland and the United States.

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SEEING THE PICTURE IN BLACK AND WHITE GAVE ME A SHOCK OF RECOGNITION

During one of my forays into tracing an ancestor, I went to a famous art library which happens to have some excellent genealogy resources.  Based on a translation, I wanted books about one of the "German Towns" in a country outside Germany. 

For those of you who don't know, Germans migrated out of Germany for hundreds of years with the understanding that they would always be Germans and welcomed back. 

There were rather strict rules about who inherited the family farm, usually the youngest son who would also stay to take care of his elderly parents. As families were generally large there were many Germans who left what would become unified nation-states and became Germany to go to other countries to establish life there based in economic need.  Generally Germans were welcome in other countries, including the United States, and were invited to settle because they were thought to be industrious.

So I began to page through the books looking at old black and white photos of these settlements. Then as I turned the page of a particular book and saw the photo of a large building and a road going past it, I was struck with a shiver of recognition.  None of the other photographs I saw had this effect on me.  

These shivers I call Truth Shivers.  Be it remembering a place from a dream (which might mean having seen it before) or a past life, the shiver made me focus on the time and place of the photo. Was this perhaps the place to next look for the ancestor who was listed on a marriage document as having come from a place with this name.

Forward several years later, I learned that the translation was correct but that another place in another country (much closer to the place the person lived for many years hence) was ALSO given this name. I know that the names of places often come from where the residents left or lived prior to moving. In the United States many settlements are named after places in England, for instance.

Unable to yet establish the person's link with BOTH places, I've let this one rest.  Maybe synchronicity will bring the answer. 

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GENEALOGY SYNCHRONICITY ? I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE SON OF LIPA TEPPER

I was just reading THE BOYS by MARTIN GILBERT and following the holocuast survivor testimony from LIPA TEPPER of Dukla, Poland. Wanting to know more about him I GOOGLED his name and up came a semi private blog (comments limited to members) posted by a man who I believe is his son ? AL TEPPER. There was an announcement there that LIPA had passed away surrounded by family.

I do not presently use Twitter, Facebook, or any of those social networks as I simply do not have the time to keep connections going that way. With my research and writing as extensive as it is these days, I have to make time for yoga class and swimming once in a while, just to move the physical plant my brain sits atop of.

However, I am looking for an e-mail address for AL TEPPER because I would really like to speak with him. I was really excited to see this picture of LIPA TEPPER and one of AL, especially as Al calls himself green and uses NAMASTE!

(Al if you are reading this, please contact me! My comments are set for me to approve first and you can leave an e-mail or other contact information for me on there, sure I will not publish it for the world to see!)

CARL JUNG (FATHER OF JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY) and SYNCHRONICITY

Click on the title above to go to a site that explains about Carl Jung and his theory of SYNCRONICITY!

PSYCHIC ROOTS by HENRY Z. JONES - HELEN HINCHLIFF'S Forward

Excerpted:

By Helen Hinchcliff, in PSYCHIC ROOTS - Serendipity & Intuition in Genealogy
by Henry Z. Jones C 1993
published by Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc.

"In 1983, in honor of my recent discovery of genealogy, my brother, Timothy Hinchcliff, made a yarn painting for me entitled Old Soul. Without really knowing a genealogist's sources or methods, Tim used thousands of colored threads to depict his view that I am a sojourner between the living and the dead. Coincidentally, the picture captured the essence of this book. In the lower left corner, lighting my path with magic crystals is Old Soul, most easily imagined as a friendly white ghost. In the center are my ancestors, ranged in a circle. They are connected by a mysterious umbilical cord to Old Soul and to a second circle composed of my living relatives who reside in the upper right corner. Guided by Old Soul, I trace a path between them, learning from each, communing with each."

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SYCHRONICITY IN GENEALOGY ?

I think anyone who has spent some earnest time tracing roots knows that sometimes the information you are looking for comes to you in unexpected ways. I'll be talking about some of the stories I've personally heard and sharing with you from Henry Z. Jones' books...

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