RECLAIM THE RECORDS - I LOVE IT!

RECLAIM THE RECORDS 

EXCERPT:  We're RECLAIM THE RECORDS, a new not-for-profit activist group of genealogists, historians, researches and open government advocates.  We identify important genealogical record sets that ought to be in the PUBLIC DOMAIN but which are being wrongly restricted by government archive, libraries, and agencies. We file FREEDOM OF INFORATION and OPEN DATA request to get that public data released back to the public. And if the government doesn't comply, we take them to court.

I love this - I'm fine with it - so long as the privacy rights of individuals is respected.

ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGY - HOLIDAY HIATUS - ANCESTORS ALWAYS ATTENDING

At this time I'm announcing a Holidays Hiatus from Blogging. 

I'll be back in the new year; can't image the day I'm not interested in genealogy. I like sharing what I've discovered or learned over many years with you too much to quit. 

Don't know about you, but it's time to do some filing, some decorating, some entertaining, and some laying around doing nothing (OK, how about just sleeping in?)  Most Americans seem to feel the same way.  Google Bloggers always experiences less interest in reading and writing blogs at this time of the year.

Since I've posted so very much information in the past, I encourage you, if you're in the mood, to explore my posts by using the archive and search features on the sidebar!  Most of the information is useful for your family history research and writing, or alternatively, your interest in spirituality - reincarnation.

I was about sixteen years old when I first heard about reincarnation and it made sense to me right away, but it was here and there over many years that I started reading around about it and came to understand the Hindu idea of transmutation, in which a soul progresses through the animal kingdom into humans as it advances, and read about the notions of the Buddhists and other religious and spiritual groups who have and do believe that the soul incarnates into many bodies - many lives - in order to learn and progress spiritually. 

Over the last decade or so, using hypnosis, more people are exploring the possibility that they lived before.  It's a mystery really, but there are some people who seem to recall quite a bit and the idea is to document as much as possible that comes out in these sessions and then do the research genealogically.  There is a limitation to this, of course.  The past life must have been in a time and place in which people were keeping the records we use now.

Last year I met a woman who specializes in past life regressions and she said that her interest in the subject began in her teenage years during her winters in Alaska, where there was a lot of time to stay inside and explore.  Her attitude was that since regressions work to help people heal, why question how it all works.

A couple weeks ago I was sitting in a waiting room and got to talking to a stranger.  He said "Someone is telling me you're very family oriented."  I hadn't been talking about anything personal, not the holidays, not family, and maybe he was just trying to get to know me more, but I wondered later "Why did he say, someone's telling him?  Maybe he's a natural psychic?"  So I laughed and said, "I'm really into genealogy and family history research and writing."  I wasn't sure he knew what I meant.  Then he said "There are many people behind you."  I think he meant that he saw a lot of ancestor spirits standing behind me.

Some people would be a little scared by this interaction, a stranger speaking this way, but I wasn't.  I knew that it all might be a way of making me tell him personal information and I knew I didn't want to share too much with a stranger.  When I got home I thought about it a lot.  Of course I want to believe that my ancestors are "behind" me as in being supportive, and that there are people who I've never met in this life - and a dozen or two whom I have - that will be there for when it is my time.

I do believe the ancestors (who are not in current incarnations) are witness to some of our lives; they've got a lot of people to check up on so not all the time!

Whatever you believe, have yourself a lovely holiday season!

I look forward to 2014!

HOW THEY CROAKED - THE AWEFUL ENDS OF THE AWFULLY FAMOUS by GEORGIA BRAGG is GROSS! (BUT INTERESTING)

How They Croaked The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous By Georgia Bragg and Illustrated by Kevin O' Malley C 2011 Walker and Company - New York Reading about George Washington (his bad teeth finally killed him) or Marie Antoinette (she apologized for accidentally stepping on the foot of her executioner before he beheaded her), was odd fun, though mostly I thought this book was gross. But I have to share with you a list on page 73 that made me realize how TRULY IMPORTANT IT IS TO NOT THROW THINGS YOU MAY NEED SOMEDAY OUT!

"OUT WITH THE GARBAGE"

* Mozart's widow, Constanze, threw away many of Mozart's unfinished musical compositions.

* Beethoven's secretary threw out 260 of the 400 conversation books Beethoven wrote in to communicate with people.

* George and Martha Washington threw away all their love letters to each other.

* Christopher Columbus's family sold off all his maps and charts.

REVIEW of ROYAL BABYLON by KARL SHAW : ANCESTRY WORSHIP BOOK REVIEW

Ever get crazy to prove you have royal ancestry? Well, you might change your mind, when you read ROYAL BABYLON, a book that exposes the madness of the royal houses of Europe. Mental illness attributed to way too much intermarriage, which has reinforced genetic tendencies to be out of one's mind, is offered as a reason for outrageous behaviors including violence and perversion. No wonder some Princesses could not get marriage offers. No wonder some of us are more than happy with being common!

Yes, the author names names.

Yes, Princess Diana and the House of Windsor are mentioned. No, nothing about the situation in Monaco with Princess Caroline's incredibly wealthy German husband, who has been known to go berserk in rages, is here, but the author might want to do an update and include all that.

Here's what you need to buy the book besides the title and author above.
It's copyright by the author and published in 1999 by Broadway Books.

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