THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE by NELL IRVIN PAINTER : BOOK REVIEW by ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY

I've been reading NELL IRVIN PAINTER's book "The History of White People" which is Copyright 2010 and published by W.W. Norton and Company. I'll be sprinking this blog with excerpts from that book here and there.

This is the story of European slavery ("Whites enslaving Whites"), class in Europe and America, which included indentured servants and slaves, and the notions of who was more worthy.

There was a progression of early theorists who decided that being low class had everything to do with intelligence and character as genetic; the "imbeciles" and "morons" and "the unfit" were the target of sterilization for the good of society. ( I note: This is the danger of genealogy motivated by snobbery!)

Painter does an excellent job of reporting the notions of race or ethnicity as individuals are considered to be of more or less worthy because of these notions. Racism was inherent in the descriptions of Europeans as "Nordic" or "Alpine" or "Mediterranean" as determined by physical features rather than country of origin.

This book may remind you of your own bad experiences or what your ancestors experienced because of their origins.

Perhaps they were considered of subnormal intelligence and not up to decent jobs because they were Italian or Slovak?

Are you yourself still experiencing intolerance and prejudice based, not on your character or deeds, but because of your ethnicity?

FROM LIFE BETWEEN LIFE by JOEL L. WHITTON and JOE FISHER

LIFE BETWEEN LIFE
Scientific Explorations Into the Void Separating One Incarnation From the Next!
C authors Joe Fisher and Joel L. Whitton
A Dolphin Book (Doubeday)

page 14

"Dr. Edith Fiore reported in 1978 that some of her subjects ventured into the interim between lives to find "pure energy and light" while others saw "beautiful lakes, beautiful scenes, gleaming cities"

There was also mentions of encounters with "planners" or a "board of advisers" who assisted in the choice of the next incarnation which, in some case, was preceded by the soul "hovering" over its mother before birth. In 1979, the results of mass hypnotic studies conducted by Dr. Helen Wambach, a San Francisco clinical psychologist, indicated that most people chose to be born even though they would rather remain in the "lightness and the love" of the between-life-state. Dr. Wamback's subjects told of having no gender in the place between lives and mentioned, in many cases, that they had agreed reluctantly to reincarnate after consultation with "advisers," "a board," or "a group of authorities."

TRICKY! SITUATION IN GENEALOGY : MYTH MAKING RELATIVES

One project I'm working on requires that I go against a myth that a woman created long ago to hide the fact that she was married after she became pregnant. Today this is common statistically (as is unwed motherhood) in the United States. But even today among more conservative or religious people it is a rarity. Even today many Westerners believe that they should wait until they are married to have sex (and since most Americans STILL marry in their early twenties this may not be so difficult!) Many more believe that contraception is a responsibility until the couple can afford a child or children. So for many such behavior is a shame. This woman who has spent a life hiding her before marriage pregnancy was born in the 1920's and was pregnant in the 1940's. My research will blast apart a mountain of lies. But that is not my intention. My intention is to prove the facts with documents. Not only was the 50th anniversary of this couple (You would think that 50 years together might absolve some sins!) celebrated by her family on a day that has nothing to do with the real date and well past the birth date of her daughter (excuse - a surprise party) but the invitations were carefully worded and designed not to mention any dates at all. Genealogy research must be proven (fact checked) and such lies cannot stand in published research.

GREEK POLISH CATHOLIC RECORDS GIVEN NAMES GIVE YOU A CLUE!

Maybe you are not sure if your "Polish" (Galician/Ruthenian/Austrian) ancestors are Roman or Greek Catholic. (They might also be Jewish or Uniate or Protestant).

Recently I posted about SAINTS NAMES DAYS as the means for naming children.

NAMING PATTERNS (or RELIGIOUS BELIEFS) may help you determine what religion your ancestors practiced in the Old Country. So here are some names that I wrote down after reading through a GREEK CATHOLIC PARISH film at LDS that are 18th and 19th century! (In LATIN)


SOPHIA
MAGDALENA
PARAVKEVIA
TATIANA
EVA
XENIA

BASILIUS
DEMETRIUS

PELAGNIA and PELAGIA
MELANIA
LUDMILLA

POLICARPEUS
HEMILIAN
AMBROSUS
CONSTANINUES
PATALEON
THECLA



And here are some that you also see in POLISH CATHOLIC RECORDS



THADDEUS and THEODORUS
CATHARINA
ANNA
ANTONINA
ROZALIA and ROSALIA
LAURENTIS

NO LESS THAN AMAZING DAVID RUMSEY MAP COLLECTION

150,000 MAPS focusing on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America but also of EUROPE, ASIA, the world... 21,000 digitized online! (I hear you gasping for breath!) Find a map that existed the year your ancestors lived in that location! THIS THEN WAS THEIR WORLD!


Click on the title for this post!

Our genetic and spiritual ancestors help us with our research quests and, while we follow a linear research path, amazing dreams and synronicities abound.

We explore multicultural ancestry worship and the use of genealogy for past-life verification, as well as practical ways and means to achieve your research goals.

DONALD YATES on WHEN SCOTLAND WAS JEWISH

"Scotland was the only country in Europe that did not persecute Jews.

SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA COAL MINER SEARCHABLE DATABASE

COAL MINERS have always had a dangerous job and so many have died in mines - explosions - gas - landslides - accidents. So many children also worked in the mines.

I was so happy to find this site which has a searchable database and a memorial opportunity.

Its called "Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania." and let me say this. I have already heard back from the man who owns this site, Raymond A. Washlaski, Historian and Editor!

He was very helpful and sharing of information that may also aid my search for ancestors who are said to have died in a mining accident!

HAPPY SAINT PATRICKS DAY TO YOU IRISH-AMERICANS!

MAJOR ERROR on ANCESTRY GENEALOGY DATBASES BEGS CORRECTION

I recently looked at 44 ship manifests which came up when I used a certain surname in the ANCESTRY genealogy database. I was watching to see if there was any pattern I could follow to put relatives together from the old country to the new.

I believe you must read the manifest yourself and not take the text version for granted because there have been all sorts of transcribing errors.I REALIZED THAT THIS DATBASE has A MISLEADING ERROR BUILT IN on the FORM used for the TEXT VERSION of the New York ship manifests! When you read the text version you see the word BIRTH as if the immigrant was being asked in New York " Where Were you Born?" when the actual question asked on the manifests is not "Where were you born" but where was your last permanent address?

I wonder how many family historians have been mislead and repeated this error, or even gone on a useless quest because they assumed that the Ancestry database was right in reporting a location as a BIRTH location?

Simply, many immigrants did not leave HOME! Some did, and usually you will see that they are saying they left a parent or a husband or wife.

But sometimes they simply went to stay with a relative - a sibling or aunt or uncle - in another location. They gave up their own address (as we would do if say an apartment lease was up before we were ready to move to another city). There they stayed until maybe a baby was born or money promised from America came in and until it was time to get to the rail station and then the ship port. Some did not go directly onto a ship but stayed somewhere else, such as near the very port they planned to leave, for a time to earn money, or got off the ship in South Hampton and tried England for a while!

Please be very careful with this one! As you know the words "Permanent Address" are also not always taken seriously.

Q: What's a permanent address today?
A: Anywhere you stay when you are not traveling!

WAS YOUR ANCESTOR AN "INMATE?" LYMAN REFORM SCHOOL FOR BOYS

Ever get stunned by the word "INMATE" on a census or other records?

Well the term means ANYONE who lives in an institution and that can be prison, an orphanage, or a reform school, among other places.

Recently found a few ancestors for a friend who were in the Lyman Reform School.
I'm in the process of proving they were orphaned first.

Came across this link that explains the history of Reform Schools in Massachusetts. Wow!

NORWAY HERITAGE EXPLAINS STEERAGE

NORWAY HERITAGE site here has an excellent explanation of STEERAGE conditions including illustrations (one potty for four bunks) starting in the mid 1800's through the great steamship era. Enjoy reading this one: the pictures tell a thousand stories! And note: this site also has lots of useful links!