The frustrations of family trees
I’ve uncovered real mystery and curiosity-inducing snippets when doing a spot of casual data-mining for information on my family tree. While my father’s family name heavily populates the 1901 census in both SE and NW England, and features as witnesses and defendants in the public Old Bailey records from 1674 to 1913, my mother’s family name is a different story altogether, and appears comparatively few times in census records and not at all in Old Bailey records. What I have found perplexes me.
tags: ancestors, census, family tree, mystery, Old Bailey, researchThe Great Disconnect and how to take the first steps towards living for real
We live in times that are, from one perspective, not particularly unique for all the technological veneer glossing over our daily existence. We are still flesh and blood, the same species that once lived in trees and went on to build stone circles, churches, shining office blocks. We have always had problems to overcome. But somewhere between the stone circles and the churches we started to lose our connection to the planet, and by the time the towers went up we’d altogether forgotten that we once lived in harmony with nature, and were intimately familiar with her rhythms.
tags: ancestors, depression, disconnect, dysfunction, environment, humanity, leadership, prehistory, society, the matrix
