2015-05-29 09:10:40 and 2015-05-29 09:24:29
Greetings.
I hope you and your journaling are well. (I would love to hear from you about both.)
This blog post will share the direction I am moving personally and with this blog. My main objective with this blog is to help us (you and me) capture our lives on the page. It's a how-to journal blog, as well as it is my goal to provide inspiration with our journaling, through prompts or exercises, hints and tips, and stories.
I have been trying to find a place to hang my journaling hat (a focus) for a main focus for personal SOC Journaling and my journaling in general. But, I just haven't found it until now.
Nature and Observation Journaling are a must and I will do some of that. Undoubtedly.
It's me and is who I am.
But, there is another part of who I am.
So, who am I?
I need to provide some background in order for me to answer that question. This will also help explain where I will focus this blog for a while.
My husband ('B') and I moved to Virginia four years ago. About seven months or so after that, my Granny called me and shared how her niece was doing some genealogy on the family. She shared some information we had no idea about. We thought her family came to the U.S. five generations ago or so.
Wrong.
She said D (her niece) had traced our family back to 1670 or so to a Bryan Penny.
The 1670 part caught my attention.
"Do you know where Elizabeth City, Virginia is? That's where he lived."
As we talked, I did a quick search on the internet and found it was present day Hampton, Virginia, which we lived nearby. I told her that.
I wondered, then, if the family could be traced to Yorktown or Jamestown. I told her in would do some searching myself and let her know.
Little did we know where it would lead.
I have an uncanny ability to find information others cannot. Somehow I stumble upon the answers accidentally. This includes my family tree.
With my family tree, there have been gaps people have not been able to find the answers to and fill. In fact, several hired professional genealogists to find the answers. I learned within a couple of days about some of the gaps and learned how several professional genealogists looked for answers, but found none.
Well, I found them within a week. I got the answers, which opened our tree wide open.
My family has been in the United States of America since 1607. I had three go to Jamestown in 1607 and by 1635, I had over thirty or so at or near Jamestown in Virginia, and a few miles from where I lived.
Then, my tree opened up even more. About eight months ago or so, I found out I was a direct descendant of Joseph of Arimathea! And I learned earlier how I am also a direct descendant of Nero and Charlemagne Carolus Magnus Carolingian, 1st Emperor of Holy Roman Empire.
Oh, dear. I just did a search on my family tree and discovered more direct and distant emperors. I had no idea. They are:
-- Emperor Augustus
-- Emperor Claudius Caesar Rome
-- Emperor Heinrich V Dethe Salian Germany
-- Claudius I Tiberius Roman Emperor (is this the same as previous mentioned???)
-- HRE. Hugo "L'Abbé" Emperor Of The Holy Roman Empire
-- Louis "Le Pieux The Pious Le Debonnaire The Fair" Carolingian I Emperor HRE
-- Pierre Capet I Emperor Constaninople (a direct ancestor)
-- Pontiff Tiberius Claudius Nero Emperor Rome
Huh. Who knew?
I hadn't put it together until now.
I have been a research-oriented crazy woman trying to fill in all the branches and leaves, and finding so many, I thought I would come to an end one day and would then be able to research more fully each individual.
But, with over 17,000 individuals so far, three plus years later, I see how many gaps I still need to fill in. I am trying to focus first on my direct ancestors. However, that number is massive and grows by the day.
About a month ago, I was able to, by accident again, trace from one of my direct branches to Abraham of the Bible, then to Adam.
I needed a few weeks for that information to roll around in my brain and am still bewildered.
I also traced another part to King David.
So, letting that simmer... and with doing my own personal journaling..m and with reading my favorite book on journaling, "Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal" by Alexandra Johnson (see this link: http://smile.amazon.com/Leaving-Trace-Keeping-Alexandra-Johnson-ebook/dp/B002OFVNIC/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1432916448&sr=1-1&keywords=on+leaving+a+trace+johnson), I read about journaling a family chronicle.
I also read in the book about how there are some family members we wished kept a journal, but didn't. And later, why not write one for them, whether a journaling entry or a journal.
The lightbulb went off two days ago and I decided that was what I would do for my family.
I have several famous, notorious, and fascinating family members, and the everyday variety I cannot wait to explore and learn more about myself, my family, history, and the world. Kings, Emperors, biblical people, and those who are what some would call ordinary fill the leaves and branches of my family tree. I cannot wait to learn about all of my direct leaves and branches first.
Today, I just realized that the journaling I want to do is for the world, about nature, and history, and is not about me at all, other than what I can learn about them and enjoy from learning about them. Not me. Them.
I want to write the journals of all of them. I will write it first as nonfiction, then as historical or contemporary fiction.
And I will journal about what unlearn and how I am.changed from them.
The truth is from this family tree, we can gain an unique perspective of the history of the world,for my family comes from all over.
I am starting with one individual, which I will tell you more about in a moment.
I am starting a journaling series:
"From Adam to Me Family Tree" Journaling Series
I have a family tree of over 17,526 people and I still have a lot of missing branches and leaves. Once I am in our house, and we are settled from our move, and I play a week or two of catch-up... Then, I will spend a month working all day and night (but with 8 hours sleep) to fill in more, and to get more information on the people I have. But, until then, I have what I have.
So, yep. Gulp.
I would not have so many if it wasn't for the fact I have some well documented people in my family tree. So, that sure helps.
I look forward to this journey.
I hope to inspire you with your journaling as well. I will still include journaling how-to pieces and prompts and exercises.
My first relative I will study and journal for is:
ANCESTOR #14 THOMAS CORNELL.
I am generation #1. He is the 14th. Adam is the 154th.
It is with this branch and leaves I begin.
A JOURNALING EXERCISE OR PROMPT
Who do you wish kept a journal, but didn't?
List all of them.
Then, pick one. Who would you want to write a journal for?
Blessings,
--Stacy Duplease
Email:
agodlyvision@gmail.com
rememberingyourpresent@gmail.com
Blogs:
http://rypjournaling.blogspot.com
http://rypstories.blogspot.com
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