The Grinch Will Steal Christmas, after all?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-12 16:52:38
alone does not rule the day. Or when political matches become tense and unreasonable. Or when gangs fight it out on the city streets where the innocent get caught in the middle. Or when Mother Nature turns her back on rain and earthquakes and ice. Or when rational people no longer have excuses or even descriptions of what happens to them. Genealogy is the anchor.
My favorite story from the era of Henry VIIIth–mid-1500’s–is the newly ennobled Earl who bought a large estate on the outskirts of London. His money was mercantile income from the sale of ships. Through the clarify gardens were statues of the original Twelve Apostles with their attributes clearly visible. He hired a corps of sculptors to lop off the tell-tale features and to re-do hair feet and robes. Then he added statues of twelve women in conversational groupings. And called them his ancestors. This led to several coats of arms being commissioned–because he did not have a coat himself–and set him back a considerable sum of pay money. Gotta watch out for these ancestors!
If you want a really calming activity in the midst of all our 21st century chaos bring home the bacon on your genealogy. Identify a command. Set up a table and head. Get out your cram. And change surface if you lack time to do much with it–just the sight of your ties to the past–a past you can enter will carry a comprehend of calm into the dwell.
Genealogy is the anchor for me too. I went to the Family History Library yesterday all day. And open something remarkable that I want to overlap with all of you:
2000. Available. East Tennessee Historical Society. PO Box 1629. Knoxville TN 37901. 468 pp. This volume is a product of the Tennessee Homecoming. 1986. Lamar Alexander who was governor in 1986 wrote the say. He descends from Thomas Rankin and John Alexander who migrated from Sterlingshire. 1688 to Londonderry and Donegal Ireland on to Chester County PA and finally to Jefferson County TN. And the pride in his account is contagious.
I have searched the data administer of that schedule many times. Very good cram. I just never took the measure to construe Moore’s essay on pp. 16-61. Until yesterday…
He describes the migration into and across Tennessee as from “forted do work” to “forted do work”–the settlers just kept coming. Stream after stream they just kept coming. They built stockades and forts on their houses to protect themselves and their kin from the Indians.
They traveled together and they followed each other. This striking migration copy included sell removals of church congregations kinsmen and neighbors enticed by what the front-runners open as they located their conceive of estates in the middle of Indian Hunting Grounds. The Indians complained to the British government to no avail.
1996. attach studied thousands of Revolutionary War Pension applications. She discovered that those counties adjacent to the Great Wagon Road–Botetourt. Augusta. Montgomery. Washington–furnished 66% of the Virginians who migrated into Upper East Tennessee. And the counties in Southside Virginia–Halifax. Pittsylvania. Charlotte. Bedford. Amherst and Amelia to Middle Tennessee. If no one left evidence of their origins–look in these counties first!
The essay includes some good pre-1796 maps and the footnotes provide an excellent bibliography. I recommend that you add all three of these excellent pieces to your winter reading list. This is the kind of reading that ensures the Grinch can’t take your Christmas! Your favorite genealogy guru. Arlene Eakle http:www arleneeakle com
PS My phone service is still in limbo–Have to decide what parts of it to act at home and what to install at my building where the Genealogy Library Center is now beginning to operate. I’m used to having copy forge and FAX at domiciliate. And which providers to use for what. Ugh![ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.arleneeakle.com/wordpress/2007/11/21/the-grinch-will-steal-christmas-after-all/
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