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Let me know if you want a reading! I have plenty of openings!
Celebrity Tarot
I will do a 1 card reading from my Starman Tarot deck for any celebrity you want to know something about. I read through Spirit, which might be different from other readers.
I will tell you not only what I see in the card, but any words or phrases I hear, whatever vision is conjured, what emotions are evoked and what they tell me about the situation and person(s) in it.
Send me an ask about the celebrity you want to know about! Anyone past or present!
Noun
[ kwah-fyoor;Frenchkwa-fyr]
1. a style of arranging the hair.
2. a head covering; headdress.
Verb (used with object)
3. to arrange or comb (the hair) in a coiffure; to style (the hair).
4. to provide with a head covering or headdress; cover with a coiffure.
Origin:
First recorded in 1625–35; from French, equivalent to coiff(er) “to dress the hair” + -ure noun suffix; see origin at coif2,-ure
“He rose and kissed her lightly on the forehead, experience teaching him to avoid a stray hair from the carefully built coiffure.”
- Gertrude Atherton, Ancestors
Never forget ✊
Anna Meier’s 1929 immigrant ID card. Image courtesy Debra Steidel Wall.
Census Records Solve National Archives Adoption Mysteries
Deputy Archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall, second from right, with her sister and biological half first cousins in 2018. Photo courtesy Debra Steidel Wall.
Deputy Archivist of the United States Debra Steidel Wall shares her personal journey of discovery in this latest National Archives News Standout Census Story, Using the U.S. Census to Solve Adoption Mysteries.The National Archives will release the records of the 1950 Census online on April 1, 2022.
Read the story to learn:
- What sparked the Deputy Archivist’s interest in genealogy?
- What did she learn through census records?
- How she find her father’s biological parents?
- How did she use old original records and modern apps to create extensive family trees?
- How does she continue to help others discover their pasts and connect with relatives?
- How did she use census records and DNA test results to connect NARA great Sam Anthony with his biological father just days before Sam died?
This newfound genetic genealogy hobby has again driven home to me the importance of our mission and our work at the National Archives. It’s both exhilarating and humbling to see firsthand how our records can make a highly personal and meaningful difference in someone’s life, including my own.
I’m eager for the 1950 Census release, and I’m grateful for the work National Archives staff is doing to prepare. I’ve got some more mysteries to solve.-Debra Steidel Wall
Sam Anthony and Craig Nelson in 2021. Photo courtesy of Debra Steidel Wall.
Thanks to Debra Steidel Wall’s genealogy research, Sam Anthony was able to identify his birth parents and connect with his biological father, Craig Nelson, just days before his death.
Read the incredible New York Times story:
52 Years in 11 Days: A Son, Facing Death, Finds His Father
After struggling with cancer for years, Sam Anthony was running out of time. Before he died, he found the courage to mail a letter that he had long been afraid to send.
See also Beth McNichol’s moving profile of Sam in the Carolina Alumni Review:The Guiding Light.
Sam Anthony with rescue puppy at the National Archives’ CFC fair he organized.
you have war in your blood
that surges through your veins
every waking moment
you carry the weight of you ancestors
in your soul
Ancestral tree in Aburi gardens (Ghana)
How To Get Started on Building Your Family Tree Without Help From Elders
If you are like me, and do not have many elder family members to turn to for help in discovering your family history, here are a couple of things you can do to get yourself started.
- Talk to siblings and cousins. Ask them for anything they remember, names, dates, addresses, cities, church/places of worship, schools, anything they can remember will be helpful.
- Try and find any old objects: photos, papers, baby books, baptism, bible records-sometimes there is useful information written on the back of old photos and keepsakes such as dates, names, places.
- Start charting it out. Write down what you know. Start a free family tree online. Or just get a piece of paper and a pen and start charting out what you already know so that you can transition that to an online tree or a free template downloaded from online.
- What if you don’t have any siblings/cousins? If you don’t have any siblings or cousins, at least any that you are comfortable talking to, use yourself as a resource. What do you remember? Do you remember a last name, your grandmothers maiden name? A place your aunt or uncle may have lived with your grandparents? What church did they attend? Was it local? Even the most smallest thing that you can remember could be important.
- Perhaps turn to the local genealogy society/group in your hometown, or your parents/grandparents hometown. Local groups can be a most valuable resource.
The beginning is usually the hardest, but use what you know, use these steps as a mini guide, and get started. Remember, you can be your own most valuable resource.
I am officially registered for school ! I am so excited! Starting in October I will be attending the University of Strathclyde for their Genealogical, Paleographic & Heraldic Studies course !
Find what you love and learn to do what you love. #Genealogy
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Here’s a little genealogy fun for everyone. A tree shaped genealogy word search. Feel free to print and play. (The answer key is on page 2-sorry wasn’t able to make it all on one page.).
Enjoy !
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Happy 4th of July!!
If you’re a genealogist or just interested in history and family, check out the new video created by Ancestry.com. The video shows the descendants of the signers and places them into the positions from the famous painting by John Trumbull.
The video is short but to the point. Very nicely done Ancestry.com !
Here is a link to the video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/R1PMt8bnz34
Or go to Ancestry.com at: http://www.ancestry.com/cs/declaration?o_iid=80349&o_lid=80349&o_sch=Web+Property
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Hurry hurry!! Only a few hours left!! There’s a special offer from 23andme to upload your existing Ancestry.com raw data to 23andme and receive 4 free reports!!
Get to your computers and do it now! Offer is ending soon.
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Who’s ready to attend the annual SCGS Genealogy Jamboree in May?
This year the Jamboree will be held May 31-June 2nd at the Burbank Marriott Hotel in Burbank, CA. There are special events during this weekend differing in topics from writing to DNA to the Jamboree itself. The Jamboree-Unlock Your Lineage -will be held June 1-2 with over 100 classes to choose from. The events held on Thursday May 31st are the Genetic Genealogy and also the writers conference. Along with those events, also on Thursday is the Jambofree day, where you can attend some classes for free.
For more information please visit their website at: http://genealogyjamboree.com
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Found this at WalMart tonight while perusing through the aisles. If you have been considering buying a 23andMe DNA test but unsure due to the cost, perhaps check this out at your local store. You pay for the physical test for $29.00 and then pay online for which test you want later on instead of all at once. Been wanting to get those for a while now, so I’m a happy camper. Will share when the results come in. #DNATest #DNA #23andme #genealogy #genea #heritage #dnakit #DNAPaymentPlan #walmart #genetic
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This is a very good question posted by Ancestry.
I honestly don’t know what I would ask… I have too many questions and I think it would depend on which ancestor… haha!
Perhaps I would ask my ancestors that are my brick walls and ask them “where do we come from?” (And then as for any paperwork they might have hahaha!).
What would you ask??
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This is why I am always so very careful and I do. OT copy other people’s trees. I know others do, and they think “wow I traced my family tree all the way back to (insert name of a king here) !”
When actually, yeah maybe not… lol
Always do your own research and find the facts and get your sources. Maybe if you want to use public trees, use it more as a guide, not as proof.
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Me:Dear ancestors, I offer you this milk and honey, and this incense, and these flames to warm yourself by…
The voice at the back of my head: Stop being stingy, pull out the vodka.
Me:*sigh* …and this vodka and these cigarettes…
It’s Obon here in Kyoto, ancestors’ homecoming (or somewhat sober Halloween?). Obon is one of the two important events for Japanese in a year (the other is new year celebration), which often leads to family reunion for the living, too.
In Kyoto, people invite their ancestors’ spirits into home in the evening of August 12 with “muka'e'bi [moo-kah-eh-bee]” (literally meaning “inviting/welcoming fire”), and send ancestors back to the next world at the night of August 16 with “Gozan Okuribi [oh-coo-ree-bee]”, (“bonfires on five mountains for sending ancestors back”), according to lunar calendar. For Obon, people clean up their family graves beforehand, and confort and offer their hospitality to ancestors such as with foods and pray with monk’s sutras at home.
To invite ancestors, we do a little ritual “muka'e'bi” at home: burn dry hemp stems in front of the house, fire three stick incenses, and set it at the family’s Buddhist altar. Ancestors’ spirits are believed to “ride on” the special smoke of the incense, come into the house, and settle at the family’s Buddhist altar in a denser or more concrete form than usual (I’m not died and don’t know how it is actually, though).
We serve “omuka'e somen”, or “welcome somen noodle (angel-hair udon, so to speak)” for the first night. While Obon, vegetables and fruits, Chinese lantern plant, water on a lotus leaf with a sprig of Koya prodocarp (“Koya maki”/高野槙), mochi and/or dango (sweet dumplings), and sugar starch snacks (“rakugan”) are also displayed. Vegetarian dishes and steamed rice are served everyday until they leave. The dishes served are kept in the fridge and taken to the temple a family belongs to with other vegetables just when Obon ends (to send the foods with ancestors’ spirits precisely, or if you eat them, it’s believed you would get ill. Dishes and vegetables served during Obon are simply for the repose of the dead).
Since the Obon customs differ by region and denomination, I totally don’t know other styles. No “Bon dance” or “summer festival” is held in my neighborhood. No making horse and ox figures with vegetables and toothpicks. I’ve seen them only on TV. The case explained above is only of a certain family in Kyoto.
By the way, what about spirits who don’t have any descendants? …It’s said no home to go and loitering here and there. So people give a little service for the benefit of suffering spirits as well as avoid going to sea or river in fear of evil spirits during Obon.
Obon
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2286.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Festival
Gozan Okuribi (mountain bonfire)
https://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/spot/festival/gozanokuribi.html
お盆の迎え火におがらを炊く。京都では8月12日の夕暮れに家の外で迎え火を焚いて先祖を家へ招き入れ、16日の夜の五山送り火で送り返す。お盆の最初の夜はお迎え素麺でもてなす。ちなみに野菜と爪楊枝で馬や牛を作ったりしない。近所では盆踊りも夏祭りもない。TVでしか見たことがない。関東では同じ宗派でも仏壇に水塔婆を立てないと聞いた。色々土地によって違うらしい。
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