tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781344722544700514.post1932580463641402699..comments2015-01-18T13:14:25.185-08:00Comments on Deb Stone : Family RootsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781344722544700514.post-65888728428548029812013-10-27T10:34:20.929-07:002013-10-27T10:34:20.929-07:00Thanks, Amanda!Thanks, Amanda!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10418914588653016418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781344722544700514.post-34865503610767108682013-10-27T10:27:48.392-07:002013-10-27T10:27:48.392-07:00Thanks, Jane! 1700s, wow! It's like a never ...Thanks, Jane! 1700s, wow! It's like a never ending puzzle.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10418914588653016418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781344722544700514.post-74156441816193589562013-10-27T08:40:40.824-07:002013-10-27T08:40:40.824-07:00What a powerful post. I'm blown away by your ...What a powerful post. I'm blown away by your concise, compelling storytelling. Interesting the way you weave fact and opinion. Great stuff!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01966162597563467294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781344722544700514.post-70296903124218090462013-10-23T22:32:22.307-07:002013-10-23T22:32:22.307-07:00So interesting. It really brought home the issue o...So interesting. It really brought home the issue of slavery for me, also, as you wrote it. I've traced my ancestors back to the 1700s, when they emmigrated from Scotland to northern Ontario. Love the image of the tree with roots mirroring its branches, and the shrub of intertwined branches that is our heritage.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02525256371290087200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781344722544700514.post-58686859987598338372013-10-23T08:34:52.435-07:002013-10-23T08:34:52.435-07:00We can't be responsible for what came before u...We can't be responsible for what came before us. However, I think it can help us see how entwined our histories are, and bring a better sense of appreciation for connectedness rather than separation. I'll check that book out, Joy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10418914588653016418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4781344722544700514.post-10187883578173411342013-10-23T06:45:48.570-07:002013-10-23T06:45:48.570-07:00Good take on this topic.
When we were searching ...Good take on this topic. <br /><br />When we were searching my husband's ancestry, we came up with a newspaper clipping about how his great-grandfather drank himself to death, orphaning the small children in his care. The tone of the article is almost humorous, but it breaks your heart to know that the smallest of those children was my husband's grandfather and that there are ways he would never recover from that aftermath.<br /><br />I also ended up, unexpectedly, with slave-holding ancestors in Virginia after believing that they were all safely poor and in the North. I'm currently reading Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America and finding it very helpful for integrating my sense of myself as an American.Joy Weese Moll (@joyweesemoll)http://www.joyweesemoll.com/noreply@blogger.com