Genealogy, inspired!
It’s hard to sit in the liminal space between endings and beginnings without lots of reflection, a little nostalgia, and copious amounts of inspiration, in my world at least 😉 Turning the page from one year into the next typically feels vastly expansive, but this year in particular has me thinking I have all kinds of capacity to accomplish my genealogy goals.
As we enter the Holiday Season, the cacophony of voices around family recipes and traditions and what we should all be doing with and for our families and friends is in full swing, but what if there was another option?
What if you gave yourself permission to build your own traditions and create menus filled with new heritage meals?
This may be an unpopular opinion but I’d like to wager a guess that at least a few in this genealogy community will understand when I say that LiveMemory, MyHeritage’s newest AI photo animation tool, freaks me out.
Hannah’s younger sister, Nancy Melinda AKA Lena, Lyn or Linnie Lindsey, was mentioned once in Grandma Eve’s memoir at the very beginning when speaking on Hannah’s sibling’s marriages and early parenthood.
I finally admitted to myself a few months ago that the family history goals I’d set for myself at the end of last year were simply delusional but didn’t have the time or capacity for properly assessing and re-setting those goals in an achievable way.
Thankfully, as the chaos of growing season shifts into a gentler Autumn, I was able to create enough space in my head to brainstorm what went wrong and how I might shift some internal expectations and some physical spaces to better set myself up for success.