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RE: [ranchos] An Unsolved Mystery

 
Several members of the LDS church have shared some of the same experiences with me while I'm at the FHC doing my own research.  They believe that it is their job to bring their ancestors to their church.  Maybe this influences their visions, dreams...
I do not dream about ancestors that I have not met, nor do they contact me.  Being a chicken, I'm thankful. 
My passion for finding out about my ancestors I believe comes from my parents and relatives talking about their ancestors:  funny stories, exploits, etc.  
  My abuelito would also tell my older primo Felipe to grab a pen and a notebook and jot down info. about his parents, grandparents, etc.,  Felipe whom I haven't been in touch with for over 15 yrs., just put together a little velobound booklet on his parent's ancestors.  Maybe he's working on both of us in a very subtle way...
I would sit on my abuelito's lap too like Joseph, but I would bite my lito's nose.  :)  This was something only I got away with it too.  My abuelito Nando's influence as well as wanting to see if my dad's outrageous stories were true or it. 
Irma

From: ranchos@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Josie T. Trevino
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 6:20 AM
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [ranchos] An Unsolved Mystery

Several years ago, when I first started doing research on my family, I was at the FHC library and a member of the LDS Church was helping me get started.  I had already made several attempts at research by myself  but could never get good results.....needless to say, I was getting VERY frustrated!  In fact, I was ready to give up!   Then I started having dreams about my ancestors and I did not even know them~~!!  You can imagine how that felt!   When I told my friend at the FHC library about my dreams she looked at me in (what I thought) was a strange way......I asked her what was wrong and she said "nothing"...... Later, as I was preparing to leave, she took me aside and explained to me that "she did not know if I would understand what she was going to tell me, but that she would tell me anyway."  This statement must have come because I told her that my dreams sometimes scared me and I did not understand why I was dreaming about people I did not even know......and this happened several times.....not just once or twice.  She went on to tell me that "our ancestors choose someone in the family to continue doing the search.....and that was probably what was happening to me!"     WOW!   Was I shocked!  After giving it some thought, it made sense!  I am the only one in my family who is interested in genealogy and has done extensive research......in other words, I am the only obsessed one!   :-)  Out of the 21 or so grandchildren of my grandparents, I am the only one who does genealogy.  Then it all made sense to me.....the reason for my "obsession".... the reason why "sometimes information just falls into my lap"  etc, etc. etc.  After reading "Psychic Roots" and "More Psychic Roots" it all made complete sense to me and I now look forward to these dreams......my private visits with my ancestors........
 
Josie in San Antonio

From: ranchos@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of leticia leon
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:33 PM
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ranchos] An Unsolved Mystery

Maybe is a chip in the brain that compells us, sort or a chip I mean, for me is an urge that started early in life, I try to keep memories of names in my mothers chat over dinners, mostly when we had no tv, I long for those moments... than tater after her pass of the way I dream a lot about her very vividly, and since I started this genealogy formaly those dreams almos stop, nowadays I dream about her now and then... thanks to my parents use of the oral tradition I feel that my relatives I never met are part of the family... that's for me Emilie how it is.   Bye   Leticia Leon

Emilie Garcia <auntyemfaustus@...> escribió:
This is an excerpt from an article in the latest World Wildlife Federation Newsletter:
 
    "For reasons not fully understood, millions of North American butterflies from southern Canada and the eastern United States migrate south each year to just a few mountaintops in Michoacan........the monarchs that return to the butterfly sanctuary in Mexico are approximately five generations removed from those that left Mexico the previous spring.....how monarchs are able to locate the same forest ecosystem year after year without having been there before remains an unsolved biological mystery".
 
When I read this, I had also just read about the same phenomenon in a book called "Psychic Roots", except that they said it took about eight generations for the butterflies to make the round trip.  Talk about serendipity!
 
Are we like those butterflies?  What is it that calls us to locate the records of our ancestors from eight generations past when we have not been where they lived?  Why do so many of us feel compelled to travel such long distances and endure the risks and hardships of foreign travel to look through dusty tomes and tramp through old ruins and panteones?  Why do we feel such a thrill for each discovery?  Does our RNA/DNA hard-wire us to seek the locale of some of our ancestors, just like the butterflies' RNA/DNA?  Oooooooo.  Sounds like a Siren's Song that calls us. That is an unsolved mystery.
 
Emilie Garcia
Port Orchard, WA ----
 
 



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