Just have to share a very strange coincidence. Literally at the time you posted that message, my friend and I were having a deep conversation about generational/DNA trauma. She was asking me why I thought so many women voted for Trump and I speculated that some of it may have to do with tens of thousands of years of psychological trauma and conditioning.
I just hung up the phone with her (it was a long conversation) and saw your post. It was like it was the universe's/Goddess' way of saying "Yup!"
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That's right! I forgot about that.
Didn't studies say the "Trauma" be healed? Why is my mind goi g back to... love?
@mamaly. Thank you for copying the story of your ancestors' flood for us. So real and recorded so vividly, and yet so long ago. An experience like that would be handed down via the DNA. It reminds me of the Johnstown Flood of 1889, which was brought to life by historian David McCullough's book.
I meant DNA trauma could be healed...with love and similar actions of kindness. I think I vaguely remember that.
Jeanne - my husband and I read the Johnstown McCullough book a few years ago and it is on our "favorite books ever read list." So vivid. Those poor people!
As for DNA/trauma - I do wonder about phobias! I definitely don't have a phobia of water (love swimming, fishing, boating) - the colder the water the better! But, I too have a horrific fear of heights. My mother did as well. I wonder if it is possible for trauma DNA to become permanent?
Seeing as how tomorrow is Veteran's Day/Remembrance Day (anniversary of the end of WWI) I thought I would share this little ancestral tidbit. My grandfather was drafted into the Army in WWI--- taken off his chicken farm and sent to the trenches in France. He saw combat and even had a bullet tear through his backpack as he crawled through the trenches. Family lore says he prayed to God that if he survived he would go back and raise a good Christian family. Fortunately for him he was only in France a few months before the Armistice came through, and he did survive and raised a family who were at least nominally Christian -- though some of the later generations are agnostics, atheists, and whatever I am.
I inherited his uniform, helmet, canteen, and other artifacts including many photos. Last year I went through the photos to find one to post on a family history forum. The one I ran across gave me chills. Grandpa was standing in his uniform with all his gear, and I tell you he was the spitting image of my teenaged son. This would be my son's great-grandfather, thus my son would carry only one-eighth of the DNA. But that was my son's face looking out from under the rim of the helmet. I showed the photo to other family members and they also were a bit shocked. Makes you wonder whether it is DNA or reincarnation, or a bit of both.
@lovendures I'm descended from John and Priscilla Alden, George and Mary Soule, John and Abigail Clarke, William and Alice Mullins, and Thomas and Mary Rogers.
I'm not surprised to see so many Mayflower descendants here - I think we are being drawn together.
My 4th great grandfather was Benjamin Coats, who was of Lenape descent.
@mamaly Hi.
Thomas Rogers
John D. Rogers
Abigail Rogers Richmond
Timothy White
Elizabeth White Bailey
Reality is stranger than fiction.
This is a great true article about a woman who was adopted by a US family as a baby and discovers she is actually an African princess of royal bloodlines. She travels back to Sierra Leone to explore her roots and discovers the important role and responsibility she has inherited as a caretaker to her ancestral community. "It’s about walking in my great-grandfather and grandfather’s footsteps and what they’ve done for the country. I realized that’s my role as a princess, to keep moving things forward in the country.”
I am inspired.