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Divergent Yet Intersecting
©Dec 2008
Transylvania, Holland, Alsace, Poland,
England, Germany, Lithuania and Texas
all contain soil upon which ancestors dwelt;
Farmers, beekeepers, shepherds,
tailors, blacksmiths, salesmen,
clergy, judges, and doctors.
As I research ancestral lines I discover
some ancestors celebrated Hanuka,
others Christmas, and still others
the Green Corn Ceremony;
Jewish, Methodist Episcopalian,
Puritan, Christian Scientist, Mennonite,
Choctaw, and Cherokee.
I shall never find the records
for my distant ancestors
who either came to this continent
by crossing the Land Bridge,
or originally emerged
from the Nanih Waiya in Mississippi.
I delve through obituaries,
microfilm depositories,
internet databases;
I interview relatives,
and rummage through attics.
What I find doesn't alter who I am;
It illuminates the divergent,
yet still intersecting
paths of my ancestors.
©Dec 2008
Transylvania, Holland, Alsace, Poland,
England, Germany, Lithuania and Texas
all contain soil upon which ancestors dwelt;
Farmers, beekeepers, shepherds,
tailors, blacksmiths, salesmen,
clergy, judges, and doctors.
As I research ancestral lines I discover
some ancestors celebrated Hanuka,
others Christmas, and still others
the Green Corn Ceremony;
Jewish, Methodist Episcopalian,
Puritan, Christian Scientist, Mennonite,
Choctaw, and Cherokee.
I shall never find the records
for my distant ancestors
who either came to this continent
by crossing the Land Bridge,
or originally emerged
from the Nanih Waiya in Mississippi.
I delve through obituaries,
microfilm depositories,
internet databases;
I interview relatives,
and rummage through attics.
What I find doesn't alter who I am;
It illuminates the divergent,
yet still intersecting
paths of my ancestors.
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5 comments:
Great photo. The image of writing on the scroll was instantly recognizable even before reading the label "Jewish".
How interesting, (A young John Hancock.) I'd love to know what he's signing Happy WW
Awwww -- he looks relaxed!
Mouseover text has been expanded. That isn't a pen in my youthful hands.
John,
I have only had the honor to attend a few Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah services but they are among the most moving religious ceremonies I've witnessed. Watching the Torah being handed down the generations always leaves me in tears.
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