Comments on: read write prompt #58: go ancestral

By: solstice, Hanukkah and passings: To Know the Dark | Stoney Moss

solstice, Hanukkah and passings: To Know the Dark | Stoney Moss — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:34:12 +0000

[...] week’s prompt at Read Write Poem talks ancestory. I think I will dust off a few poems about my family and see how they are [...]

By: rob kistner

rob kistner — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:13:25 +0000

sorry… that’s emotions

By: rob kistner

rob kistner — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:11:51 +0000

I’m an orphan, but I always fantasized about my natural parents — especially my birth mother. There is much pain and insecurity that still abides as a result of being abandoned as an infant.

I’ve written a number of poems reflecting the entwined motions that result from abandonment.

I will share one when “Get your poem on” #58 opens.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:52:13 +0000

I’ve been tracing my family tree for years, and half of my poems are about my ancestors, or history in general . I’m not sure if I have anything I haven’t posted before, though. I will have to see (way too busy to write anything new before Christmas)

By: Carole

Carole — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:41:25 +0000

I'm posting early this week. A cousin on my father's side traced my family tree back to the eighteenth century. When Granddad Arrested a One-legged Drunk

By: Ancestors « Watermaid’s Weblog

Ancestors « Watermaid’s Weblog — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:38:24 +0000

[...] Poem I’m posting unusually early this week for Read Write Poem’s Ancestors prompt as I’m going away for Christmas and I won’t be near my computer on Christmas [...]

By: Philip Thrift

Philip Thrift — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:52:07 +0000

There is also rootsweb. Look around.

A second-cousin (sharing a common great-grandparents) of mine traced our THRIFT ancestry back to a FRITH in early 1600’s Jamestown, VA. (Some dude who came from London.) Many a FRITH became THRIFT over a few generations, much to the chagrin of Sylvester the Cats.

Other than that, I don’t know of anything of note.

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:11:32 +0000

Thanks, John, for the additional information and links. It’s good to have a realistic sense of discovery — although poetry can thrive while seeking the unrealistic.

I’d have been disappointed to find out I am not really related to a famous Irish poet and writer or two.

By: Tiel Aisha Ansari

Tiel Aisha Ansari — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:07:21 +0000

This is an old piece: I'll see about writing something new for this week's prompt. But in the meantime: The Picture I'd Like To Have Seen

By: Crafty Green Poet

Crafty Green Poet — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:00:31 +0000

I was just discussing the ancestors with my mother the other day, that will make a good poem. Thanks for the prompt.

By: John

John — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:46:24 +0000

OneWorldTree is as accurate as the people who have submitted information, and there is no restriction on who can submit information, and no one at Ancestry verifies any of it. Kind of like Wikipedia, but without an easy method to correct errors you find..

It’s very good for providing leads for further research, but the information it provides shouldn’t be assumed to be correct.

On the other hand – the databases on the main part of Ancestry are indispensible to anyone researching their family history. Birth/marriage/death certificates, immigration records, census records, and a lot more.

A free website to check out is http://www.familysearch.org and http://labs.familysearch.org Both provide the records of the Mormon church, and they have a lot.

By: A~Lotus

A~Lotus — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:55:16 +0000

Hmm, I know about that site, and I’m still curious about my family’s history as well, because I can track back only to my great-grandparents. Nothing really further than that. However, I highly doubt that I’m or my family’s related to anyone as famous.

Hmm, I’m going to explore on this. Thanks for the prompt!