Memory is tricky. Modern research suggests that each time we dredge up a memory we re-write it, even if just slightly. Genealogists don’t always allow for that when we work with our own or other people’s memories. Some people even resist the idea. I’ve had people stoutly defend stories that seem implausible or even impossible…
Category: Culture
Regional America
I have a long-time fascination with the cultural regions of America. There was a book a long time ago, The Nine Nations of North America, that got me started. Then Our Patchwork Nation. And Albion’s Seed in between, to show how some of the regional culture had its origins because of colonists from different parts…
Not all descendants are White.
Not all descendants are White.
I hope this comes back to shred them on the butt:
I hope this comes back to shred them on the butt:
Forging Identity
So often I run across people who are either engaged in a process of forging their own identity. Less often with someone living with the fallout of a parent or grandparent having done it. Brando Skyhorse’s mother told him his father was Paul Skyhorse Johnson, a Native American political activist. Really, his father was, like…