ANCESTOR CARDS
Make Your Own; Share Them
by Iona Miller, (c)2016
Make Your Own; Share Them
by Iona Miller, (c)2016
Ancestor cards are sort of a fusion somewhere between baseball cards and tarot cards that illustrate your own
Family Tree. You can include notable events, accomplishments, and royal descents.
Family Tree. You can include notable events, accomplishments, and royal descents.
JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA
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"Mayflower" Passengers
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COLONIALS
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ANCESTOR CARDS
Ancestor cards can help us remember factual information and also tap our intuitive potential. Using them, our unconscious can speak to us revealing more, perhaps, than we thought we knew. Instead of a new 'solitaire', it is profoundly relational.
They enable us to make our own tables of begats for closer family members, and can include living and dead blood family and extended family members from whom we do not descend but play an important or influential role in our lives. This method moves beyond the static linear assembly toward a dynamic field of interrelated ancestors.
They can be combined with other approaches to interactive genealogy, such as the emotional relationships of the genogram. http://ancestorsandarchetypes.weebly.com/genogram.html
This is a project that can be done with children, grandchildren, or any family members to engage them in the genealogical process, rather than just looking at it. Including in-laws in the process ads their lines, too. You can make your own reference cards for near and distant ancestors, and use them to study family groupings or explore your intuitive and ancestral fields.
You can include their statistics, origins, life highlights, and photos, graves, or maps that help flesh them out. You can use historical art and classical or modern mythic art. You may want to include royal lineages of more recent ancestors as one of their qualifiers. What you cannot find in your family archives, you may be able to supplement online.
You can use Photoshop to cobble them together, or cut and paste collages by physically assembling the bits. If you then photograph or scan them, they will be seamless. There is no shortage of imagery we can devise from our colonial, medieval, ancient and royal lines, and even mythic descent.
This novel way of handling ancestral connections allows for nonlinear and intuitive couplings and relationships we might not notice in static arrangements. Making the cards helps us get to know each one even better. Copies are also a unique gift for other family members that can be passed down to future generations. You can even assemble it into a family video.
Ancestor cards can help us remember factual information and also tap our intuitive potential. Using them, our unconscious can speak to us revealing more, perhaps, than we thought we knew. Instead of a new 'solitaire', it is profoundly relational.
They enable us to make our own tables of begats for closer family members, and can include living and dead blood family and extended family members from whom we do not descend but play an important or influential role in our lives. This method moves beyond the static linear assembly toward a dynamic field of interrelated ancestors.
They can be combined with other approaches to interactive genealogy, such as the emotional relationships of the genogram. http://ancestorsandarchetypes.weebly.com/genogram.html
This is a project that can be done with children, grandchildren, or any family members to engage them in the genealogical process, rather than just looking at it. Including in-laws in the process ads their lines, too. You can make your own reference cards for near and distant ancestors, and use them to study family groupings or explore your intuitive and ancestral fields.
You can include their statistics, origins, life highlights, and photos, graves, or maps that help flesh them out. You can use historical art and classical or modern mythic art. You may want to include royal lineages of more recent ancestors as one of their qualifiers. What you cannot find in your family archives, you may be able to supplement online.
You can use Photoshop to cobble them together, or cut and paste collages by physically assembling the bits. If you then photograph or scan them, they will be seamless. There is no shortage of imagery we can devise from our colonial, medieval, ancient and royal lines, and even mythic descent.
This novel way of handling ancestral connections allows for nonlinear and intuitive couplings and relationships we might not notice in static arrangements. Making the cards helps us get to know each one even better. Copies are also a unique gift for other family members that can be passed down to future generations. You can even assemble it into a family video.
(c)2015-2016; All Rights Reserved, Iona Miller, Sangreality Trust
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