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Season 5 - Episode 86 - Connecting with the past · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset, coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop, and
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  let's start your day off in a fantastic way, everybody.
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  Good morning. I have a really cool project
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  that I'm doing on the side and I decided this a long time ago to
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  dive into my DNA, my family history.
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  I, I mean, you never get like a lot of like strong answers from
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  people in my family when you ask questions.
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  So I was curious, I was genuinely curious and I really
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  wanted to understand more, especially about my dad's side
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  of the family. Well, as it turns out, as I'm
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  going through this, I'm learning so much not only about my dad's
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  side of the family, but I'm learning it about my mom's side
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  of the family. And that was not something I had
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  anticipated because I had, I had really known a great deal about
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  my grandfather on my mother's side because I saw that they had
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  somebody else had done a huge swipe at DNA and it went all the
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  way back to the Mayflower on my grandfather Russell.
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  And I was super excited about that.
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  And I, I got a copy that they had done.
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  So I have all kinds of names and all kinds of details about that.
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  Not necessarily details that I would say give me a great, you
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  know, knowledge of the people themselves, but definitely that
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  I have details on the, you know, their names, but not the people
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  themselves. And I really wanted to
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  understand the people themselves.
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  Like for me, that was just such a big thing.
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  So I started, I said, well, first let me go and like, you
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  know, DNA, do all the stuff, try to figure out some aspects of
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  some things so that I could get some clarity on, you know, who
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  these people were. And as it turns out, like I
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  never knew that my grandmother's dad remarried.
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  I did not know that we did never, we never talked about
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  him. My grandmother was not a fan.
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  So we just didn't talk. And I, and it's so it's so crazy
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  to me because I often forget that people are people when it
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  comes to this stuff. And I'm like, oh, it's
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  fascinating to me. But to her, it was a painful
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  situation and she didn't want to talk about it.
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  And I, I can see that. I can see how this all kind of
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  plays out now. So as I'm going through it, I'm
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  stunned to see certain things like I'm in the ancestry site
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  and I'm getting more and more excited because they're saying,
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  oh, here's a clue. And with AI, it's unbelievable
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  how fast this goes. What used to take forever and
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  was extremely frustrating is taking me far less time.
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  And yet last night I was just doing it for 15 minutes because
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  I have to put a timer on because I will go down a rabbit hole and
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  I will not come out and I will spend way too much time down
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  there. So I, I put the timer on just
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  just to make sure that I'm not like getting lost in it.
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  And right away it popped up something that said, Oh, you
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  have a clue. Would you like to see your clue?
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  Well, when someone says to you, would you like to see your clue?
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  I mean, they're, so they're so great at like getting you into
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  it. And I was like, I'm not going
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  to, not going to subscribe because if I subscribe, I'll
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  never come back out. So I was doing just the minimum
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  after getting all the results and seeing things.
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  And then I was like, you know what, what am I doing?
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  I really want to know why not? Because I have this connection
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  to being like, you know, an, I'm an only child.
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  So being in this position of being an only child, you want to
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  make connections to your past. You want to see like who else
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  was out there? Who did I not know?
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  Who are the people that I, I, I come from?
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  Like, I just want to know. So of course, right away I'm
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  like thinking, OK, I'll, I'll think on it.
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  I'll think on it. So all all night long, I thought
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  about it all night long. I had these like, Oh, I really
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  want to know, blah, blah, blah. We got up this morning and of
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  course, right away I'm like, OK, I'm totally going to do this,
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  but I've got to put the timer on.
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  But you click on this whole little thing, there's like a
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  little leaf and you click on it and it shows you the 19.
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  I was able to find the 1950 census report and on that it was
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  my grandmother's handwriting, who I never got to know.
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  My father's mother. She passed away five years
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  before I was born, but I got to see her handwriting, what she
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  listed on how she wrote it out on the census report.
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  And I'm, I was just like, I was so enthralled with it because
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  she answered the questions like right down to the nitty gritty
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  about the fact that my dad was a paperboy and that, you know, the
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  little details and such nice handwriting she had.
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  And she put put it all on there and I felt like this immediate
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  connection to just even seeing her handwriting.
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  And that got me thinking about This is why these things are so
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  big for so many people because they're looking for connection.
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  And it always comes back to us as human beings being the
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  connection freaks that we are. We really think we don't need
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  it, but we find things to be connected to.
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  I'm very connected to my farm. I'm very connected to all my
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  animals, my plants, talking to them.
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  Yeah, I get it everywhere. But this, this is something
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  different and it's something neat.
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  So I wanted to share it with all of you because I don't know if
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  anybody else has ever done it, but boy, I have to tell you, it
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  is quite enthralling when you get into it.
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  So I hope you guys have a blessed day.
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  I promise I'm not going to go too far down that rabbit hole
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  each day, but I am definitely going down the rabbit hole and I
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  hope you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.