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Season 5 - Episode 113 - What I’m learning from ancestry · 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 happen 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.
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  Record A. Podcast to.
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  Teach distinctions, possibilities, new ways of
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  thinking, and just bring some joy into the world.
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  So welcome to the coop and let's start your day off in a
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  fantastic way. Hey, everybody.
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  Good morning. I have a project that I've been
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  working on for a while and it's genealogy project.
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  And the whole thing started off very simply because someone in
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  my mother's family had started off doing a family tree many
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  years ago. And somehow throughout the
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  years, I had shown interest in it and I got a copy of it.
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  And it was only the length of it was only on one side.
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  It was for my mother's father, my grandfather, and it was one
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  side of his family that they had done it for it.
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  Now, obviously, without ancestry, these things can take
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  a really long time. And having ancestry, you know,
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  as a part of it, ancestry.com is what I'm talking about.
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  And this is not a promotion for them.
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  This is just me telling you what I'm using.
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  I decided that I was going to hang on to that piece of paper
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  many years ago. And I really like the idea that
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  in that we found out that we had relatives that were on the
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  Mayflower and we were direct descendants of Miles Standish.
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  So that was fascinating to me. And I was like, wow, that's so
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  cool. But I really don't know much
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  about it. And quite frankly, when I was a
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  little girl and we went on a field trip to Plymouth
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  Plantation, when I grew up in Massachusetts, I was horrified.
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  I was probably 4 years old and we went into a wax museum and
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  the wax museum was scary as hell to me.
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  I freaked out, ran out. It was a quite the spectacle.
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  I did not like it and I did not want to go back.
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  I did not want to know anything about it because I was so
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  freaked out about it. And my not, my mother was not
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  interested in this at all. I think it's very interesting
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  how my mother was just like, Oh well, if we were, we were like,
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  she just wasn't interested in it.
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  So it wasn't pushed or in any direction on me.
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  But I kept the papers and I had no idea why.
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  So Fast forward, I start working on it over the last two years
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  because I got my DNA tested to find out what my, my roots were,
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  because there were, there's always rumors in every family
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  about, oh, well, you have this in, we have somebody like this.
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  And I, I had an uncle that kept telling me we had a Native
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  American in our family. And I was like, there's no way.
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  I don't believe that. So finally I got the DNA done
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  and there was no way. There's nothing in there that
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  shows that, not one drop that shows that.
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  But that's not here nor there. I started using Ancestry about 5
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  months ago. I got the actual membership and
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  I started digging in and going back and really finding out,
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  like because you can see newspaper articles, you can see
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  all kinds of things. And I got really into knowing
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  and I wanted to build it out on all sides.
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  Like not just my mother's father and my mother's mother, because
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  my mother's mother's side was completely shut down.
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  Like it was. I only knew that what tragic
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  thing happened to her when she was little and she didn't have
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  anything to do with her father. I never met him.
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  I didn't know anything about him and it was just one of those
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  things where they had shut it off and no one talked about it.
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  So I decided I wanted to know more about that.
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  Where did he come from? All of this?
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  So it was an expansive and then jumped over to my father and his
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  parents and so forth and so on. And so see how far could I push
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  it just doing it online and going through it now, that's not
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  the point of all this story and the interesting things that I
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  found not that's not the point. The point is that by doing this,
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  something interesting has happened for me.
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  Something really, really interesting has happened for me.
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  And that thing is that I have really discovered that.
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  I can't believe what some of these people went through.
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  Like when you look back and you see how many deaths of children
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  there were, how many people that came over, like, you know, just
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  just basic stuff like studying the things on the Mayflower and
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  as they came over here. I'm befuddled by the fact that
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  we'd ever took that into consideration.
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  Like no one ever talked about that in a way.
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  Or maybe it's just that I have matured in a way that says, wow,
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  these people went through hell. And I'm complaining that I have
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  to, you know, work three days in a week or four days in a week.
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  And what, what did these people go through?
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  I mean, I sat last night and I, I cuz I really did a lot of it
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  yesterday and I started imagining what it must have been
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  like to be on the Mayflower and like a simple thing like, you
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  know, OK. What do you do when you have to
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  go to the bathroom? How do they handle that?
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  What, what was the smell like on that boat?
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  How did they get fresh water? I mean, they travelled for two,
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  I think it was 66 days, something like that.
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  But that's an account like, oh, I don't know if it's accurate or
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  not, but let's just assume it was 66 days on a boat the size
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  of the Mayflower with 102 people.
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  I mean, that is crowded. And what do you do with all the
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  waste? What do you do?
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  What are the smells? What are the arguments?
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  What was the ocean like? And then they had a beam break
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  in the boat. And you know, I mean, they had a
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  death deaths on the boat. So I mean, think about the
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  enclosed amount. And they were brave enough to
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  get on it, to come here and not just once, but boat after boat
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  after boat. So that tells you about what
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  their life must have been like to be willing to do this over
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  and over and over again. So the point that I'm trying to
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  make here is that changed my perspective.
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  So if I'm getting even a little whiny, I'm going to remind
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  myself of this. And I'm going to be like, hey,
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  when you sit and you look around at your beautiful place and you
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  might feel a certain way, put your big girl pants on and stop
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  whining. And it's a great reminder.
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  So I don't know if you have something like that, but
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  hopefully you do. You can remember it because I
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  will tell you this little experiment of mine has changed
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  me. All right, my friends, I hope
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  you have a blessed day and I will see you tomorrow.
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  Bye.