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Genealogy in Reverse: Finding the Living. A Practical Guide for All Genealogists
by Cheri Hudson Passey (Author) Format: Paperback
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (6)
Learning how to find living relatives is a valuable skill to help you connect with living family and descendants of your ancestors who may have the information you are looking for or be able to put you in touch with those who do. This process, known as reverse genealogy, aims to help genealogists at every level learn to trace descendants of ancestors, both direct line and collateral. With step-by-step guidance, methodologies, and practical examples, this guidebook will give you the tools and confidence to connect with living family members.
Snàth nan Linntean: The Thread Through the Ages
by Buddy Morrison (Author) Format: Hardcover
5.0 5.0 out of 5 stars (3)
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What if genealogy is about more than names, dates, and documents? What if following your family history can lead you somewhere you never expected—to a place that somehow feels like home?
In Snàth nan Linntean: The Thread Through the Ages, Buddy Morrison takes readers on a deeply personal journey through genealogy, DNA, history, family, and the landscapes of Scotland.
What began as a search for ancestors gradually became something much more. Old records and family stories led to DNA discoveries. DNA opened doors to Scotland and the Outer Hebrides. And eventually, Buddy and his wife, Crystal, found themselves traveling through places they had previously known only through research—Culloden, Dunbar, the Highlands, and finally Lewis and Harris.
Along the way, the past began to feel remarkably close.
Standing where history happened, walking landscapes connected to generations before us, seeing the Lewis Chessmen, exploring the Norse heritage of the islands, and arriving on Lewis created a realization that genealogy cannot always be measured solely by what can be proven on paper.
Buddy calls this Spiritual Genealogy—the place where documented family history meets memory, place, intuition, DNA, and the deeply personal sense of connection we sometimes experience while searching for those who came before us.
This is not a book claiming that every feeling can be proven or that every ancient ancestor can be identified. It is instead an invitation to remain curious—to follow the evidence as far as it will take us while remaining open to what the journey itself can teach us.
Part memoir, part family history, and part exploration of what it means to search for where we came from, Snàth nan Linntean is written for genealogists and non-genealogists alike.
Because sometimes we begin by searching for our ancestors.
And somewhere along the way, we discover that we are also searching for ourselves.