
It is Mar 2020 and officially the world is on lockdown due to the Coronavirus, and now I get to stay home with our elementary kiddos for 30 full days, nonstop, no breaks…….. I know I am not the only person out there wondering if this is the beginning of the end or if it is complete overkill. For now I plan to redecorate and remodel things in our home before the move this summer, our house badly needs it and I hope to remember to take before pics on the next project.
I am still heavily trying to catch up on Native American Indian migratory patterns from old Fur Trader Journals. I plan to read them on video to post to youtube eventually, yet I was originally going to do that while kiddos are at school so this will be a new hurdle. I have found so many hurdles in researching my mtDNA path, rumor of Croatan, Lumbee, Tuscorora, Algonquin, Seminole, Cherokee… Literally the tribe list goes on and on, and following through the French and Indian Wars along with other wars, it is quite apparent that people had to migrate or in the case of the Natives, they were sold into slavery upon capture after a defeat.
I am currently stuck in the 1810s, Granville NC area as of now, researching all of these wonderful journals, with such detailed information in some of these books. I am going off the rumor of Cherokee from NC that ended up in GA. I am proud to say that I am searching for Grace Emmanuel Jackson born est 1897 and passed in Patterson GA in 1933, she married John Jordan Aspinwall and had several children. Dark tan skin tone, high cheek bones, long straight black hair. That is literally all the info I have for this side of my genealogy. The above tribes mentioned are shown through genealogy records, I just can’t find my maternal line matches past Grace.

Another roadblock I am in is that the family was of poor farmer stock, lots of casualties to wars and trying to trace a journey from NC to GA in 1910 plus or minus a few years, we know she was married in 1911 in GA. Through family stories it has been mentioned that they all worked in the Turpentine business, and their home was literally off of the old railway path (no longer there). All that stands where their home once stood is 2 chimney stacks and a small family grave. Coincidentally the land happens to be for sale, which I would LOVE to own, yet need the funds for that purchase. My dream is to buy that land, build a small community, based around a town square type model. Then run a bed and breakfast type resort that has you glamping (glamorous camping) to a certain extent. Literally set the tone to 1820 yet have modern amenities, a southern pride (wild west gun show type) show, an area for each of the ethnicities that were privy to that area during that time. Bring up hard times, how people struggled, actually do some farm work/learning. I obviously haven’t figured it all out yet but it is definitely a thought.
Nonetheless, here I am about to go on another journey of reading about how trails were marked, where they are etc along with learning how everyone was mentally processing this extremely savage lifestyle in the south. Stories of shutting the storm shutters on the church because Indians were “at it” again, arrows would soar into large group church gatherings. After a while it seems like it was just another day, no big deal type of attitude. Now in 2020 that all sounds so incredibly absurd but the reality is that they would say the same about us and our technology.
I plan to share these stories amongst many thoughts in the time coming, I want my future descendants to be able to read my words if the internet is still even a thing by the time interest is piqued. I have been publishing the family genealogy as far back as I can and it proves ties to many Presidents, Vikings, Portuguese, King’s, Queen’s, Dukes you name it and I absolutely love all these discoveries. It’s amazing how you can read about an ancestor’s history and then literally feel like knowing that information brings your mind to peace almost immediately. Stories about rage, anger, pirating etc also rings such a bell for me. I am very quick to raging anger for the most minuscule things, it has helped me open my eyes to seeing how the world sees me and how I react with certain emotions.
While reading these experiences I acknowledge that I deeply connect to these stories, as if I have been there before, lived through it. It has me wondering if genetically we inherit our genomes past lives? So I wouldn’t imagine recent loved ones passing away and then instantly you absorb their journey, I think it would be more along the lines of a deja vu type scenario, or even those crazy dreams you have yet wake and think to yourself “I Have never lived in or near a castle” then a few days later, while doing genealogy you find that you are related to Katherine of Aragon who was held in the Tower at Kimbolton Castle England. Where to begin with that madness.

Lots to go over, lots to record, and lots to discuss. I hope to accurately record my thoughts along with the facts that I have been presented with. There are a LOT of awesome stories, so sit back, relax and get ready for this wild ride.






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