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Nothing complicates a family tree like people who have around 10 children, most of whom live to adulthood, who then marry first cousins and repeat.
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Discovery of the Truro Cornwall 'Ghost'
This is a well known documented story from Cornwall of late Georgian Times – It is only when I did the family research that I discovered it related to direct ancestors. Please Enjoy my Travel Books on Amazon – FREE on Kindle Unlimited https://bit.ly/bookneal Taken from my Family Ancestry book – A Bullet for Life A true story of family survival against all the odds – it has a happy ending I…
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also the english are weird about folk culture. we are. we've relegated our folk dances and music to the zone of esoteric nerd shit that only weirdos do, and then we go looking for esoterica in the non-english parts of our heritage because we don't think we've got any of it of our own
#i'm not saying everyone who wants to do family history research should have to do compulsory morris dancing classes first#but like. it probably wouldn't make things worse. and it would be funny#for legal reasons this is a joke.
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Unraveling the Past: Exploring the Best Family History Research in Conroe, TX
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Leaked phone conversations show VP Joe Biden leveraging a $1 billion loan for the removal of Ukraine's prosecutor general. 🤔
#pay attention#educate yourselves#educate yourself#knowledge is power#reeducate yourself#reeducate yourselves#think about it#think for yourselves#think for yourself#do your homework#do some research#do your own research#ask yourself questions#question everything#news#hidden history#history lesson#history#crime family#ukraine corrupt#government corruption
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Was engaging in my favorite hobby of Curating Lists (specifically in this case of the states I have visited and the ones I have yet to visit) and was wondering…which state would you all most like to visit that you haven’t been to yet and what city/area/site would you want to go there for?
#my top states I haven’t been to are probably Louisiana South Carolina and maybe West Virginia#oh and Tennessee! I want to go to NOLA and Charleston both for history and food reasons#and then I want to do more outdoorsy trips after I had so much fun in Utah and I need to do more research on that#but lot of beautiful nature in WV#and then in TN you have smoky mountains and Cumberland gap national parks plus Memphis and Nashville#I would also love to go back out west bc the badlands road trip my family did as a kid and my Utah trip were both incredible in terms of#scenery but I think the western states I have NOT been to like Idaho are less appealing than my missing states in other regions
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Tired: Derek just sucks at being a werewolf/alpha. At this rate Stiles could be a better wolf. Wired: Derek is a Born Werewolf and as such has an entirely different culture than Stiles or Scott knows. He's a great wolf by his cultures standards.
!!FANFIC RECOMMENDATION BELOW!!
The Hale family were all Like That™ because they could scent each other and had pack bonds to rely on, rather than words. ((They all speak with eyebrows and body language, as well as scent and pack bond. The only one acceptable in "civilized aspects" is like, Laura, because she has so many human friends beyond pack, so she toes the line of both cultures.))
So Derek is entirely normal by his standards, but Teen Wolf is from the perspective of a human and a bitten wolf that used to be human, therefore we are getting an outside perspective on an unknown culture and putting our cultural expectations on Derek and how he should behave as a wolf.
LITERALLY AN AMAZING FANFIC. IT TEACHES AN ENTIRE NEW PERSPECTIVE AND HAS A SUPER FUN INTERACTION THROUGH FOOTNOTES.
I'm an absolute freaking nerd but I cannot tell you how intensely I admire this damn fanfic.
Please read it.
#teen wolf#derek hale#fanfiction#ao3 fanfic#fanfic#fanfiction recommendation#the hale pack#the hale family#academics#anthropomorphic#anthropomorphization#footnotes#english#stiles stilinski#sterek#derek x stiles#research paper#idk#i just love it#Guys please read it#Tired-wired pipeline.#The author even talks about whaling and a brief history#whaling#wolves#werewolves
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from ch 1 of not in this family by heather murray [x]
and the relevant notes section as well; i was especially interested in the depth of note 89 as an explanation for the "emotional pragmatism" in the examples
#history#queer as in fuck you#yes i am doing research for dctctc stuff. shut up.#ONE of their families is gonna be accepting idgaf#[it's mama biddick. curt's got other shit to worry about.]
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me [takes your face gently between my hands]: hob gadling would not be a history professor at any number of british universities because of how humanities academia works and even if he were, rose walker would not be his student or advisee.
#sandman#hob gadling#sorry but it's true#a) history professor is not a romantic position and y'all are demonstrating you do not know how grad school or the academic job market work#b) that's horrifying. straight up horrifying. that you want this man to be in charge of shaping historical narrative.#(you do realize he'd do it IN HIS FAVOR; yes?? and that's not a good thing??)#c) rose is american. and a writer. do i have a headcanon where she goes into history? yes.#but if she went to the UK it'd most likely be about connecting with her personal family history and uh.#hob gadling is connected with that in such a way she would not just ''forgive'' or ''move past''#(bc holy shit why should she??)#like. if she's researching unity or her earlier ancestors she's not going to be taking classes of or be the personal mentee of a white dude#(who also happened to be a former slaver...who everyone hc's as studying medieval hist anyway)#if y'all hc hob gadling as teaching black history...fucking don't??#whoops the disc horse#but whiteness is always afforded the language of the human#but also re: point a) i'm saying it mostly bc he doesn't fucking age#sorry but like. ppl do be noticing that.#especially in academia.
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Chat i think i have an unhealthy obsession with tumblr.
#i was meant to do research for my essay#i got distracted#ranted abt amrev for 20 minutes to my friends#went on tumblr#started fangirling#i only have laurens' family history#nothing else#augh
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The Himura clan
did some research! lots of research, actually, all about what being 'village headmen' entailed, what it meant to be wealthy post-land reforms, and I've even come up with a theory/explanation about why they had numerous branch families. let me share what I've found:
(but first, please go read @stillness-in-green’s wonderful review of chapter 387 that contains a great explanation on clan intermarriage and how the situation at the Himura’s must have looked!
The 庄屋 - Shouya - "Village Leaders"
Shouya translates to village headmen, village leader - which is correct, but I don’t think that tells the whole story. So I’ll tell it to everyone:
The 'village headman' (and his lineage) was part of a specific, special rank of 'titled' peasants during the Tokugawa period (1603 - 1867). Basically, they were the elite of the peasant elites. When the shogunate came into power, it created a new system of village offices of headman and council to better collect taxes - and this new status granted prestige and the power to collect and deliver tribute, keep records and maintain the population register, and generally presiding over all public affairs. Headmen were still peasants, but they would be allowed things that would normally be only entitled to the warrior/samurai class, like the usage of surnames, the wearing of silk, and even carrying one (1) small sword.
(Source: Tokugawa Village Practice, by Herman Ooms)
With these culminated privileges and means, then, it was easy for village headmen to get cultivate lots of land, get rich, establish lineages and cadet branches, cultivate more land, get richer, etc. This being feudalism, all land belonged to the central state, so they weren't exactly landowners, but they essentially functioned as wealthy landlords (and became exactly that when the Meiji era (1868 - 1912) established the right to private land ownership.)
This is what the Himura(?) marriage broker meant when they talked about how the family was once "considered prestigious, with a long and storied history", and when Geten spoke of the Himura having wealth and pride. This is a family who could trace their history and genealogy back to samurai times, a lineage with inherited land and fortune that has been continuous for over 500 years by the time the story in HeroAca takes place.
The 農地改革 - Nouchikaikaku - Land Reforms
idk what exactly Official Viz Translator Caleb Cook was thinking when he decides to translate nouchikaikaku - agrarian reforms - as ‘agricultural revolution’ which (to me) brings to mind ‘the era when cavemen starts farming’. It’s not incorrect, exactly, but there are much better options that have more accurate connotations. Nouchikaikaku can be referring to land reforms in general, but here, it is almost certainly talking about the post-WWII land reforms of 1947.
Some background: When poor farmers fall into debt - due to crop failures, due to the chaotic economic times, due to random things like "a fall in the price of rice coinciding with the expense of a wedding or funeral where social custom would permit of no stinting", just having one bad day, etc. - they usually were forced to sell their land... then stay and become tenant farmers on that same land, except now they were paying rent that could be as high as half their income. Thus a system of landlords and tenants came to be, and the gap between their economic statuses would widen.
By 1941, 46% of cultivated land in Japan were tenanted; and only 30% of peasants owned all the land they tilled. (In other words, landlords owned nearly half of all farmland, and 70% of farming households were tenants of some kind.)
(Source: Land Reform in Japan, by Ronald Dore)
This is where land reforms come in, in order to correct this inequality.
After the war, all absentee landowners and landlords who own too many acres were required to sell their land to the government, who then sold it to the people who actually worked the land. In this way, large landlords was practically eliminated, tenant farming was no more, and every farming family became proper small property owners, and Japan's land reform is considered today to be one of the most successful in history.
The whole purpose of the land reforms was to reduce the wealth and power of rich landlords... So how is it that the Himura clan somehow found a way to keep all that?
This is, I think, where the key words of "by creating branch families" come into play.
Quick jump back to the agrarian reforms: Under the land reform laws, owning and selling land became a very regulated affair - Corporations and non-farmers cannot own farmland; there was a maximum limit to how much land a person/family could have; only limited local landlording was allowed, and even then, tenants rights were favored.
Essentially, the “only way an individual could acquire farmland was by joining a farm family through birth, adoption, or marriage, then co-residing with the preceding generation until inheriting the parents' land, and eventually passing the same land to a household heir to repeat the cycle.”
So, my theory:
The Himura, as wealthy ancestral landlords, were bound to lose land (and their fortune) when the land reforms came. To avoid doing so - or, rather, to gain back land they had to sell - they could've started marrying local neighboring families, bringing them into the Himura clan. Each non-eldest, non-inheriting son who married out would already be creating a branch, and have access to his wife's family's land; with the Himura's influence and status, it wouldn't be strange if their daughters' husbands take the Himura name instead of the other way around.
Heck, they also could've just adopted people - one traditional method was indeed this: "families often adopted as “branch families” people who were not related by blood. This kind of branch family was often in an economically subordinate position: perhaps a family of farm workers who depended on the stem “family” for land and tools. The fictive familiar relationship added extra depth and strength to the economic relationship."
Thus, on paper, a tract of land is owned by a individual couple or family... but that couple or family is now Himura, and therefore the Himura clan have increased in branch families, and maintained/maybe even increased their wealth (land), exactly as Geten says.
Which is why when the Advent came, "Heteromorph blood" became so abhorrent?
To be sure, they were likely just bigots who discriminated against Heteromorphs for being different.
However, if their whole operation had been to bring people into the clan, this hatred would mean a loss of marriage and adoption candidates. Anyone who had heteromorphic quirks were out; anyone who came from a family that had even one (1) individual with a heteromorphic quirk was out, since that trait could be inherited. As @stillness-in-green points out in her post, "Given that the characters in-universe still don’t know the origin of quirks, there’s no way to completely guarantee desirable quirks, or even to perfectly guard against the dreaded heteromorphic quirks," outsiders had the potential to bring surprise heteromorph blood, which would've been horrifying for them.
Official Viz Translator Caleb Cook translated this part as 'They [the Himura] didn't want to dilute their blood', but the more accurate translation, I feel, would be 'they hated the mixing of blood'.
'Dilute' gives off the sense that they wanted to keep their 'Himura essence' or whatever pure, which is true to a point; but in the context that Mr. Compress gives us - heteromorph discrimination - and how it's only after the Advent that the result of clan endogamy came to be, I think it's more accurate to say that, yeah, the Himura specifically did not want to associate or mingle with 'unknown qualities', so to speak. They hated the idea of that ‘mixing'; so the Himura had to turn inwards to be certain that no heteromorph lineage could be mixed into the clan.
In doing so, the Himura would've lost their traditional method of growth. No more increasing branch families; instead, the branches would combine and decrease. No more obtaining, inheriting, and accumulation of land to the Himura name. The family shrink and wane, and eventually lost everything altogether.
(and the final delicious irony of all this is that their last ditch effort to marry off Rei would be consistent with their earlier methods, trying to save themselves and obtain wealth...
except this time it would be too little, too late.)
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Thanks for reading!
#Himura Family#Himura Clan#Geten#Todoroki Rei#Heteromorph Discrimination#Chapter 387#Chapter 301#HeroAca#bnha#mha#worldbuilding#actually it would be more#history#?#I did allllll this research and wrote allllllll this solely because of my love for Geten#tu superbus Himura nube#Himura#nalslastworkingbraincell
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“Mary Margaret, died on May 14, 1795, and "was buried on the 16th near Sharp Mountain". The church record of her death states she was 71 years of age, but her tombstone still on the later homestead, states that she was born on May 3, 1725. According to local tradition, she was killed by an Indian in her front yard after she had shot a number of his companions. This tradition tells us that she was an expert shot and reported to have killed many Indians in her day.”
So, what you’re really telling me was that this particular 7th great-grandmother of mine was a racist serial killer who got what she deserved?
#maybe don't move to the PA frontier where stolen land is cheap?#maybe then i'd have some sympathy?#it may have been the thing to do at the time#but they still knew what they were doing#family history research
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Jonathan Walkden - As with many Lancashire men he is a victim of the Somme
July 22nd 1916 - my relative Jonathan Walkden of the Lancashire Fusiliers becomes another Somme victim
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The jimador presses his coa softly into the dirt and looks over at the snoozing vaquero, "¡Oye, levantarse!" he yells.
The vaquero snaps to attention. He squints into the bright mid-day sun when the agave fiber sombrero covering his eyes falls to the dirt. He quickly picks the hat up, dusts it off, and places it back on his head.
"Pinche idiota perezoso," the jimador mumbles.
The vaquero stands up and whistles for his horse and a gray Andalusian trots over to him. The vaquero tightens the straps of his brown leather chaparajos around his waist as his horse nuzzles his shoulder.
The chaparajos are well-loved. The vaquero runs his hand over a patch of light brown leather, a patch he made when one of the ranchero's prized bulls nearly gored him during a routine roundup, but only snagged the protective leather. A vaquero's chaparajos are one of the most important pieces of protective clothing one can wear, and these were his lucky pair. They were also his only pair. He makes a note to check the stitching on the patch later.
He fastens the leather string around the sombrero beneath his chin, strokes the Andalusian's braided auburn mane twice, kisses her on her nose, and mounts the saddle. The vaquero thanks the jimador for his hospitality and clicks his tongue twice. The horse moves at a leisurely pace out of the rancho and the vaquero resumes his rounds around the hacienda, searching for any lost cattle to send back to their homes.
chaparajos for both masc and fem framed v coming soon from @wanderingaldecaldo and me
#oc: vincent guerra#oc: batsheva#cyberpunk 2077#otp: cat and mouse#masc v#fem v#virtual photography#cyberpunk photomode#im so excited#also i did so much research for this little ficlet#started to get my fucking tequila manufacturing knowledge cert from patron's official academia patron#thats how deep into the vg family history i was getting
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there is truly nothing like being a black girl from certain parts of Maryland...this is really black american princess central
#second only to maybe Atlanta#and some parts of LA#its truly not rare to find black families that have been wealthy and college educated since the 1800s#and they will absolutely have their family history researched and compiled in a leather bound book in the living room#colorism and classism do be beating our asses though lmaoo
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swedish royal (nick)names pt. 1
King Oscar II with family. Unknown painter, 1905.
I was talking with @foreverinthepagesofhistoryy the other day & we ended up on the topic of royal names & nicknames. Specifically how the Swedish Royal Family loves to Swedify names & how it can be difficult to differentiate who is who in the Bernadotte dynasty because everyone is called Karl/Carl or Gustaf/Gustav. This inspired me to make this series of what the royals' official names were vs. what they were actually called day-to-day. Plus other fun facts surrounding their names.
As you will notice when scrolling through this post, I've settled on a structure of: [if applicable, the name they were born with] / [the Swedish name] / [if applicable, the English name]
First generation
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte / Karl XIV Johan / Charles XIV John
When Karl Johan was part of the French military, he was allegedly nicknamed Belle-Jambe. This is said to have been a nod towards his *cough* talent to charm women...
Then later when he became chosen as the Swedish Crown Prince, his name was Swedified. Jean became Johan & he adopted Karl as a nod towards his "adoptive father". His official name went down in history as Karl Johan but sometimes you see the spelling Carl Johan & Jean-Baptiste sometimes signed his new Swedish name as Charles-Jean (maybe because he never learned Swedish, who knows).
Désirée Clary / Desideria
While her given name was Désirée, all her friends & family seem to have been referring to her by one of her middle names: Eugénie.
It's said that Karl Johan's nickname for Desideria was Bonette, however, I've so far never been able to find a reliable source for this claim.
After her husband was named heir to the Swedish throne, she stayed in Paris "incognito" under the name Grevinnan av Gotland (Countess of Gotland).
Second generation
Oscar I / Oskar I
Here we see a classic case of Swedification. The man himself & his contemporaries wrote his name as Oscar. However, the Swedish Royal Court today has gone with the Swedish version of Oskar.
Joséphine de Beauharnais / Josefina / Josephine of Leuchtenberg
While her official name has gone down in history as Josefina, contemporary accounts referred to her as Josefine - a name that is still popular today.
Just like her mother-in-law, Josefina travelled incognito via an alias. Hers was Grevinnan av Tullgarn (Countess of Tullgarn).
One of her philanthropic legacies is Josephinahemmet, an elderly home for Catholics. So as you guys can see, people have never been able to agree on how this woman's name should be spelled.
Third generation
Karl XV / Charles XV
Commonly referred to as the most popular monarch of all times, Karl was apparently so beloved by the people that he got the nickname Kron-Kalle (Crown-Charlie).
However, while he is remembered as Karl, he himself spelt it as Carl.
Louise van Oranje-Nassau / Lovisa / Louise of the Netherlands
Born as Louise, she got the official name of Lovisa upon arriving in Sweden. However, it seems like she continued using her childhood name & just like with her mother-in-law, some contemporaries settled on a compromise by referring to her as Louisa (see for example Eugenia).
Gustaf
Gustaf has gone down in history as Sångarprinsen (the Singer Prince), however, his pseudonym as a composer was G*****.
Oscar II / Oskar II
Just like his father, people haven't been able to agree on how to spell his name. He himself & his contemporaries used Oscar but it's common to see the Swedified version of Oskar.
Oscar loved to participate in the political debate & did so "anonymously" under the pseudonyms O**** & Oscar Fredrik.
Sophia von Nassau / Sofia
While she was born as Sophia & then was given the Swedified version Sofia as her official name, she herself used the name Sophie throughout her entire life & was lovingly called Tante Sophie by the entire Royal Family.
It's said that her brothers jokingly called her "unsere demokratische schwester" (our democratic sister).
Two of her philanthropic legacies are Sophiahemmet (which today, another Sofia is patron of) in Stockholm & Sophies minde in Oslo.
Eugénie / Eugenia
This woman is interesting because her official & given name is Eugenia but both she & her contemporaries seem to have used Eugénie. On the Swedish Royal Court's website, she is referred to by both versions of her name & I've noticed a trend over the last few years that more & more she's mentioned as Eugénie rather than Eugenia.
Just like her older brother Gustaf, Eugenia was a composer & used the pseudonym E******. While not as well-known as her brother, she did write, for example, two pieces in the 1850s named "Drottning Josephinas polonaise" & "Louisa Wals", in 1860s she & her mother wrote the piece "Ach, wie schön die Glocken klingen" together (music by Eugenia & text by Josefina), then in 1871 she composed as piece in remembrance of "Louisa".
August
Finally, someone whose name everyone can agree on! I also can't find any mention of him ever earning a nickname...
Thérèse von Sachsen-Altenburg / Teresia
While her official name is Teresia, she was born Thérèse & it seems like friends & family continued to call her that even after she moved to Sweden.
Teresia most likely suffered from some type of mental illness, but back then she was just described as "unbalanced" & "stupid". This caused her to mockingly get called "Lilla hoppitossan" (little Hopsy-Totsie) by everyone, including her husband, at the Royal Court.
From the 1890s onwards, things seemed to get better for Teresia & she moved into Haga Palace, thus earning her the nickname Hagahertiginnan (the Haga Duchess).
Part 2 with the fourth, fifth & sixth generation will be published soon!
#swedish royal family#royal history#swedish history#if there is one thing i've learned when researching this it's that royals are terrible when it comes to aliases#saga.txt
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