[ **up: [[History]]** ] --- # Genealogy - [[Matriline]] --- ## Family history as “story keeping” I love Amber Magnolia Hill’s phrasing of being the “[[2025-0324. Amber Magnolia Hill talks of having stepped into her ‘unofficial role as story keeper for my ancestral line’.|story keeper for [her] ancestral line]]”.[^1] - *See:* [[Storytelling]] --- ## Honouring [[2025-0324. 'Modern Western culture is perhaps the only culture in the history of the world to have forgotten the ancestors. What all peoples before and besides us have known is that we cannot know ourselves without knowing our ancestors.'|'Modern Western culture is perhaps the only culture in the history of the world to have forgotten the ancestors. What all peoples before and besides us have known is that we cannot know ourselves without knowing our ancestors.']][^2] [[2025-0324. 'The word matter comes to us from the Latin mater, meaning mother, and pattern is from pater, or father. Mama & papa, matter & pattern.'|'You would not exist if every single one of your ancestors had not existed, and the very fabric of your body- bones, blood, DNA- is woven from their matter and their pattern. The word matter comes to us from the Latin mater, meaning mother, and pattern is from pater, or father. Mama & papa, matter & pattern.']][^3] - *See also:* [[Ancestor worship|Honouring the ancestors]] --- ## External resources ### Australia - [The Prosecution Project (“search 150 years of Australian criminal trial records)](https://app.prosecutionproject.griffith.edu.au/web/public-search) - [Convict Tokens](https://love-tokens.nma.gov.au/) #### New South Wales - [Probate (published online on or after 21 January 2013)](https://onlineregistry.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/content/search-probate-notices) --- ### Britain + [The Gazette: Official Public Record](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/) - [Proceedings of the Old Bailey](https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/search) - [A guide to unfamiliar judicial and historical terms](https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/about/glossary) - [Trial & court records](https://guides.sl.nsw.gov.au/c.php?g=671838&p=4729269) #### London - [Person Name Search (London Lives)](https://www.londonlives.org/formPersName.jsp) #### Norfolk - [1813 to 1880 Baptism Project (North Tuddenham St Mary)](http://tinstaafl.co.uk/nbp/Church_Pages/tuddenham_nth.htm) --- ### Germany - [Archival information system Hesssen](https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/start) --- ### New Zealand - [Papers Past](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/) [^1]: Amber Magnolia Hill, ‘[[Hill. ‘Story is Medicine_ The Mythic Imagination on the Healing Path’, 2018.|Story is Medicine: The Mythic Imagination on the Healing Path]]’, *Plant Healer*, vol. 8, issue 2 (Spring 2018), p. 95. [^2]: Amber Magnolia Hill, ‘[[Hill. ‘Story is Medicine_ The Mythic Imagination on the Healing Path’, 2018.|Story is Medicine: The Mythic Imagination on the Healing Path]]’, *Plant Healer*, vol. 8, issue 2 (Spring 2018), p. 96. [^3]: Amber Magnolia Hill, ‘[[Hill. ‘Story is Medicine_ The Mythic Imagination on the Healing Path’, 2018.|Story is Medicine: The Mythic Imagination on the Healing Path]]’, *Plant Healer*, vol. 8, issue 2 (Spring 2018), p. 96.