deeAuvil: 2021

Sunday, April 18, 2021

About @deeAuvil

I am a descendant of the Long Hunters (WP). I am utterly fascinated by their lives. There was a list started at WeRelate by Quolla6 and then he didn't have time to work on it so I have taken it on and what I am trying to do is make sure each Long Hunter has a WeRelate profile and then we try to find anything we can about them. The list is here. If you are a Long Hunter descendant please join the FaceBook group.

Follow along while I pursue Canadian citizenship by descent.

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I research the ways that knowledge of family history, plants, and place is preserved and passed down.

Ethnobotany studies the relationships between people and plants, including how communities use plants for food, medicine, clothing, shelter, tools, dyes, and spiritual or ceremonial purposes. I am especially interested in how this knowledge passes from one generation to the next.

I use Ancestral Continuity Studies to describe the work of remembering, researching, honoring, and caring for those who have died. It brings together family history, oral tradition, archival research, and the documentation and protection of burial places. It also makes room for the ways people remain connected to their ancestors through prayer, remembrance, ritual, and spiritual practice. At its heart is a question: How do the living remain responsible to the dead?

As a genealogical cartographer, I trace families through time and place. Records, oral traditions, maps, photographs, and descendants’ knowledge help me chart where ancestors lived, traveled, gathered, and were buried. Some paths are well documented; others hold gaps or questions. Both are part of an honest map.