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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.
Follow along while I pursue Canadian citizenship by descent.
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.
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