Family Tree, Psychoanalysis and Fossils Research

 Have you figured out the connection between psychoanalysis, family tree research, and the search for our human origins in Africa? It is all about who we are and where we come from. In psychoanalysis you go back through your childhood. In Family tree research you take it a step further to your historical childhood and the tracing of your ancestors to your roots. And if you travel to Africa you go all the way back to the beginning of humankind's roots. It was having to complete a family history genogram during pastoral psychoanalytic psychotherapy training in 1992 that got me started on this journey. Little did I know that one county over from our home here in Virginia was the home of my 10th great grandfather, Silas Melton, whose Will from 1768 I read in the Albemarle County Courthouse. Nor that the Melton clan landed in VA from England in 1620, shortly after Jamestown, and settled a few more miles up the James River at New Kent, VA. What a journey through all three!

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