Macro Township, Massachusetts
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Today is January 1, 2000. Yesterday was my 50th birthday. I am the mother of a 7 year old. I enjoy genealogy and games (the bigger the better). For the past 6 months, I have been creating an electronic village for my vertical family. It has been an exciting and healing adventure to research family history, and to find and connect distant cousins. Just this week I was contacted by a distant cousin from northern Finland. We are the descendants of the indiginous people the Sami; the reindeer herders and hunters of the arctic. (My son Hachi and I are Americans.) At least 2 of my ancestral lines helped found and create towns in Michigan and Minnesota. I think of macrobiotic people as my horizontal and spriritual family. Following in my vertical family's tradition, I am interested in helping to create a macrobiotic village in the Berkshires. I believe it to be a fertile ground for such an undertaking. With the Kushi Institute located in Becket, a few famlies currently there, and the power of the internet (which allows for producing an income independent of the local economy, and provides an efficient means of finding others interested in this dream), I believe the time is ripe. If this sounds good to you, I would like to hear from you. Happy New Year. Happy New Age.
PS Our house is sold, we will be moving very soon (Jan). We may take a transitional home, here in NYC for a short time, or we might take a transitional home right in the Berkshires. Details are currently being worked out. Once we are settled in the Berkshires, I will be available to help others who are interested in researching their family roots. My areas of specialty are : Locatitng immigrant arrivals on passener lists of ships arrriving through ports of NY or Boston in the 1800's and 1900's. Finnish (or) Sami ancestry Norwegian ancestry Land Patents (Other than the original 13 states, all land is first owned by the government. The first time it is transferred into private ownership, the legal papers are called a land patent rather than a deed.) Other Places to go:
