Keeping the thread DNA with Astrology - I combined Edgar Cayce and myself this week simply by chance - as it were.
A few people including Waybread mentioned finding interest in combining astrology with DNA information of ancestors- so I thought I'd try this one out if anyone knows how to find Cousins in a Relationship Chart. In my case, the tree comes up from my father's side and his father's side of his family. Two paternal sides? (This is just for fun, as a trial run) -
I joined (after a 20 year hiatus) another Edgar Cayce Study Group) .....not knowing that there was one not too far from where I live now that is active.
I prefer to meditate in a group setting, rather then alone, for I'm not as disciplined when its alone as I am at a set time in a group. The last group I attended was before I moved in 1998-2003.....and prior to that one, in Maryland in my own home in the 70s and again in the late 80s and 90s when we moved.....So I's always been in or had my own Study Group for Cayce. I'm thrilled to find one close by because I don't drive much anymore and this one is about 17 minutes one way.
So I get there, with my husband of course driving, (he goes to the local McDonald's of course, lol - ) for the 1.5 hr. or whatever - and I find out that the lady who hosts it for the past 15 yrs who also has the group meeting in her Reeiki Massage Therapy place (a really nice office with 3 rooms) .....very nice for meditating.....has cancer and although she will be letting us use the facility in the future, she herself, will not be coming for awhile.
Others will either be vacationing in the terrible heat of the summer in Phoenix, going to cooler climes, OR in the case of one woman, going back to work after retiring and is taking a break. So from 6 of us it's now down to 3 of us in 2 weeks
......plus the ZOOM people who tune in each meeting from other States.
I've read and come to believe you are in life "where you need to be at the time you need to be there" and so I'll just accept what it is .....and do what I can with it. Perhaps the group survival until it grows again, will require my presence, I just don't know. It is what it is for now. (but I do wish the others I just met would return, they are very nice people, and I really looked forward to getting to know them)
One woman younger then I am, who will be coming back told me she did her DNA test too, but all rec'd was the names of some distant relatives and a map. Well really, that is all you get. However, when I see her this Saturday perhaps I'll tell her (after I show her what I just found out on GENI.com owned by Ancestry.com I think) .....that IF you put the time and effort (and believe me it does require TIME and EFFORT) to make up TREES (I only do the FREE trees online) on various Tree sites, they (the tree sites) will then use that DNA info from your test to add on and you'll be shocked at just how much information they glean from it....
As TIME goes by, the MORE you add to your TREE (especially on the GENI.com TREE you start (all free just ignore any of their pop ups or ads for upgrades because ALL of them will try and sell you upgrades of course) you will see as I do, you get so much information you will not be able to handle anymore coming in. The thing you have to remember, is (and a woman Astrologer - Genealogist told me this about Geni) the "more you put into your TREE" the more they find for you..........."
For example: I mentioned on this thread that she was related to "Old King Cole"
Yes, there really was such a King .....but they said she wasn't related and it wasn't until she "grew her tree" with more information she gathered from other TREES she started elsewhere, that finally, Geni. caught up with that info (they all share info apparently)......and now shows she is related....Same happened with me. (but not with King Cole, lol
Here are the Free Tree Sites I started after I took the DNA Test (actually I started a free Ancestry.com Tree a few years before I think....but never bothered with it. I always hoped somewhere, somehow, to learn about my paternal grandmother I never knew because we never knew anyone from my father's side of the family only my mother's side.
Now, all these people I've been sharing here seem to be from my father's side.
For the longest time, even AFTER the DNA test I took for $40.00 (thru Heritage.com) I think it went on Sale cheaper on Valentine's Day)
I still had what I called "a brick wall" concerning my father's father. No family was showing up on his father's side of the tree - but when it finally did (takes patience for them to add on sometimes from other relatives trees......thru DNA) .......it was a tsunami of information and people, (thats why I"d never do an upgrade!
I had no idea, my father's people also came from England, I KNEW however that Edgar Cayce's father's relatives came from England through a biography I read of him....and through a rather higher estate family many years ago. I KNEW my husband's family (from Boston) came over on the Mayflower) and from England so that was no surprise.......only an expectation there....However, I was VERY surprised to find out I had many ancestors from England (almost none from my mother's side of the family as they were all France, Belgium, Canada and thru intermarriage, Indian.
Yesterday, I found out both my husband and I are both distant ancestral cousins of Edgar Cayce (through the English side of the Family)
What is interesting to me is that the TREE is different. With him, it's through Edgar's mother Carrie (see graph names) and through my side - it's Edgar's father the Squire (as they called him)
I knew already my husband and I were "distant cousins" from all this DNA research that comes in ......and my husband had no DNA work done!
He was VERY surprised, but I wasn't once I learned I had all these English ancestors it only made sense. (also German, Irish, Scots which he does not) Probably explains why my BML is cj. the Galactic Center
(thats what I mean by trees and DNA work that is added via others) and names......so don't waste money, it's done for you~ after the initial investment of one time and a lot of trees (free trees and time)
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Ancestry.com tree
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Geni.com tree
3)
FamilySearch.org (owned by Church of Latter Day Saints) a REALLY comprehensive good site) with lots of added info.
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) Wiki-Tree (very comprehensive nice site with forums attached) takes a while to learn how to use because it's different but does have Q & A forums....not owned by the others but has a lot of info.
(Find a Grave) is also a good place to search but they often have "hints" on these sites for them too......
In the beginning of my search (for my paternal relatives), I would have 2 or 3 of these trees open at once, and as info would be added by them (after my initial adds) I would then add it onto the other trees -and they'd then grow exponentially or "catch up"
Another "Tip" about Geni.com the Astrologer - Genealogist woman (Jude Cowell) told me, is that if you look up anyone halfway famous (as I did with Edgar Cayce here) and then add Geni.com next to their name, and
at the same time have your own Geni.com account opened, it will then tell you if there is a connection, or a path (either through blood or in laws. For me there was. But again, you have to have enough people on your tree first for the thing to work properly. I checked Edgar's wife Gertrude, but there was no relationship to her for either of us.
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