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Who shall stop a swan in its flight; or life in its flow? – Zen proverb

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John Adams

Not One Drop of Blood But What Is American

October 13, 2016by Justin Swanström Leave a comment

John Adams (1735-1826), President and Patriot, gave the following account of his ancestry: “One of the foreign Ambassadors said to me, You have been often in England. — Never but […]

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History, Quotes
American Heraldry Society

American Heraldry Society

October 12, 2016by Justin Swanström

Back in 2003 I was one of three founding members of the American Heraldry Society, with David Boven and Cory McHenry. Those were the days. As I recall, the Society […]

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Heraldry

Interview with Grandma Hazel

October 11, 2016by Justin Swanström Leave a comment

The other day on Geni.com someone contacted me about a cassette they found in an old camcorder at a garage sale in Laramie. The tape turned out to be an […]

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Genealogy
George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence

Rightful king of England

July 11, 2012by Justin Swanström Leave a comment

“Rightful king of England dies”, The Mirror, July 5, 2012. On a slow news day the papers love these little stories. Even when it’s not a slow news day, everyone […]

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Royalty
Last Pagans of Rome

Last Pagans

July 5, 2012by Justin Swanström Leave a comment

Interesting new book: The Last Pagans of Rome by Alan Cameron This online reviews says, “Cameron’s mission here is to topple once and for all the “myth” of a concerted resistance movement […]

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Classicism, Religion
Anna Quarmby

Gathering the Tribes: Mormons from England

June 27, 2012by Justin Swanström Leave a comment

This little BBC piece about Mitt Romney’s Mormon ancestors captures some of the zeitgeist of the lives of many Mormon immigrants from England. Mitt Romney’s English Mormon Roots The Mormons […]

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Genealogy, History
Ghost Genes

The New Science of Epigenetics

June 17, 2012by Justin Swanström Leave a comment

“At the heart of this new field is a simple but contentious idea – that genes have a ‘memory’. That the lives of your grandparents – the air they breathed, […]

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Genetics

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Justin Swanström

Justin Swanström

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