You have the power to heal through storytelling and internalize your ancestral wisdom.
How will you choose to embody your family’s identity with your time here on Earth?
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Through deep understanding and the courageous act of sharing our ancestral stories, we liberate ourselves from the confines of our undiscovered selves, paving the way for a transformative new narrative that embraces the richness of our personal and collective histories.
As a united community, we place paramount importance on dismantling the restrictive systems that bind us, forging our unique paths towards authentic and lasting change. Within this free guide, we wholeheartedly embrace the beauty of our differences and introduce alternative tools for profound excavation and exploration.
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Hanoi, Vietnam
With vague descriptions left by her grandmother, the client could only piece together faint traces of her history: a Chinese family who left for Vietnam; her great-grandfather was a wealthy man, possibly a doctor; they were revolutionaries.
Leveraging modern technological tools, our team was able to identify records that placed her family in Hanoi and even deeper as coming from China. Understanding the impact of colonization in Vietnam by the French gave incredible context to finding further records that were meticulously kept by French officials. A permit for a radio in 1937 as well as records of doctoral services corroborated the clues left by the familial matriarch.
“i pluck at random roots of a family tree to relieve the pitied fate of having strayed, taking a pair of serving chopsticks that the Grampa here displays on his flax blanket, stroking them, my body abruptly aches, for the serving sticks that were grandma, mom,”
Berlin, Germany
How did a Jewish girl born in the middle of Berlin survive in 1938 when 80% of the city center was destroyed in WWII?
Finding that answer wasn’t easy as not many records remain. Through detailed research the client was finally able to hold her mother’s birth certificate in her hands, tracing her ancestry to an address that still stands today. This document revived a dialogue with history that is relevant and urgent today. Can I go home?
Under an ordinance of German law, a pathway to dual citizenship is now possible for those Jewish families displaced from the war.
“Only the night listens. I love you, I love you, my people,
And want to hold you warm and close in my arms”
San Luis Potosí, Mexico
The family story seems unbelievable at first: My grandfather rode the top of a train as a seven year old boy fleeing Mexico after both of his parents died and ended up in Texas. Is that even possible?
The client and his wife wanted to find an artifact that would anchor them to the soil they were traveling to. It was important for them to be grounded in place as they received their first baby together. Through a stroke of magic, we unearthed a photograph of the train station in Cerritos, San Luis Potosí, Mexico the very same year that little boy would have taken the ride. Discoveries revealed that war and disease were ravaging his home village proving that stories of immigration have a trail and a truth.
“Y nuestra juventud, llorando, oculta
dentro de ti el cadáver hecho poma
de aves que hablan nuestro mismo idioma.”
