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Nikki Shabbo's avatar

Thank you for this post Imelda, a subject very dear to my heart. I love your ancestral photo wall, I have made a book of ancestors, with photos, their names and dates of birth and death so my children will understand who these people are after I am no longer here. They are currently too busy bringing up their own families.

I also do an annual ceremony of saying ancestors names and also one for the “forgotten women”.

I usually do it in the autumn on the Julian calendar date for Samhain (currently 13days after our calendar), rather than have it tangled up in the Gregorian Samhain with all the extra trappings that go on there.

They are the spinster aunts and my great grandmother’s who died when their children were infants and were quickly replaced by new wives and the erased from the scene, well in my family anyway.

Both my Grandfather and Grandmother never knew the names of their birth mothers and they died not knowing but our family does now, sadly no photos though.

So please remember the forgotten women in our families - there are invariably one or two from the past who have been overlooked, they love to be remembered.

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Sue  Routner-Wardley's avatar

Much food for thought, thank you. I have a long standing interest in mediumship and have trained to be a medium. It is a very humbling experience when connection is made and helpful information can be relayed. I used to get messages from a soldier, but mediums never told me who he was. In the end, I decided to just ask him myself and immediately received an answer. The name didn't ring a bell, but when I checked he was a distant uncle. I asked my dad about him and was told that this uncle and his wife had experienced traumatic events on the earthplane. I expressed my gratitude to him for contacting me and sent him and his wife love and understanding. I feel this has calmed things down a bit.

I also received messages from my maternal grandmother who I never met when she was alive. Apparently, she wants me to meditate with her. I'm very chuffed about that. Grandma lived in the former DRG (former Eastern Germany) where any mention of mediumship would have had serious repercussions. I don't think anyone knew grandma was interested in this. Other female ancestors have shyly peeked around the veil. I'm working on the connections and speak to my late husband and parents every day.

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