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This book is about the influence of coincidence and serendipity on genealogical research, the chance combination of events over which the researcher has no control but which nevertheless guides him to a fortuitous discovery.
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squireathough he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, "Tom Jones" is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.
Psychic Roots is all about the influence of coincidence and serendipity on genealogical research, the chance combination of events over which the researcher has no control but which nevertheless guides him to a fortuitous discovery. Over a hundred respected ancestor hunters discuss their experiences in light of synchronicity, intuition, genetic memory, and serendipity.
Anecdotes involving the paranormal and supernatural in genealogical research.
This book is the result of the author's sixty years of researching those Germans who were settled in Ireland in 1709 by the British government. Via the author's village-to-village investigations in Germany, the ancestral homes of many of the settlers were documented there, forming the cornerstone of this volume.