I could use ancestry, but I don't know my family last name, what my name was, just that I was a kid right out of highschool, from Georgia, born in the late 40s and a a very rough idea of what I looked like. And, tbh, I don't know if it would help or hurt me to know. It'd be cool to know who exactly I was and whatever happened to my dad, but if I had an even stronger connection to my past life I fear that I may focus too heavily on what was than what is to be for me in my current life. I already feel like I've never belonged to my current generation and I don't want to lean even farther on nostalgia than I already am, given that my last life was more exciting and I was happier then than I am now. I hope my rambling made sense
Hi A. Anderson, I am sorry I must have missed that you wrote back. Saw it now when I read Landsend's reply to you. I only had a name that sounded like sandy or saidie or something like that + knowing I had drown when I did my own research, I use before using ancestry this site, it is always free,
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
It took me long time of searching before finding someone to fit into the picture. From there on I went to ancestry and found out more detailed information that could help me further on my search. If you know the area Georgia one can search newspapers from this town, area, state. If you know any more detailed information about you, your family that could ended up in newspaper you can use this and find out. Names and other detailed information seem to be the hardest for the soul (at least me) to remember as I think this type of information is collected in the left side of the brain. I only got hold of her name sounding like that because her dad was shouting out this in a scene that held much emotion to it.
Just to tell a funny story (well, I at least think it is funny now, but back then I didn't), I remember a past life where my boyfriend called me (what sounded to me like mjaa, like a kitty sound, or maw). I had no idea how to spell that, and I was like "What is wrong with this guy, why does he call her ma´,?" It wasn't Ma'm. Then I heard her mother call her something entirely different, and it went by so quickly, I did not stand a chance to find out that name. Then , third , she was married for a while to someone who called her a completely different name than those 2. And I thought this is just nuts. This gotta be fake. She can't have 3 different names. Then finally I got the explanation for this from different sources. One was from my friend in this life who was also a friend in my past life. She said, as if it was nothing, when remembering what my past life husband called me. I was like "What? What did you just say?". And she said it again. So many years later I got hold of material that he had spoken of her many years after her death, and voila -- he insisted to call her by this name. This was not her "official" name, no one basically called her that than him.
The Ma thing was actually Maw (short nickname for mother. This came as a fun joke between us, the other boyfriend, when dating because I would tell him, like a mother, where's your jacket? When did you eat the last time ? Oh, be careful, eh ? Instead of being irritated at me, like he would be I would imagine if someone else said this to him, he would say "Will do, Maw" or just smile at me and go "Maw..." and do his special charming smile. I only found out this was true when reading in a book about him that one of his friends said he use to call her that ( he worked in show biz ).
The name the mother was calling me by was the family's nickname for her, started out when she was young, and it wasn't her real name either. a family member let me know this. With this said I hope you don't get to have my difficulties when finding out the real name
/Jaimie
