Why the Effort
With all the entertainment available, why would you want to spend your time writing letters, talking to relatives, and visiting libraries and cemeteries A definitive answer defies all who attempt to explain. A sense of identity is foremost for many. Those who believe their family was too ordinary or too poor to be interesting are amazed to realize the sense of value they place on their family and heritage after delving into the family background. The tales of hardship, of endurance, will...
The Pure Willless Subject
In section 12 of the Third Treatise, Schopenhauer re-emerges through the unacknowledged quotation of his phrase 'pure, will-less, painless, timeless subject of knowledge'. For Schopenhauer this 'pure, will-less subject' is the subject of aesthetic experience, a state of consciousness in which all our desires, interests, and feelings are suspended, and we exist merely as a subject of knowledge that mirrors the world without imposing subjective forms upon it. In particular, space, time, and...
Nietzsches Choice of Style
There are passages in Nietzsche's mature works that are sometimes decried more often ignored as unnecessary rhetorical excesses. A prominent instance is this from the Genealogy's First Treatise the noble, the powerful are not much better than uncaged beasts of prey toward the outside world There they enjoy freedom from all social constraint they step back into the innocence of the beast-of-prey conscience, as jubilant monsters, who perhaps walk away from a hideous succession of murder, arson,...
NGSQ System
The NGSQ System is based on the Register system, but assigns an Arabic numeral to each child. A mark in front of the Arabic numeral designates whether the child is carried forward. As seen in the figure below, the readily identifies the sections that hold further details. Those sections are preceded by the Arabic numeral assigned to that individual, in larger bold typeface if using a computer . The modified Register System, known as NGSQ System. 1. John1 Smith was born 3 April 1788, etc. Known...
Ockham
Ockham comes to the question determined to remove even esse objectivum from these possible creatures.118 Ockham criticised the traditional identification of the ideas with the divine essence. This criticism was fuelled by his overall concern to eradicate all metaphysical community and so enforce his ontology of indistinction, with its impervious singularity. It was this move that facilitated Ockham's particular conception of omnipotence, but it can be correctly expressed in the reverse it was...
Selflessness The Struggle with Schopenhauer
The issue for me was the value ofmorality and over this I had to struggle almost solely with my great teacher Schopenhauer In particular the issue was the value of the unegoistic, of the instincts of compassion, self-denial, self-sacrifice, precisely the instincts that Schopenhauer had gilded, deified, and made otherworldly until finally they alone were left for him as the 'values in themselves', on the basis of which he said 'no' to life, also to himself. Nietzsche here writes in the past...
Cruelty that Turns Back
The Second Treatise of the Genealogy, entitled ' ''Guilt'', ''Bad Conscience'', and Related Matters', has been comparatively poorly served by extended commentary.1 The treatise admittedly follows a winding path even by Nietzsche's standards, but I hope to reveal a central train of thought from which its many byways branch off. The central train of thought is that having a bad conscience or feeling guilty is a way in which we satisfy a fundamental need to inflict cruelty. This is achieved by...
The Scottish Genealogy Society
The Seeking pages in Your Family Tree are a place where you can turn when you've hit the proverbial brickwall when researching your ancestors. Write in and see if fellow readers can help you track down more information about that illusive great-greatgrandfather's brother. The subject of your enquiry doesn't have to be a person, though. You can request information about a building, business or barge anything that you're having trouble with in your research. If you have a photograph and you want...
Bancroft
Bangcroft Bancraft Bancrofte Bencroft Bankroft Bankcroft This is a locative surname, indicating someone who lived in or came from Bancroft in Ardeley, Hertfordshire, or Bancroft Field in Soham, Cambridgeshire. These place names come from two Old English words, bean and croft, meaning 'bean' and 'small enclosed field' - probably a field in which beans were grown. Early references to the surname include Stephen de Bancroft, who is listed in 1222 in the records of St Paul's Cathedral. His surname...
Easy Mosaic 506 Home
Last issue, we gave you the chance to p make morphing movies using photos of your ancestors. This month, we'll try something equally interesting. Easy Mosaic 5.06 Home is a full program worth 29.95. It enables you to create an image that is made up of hundreds or thousands of smaller images in mosaic fashion. So just imagine this. You've been collecting and scanning in old photographs of the people in your family tree. A child or grandchild is born. Wouldn't it be an interesting project to...
i Section i
The Preface to On the Genealogy of Morality opens with a beautiful and evocative piece of writing that may be read as a self-contained 'prose-poem', for want of a better word. Most immediately striking in this first section is the image of the bleary-eyed daydreamer whose whole life was a chiming of bells heard too dimly and too late to be counted correctly. Self-knowledge, we read, is something 'we knowers' never attain, and necessarily so 'we remain of necessity strangers to ourselves, we do...
Lassitude
Lassitude appears as such a state when reflected upon by ontic psychology. What Levinas calls 'phenomenological excavation', phenomenological fouille, uncovers below weariness with regard to particular things or events in the world, below even world-weariness, that is to say, below weariness of the world as a whole, weariness of being as such and of the existent subject's own existence. This lassitude prior to letting-be Seinlassen is internal to and constitutive of the subject's self-position....
Finding Famous Faces
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Riddiford Family History
The Clergy List 1897 by Kelly amp Co, supplied by Archive CD Books. An awesome listing covering some 700 pages On sale from Wednesday 6 July at only 4.99 Subscribe and get a free dictionary - page 4 At the Summer Assizes of 1816, 69-year-old Dinah Riddiford was sentenced to hang. What he nous crime had she committed Every family has its embarrassing stories. They might be about embezzlement and theft, dark and dastardly deeds, or sexual impropriety on the side. When I discovered the story of my...
There is nothing inside the text6
Violently inscribing within the text that which attempted to Here we return to the non-being of Plotinus, which may be the nothing of nihilism. This nothing can be compared to the nothing outside the Derridian text. It is Derrida's hope that 'diff rance produces what it forbids, makes possible the very thing that it makes impossible'.8 We could not wish for a more 'modern' statement which encapsulates the dissolution of the something making the nothing generate as something. There are at least...
Get Organized
The better organized you are, the more success you're likely to have with your research efforts. If you know ahead of time where you stand in researching your family lines, you can identify rather quickly which records or other materials you need to find about a particular surname, location, or time frame. Knowing your gaps in information enables you to get right down to the nitty-gritty of researching instead of spending the first hour or two of your research rehashing where you left off last...
Some Questions of Interpretation
The Second Treatise raises numerous large-scale issues of interpretation which make it difficult to go into detail beyond the level of the 'missionstatement'. Such issues should not be multiplied beyond necessity, so I shall mention just the following 1 Is 'bad conscience' a form of the 'conscience' that Nietzsche attributes to the 'sovereign individual' in the essay's opening sections 2 Are 'consciousness of guilt' and 'bad conscience' two separate phenomena, or one and the same 3 Is the...
Marriag Records
CERTIFICATES CHURCH REGISTERS LOCAL REPORTS MORE How to trace the bride, groom and the happy event - all you need to know I stood there in the pub, on the spot where my great-greatgrandfather was gunned down Murder, poetry and an offensive dung heap, in our Case Studies starting page 40 Records of failed marriages can also Trace your family tree using our birth, marriage and death indexes for England and Wales from 1837 to 2002 British nationals overseas from 1761 to 1994 including WW1, WW2 and...
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It's thought he was a harbour master in Hong Kong Could anyone identify this uniform, please I think it might be a 19th century naval uniform, and if confirmed, the picture is probably of Alfred Edward Burnie who was a marine surveyor and was at one time the Harbour Master of Hong Kong. My information suggests this could have been in the mid to late 1800s. Alfred Edward was married but I have no information about his wife. He had five children Alice Edward Alfred Constance Caroline and Arthur....
Language to say nothing
For Heidegger, Dasein is the 'space' within which Being becomes unconcealed truth, as aletheia 'the unconcealedness of what is present, its Being revealed, its showing itself'.67 The showing of what is present takes place in or as language. Heidegger does not, in a sense, think that something other than the showing is shown, because showing is but a saying, viz., the activity of language 'Dasein is essentially determined by the potentiality for discourse.'68 Indeed, the 'asking' of the...
Christian Bad Conscience
By the time Nietzsche reaches the end of his narrative and his true analysandum the moralized Christian form of bad conscience which is a pervasive guilt-consciousness it is clear that the subject of this state is indeed a self-punisher. The Christian has a concept of God as judge and executioner, which fulfils 'the will of man to find himself guilty and reprehensible to the point that it cannot be atoned for his will to imagine himself punished without the possibility of the punishment ever...
Genealogy and the Value of Moral Values
Nietzsche introduces the task of genealogy by saying that 'we need a knowledge of the conditions and circumstances out of which moral 5 For Nietzsche, Ree falls into the category of those albeit unsuccessful 'English psychologists whom we have to thank for the only attempts so far to produce a history of the genesis of morality' GM I. 1 , while Schopenhauer's total lack of a historical sense is 'un-German to the point of genius' BGE 204 . One fails in the attempt at history the other fails even...
The Free Will of the Sovereign Individual
Sections 2 3 of the Second Treatise introduce the 'sovereign individual', but the text leaves us uncertain about who this individual is, was, or might be. He or she is described as an end-product of the conformist 'morality of custom', a mode of evaluation prior to the Christian morality Nietzsche is out to re-evaluate in the Genealogy.20 But are 'sovereign individuals' supposed to have existed after the age of the morality of custom was over or during its later stages And are they supposed to...
Derridas Spinozistic Plotinianism
Derrida's position illuminates Spinoza's position.14 It is possible to argue that Derrida is a Plotinian disciple of Spinoza a discipleship which is here referred to as meontotheology . We can begin to see this Plotinian Spinozism when we read Derrida insisting that 'in order to exceed metaphysics it is necessary that a trace be inscribed within the text of metaphysics, a trace that continues to signal . . . in the direction of an entirely other text'.15 It is this inscription that may allow...
By Doreen Hopwood
Most people only have one surname, but each of us has two parents. Most were married. Fortunately for family historians, records of marriages have been kept in Britain for centuries. They are therefore one of the key building blocks of family trees. Anthony Adolph looks at these wonderful records in detail, and explores how best to find and use them In most cases, marriage records will open up a new line for research. Besides tracing back the groom's surname line, you will also have a new...
Nothing is outside the text
For both Plotinus and Heidegger, the Nothing is the impetus of our approach to what is most real in the world, although beyond essence and existence the One, or Being. This is also an important point in Derrida's analysis.1 In a certain way thought means nothing.2 Jacques Derrida This chapter does not offer a reading of any particular text of Derrida's. Instead it analyses the implications that can be discerned from what is deemed to be a central claim of Derrida's philosophy, namely that there...
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SelfAffirmation The Demons Test
The classic text for Nietzsche's conception of self-affirmation is this section from The Gay Science The heaviest weight. What if some day or night a demon were to steal into your loneliest loneliness and say to you 'This life as you now live it and have lived it you will have to live once again and innumerable times again and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unspeakably small or great in your life must return to you, all in...
How Ree Goes Wrong Right at the Beginning
One can immediately see why Nietzsche says of Ree that 'in his hypothesizing we have the Darwinian beast politely joining hands with the most modern, unassuming moral milquetoast who ''no longer bites'' ' GM, Preface, 7 , and that he 'sees the altruistic manner of valuation as the moral manner of valuation in itself' GM, Preface, 4 . However, something else deserves comment. In Ree's title for chapter 1 the topic is the concepts good and evil bose . But throughout the chapter, and indeed right...
Wisdom as Woman Free Associations
So what becomes of the Zarathustra extract at the head of the treatise's opening page 24 I suggest that its lot is improved by my hypothesis. Liberated from the absurdly overtaxing double role of having some seventy pages of deliberation on a topic it does not even mention spun out of its meagre frame and thereby providing the hint from which a conception of textual Auslegung is to be learned, it can revert to its more plausible function as a pure epigraph or motto, of the kind sometimes used...
Section 2
Section 2 of the Preface springs the first-person singular upon us with 'My thoughts on the origins of our moral prejudices '. It is now no longer a case of 'we', but of 'I' and 'you' in confrontation a most explicit example of what Nehamas has called Nietzsche's 'effort always to insinuate himself between his readers and the world'.8 Nietzsche sustains this mode every other section of the Preface uses the first-person singular in its opening sentence. Nietzsche tells us that his polemical book...
The Goodness of Guilt
What then of 'moralization' A simple but unremarked characteristic of 'moralizing' a concept is making it fit to take its place in an overall conception of the morally good. This suggests that in the final step of Nietzsche's narrative 'feeling guilty' and 'having a bad conscience' become part of what the morally good person does or is. Earlier in the narrative human beings cannot be said to have regarded the self-cruelty and self-punishment into which they fell as anything particularly good...
Maudemarie Clark
Although Nietzsche quite explicitly claims to be an immoralist for example, EH IV 2-4 BT P 5 , 1 many serious and sympathetic interpreters have denied that he is. This is understandable because immoralism is a difficult position to take seriously. An immoralist does not simply ignore morality, or deny its fight to our compliance, but claims that morality is a bad thing that should be rejected. Immoralism therefore seems to be defensible only from the viewpoint of a morality, which makes it...
The Ascetic Priest
The clearest single statement of the significance of the ascetic priest in the Third Treatise is probably the following The idea we are fighting about here is the valuation of our life on the part of the ascetic priest he relates our life together with that to which it belongs 'nature', 'world', the entire sphere ofbecoming and of transitoriness to an entirely different kind of existence which it opposes and excludes, unless, perhaps, it were to turn against itself, to negate itself in this...
Fatigue
Like essential dilatoriness and lassitude, essential fatigue is the self s resistance to existence, a refusal that as such presupposes existence. So the moment of polemic between the existant and its existence can be at most only almost contradictory. It can be only that also because in this very same momentary Augenblick see the first section of chapter 5 below there is, although not a lapse into two moments of time by which contradiction might be forestalled, a certain lateness that Levinas...
Helping Others Is Its Own Reward
Don't go overboard patting your own back you know, promoting your home page or blog for the sake of receiving awards from other sites, magazines, societies, or other sources. Post your genealogical site or blog with the intent of helping other genealogists and encouraging a sharing genealogical community. If you use the majority of your page to advertise your awards and beg people to vote for your site in popularity contests, you lose a lot of valuable space where you can post information...
Dilatoriness
So when Levinas speaks of the accomplishment of the beginning it is to the beginning as itself accomplishment that he refers, not to something that succeeds the beginning, of which the beginning falls short. In his phrase 'the accomplishment of the beginning' the genitive is subjective. The words denote beginning as accomplishment, and accomplishment as at once realization and revelation. The ambiguity that the preface to Totality and Infinity will discern in production is discerned in...
i Will to Power as Psychological Explanation of Moral Phenomena
In Nietzsche's writings, and even more in other people's interpretations of them, the will to power presents itself in various guises it appears sometimes to offer a global metaphysics, sometimes to be an explanatory term specific to Nietzsche's psychology of drives, and at other times to give a criterion for his own evaluations the latter most blatantly in the late passage 'What is good All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man' A 2 . I want to start by...
Creating a biographical brag book
You already know more about yourself than anyone else knows about you. Regardless of what your spouse thinks he knows, we are convinced that you're really the expert on you. You probably know your birth date, place of birth, parents' names, and where you've lived. We recognize that not everyone knows all this information adoptions or other extenuating circumstances may require you to do the best you can with what you know until you can discover additional information about yourself. So, sit...
Genealogy file formats
We explain the file types you're most likely to come across while researching ANC AHN Native formats of Our Family Tree. You can convert them into GEDCOM files, too. BAK A native format of Personal Ancestral File. You can also convert these into GEDCOM files. DAT Another native format of Personal Ancestral File. Again, convertible to GEDCOM. DjVu Pronounced d j vu, this is a compressed graphics format commonly used to display scanned pages on the web. The pages appear in much the same way that...
Descendant Charts
Other charts are useful for genealogy research. You will more often use descendant charts later in your research. These charts start with an individual and list that person's descendants. Because descendant charts begin with a progenitor, you must do some research to find the progenitors in your lines. Descendant charts include all the descendants of the progenitor, or as many as can be identified. A progenitor is an ancestor in a direct line. When genealogists refer to a progenitor, they...
The Virtual Keyboard
Family Tree Builder provides a Virtual Keyboard that lets you enter data in any of the 12 supported languages in case you don't have letters for that language on your computer's keyboard. Launch the virtual keyboard by clicking the keyboard-like graphic at the top of every page in Family Tree Builder, which looks like this Figure 1 Russian Virtual Keyboard for entering Russian data Figure 1 Russian Virtual Keyboard for entering Russian data The virtual keyboard will open up as a floating,...
A Shorthand Report
I have recently received the coroner's report for my ancestor, Thomas Suffolk, who died suddenly in 1883 at his home in Birmingham. The two witnesses were his wife and half-brother who married a year later, so could there have been foul play I am very interested in the statements they made to the coroner, but they are still in the original Pitman Shorthand form. The Coroner's Office and Reference Library do not do transcriptions, and I have contacted the Brasshouse Language Centre, but have...
American Indian Resources
Tracing your American Indian heritage can be challenging. Your ancestor may have moved frequently and, most likely, few written records were kept. However, your task isn't impossible. With a good research strategy, you may be able to narrow down your search area and find primary resources to unlock some of the mysteries of your ancestors. One key to your research is old family stories that have been passed down from generation to generation. Interviewing your family members is a good way to...
Consolidating information in a database
After you get rolling on your research, you often find so much information that it feels like you don't have enough time to put it all into your computer-based genealogical database. A genealogical database is a software program that allows you to enter, organize, store, and use all sorts of genealogical information on your computer. When possible, try to set aside some time to update your database with information you recently gathered. This process of putting your information together in one...
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PUBLISHER Archive CD Books w www.archivecdbooks.org t 01594 829 870 This is billed as a full set of census images taken in 1861 for the county of Essex - but before you dive in, and not just with this offering, it's worth noting that census records are organised by Registration Districts which don't necessarily correspond exactly with county boundaries. A set of census records ostensibly for a given county may therefore omit some places within the county yet include others from outside the...
Further Reading The Chorley Pals
J Garwood, Neil Richardson, 1989, ISBN 1852160373 THE ACCRINGTON PALS W Turner, Pen amp Sword Books, 1997, ISBN 0850523605 ACCRINGTON PALS TRAIL W Turner, Pen amp Sword Books, 1998, ISBN 0850526361 East London oral history project aims to document the stories of a bygone era five-year oral history project has been announced in Bexley, east London. The Lost Industries of the Thames Gateway project has been launched by Eastside Community Heritage in partnership with the University of London. The...
Perils of Present Concepts Causa Fiendi and False Unity
Further contrasts between Nietzsche's genealogical method and Ree's emerge from the methodological remarks in GM II, sections 12 and 13, surrounding the history of punishment. Nietzsche includes in the scope of his criticism here 'previous genealogists of morality' who 'discover some ''purpose'' or other in punishment, for example revenge or deterrence, then innocently place this purpose at the beginning as causa fiendi of punishment'.26 The genealogist who makes deterrence the cause of...
Work Backwards
Whatever you do in your research, start with yourself and work backwards generation by generation. This will ensure that you have verified your sources at each stage. You must be systematic and organised, as you'll inevitably collect a lot of information. Start with a simple filing system using A4 binders with loose-leaf pages and subject dividers, and an index card file for each of the family names members and events. Have somewhere to keep certificates and other documents. While your record...
Genealogy Of The Crane Family
w 'General Josiah Crane was in the service of King James I, of England, was related to William Crane, who married Margaret, the daughter of and co-kin of Sir Andrew Butler'. Joshua's son, Jasper, settled in Massachusetts in 1639. Continues the story of Jasper Crane. CRANE FAMILY w www.su rna meg u ide .co m fu lie r crane_fa m i ly. h t m William Crane and Abigail Puffer of Dorchester, England, had a son, Henry Crane 1719-1804 , father of Major Peter Crane 1752-1821 , gunsmith, of...