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My favorite genre of drama are the Herondales

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My most recent custom project for a new customer!

The project was to find a connection between their family and that of a fiction writer who lived in the early 1900s: Clark Ashton Smith.

Smith’s mother’s maiden name was Gaylord, a prominent surname in colonial America. This customer was interested in knowing if there was any familial relation between their Gaylord family and that of Smith’s Gaylord family. After researching each Gaylord line, through generations of records such as baptisms and census records, the answer was found. Indeed there was a connection between Clark Ashton Smith and my customer, although their most recent common ancestor was born approx. 1585 in England.

Clark Ashton Smith was known as a well reviewed published poet from 1912–1925. From 1926 to 1935 he published about 100 weird fiction short stories in Weird Tales and other pulp magazines. He's best remembered for these stories today. He was a friend and correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft.

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Starting a family tree can be a tedious and daunting process, but once you get started — you’ll soon have an entire family tree! When I first started researching my own family years ago, I began with the basic steps I’ve listed out above. Asking my family for information about their ancestors and writing down every little piece of information I heard or could find out. Inputting what you have found into a family tree (by using any genealogical website or database — many allow for free tree building!), soon hints and records will become associated with your ancestor and you will be able to expand your tree! Birth, marriage, and death records are vital for sometimes listing parents names and possible ages; while census records also show names and ages, the documents can also lists address, occupations, and sometimes extended relatives!

Building the tree can uncover information you never would have known about your own family! Don’t forget to get in your orders by December 14th for Christmas and the holiday season!

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Get to know me:

My name is Brittany, I’m 24 and recently completed an MA from Newcastle University in Classics and Ancient History. My undergraduate degree was in Art History from Temple University. I’ve had a passion for history for a sling as I can remember, always scouring sources for all the information I could possibly find.

My interest in genealogy started when I was young. As a child, I discovered a family history book written in the late '90s that traced my mother's lineage back to the American Revolution. Filled with names, dates, and unknown photos — I was immediately taken by the book and that very day had begun my own ancestry adventure. Thirteen years later and the obsession has not stopped! Researching and contacting archives, churches, cemeteries, and more, to find all the information about my family that I possibly could, and there is still so much to discover!

I’ve decided to turn my passion into a business to help others discover their own lineages and family origins. If you would like to know more, you can get in touch via tumblr, Instagram, Etsy, email, or Facebook! Or check out my Etsy link in the bio.

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Toi Derricotte, “November”

[text id: oh soul, / i feel cold and unused to/  such space as breath and eternity / around me. /  so much room in silence]

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“Do you fall in love often?'

Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.”

Jeanette Winterson

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Albert Camus

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I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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i hate it when it feels like a character has been designed specifically for me to like them . because then i do like them and it feels like i walked straight into their trap

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Magnus: Recent studies have shown that you are the most gorgeous, fabulous, fantastic, special, stunning, talented, beautiful, kind, considerate, selfless being to ever exist. 

Alec, blushing: From what sources, exactly?

Magnus: Me. 

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dru being the plus size goth rep hero we need in twp

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Marian Seldes, referring to Anne Sexton featured in “Anne Sexton: A Biography,”

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herondaisy + eugenia you're literally on my brother's lap lightwood <3

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Nesta and Cassian - A Court of Thorns and Roses

Artist: @amaya_bookart

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Hunt and Bryce - Crescent City

Artist: @juls.artlove

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Bryce Quinlan - Crescent City

Artist: @tangerine.eileen