• Guided meditation
  • When did your life begin?
  • Regress to your mother's egg divided to determine which gene to pass on to you.
    • this, while inside her mother's womb
  • Regress 40 generations for 1000 years (average lifespan was 25 years!)
  • Regress a billion years, then 4 billion
  • With each regression stage, your ancestors were other species and ultimately, nonbiotic life as well.
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  • this has limitations as well, as it is bu ilt on scientific narratives subject to change.

• Guided meditation
  • What was your original face before you were born?
  • A Zen koan sometimes used to guide contemplation of one's ancestry

Genealogy Garage: Researching at the Huntington Library

• Julie Huffman jhuffman@lapl.org (host)
• Stephanie Arias
• Anne Blecksmith
• Li Wei Yang
• Clay Stalls cstalls@huntington.org

ECPP

• Early California Population Project: Database of Baptism, Marriage, and Burial Records from California Missions
  • https://huntington.org/early-california-population-project
  • Tips https://researchguides.huntington.org/ecpp/tips
• Family Histories: A guide to resources for family history research at The Huntington Library
  • https://researchguides.huntington.org/familyhistories

Huntington Library

Visit checklist

• Create a library account via Aeon: https://aeon.huntington.org
• Request rare materials via Aeon: https://researchguides.huntington.org/aeon
• Review Reading Room policies and Conditions of Use: https://researchguides.huntington.org/usingthelibrary/usingthelibrary
• Schedule an appointment: https://huntingtonlibrary.libcal.com

Shelton, J. F., Shastri, A. J., Fletez-Brant, K., Stella Aslibekyan, & Auton, A. (2022). The UGT2A1/UGT2A2 locus is associated with COVID-19-related loss of smell or taste. Nature Genetics, 54(2), 121–124. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00986-w

Like for most of the major characters we see in Herodotus, he gives us a very thorough history of a character's ancestry. Nevertheless there are times where he gives a state's history instead. Here we see Herodotus begin the story of the Lydians.