101 Years after a double tragedy, closure 3 August 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Genealogy , Generational trauma , No Comments Image: Michael H Hallett In an excellent Substack article titled Why You Should Really Kill Off Your Ancestors, Paul Chiddicks writes: “For those of us who like our family trees to be […]
Your family history is the map of where you lost yourself 21 July 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Genealogy , No Comments Photo by Beate Vogl on Pexels Who am I? The question echoes across social media platforms in various forms with ever-growing frequency. I thought I knew who I was. I’m no […]
How to rebuild the emotional nucleus of a family 29 June 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Genealogy , Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments Photo by Simon Hurry on Unsplash Some years ago, in a blog called How to reintegrate disconnected ancestors into your family, I described a process for energetically reintegrating ancestors […]
The day my mother’s family died 28 June 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Genealogy , Generational trauma , No Comments Image: Wandsworth Cemetery (Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 2.0) I know it now. My mother’s family died on 13 April 1925. That was the day my great-uncle Eric Alfred Gordon Lister died, aged 26. […]
Awkward genealogy conversations: the 5 levels of pushback 12 June 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Genealogy , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments Photo by Jonny Caspari on Unsplash When we enter the world of trauma-informed genealogy, we enter a space where we will likely discover information that’s difficult for ourselves and others. Our families’ secrets […]
Trauma-Informed Genealogy: where history and healing meet 29 April 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments There is a quiet convergence happening that is, as yet, largely unrecognised. On one side are therapists, working with the symptoms of trauma as they appear in the present: anxiety, depression, addiction; stumped by […]
Untold family stories: deliberate silence or dissociation? 28 April 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments There is a strange silence that runs through many family histories. It appears, at first glance, deliberate: names omitted, events blurred, whole chapters missing. We tend to assume that someone, somewhere, chose not to […]
The importance of context in genealogy research 24 April 2026 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Context, context, context. When researching our family’s genealogy, we encounter events that are familiar to us today—like births, marriages, and deaths—and other events that are different from the past yet whose context we understand. […]
Unanswered genealogy questions – the secret garden in Italy 13 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments If you could go back in time and meet any of your ancestors, what are the unanswered questions you’d want to know more about? Unanswered questions I have several burning questions for […]
The Beaufighter – assembling genealogy clues 12 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments Genealogy is a jigsaw puzzle. Whether we’re just searching for facts or trying to recover our family’s emotional narrative, we seek out puzzle pieces to help us build up the picture. Very often, these pieces […]