{"id":902,"date":"2022-11-19T14:40:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/?p=902"},"modified":"2022-11-19T14:42:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T14:42:50","slug":"ancestral-safari-the-monarch-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Safari &#8211; the Monarch Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so the safari home continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since last week, I continued my desk research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I drew on information shared with me by my mother and grand uncles, now deceased, and my siblings and cousins.  In addition, I found a few gems through targeted internet searches &#8211; yes the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My initial research has lead me to the following conclusions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>my maternal great great grand mother&#8217;s name was Dianna; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>my safari will take me through Crooked Island, The Bahamas and Liverpool, England. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I located a story that involved Crooked Island, the then Governor of The Bahama Islands and 10 Downing Street, London.  Fascinating right?  It appears that the story in question took place when Dianna&#8217;s daughter was alive.  While this may not be connected with Dianna, I am relying on my instincts which are &#8220;telling me&#8221; to research the Governor\/10 Downing Street path.  As far as instincts go, I am inspired by the Monarch Butterfly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.smithkas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Monarch-Butterfly-unsplash.jpeg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-904\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>The Monarch Butterfly<\/strong><br>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@kathysg?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Kathy Servian<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/monarch-butterfly?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These butterflies 4,000+ miles migration span three countries (Mexico, The United States and Canada) and unfolds as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the spring, monarchs fly north from Mexico, and breed in the southern United States;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the next generation flies father north up through southern Canada and breeds again; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then in the fall the next generation flies all the way back to Mexico for the winter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I will follow my instincts.  I intend to conduct additional desk research at the National Archives at Kew, Richmond, England.  I am very hopeful that this will take me closer to my maternal home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As always, I will keep you posted about my journey.  If you have done this already then please feel free to share your story or any recommendations in the comment space below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so the safari home continues. Since last week, I continued my desk research. I drew on information shared with me by my mother and grand uncles, now deceased, and my siblings and cousins. In addition, I found a few gems through targeted internet searches &#8211; yes the internet. My initial research has lead me &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/?p=902\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ancestral Safari &#8211; the Monarch Butterfly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smithkas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}