Category: Personal History
Real Estate Agent? We can help!
One of the services that The Historium offers is to Real Estate Agents and Buyers. If you are looking for a historic house, you aren’t just looking for a house. You are looking for a deeper connection to the people that lived there before you. There is a lot you can pick up just from visiting a house, the fixtures and updates, the lot size and shape, all of this information can help you learn more about the people who built their lives in the home. But there is a lot more to be learned about these houses than meets… more
Your Own Personal History Part II
My apologies, dear readers, for my unexpected absence. My husband and I have been spending our free time beginning our search for a house of our own, and during all of this, I’m afraid my little blog here was horribly neglected. Now on to the good stuff! So, in our previous post we talked about the personal history aspect of what The Historium can do for you, now lets talk about what it can do for you from a research perspective. Our research capabilities are really what make us stand out, it has been said we have an incredible knack… more
Your Own Personal History
“What kind of History do I have? There isn’t anything interesting about me, or my heritage…” These are surprisingly common sentiments. The great thing is, it isn’t true! If you are living and breathing, you have an important valuable contribution to make to the preservation of history. It is commonly said that history is written by the winners; when we read history books, they are accounts by the successful, rich, prolific people of the era. We live in a day and age when that is finally changing– as it should. You no longer have to be from a certain lineage… more
The House That Built Me
The House That Built Me Miranda Lambert Tom Douglas / Allen Shamblin I know they say you can’t go home again I just had to come back one last time Ma’am I know you don’t know me from Adam But these handprints on the front steps are mine Up those stairs in that little back bedroom Is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar I bet you didn’t know under that live oak My favorite dog is buried in the yard more
Personal History
One of the most fascinating things about history is that you have one. From the day you are born you are acquiring a history. Freud believed that the psyche was comprised of three separate parts: Id, Ego, and Super-Ego. The day we are born we are Id-based creatures. Everything we do is an action derived from the Id. They are survival instincts: eating, crying, sleeping. As a child you may have been afraid of the dark, of spiders, or snakes. Theoretically, the reason that these fears seem, in a sense cliché, and the reason we discover them from such an early age could be… more
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