I was adopted. My true self-identity was an unsolvable mystery—a puzzle and a conundrum. Knowing my birth parents had abandoned me, without a roadmap or an astrolabe to guide me, stimulated a gloomy sense of deprivation based on hurtful feelings of desertion. My heart was hollow. I was hopelessly lost in the wilderness, a curious victim of genealogical bewilderment. I was immobilized by fear and anxieties, and frustrated by a melancholic sickness, knowing that for some unknown reason I had been purposefully jettisoned into space somewhere along life’s trajectory by my birth parents.
The skills I used to survive after becoming lost in the Swiss Alps and Rocky Mountains in snowstorms on two separate occasions were the same mental techniques I used to complete my adoption search. Don’t panic, act impulsively, or let fear drive your decisions. Sadness and anxiety will lead to inaction and sap your energy. Frustration arises when a person is continually thwarted in their attempts to accomplish a dream. Stay positive—tap into the reservoir of inner strength and fortitude you never knew you had. Stay alert and never abandon the chance or the will to accomplish your goal.
Throughout the lengthy process of discovery I imagined myself as both a master detective gradually acquiring the skills needed to master the elegant art of detection and a wilderness survival expert with an insatiable will to succeed. Finding my roots was a difficult process that stimulated me to investigate every clue available using both intuitive and deductive reasoning. There were many obstacles to overcome, but I never gave up hope, or lost sight of my goal. The heroine of this story is hardly a traditional detective, but genealogy, by its very nature, leads to detection, deduction, and conclusions that are not always what the genealogist had in mind. —Judith Land
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Never thought about the connection before but I think there is a correlation there now that I think about it.
Survival is what all of our ancestors have in common…Judith Land