ABSTRACT
The author shares information about how the Internet can aid the ancestral search and lead to connections with living relatives, share their own ancestral journey, and reflect on the deeper spiritual meanings of ancestor connection from the perspective of feminist and eco-feminist theologies. Ancestor connection is an important part of traditional religions, but in our increasingly mobile world, people are losing connections with the stories of their ancestors. The National Geographic documentary connected African ancestors who migrated to Australia, Asia, and Europe to the San people, commonly known as the African Bushmen. Hattie explained that the Lower East Side where our ancestors lived was the poorest area of New York City at the time. Following one of author lectures on the earth as the body of Goddess, womanist theologian Karen Baker-Fletcher asked a question that provoked me to expand the scope of my thinking about ancestor connection.
