The Anunnaki Scrolls
and the
United States Census Records

For anyone doing genealogical research, at some time in their endeavor they will be forced to use the United States Census collection which is either in raw form or has been transcribed digitally, for internet use. In either case, records from census years 1850 to 1930 provide quite complete data on individuals that I classify as "Bingo and Pay Dirt". But . . . using records from census years 1790 to 1840 provide what I have come to call "the arduous task of deciphering the Anunnaki Scrolls".

You might now be wondering what the comparison is between: the US government with their census forms, and the Sumerians with their clay tablets. First a little bit of explanation about the Sumerians and the Anunnaki. (I promise this is going somewhere important.)

It all started about 6,000 years ago, some scholars even say 8,500 BCE, and there are those who argue that it's even before then. Whatever the time frame, it's called "the most crucial event in human history". The Sumerian people settled in a land they called Sumer, in a region of the Fertile Crescent that lay along the southern portions of the valley of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. The area is located just before those great tributaries flow into the Persian Gulf, in the area now known as southeastern Iraq. The Greeks later called the area Mesopotamia, meaning "between the rivers." The Sumerians developed a highly sophisticated system of irrigation and agriculture, and they quickly established magnificent cities, advanced governing laws, and a written language. The first written language.

The Sumerian language itself has been an enigma to linguists and scholars ever since the first clay tablets of that ancient language were discovered. It bears no relation to ancient Arabic, Assyrian, Canaanite, Egyptian, Indian, Jewish, Persian, or Phoenician, nor to any language from contemporaneous African, Asian or European dialects. But, one thing is for sure, that the Sumerian language left a significant heritage that professional Sumerologists are still transcribing and discovering to this very day.

The Sumerian language is the oldest sophisticated form of writing in existence, and dates from at least 3,400 BCE. These early writings, however, are neither crude nor primitive, and no other source has been identified as to where it might have been developed. As Laurence Gardner has said in Genesis of the Grail Kings,

Okay, so now you know the abbreviated story of the Sumerians, but what of the Anunnaki, and how does this all tie in with genealogy? Fundamental to anything regarding the Sumerians are their gods and goddesses, whom as a group they called the Anunnaki, literally translated as "those who from heaven to earth came". The Anunnaki consisted of a number of very different personalities and who clashed with each other often and in an enormous variety of ways. While their very distinct personalities can be used to establish Archetypes, all of the evidence suggests that the Anunnaki were historical figures and not mythological.

The Sumerian Family Tree, in fact, distinguishes between those Gods and Goddesses who were born on earth (the new generation) and those born in heaven. One of many, many Sumerian texts (clay tablets) is the Epic of Creation, of which the biblical Genesis is a condensed version. Also in those texts is the story of a continuing semi-sibling rivalry between Enki and Enlil, the Anunnaki offspring, and those humans who voluntarily or otherwise began the process of choosing sides. Sumerian wisdom was also prevalent at an early stage, because the so-called father of mankind, Enki, was noted as being extremely wise.

Okay, my condensed history lesson is over and have you uncovered the comparison I've been trying to make yet? How about a picture, after all they are worth a thousand words, right?

For your enjoyment we are providing census pages to make our point. Please take a moment to look at all of them and you decide if you can see what we're talking about. Click on the links below:

1920 Census sample, 1840, 1830, 1820, 1810, 1800.

Now that you've seen them, click below for the Anunnaki samples:

The Cyrus Cylinder, The Kings of Larsa at the Louvre, A small Sumerian Tablet, Another Sumer Tablet.

Can you see it yet?

Try this Cypher

In case you can't see my humour in this, please allow me to explain. The present day genealogist is forced to decipher tens of thousands of pages of census data while the professional Sumerologists strive to decipher tens of thousands of clay tablets. We genealogists do it to recreate the American past in Family form, and the Sumerologist does it to recreate the Anunnaki past in Sumerian form.

But the key comparison is on our census records from 1790 to 1840. If you click on any of the older census pages provided above, you will note, the only name given is that of the head of household, which isn't necessarily the oldest person. Then across the page are tick-marks of males and females per age category, generally in 10 year increments. For the genealogist, this is a nightmare to deal with aka decipher.

Let's say we find our grandfather, George Kerr, in 1910. The next step is to work backward in time, in order to preserve the red-thread (the bloodline). So, as grandpa George gets younger and younger, suddenly we find him with his parents, George and Emily Kerr, on an earlier census record. That's one of those Bingo! or Pay Dirt! moments. Naturally, we keep moving back in time and our great grandpa, George Kerr, keeps getting younger and younger then Bingo! again, we find him in his family. By now let's say we are in the 1860 census and to our utter and complete amazement, he too is George Kerr. Well, now we have his dad, our great-great grandpa, otherwise known as our George-George-George grandpa Kerr. Backward we continue.

Let's say our great-great-grandpa is now a 7 year old and we open an 1840 census record for his father George Kerr. All our Bingo's and Pay Dirt's are now nothing more than long, deep sighs of exasperation, and a stream of expletives I don't dare put to paper. Do you know why these older census records are so frustrating? Because more often than not, somewhere between an 1820 and 1840 census you will lose that precious red-thread because your great-great-great grandpa George Kerr might have aged 40 years instantly because you are now looking at the record for his dad, another George Kerr. And you find on that record other children who weren't with the previous George. They might be brothers and sisters to your George who haven't left the nest yet, or who have married and they and their spouses are living with the father George as your George is now doing with his wife and family . . . and there isn't a way in hell that you'll be able to figure out who is who! You have, in one brief moment, lost that precious red-thread thanks to the paper version of the Anunnaki clay tablets.

As an aside, you will encounter families who name their offspring in such a manner that names are nothing more than loops in which they repeat over and over again, without the aid of juniors or seniors or I, II, or III and so on. Add to that problem, families who loved or honoured a family name, like Fred William so much that everyone was naming their boys Fred William or William Fred, and on census records all of them are called Fred. It isn't uncommon to find communities with 10, 20 or more Fred William's all from maybe 5 families. It's unimaginably difficult to sort this out using post 1850 census records but an absolute nightmare if you have to use the pre 1850 records.

As for me, I abhor having to use the Anunnaki scrolls to reconstruct a family tree accurately and with facts not assumptions. And, it can make a genealogist crazy, especially when you know that census takers were not the most accurate recorders in the neighborhood.

Well, I've got to get back to work, or maybe I will take a break and read more about the Anunnaki. Maybe I will find an ancient ancestor on one of those clay tablets. For that matter, I'm convinced we might all find our ancestors on them somewhere. Metaphorically, "man of clay" just got a whole new spin to it. If you are in to pottery I'm sure you are rolling on the floor laughing at the visual of that comment.

One explication for this treatise is to motivate you to state, the extent, and nature of the distinguishing characteristics of the physiogenesis of the intellectual ambiance of your life. Life is an infinite, albeit recondite evolutionary sequence of events as determined from the moment of your birth. You are close to tapping it, but the spiritual tangibility of your vision is requisite for your purported intellectual ratiocination. Put it to work!

Oh dear, it's time for this genealogist to pull back the reins and get back to work! Darn, and I thought I could avoid working on the Anunnaki scrolls today, but it doesn't look like it.

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Note: The graphic on the left is a sample of a clay tablet that was found in 2007
and is in the process of being deciphered. You can see a larger image HERE