Odd how vocabulary items shift reference in different contexts: You quote Deleuze and Guattari saying, “The rhizome is an antigenealogy.” The spontaneous and opportunistic nature of rhizomatic education is certainly antithetical to the received notion of a genealogy as a careful retracing of biologically connected antecedent pathways, yet part of my personal rhizomatic process has led me to creating a series of educational events on using genealogical and family history studies to spark reflective and self-discovery writing. So the biologically created traces left by our unalterable genetic past can provide rhizomatically potent opportunities for revelatory and surprising encounters with our current situation: what genealogical and family history research reveals is haphazard and dependent on the strange circumstances of each investigator’s particular search paths and what they may encounter along the way…