My family has some similar mysteries. It's what I find so fun about history and genealogy.
Giles, help! He's going to scold me!
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Spidra Webster - Sep 08, 2010 6:40:55 pm PDT #22901 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Zenkitty - Sep 08, 2010 6:51:30 pm PDT #22902 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
In my family, they're not so much mysteries as tales to be told with relish to test the mettle of newcomers.
Steph L. - Sep 08, 2010 6:56:34 pm PDT #22903 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
My great-aunt was married 3 times. Her first 2 husbands committed suicide.
(1) If I were her, I don't think I would have gotten married a third time.
(2) If I were the third husband and knew about the first 2, I don't think I would have married her. I mean -- DAMN.
Spidra Webster - Sep 08, 2010 7:01:20 pm PDT #22904 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
We only finally started digging into the story of my great-grandfather. He was a pioneer in aviation and motorboat racing. He was killed before my mother was born. The legend was that a guy had taken his airplane to him to be fixed and he wouldn't release it because the guy never paid him. The guy shot him and got off because he was the governor's brother. That's the story. We finally got off our asses and wrote to a library in that county to look at newspapers from that time. We've got the name of the guy and he *was* shot in roughly those circumstances. Don't know about whether he was the governor's brother and how the subsequent trial went, though.
SuziQ - Sep 08, 2010 7:26:08 pm PDT #22905 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
A guy my mom went out with, when I was an early teen, asked her to marry him 3 times. Each time she said no. And each time he had a heart attack.
Dude, quick asking. Seriously.
shrift - Sep 08, 2010 7:32:03 pm PDT #22906 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I need to remember to take out my contact lenses before I cook with hot peppers. On the bright side, at least the soup was fantastic.
Kat - Sep 08, 2010 7:33:42 pm PDT #22907 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Cash, I'm getting sucked into ancestry.com and I blame you. I can find a ton of stuff about my Dad's side of the family (immigrated in the 1800s, lived in Pennsylvania and Ohio) but my Hawaii family? NSM. I wonder if it's because my Hawaii family was there before it became a state?
Spidra Webster - Sep 08, 2010 7:37:33 pm PDT #22908 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Ai, shrift!
Kat, there are often genealogy groups for specific regions and ethnicities. Those folks are great to ask for advice because they can show you where records are if they aren't in the usual places.
Cashmere - Sep 08, 2010 7:42:32 pm PDT #22909 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Kat, it's like CRACK, isn't it???
Cashmere - Sep 08, 2010 7:43:12 pm PDT #22910 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
By the way, I'm somewhere in 11th Century Wales. Bless their hearts for being such great genealogists.