I recently inherited all my Grandmother's ancestry stuff and it's really amazing stuff. My great-great grandfather's naturalization certificate and all sorts of vital records and such. She has us back to late 1700's (I think) in Germany and about the same time to Scotland (with a lot of decades in Canada after the Revolution did not go the way of my Loyalist family members). I need to organize it and write out a comprehensive family tree. Or at the least enter it into ancestry.com.
I know that our family is listed in The Bamford Saga (which my sister totally stole and there is no other copy to have).
The thing that raised my eyebrows most about my genealogy is that every surname, EVERY one, I could find on my mother's side is Scottish. And in theory, the Scots didn't own slaves, so it would imply those surnames were acquired via blood. Which is a fuck of a lot of Scottish for a family that can only identify one white person.
Which is all aside from my father's Scottish surname, of course.
My family history can never be more interesting than the stories that my dad and aunt make up.
green chile cheeseburger
WANT.
OK, so in this neighborhood, we joke about how having a dog ties you into the whole neighborhood gossip circle. However, walking a cat means your neighbors stop by to chat as they come home from their evening's adventures.
When KO was on Sportscenter, he used to have an "um" counter...numbers would flash, a bell would ding...which is incredibly obnoxious, but considering these are inarticulate people who could buy and sell my whole family, I never felt closer to a famous human being.(I've only seen it on the internets...sportscenter debuted at the apex of my "Sports? Ew!" period.)
I'm Heinz 57...my grandfather went to an Indian college that still graduates many chiefs to this day.
Hrmp. The Scots totally owned slaves. There was a huge Scottish enclave around in South Carolina, and they were, indeed, slave owners.
There waa also an enclave of Scots in New Jersey around the same time, but they were Quaker, and slavery is NOT something Quakers would do.
ETA: A-ha! Also Jamaica, ita: [link]
That article doesn't jibe with most of what we've been taught. The assumption has always been that my father's Scottish name was through slavery, but the massive bulk of Scots in Jamaica weren't rich enough to earn slaves--they came in with the Chinese and Indians to replace the flow of workers that stopped with the end of the slave trade.
Most Jamaican Scots are poor as shit and have always been so. The English occupied most of the monied landowner positions.
How Obama Stole Christmas. [link]
I approve of your green chile cheeseburger! I had a tasty but unhealthy pasta with yogurt. I added hominy and chickpeas in an attempt to healthify it but I was actually supposed to just have the hominy and chiockpeas and not the pasta. Oops. But it was nom.
I need to go to Golden West and get their green chile cheeseburger. Ain't perfect, but I think they use hatch chile. I miss Sonic and The Shack and the Owl.
