The Enwright branch of my family has the W because someone thought it seemed fancier.

Kick ass! Our next-door neighbor just got a spot on the Cincy Rollergirls. She does not have a Derby name yet.

I love thinking up derby names! Cincy is a great league, too.

I can't wait until Reece is big enough that I can visit and hold him. He's going to catch up in size. My sister says he's as feisty as all get out.

Great news, Cash! And Reece is amazing -- his eyes are mesmerizing.

Kat, no email yet, just FYI.

Reece is a cutiehead.

We know that Ancestry.com comes out of the giant database of public records and family trees that the LDS Church gathers for the conversion of ancestors of the converted, right?

Thus the nose-holding on my part.

Though, heh, I bet (it's been my place of refuge while I'm busy with a million and one work things, as sometimes I have to kill 5-10 non-thinking minutes while stuff... does things) THAT'S why I had a dream last night that I accidentally joined the FLDS.

I know my Uncle Walter (my dad's uncle, actually, but he was known as "Uncle Walter" throughout the family, and my brother-in-law has said that he really felt like he was part of the family the day he could suggest someone use Uncle Walter's knife for something and knew what he meant when he said it) was not named Walter Johnson before he came to the US, but no one knows how or why he changed his name. He was the first of my Russian relatives to immigrate, when he was 17 and didn't have much English. I have no idea how he swung that. But he's the one that got everyone else over after WWII.

I really doubt ancestry.com could tell me any of that because my dad's naturalization information was obscured when the original documents were bound into books (some key numbers disappeared into the bound part, apparently). OTOH, I think my mom does consult it for her genealogical research because she'll use whatever tools are available.

THAT'S why I had a dream last night that I accidentally joined the FLDS.

...so what explains my dream about being a pirate's daughter and needing to smuggle artwork into the US from a castle in Mexico so I could somehow save him? (no, I had not been reading trashy romances before bed!)

The 75% of my family that is traceable is all Scottish and English, and recently so. Therefore, many things can be found. Woo!

Of course, the whole reason I signed up was that I didn't know my Grandfather's parents' names, and I *still* don't know that. (Neither does my Dad. In his defense, his father did leave home at 13. So.)

Paul's family is creepily American. I find mine more entertaining.

...so what explains my dream about being a pirate's daughter and needing to smuggle artwork into the US from a castle in Mexico so I could somehow save him? (no, I had not been reading trashy romances before bed!)

You had a better dream fairy assignment last night?

JZ! You're Mexican like I am Cuban!

My family is, in a way, creepily American. There's a branch that goes back to the Revolutionary War (although we have yet to determine which side, if any, they were on) but that branch married immigrants pretty close to once a generation. Very American!