JZ! You're Mexican like I am Cuban!
Jayne: We was just about to spring into action, Captain. Complicated escape and rescue op. Wash: I was going to watch. It was very exciting.
'Shindig'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Jan 31, 2012 5:01:59 pm PST #19430 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
-t - Jan 31, 2012 5:07:24 pm PST #19431 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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!
Sophia Brooks - Jan 31, 2012 5:07:34 pm PST #19432 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I also don't like the FLDS connection, but I use it. However, my grandfather's father's name is John Taylor, and no family members know more than I do about the family, and it is HELL.
Kat - Jan 31, 2012 5:07:39 pm PST #19433 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Amy, my iCloud account, apparently, sucks ass and isn't sending any messages? Feb 10th 11:00 AM is exactly right. I have your phone number and I'll call on speaker from my cell. My book club kids are excited!
Jesse - Jan 31, 2012 5:09:59 pm PST #19434 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
On my mother's side, they've been here (well, or Canada) forever (literally almost 500 years in some cases), but on my father's side, my great-grandfather was from Germany and my great-grandmother was from the Cayman Islands. Which I learned on Ancestry. I knew someone was from the Caribbean, but wasn't sure who.
askye - Jan 31, 2012 5:10:18 pm PST #19435 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I knew a lot more than I do now, I forgot stuff. I know 1 of Mom's sister has done a lot of research into their dad's side, including a lot of stuff on his father, who was Comanche, and was in the same bad as Quanah Parker, although we aren't related to him.
DavidS - Jan 31, 2012 5:11:30 pm PST #19436 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Well done, Cash! You're on the A-Team.
My grandfather changed his name on purpose at Ellis Island, thinking he needed something short and snappy to make himself a Real American.
My friend Alison's family changed their name too for the same reason. They decided their last name was too Jewish so they changed it to something much more American. So they went from Wolf to Steiner.
Sue - Jan 31, 2012 5:14:59 pm PST #19437 of 30001
hip deep in pie
the other thing about Ancestry is that people submit their family trees, and I don't always know how accurate the information is. I found some family stuff that seems to be verified, but I think it's just based on legend.
I think I recently mentioned that both my mother and father can trace their Mi'kmaq roots to the same relative, right? That's what happens in isolated rural areas.
I am much more of a Heinz 57 than I thought: French & Irish, but some Mi'kmaq and Acadian too. I wouldn't be too surprised if there was some Basque, consider St. Pierre was settled by the French and Basque.
Kat - Jan 31, 2012 5:15:34 pm PST #19438 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Amy, I reset my smtp port so it may have gone through? Stupid entourage.
JZ - Jan 31, 2012 5:15:37 pm PST #19439 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
JZ! You're Mexican like I am Cuban!
Fake Latina high five!