Everyone's getting spanked but me.

Willow ,'The Killer In Me'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 26, 2016 3:13:57 am PST #14191 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I am taking a different bus this morning and it just announced the Hamilton stop! It made me happy


flea - Jan 26, 2016 3:41:56 am PST #14192 of 30003
information libertarian

I have line where there are John Smiths. Luckily we have some independent records so I already know birth and death dates. I am totally stumped by a Nathaniel Watson and William Hill in another line though. (Zadok and Melancthon Wheeler, otoh, easy peasy.)


Sophia Brooks - Jan 26, 2016 3:48:31 am PST #14193 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I just looked, and I actually get lost at the great-great-great grandpa level- there is John Irving Taylor son of John Ogden Taylor, son of John L. Taylor, and John L Taylor is where I get lost!


-t - Jan 26, 2016 4:00:55 am PST #14194 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The problem in my family is more often each person spelling their own name differently (or using a completely different name) on every document than common names, although there is some of that also. And that's not even the Russians with their four or five interchangeable names each, guessing at the spelling in another alphabet. At least the patronyms are informative with them.


flea - Jan 26, 2016 4:49:11 am PST #14195 of 30003
information libertarian

I am greatly aided in my genealogy by a lot of my lines going back to very early colonial Massachusetts. Those people are very well documented (I guess Puritan churches kept great records), and a lot of people have already done all the work in the 19th century when everyone was all romantic about Pilgrims.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 26, 2016 5:06:04 am PST #14196 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I think I just need to a) pay for international Ancestry.com or b) find some free resources for Scotland/England.


Dana - Jan 26, 2016 5:23:57 am PST #14197 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Note to self: make sure the bottle of Coke is 100% shut before you put it in your purse. Fortunately, it was only 1% of a disaster, but still.


Jesse - Jan 26, 2016 5:29:05 am PST #14198 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Speaking of Russians, I was pretty excited when a coworker Nataliya signed her email Natasha!

In other work news, my job is so full of fuckery, my colleague just suggested we set up a counter like they have for the national debt, because it just keeps going up. This is why I'm inclined to apply for jobs I may or may not want!


Kat - Jan 26, 2016 5:39:46 am PST #14199 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Jesse, I want that counter.

Every person in my family is having some sort of mood today. It's exhausting.


-t - Jan 26, 2016 5:46:06 am PST #14200 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Nice, Jesse. Not the fuckery. How do you count fuckery? Can we monetize this counter?

Ugh, Dana. The call and the Coke.

I just got email advertising international ancestry.com and was wondering if it was worthwhile. By "just" I mean in the last couple of months.