Kind of an update. Don’t have time to post much lately.
Richard bought me a cell phone. I don’t know how many calls I’ve missed (all wrong numbers so far… pfffft) because I forget I have it and miss the ring. It’s only for emergencies so I’m not yakking on it all the time.
I LURV the mp3 player he bought me! It can hold 2 gig and he bought me a 2 gig card to use with it. I figure that will hold maybe 1/8th of my music/soundtrack collection. *snort*
My latest fascination, genealogy, has gotten interesting. I had a theory that was confirmed by paperwork from Ohio. You see Richard knew who his grandfather, ggrandfather, and his ggggrandfather were. We were trying to discover who his 4xg grandfather was. His ggg grandfather’s name was Othniel. On some records we’d seen an Othniel and Otheniel. On one record they were both on there and one Othniel called himself Jr.
I was pretty sure I knew who it was. His family started in Connecticut in the 1600s. They raised hell during the Revolution. And I do mean raised hell. Nearly 200 of his ancestors were involved in the Revolution in some form or another. (This is a HUGE family.)
Turns out some of them packed up and moved out to Ohio.. they’re considered pioneers of the state. Well his ggg grandfather Othniel was in Ohio. One of the CT branch who made the move with his family was an Othniel too. I knew about the CT Othniel and had pretty much decided he was Othniel Sr. But there was the massive confusion over the damned first names. So we sent to Ohio for paperwork on both of them. I was right. Othniel from CT is Othniel Sr… R’s gggg grandfather. R is a direct descendent of the immigrant who came to America and started the family. I’m thinking he came from Yorkshire, England. Working on that end now.
We also found out where R’s gg grandfather was buried and it was confirmed with the help of some contributors at Find-A-Grave.
In my family we had this one ancestor and you couldn’t find records or anything for this poor woman except for a birth date. Then I found a death date and a photo of her headstone. On my birthday, which was appropriate considering she’d become one of my pet projects, I found information that led me to filling in the rest of her information, her families, and etc. I was shocked that this plain simple woman’s family was as diverse as it was. This was in the 1800s. She had siblings in Japan, South Africa (diamond mining), one who went to the gold fields, and one who is relatively famous in Australia. He was involved in the stage coach industry down there. Really interesting reading up on all of them. Still working on filling in the blanks on them.
Some think genealogy is boring but it’s not. Oh yeah, the endless filling in of data can get old, but if you’re a history buff it brings history to life.
Off to get stuff done so I can get back to my newest hobby…