How much do you know, GC?
Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.
'Get It Done'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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.
Connie Neil - Sep 25, 2007 7:56:42 am PDT #2820 of 10001
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Glamcookie - Sep 25, 2007 7:57:37 am PDT #2821 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Not much at all. I know my father's parents and my mother's parents, but that's pretty much it.
Connie Neil - Sep 25, 2007 7:59:51 am PDT #2822 of 10001
brillig
www.familysearch.org
They're the genealogy portion of the Mormon Church, and they've got millions of things online.
P.M. Marc - Sep 25, 2007 8:00:00 am PDT #2823 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I usually start at familysearch.org.
The non-American aspects of my family make it slightly harder to track down the ones I know little about, but it's a good place to start.
tommyrot - Sep 25, 2007 8:00:30 am PDT #2824 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
ION I have a car question. Yesterday I was informed that my timing chain is loose or stretched but was advised not to do anything about it. What might be the repercussions of that? Will I be okay to make a 9 hour drive in a couple of days?
My boss says that diagnosis is really suspect. A loose or stretched timing belt or chain is a very serious thing. He thinks if someone is dumb enough to tell you not to worry about it they might not know what they're talking about. You might want to consider taking the car someplace else.
Connie Neil - Sep 25, 2007 8:01:01 am PDT #2825 of 10001
brillig
If you get farther into this and want to dig into more detailed information, genealogy is one of the other things the internet is for other than porn and pictures of cats.
aurelia - Sep 25, 2007 8:03:05 am PDT #2826 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
My owner's manual makes no mention of a timing belt, so I'm guessing that means it's a timing chain, right?
The SERVICE ENGINE SOON light has been going off and the diagnostic computer said the timing chain was bumping something to set it off.
Susan W. - Sep 25, 2007 8:03:07 am PDT #2827 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
My family managed to miss all the 20th century wars, mostly through the luck of being the wrong age for them. (E.g. my grandfathers were too young for WWI and too old for WWII.) My dad was in the army during the Korean War, but he was stationed in Germany, and my brother was in the army during the 1st Gulf War but was an instructor at West Point at the time. 19th and 21st centuries are a different story--my nephew did a tour in Iraq with his National Guard unit, and my great-great-grandfather was a Confederate soldier.
megan walker - Sep 25, 2007 8:07:10 am PDT #2828 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The non-American aspects of my family make it slightly harder to track down the ones I know little about, but it's a good place to start.
Yeah, being first generation on one side and second on the other, the Internet is not my friend when it comes to genealogy. Also, the fact that my Polish grandparents who came here died in the 1920s and 30s really doesn't help matters.
tommyrot - Sep 25, 2007 8:07:31 am PDT #2829 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
My owner's manual makes no mention of a timing belt, so I'm guessing that means it's a timing chain, right?
Cars switched from timing chains to belts a while ago. But now some newer cars have timing chains again. Is this your older Monte Carlo?
I'll ask my boss about the computer diagnostic thing when he comes back. I didn't know car computers could tell you that. (I've only owned one car made after 1984.)