Anyone else have genealogy queries? I have fun with this stuff -- I like solving puzzles.
Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books!
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Hil R. - Sep 29, 2013 2:01:35 pm PDT #7239 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2013 2:04:51 pm PDT #7240 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do you do British questions, Hil? A part of the family believes we are related to the Barrett Brownings but I don't think they have any negro issue.
Hil R. - Sep 29, 2013 2:06:24 pm PDT #7241 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Do you do British questions, Hil? A part of the family believes we are related to the Barrett Brownings but I don't think they have any negro issue.
I can give it a try. A lot of British records are online, and generally indexed pretty well.
Anne W. - Sep 29, 2013 2:08:02 pm PDT #7242 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Do you know what kind of cat he is?
He's a shelter kitty and was listed as "stray," so technically it's impossible to say. That said, there are a lot of things about his general appearance, coat*, and behavior that make me suspect he's got a fair amount of Turkish Angora in him.
* his coat is silky, he doesn't seem to have a downy undercoat, and he sheds surprisingly little for such a fluffy guy.
Zenkitty - Sep 29, 2013 2:09:03 pm PDT #7243 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Hil, if you're serious... Malcolm Cornforth emigrated to the US from England in 1963, and I'd really like to know who/where he was before he came here. Cornforth seems to be an unusual name. He was almost certainly my biological father. All I know about him is, he was an engineer of some type, he liked to race cars, and he was married to a woman named Shirley.
Sheryl - Sep 29, 2013 2:09:04 pm PDT #7244 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Went to the Baltimore Book Festival. Saw some writers I know on panels. Didn't buy any books. (Too many of the used book sellers had the books in sections by type, but otherwise all haphazard. I know I'm being anal about this, but put the books in alphabetical order, dammit!)
Dana - Sep 29, 2013 2:11:41 pm PDT #7245 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I feel like shit and have managed to convince myself that I either have the flu or West Nile.
Hil R. - Sep 29, 2013 2:16:48 pm PDT #7246 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil, if you're serious... Malcolm Cornforth emigrated to the US from England in 1963, and I'd really like to know who/where he was before he came here. Cornforth seems to be an unusual name. He was almost certainly my biological father. All I know about him is, he was an engineer of some type, he liked to race cars, and he was married to a woman named Shirley.
There isn't that much information available online from after the 1940s or so, because of privacy concerns. I checked a database of births in England, and found people named Malcolm Cornforth born in 1931, 1943, 1944, and 1954. All of them born in places that end in -shire, if that means anything.
Hil R. - Sep 29, 2013 2:18:20 pm PDT #7247 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Oh! Malcolm W Cornforth married Shirley Wood in 1964 in Yorkshire North Riding. But you said he came to the US in 1963.
flea - Sep 29, 2013 2:19:10 pm PDT #7248 of 30000
information libertarian
Hil, do you know anything about Jews in colonial America? I have an ancestor named Moses David Levi, who was born ca. 1728 in Philadelphia, and converted to Christianity in 1759. Most of what I know about him is from a book about the church he was converted to, which kept really detailed records (http://books.google.com/books?id=ThgVAAAAYAAJ&dq=history+of+the+Goshenhoppen+Reformed+charge,+Montgomery+County&source=gbs_navlinks_s). He married a woman with a German name and the community he lived in seems to have been very German, but my limited research on pre-Revolutionary Jews suggests they were mostly Sephardim.