One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up!

Mal ,'War Stories'


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.


Tom Scola - Sep 29, 2013 4:45:04 pm PDT #7288 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I am in Maui! Magically I no longer hate everyone with a towering fury.

The Earth dodged a bullet, there...


Kate P. - Sep 29, 2013 4:47:24 pm PDT #7289 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Just about any genealogy software will have a bunch of different types of trees you can print out. There are reviews of a bunch of free ones here:

Great, thanks, Hil!

Dana, I hope you feel better soon and can enjoy your leisure time.


shrift - Sep 29, 2013 4:53:08 pm PDT #7290 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I have slathered on SPF 50 and am sitting outside. It's pretty great.


le nubian - Sep 29, 2013 5:02:50 pm PDT #7291 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

nice!


Lee - Sep 29, 2013 5:42:19 pm PDT #7292 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

JEALOUS


WindSparrow - Sep 29, 2013 5:56:14 pm PDT #7293 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

I assume a bad day in Maui beats a good day in most other places. This assumption is so strong that I very much envy you, shrift. Clearly the best thing you can do, therefore is have the bestest of best times so as to make it worthy of the envy.

Hil, if you are not tired of genealogy questions, one of the big puzzles I am trying to sort is Daniel's paternal lineage. His grandfather is listed as a Fred Christ Jensen. The record on Ancestry.com says he was born in Germany in 1858. Daniel says he was actually born in Denmark and the name should be Friedrich (or some variant thereof) Christian Jensen. His father is listed as Christ Jensen, but it should be Christian Friedrich Jensen. According to Daniel there is a long line of alternating Christian Friedrich and Friedrich Christian father to son back about seven generations to the original Jens, who was Jens Tomsen or some such. My searches have gotten a couple of Christian Friedrichs in a row, so I am not at all sure any of them. Daniel cannot recall any specific place names, but says he would probably recognize it.


§ ita § - Sep 29, 2013 6:01:34 pm PDT #7294 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

if you know what to look for

Well, there's the thing. Unless for some strange reason he acknowledged his get on property, there's no way to tell owned from fathered. If he'd married a black woman, we'd know. We'd all know. Did Samuel own any Samuels? That's how the Moulton name got to us.


Ginger - Sep 29, 2013 6:27:33 pm PDT #7295 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

You'd think the odds of two apparently unrelated John Stevens sailing to the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1636 and 1639 would be small. My John Stevens is not the one who arrived on the ship Confidence in 1638. Mine is the one that there is much less information about.

He and two more of my ancestors, his son-in-law and grandson, were among the residents of Salisbury who signed a petition attesting to the godliness of Mary Bradbury, who was nevertheless convicted of witchcraft [link] She was sentenced to death, but jailers apparently looked the other way as her family broke her out of jail. What I learned recently was that Ray Bradbury was one of her descendents.


-t - Sep 29, 2013 6:29:09 pm PDT #7296 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Wow, that's a great detail for time-travel shenanigans.


Hil R. - Sep 29, 2013 6:41:00 pm PDT #7297 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Well, there's the thing. Unless for some strange reason he acknowledged his get on property, there's no way to tell owned from fathered. If he'd married a black woman, we'd know. We'd all know. Did Samuel own any Samuels? That's how the Moulton name got to us.

It looks like there were a few people named Sam or Samuel owned by someone named Samuel Barrett, but I'm not sure if all the Samuel Barretts are the same person. Sometimes it's Samuel Wisdom Barrett.

WindSparrow, I don't think I'd be able to find much just based on those names. The names are too common, so you'd need more information to figure out which was the right one.