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Diddorol
In: Arch/Anthro| Family
18 May 2008You may remember, gentle reader, back some time ago I wrote a post about my part-time hobby of tracing my genealogy. My sister-in-law and I have made some progress and it seems the family is mostly UK-ish. We’ve found a Welsh bit and some Irish bits along with a healthy dose of English and Scottish [...]
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I Get My Brother & Sister Back
15 Apr 2008(Did ya notice the dripping bloody hands in above graphic? Wicked fun!)
As of tomorrow my brother and sister will no longer be at the mercy of the tax paying public. The tax deadline will be past and procrastinators will be SOL.
This is such a joyous time, gentle reader! I can call them and they [...]
DNA Testing
23 Dec 2007In this month’s National Geographic there is ad for a DNA ancestry tracing service. Interesting, I think.
On one hand, I’d love to get more information about where my people came from. Me and the sister-in-law are fairly active Ancestry.com users and have some pretty good information on my maternal line. So far, we’ve discovered [...]
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The Great Aunt’s 90th
In: Family
7 Oct 2007A while back in September my great aunt Josephine turned 90. The family had a big bash in Lyman, NC at the Lanier Chapel (named after that side of the family) decorated with her favorite flower, the sunflower. A bumblebees dream. Her son grows them on a few acres for her. Absolutely gorgeous stretch of [...]
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