And more RL stuff
Apr. 6th, 2014 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estirose* In church today, we had the following exchange:
Pastor: Since we have no children for the children's sermon, you're all children today.
Person 1: Am not!
Person 2: Are too!
(I love the people in my church, sometimes.)
* Still have the idiot parked in my space.
* In the hurry up and wait department, I sent back my AncestryDNA test. Hoping I got everything right so that we find some of our missing threads. Mom (who is the Ancestry.com account member) is waiting to see the map, while I'm hoping to heck and back that we get clues on some of our ancestors past the 18th and 19th centuries (some family lines we have back to the mid-17th century and a bit beyond, but on the rest of them we're still trying to get that far).
This is what my mother has put together:
* On my paternal side, we are all over Northern Europe. Currently, we are trying to trace on my father's father's side past 19th century Northern Ireland, and it all hinges on what religion my great-great grandfather followed. We're pretty sure that these people originally came from Scotland and thus their descendants are what was once called "Scotch-Irish", but we're still trying to get some documentation on that. We also have something Eastern European, possibly Bohemian, and my father's mother's side is 100% Norwegian (they immigrated here in the early 20th century).
* On my maternal side, we're doing pretty well with some family lines (one part of my family tree is extremely well-documented) and not so well with others. Ironically, we're having better luck with the most common surname and not so much on some of the others. Currently trying to discover if one ancestor is from the UK or somewhere in Northern Europe. The rest of that family is English and German on one side (with a bit of the same "Scotch-Irish", though probably from a different part of Scotland) and French/German/English on the other. Our biggest problem is connecting a French-Canadian ancestor back to France, because of lack of records. It does not help that there are three different spellings of the surname, ours being the least common and his parents could have changed said surname before records were kept.
* I don't have very exciting ancestors, but we do know that I qualify for the D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution) five times over at this point - some of my ancestors came to what's now the United States in the mid-17th century. And some of my ancestors from Ireland had the sense to immigrate before the Potato Famine.
* Started on my Remix fic, about 200 words in. Need to review canon. Have ordered some canon so that I feel a bit more comfortable with it. Expect Doink assignment sometime this week, though at least I have that canon on hand.
Pastor: Since we have no children for the children's sermon, you're all children today.
Person 1: Am not!
Person 2: Are too!
(I love the people in my church, sometimes.)
* Still have the idiot parked in my space.
* In the hurry up and wait department, I sent back my AncestryDNA test. Hoping I got everything right so that we find some of our missing threads. Mom (who is the Ancestry.com account member) is waiting to see the map, while I'm hoping to heck and back that we get clues on some of our ancestors past the 18th and 19th centuries (some family lines we have back to the mid-17th century and a bit beyond, but on the rest of them we're still trying to get that far).
This is what my mother has put together:
* On my paternal side, we are all over Northern Europe. Currently, we are trying to trace on my father's father's side past 19th century Northern Ireland, and it all hinges on what religion my great-great grandfather followed. We're pretty sure that these people originally came from Scotland and thus their descendants are what was once called "Scotch-Irish", but we're still trying to get some documentation on that. We also have something Eastern European, possibly Bohemian, and my father's mother's side is 100% Norwegian (they immigrated here in the early 20th century).
* On my maternal side, we're doing pretty well with some family lines (one part of my family tree is extremely well-documented) and not so well with others. Ironically, we're having better luck with the most common surname and not so much on some of the others. Currently trying to discover if one ancestor is from the UK or somewhere in Northern Europe. The rest of that family is English and German on one side (with a bit of the same "Scotch-Irish", though probably from a different part of Scotland) and French/German/English on the other. Our biggest problem is connecting a French-Canadian ancestor back to France, because of lack of records. It does not help that there are three different spellings of the surname, ours being the least common and his parents could have changed said surname before records were kept.
* I don't have very exciting ancestors, but we do know that I qualify for the D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution) five times over at this point - some of my ancestors came to what's now the United States in the mid-17th century. And some of my ancestors from Ireland had the sense to immigrate before the Potato Famine.
* Started on my Remix fic, about 200 words in. Need to review canon. Have ordered some canon so that I feel a bit more comfortable with it. Expect Doink assignment sometime this week, though at least I have that canon on hand.
