Who Is Stephen Bierce?
Having a Harvey Pekar moment...no better time for it.
Google Image has retooled the interface, which means that you get to see more content and don't have to click through a lot of pages to do it. That's nice. You lose some detail and control tho'. Not sure if I like that so much.
So I decide to look up myself tonight. I have a habit that automatically narrows the focus: I set the name "Ambrose" as well as two alternate spellings of that in the EXCLUDE box, so my most famous relative isn't caught in the sweep. Nor do I wish, necessarily, to receive responses related to the author of Band of Brothers.
One of the first things that came up was a photo of a tombstone in a cemetary in Danby, a suburb of Ithaca, NY. One "Stephen Beers". He was born just before the American Revolution and lived till the 1840s. I do not know if he would have been a relation of mine geneology-wise...but the facts are that the family migration started in Massachusetts, crossed the lower Hudson Valley, and swept through upstate New York to the Ohio Valley, where eventually Lucius and Ambrose came along in our history. There are some missing links between my family line and the one that started it all in Massachusetts...and I want to find them someday.
But that begs the question, who is he to me?--And who am I to him? Should I take it as a good sign or a bad one that he lived to be seventy-five years of age in "interesting times"? And will, a century and a half from now, there be somebody as curious about me and my life, as I am about this man in the past?
Is there somebody in your past centuries...forgotten but for that time you look yourself up in a search engine?
Google Image has retooled the interface, which means that you get to see more content and don't have to click through a lot of pages to do it. That's nice. You lose some detail and control tho'. Not sure if I like that so much.
So I decide to look up myself tonight. I have a habit that automatically narrows the focus: I set the name "Ambrose" as well as two alternate spellings of that in the EXCLUDE box, so my most famous relative isn't caught in the sweep. Nor do I wish, necessarily, to receive responses related to the author of Band of Brothers.
One of the first things that came up was a photo of a tombstone in a cemetary in Danby, a suburb of Ithaca, NY. One "Stephen Beers". He was born just before the American Revolution and lived till the 1840s. I do not know if he would have been a relation of mine geneology-wise...but the facts are that the family migration started in Massachusetts, crossed the lower Hudson Valley, and swept through upstate New York to the Ohio Valley, where eventually Lucius and Ambrose came along in our history. There are some missing links between my family line and the one that started it all in Massachusetts...and I want to find them someday.
But that begs the question, who is he to me?--And who am I to him? Should I take it as a good sign or a bad one that he lived to be seventy-five years of age in "interesting times"? And will, a century and a half from now, there be somebody as curious about me and my life, as I am about this man in the past?
Is there somebody in your past centuries...forgotten but for that time you look yourself up in a search engine?