I went to Oakland over the weekend and had a fabulous time doing all the sorts of things I don't normally do because I have No Life ( Read more... )

I was reminded of this again today, and felt the need to share it. These are entries from my great-great Grandma Annie (Howard) Van Horn's diary during her daughter Flora's illness and death from Diphtheria in August of 1903. Warning for Saddest Thing Ever.

( No, I'm serious. You will cry. )

my Grandma Swenson passed away at the age of 57 from melanoma. She was a beautiful woman with a wicked sense of humour and a passion for family history. Autumn was her favourite season. I think she and I would have gotten along really well. Many of the women in my mother's family were practically raised by their grandmothers, and I can't help ( Read more... )

I stayed up way too late last night, filling my head with that nonsense we call "history". This is the kind of thing that happens when I have my family tree software working. I learned about a few interesting things.

- The difficulties with the conversion of Bohemia (the murder of Good King Wenceslaus's grandmother by his mother, the fratricide ( Read more... )

We're not going out until 9:00 this morning due to weather, but when we do, three of us are going to a small cemetery to record names, dates and headstone motifs. I would think doing that in a thunderstorm would just make it that much more fun, but oh, well. :p I can't wait. This is something I might actually know a little bit about, between ( Read more... )

I have hardly worked the past three days of this session. Saturday was a complete writeoff due to rain, Sunday we went out in the field long enough to dig about two holes each before it got too bad to go on, and today we drove out to the site, took one look at it, and went to Bob Evans for lunch and paperwork (mmmm! raspberry crepes ( Read more... )

Wow. Casual reproduction *and* sticking it in Paris Hilton. You know, I used to think it was cool when people asked me if I was related to this guy, and it's nice that people now know how to pronounce my last name, but I am afraid I'm going to have to confiscate our common DNA.

Matt Leinart Produces SpawnWe'd like to formally welcome Cole ( Read more... )

I finally worked up the nerve to check whether my old, dying harddrive ate my genealogy programme. Guess what? That's right; it's all gone. shitshitshitshitshit. That file is something I have been working on since I was 14 ( Read more... )