In which I was not actually arrested in a murder case

[unjapanologist]

Yes, you get what you deserve when you ego-google. But since I'm building a career and all that, I like to check what pops up first when a grant committee or someone I might want to collaborate with searches for my name.

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[jade_mushroom]

i find this hilarious. and hey, at least it's somewhat related to the real you.

My first name was the top girls name for the year I was born [and remained in the top 20 for a decade afterwards], and I have the 4th most common Chinese surname, which is used by whites and Koreans as well. This means that when you google my name, the first person that pops up is a playboy bunny who most obviously is not me cuz I'm Asian and she's white...

[unjapanologist]

It is about the real me, and that's the problem :D

So many people who seem to share their name with SEO-savvy busty ladies! I'm almost glad I don't have to compete with them.

[telophase]

I share my name with several normal people, who probably wonder what the heck all this manga and other fannish stuff is when they Google their name.

The amusing bit is that we're almost certainly all related, even if only by marriage: my surname came over to the US with one person in the 1700s, was almost immediately corrupted into its current spelling, and all of us with that spelling are descended from that guy or married to someone who is.

[unjapanologist]

Hopefully their future employers will find manga an acceptable pastime.

I've never checked my family history before. Maybe I should ask around if any other family members have ever tried to trace us. A lot of US friends seem to know at least when their ancestors came over to America, and I'm starting to feel jealous about not having a History ;)

[telophase]

There's a number of amateur genealogists who share my surname: the only work I had to do was to connect my family's personal four-generation genealogy to the rest of it, so that was easy. :)

The other side of the family, however, is hard to find before my great-grandparents, so I'd have to hire a professional if I wanted to make any headway beyond them.