Comments | chuckm: The Spread of Generations

chuckm

The Spread of Generations

Apr 05, 2007 03:29

I come from a big family. My mother is one of ten children born to my German/Irish grandparents in Cincinnati, OH. Those ten children then spawned 27 first cousins (including my brother and I). You add in various first cousins once removed and second cousins (I forget the difference) and the Hein family really adds up ( Read more... )

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chuckm April 5 2007, 13:58:16 UTC

Nice! Are you doing your own genealogical research or did someone do the gumshoeing for you? I'm adopted, so I've never really been that inspired to trace my lineage, but we use to have people doing it all the time when I worked at the library.

fleiss April 5 2007, 13:15:37 UTC

My Mom is the youngest of 10. I don't know if having a large family is a blessing or a curse. Sometimes, having any size family is a curse; so I guess it doesn't matter.

chuckm April 5 2007, 14:00:33 UTC

Definitely a little of both. Personally, it's a little overwhelming for me since I only experience the whole crew a couple of times a year, but for my mom and her sisters it's amazing the way they all sort of lean on each other to get through everything.

le_petit_gateau April 5 2007, 13:40:35 UTC

I have so many uncles that I even can't remember de face, my family is huge, and spread all over the country, and off the country too ....
I don't know if i met all of them yet, sometimes i find my self visiting some random city and some one look at me and say "o my god you look like my cousin when she had 19 years old, are you her daughter?"
or something like " I remember you whem you where a baby, look at you know!!".
Ugh!

chuckm April 5 2007, 14:04:03 UTC

My family is made up of homebodies. As you can see, the apples haven't fallen far from the tree from the most part. I'm one of the exceptions, but then I'm sort of a cuckoo's egg to begin with.

blankedyblank April 5 2007, 14:57:24 UTC

Nifty use of that function.

chuckm April 5 2007, 18:41:01 UTC

Thanks! It seemed as good an excuse as any to get my hands dirty with code again.

Gonna play with Twitter and Flickr next.

anonymous April 6 2007, 18:48:12 UTC

when i think of the idea of family drifting from its central geography, i think of several things.

1. a song by jane's addiction "of course"
2. migration was long and slow (for the most part) until the 20th century. this is both a technical feature (air & auto travel) and an economic one (modes of transportation becoming relatively cheaper and cheaper)
3. normally, the younger generation migrates away from the parents. in my family, this is reversed. I've so far stayed in our city of multi-generations, cincinnati, and my parents and sister migrated to california.

anyway, that's a cool web project. Can you package the process into a program? Could it be open source? I can think of many who'd find that really useful.

-jim