Jamie Lannister...pfft!

[ixchel55]

Still climbing that family tree. To date the longest run in a single family name branches out from my father's paternal grandmother: Martha Ellen Terrill, born in 1856, and stretches back 32 more generations to 900 AD, moving through the American South, back to Essex, England and then over the English Channel to Normandy. Now, I've found a site

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[spasticat]

My dad really needs to get on the ball and add in more info on the people he's found doing our genealogy. For now it's just names and dates. Like we talked about during Sunday's talk...the names are a hoot!

Rock on with the genealogy!

[ixchel55]

Poke your dad with a stick to get him moving! The personal little tidbits that I run across are more entertaining than all of the illustrious ancestors.

A friend of mine received a box of old books from her father-in-law (the husband didn't care much one way or another) and among the books she found a diary written by one his ancestors during the Civil War. It was written in pencil and hard to read and as far as we can tell he wasn't in any major battles or did much in the way of adventure, but it was thrilling to help her decipher it all out.

Yes, definitely poke your dad with a stick. I need to write down some of my recollections of my family that might be of historical interest. Not that there are that many.

[spasticat]

I'll nudge him. He's bringing over the tomato plants on Saturday. I can then also show him the Epic Mushroom (of Possible Tree Doom) too.

Regarding your friend and the diary...woah and cool! A possible solution to reading the more difficult pages is to scan the pages and in photo editing software play with light and dark in the Levels settings and/or adjust via Brightness/Contrast, maybe even Exposure. Though that can result in even more of a chicken scratch effect. It's what I do when I have to put a person's "signature" on a web page or textbook/brochure letter. Some CEO's/VPs/authors/etc are tetchy if I ask them to redo their signature if what I've received is illegible.

I also need to poke my mom with a stick...she keeps promising to write family history stuff down and yet hasn't done so. :(