Comments | maeve66: 2013 Meme: Topic # 4 -- stagnation

maeve66

2013 Meme: Topic # 4 -- stagnation

Jan 23, 2013 17:52

Day 4: What do you do to keep yourself from mentally/emotionally/physically stagnating?I read a lot. A LOT. Generally friends and people I barely know look at my like I am crazy if I tell them I read several books a week. I am curious about just how many I actually read, so I decided to actually USE Goodreads this year, and enter every single ( Read more... )

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springheel_jack January 24 2013, 05:20:37 UTC

Ancestry is about as reliable as guessing, says the archivist in the family. She found a line of descent from pocahontas, was it? That she was later totally unable to substantiate at all. It relies - or used to rely - too much on user submissions.

springheel_jack January 24 2013, 05:21:02 UTC

Though I may just be jealous because ancestry says I'm descended from nobody.

springheel_jack January 24 2013, 05:33:03 UTC

I mean, nobody. I'm, like, a big zero

maeve66 January 24 2013, 05:49:16 UTC

Sadly, I think the Joseph Smith thing is substantiated, ewww. How would you like to be related to him? You're probably related to plenty of fascinating and cool people -- but I bet the records aren't as available. A lot of the other stuff is, as the archivist in your family suggests, utter hogwash, I think. People just hopefully linking similar names and places. I mean, fair enough through cemeteries back to about the 1600s, but once you hop the pond to England, I think it is all crazily speculative.