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[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 10/7/13 at 12:29pm

Afternoon peeps! I hope the afternoon flies by like this morning.

Had a great weekend. Confirmation was very nice. Beautiful cathedral in Trenton. A delicious brunch with a couple of family members and friends in Yardley, PA was the perfect way to celebrate. Yesterday we brought Frankie & Sparrow to church to be blessed being St. Francis day was Friday. Sparrow really could have used an exorcism.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 10/7/13 at 12:55pm

D2 - very funny!!!

Great weekend - nephew in town and I need a new liver! Lots of fun! Bears were awful.

Back to "reality" report due to grumpy client today!

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 7:20am

Happy Tuesday, kids.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 7:58am

Morning peeps! Love Tuesdays when my boss works in the Jersey office. So much more relaxed around here. Although Mouth Almighty is back from his usual Monday off...yesterday was his 3rd in a row.

[D2]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 8:26am

Mornin'

Interesting conversation last night w/ someone who made my life miserable recently. It looks like that person is backing out of a project, and it will be going back to its original intent. Hmmmm...

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 8:40am

She is? My goodness, Deet, I wouldn't have predicted that turn of events - particularly when it involves ego.

Sending hubby off for a 4 day retreat with his students today. I was digging around in the basement last night, looking for his sleeping bag. I think I disturbed a lot of dust and now that dust is disturbing me.

Over the weekend I sent a cousin of mine an email, telling her about the family tree I set up on Ancestry.com. I gave her access so she can see her dad's side of the family (she's my uncle's oldest daughter). I got the strangest response this morning. Basically, "thank you, but my daughter is adopted and she will never know her own family tree. I wouldn't feel right knowing about my ancestors if she can't know about hers. It would damage our bond as mother and daughter." HUH?!? Whatever. Her father wasn't interested very much, either, so maybe it's an inherited trait.

At least I'll always have SOMMS.....

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 8:51am

I sent an email recently to my first cousin, once removed on the bizillionaire side of the family (in San Francisco). He was thrilled to find out about his grandmother. They didn't know much. British stiff upper lip, you know. He shared it with his entire family. I finally ordered a DNA kit last night. I'm expecting to be Swedish, but I really want to find the Native America that I just know is there.
Have you been watching Geneology Roadshow, cuz. A bit sappy, but has some interesting moments. The woman who just knew that she was related to Ben Frankin, and then found that she was, had my arm hairs on end.

[D2]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 9:04am

I know, Moony. I'm cautiously happy.

I want to get that DNA Kit -- I think it will be interesting to discover how my ancestor's travelled. J2's too.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 9:25am

Moony, that is so odd. People are strange. My family are happy that I'm doing the leg work for them. Plus saving them tons of $$$

Poddie, it would funny if you're from Persia like me. DNA tests don't lie!

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 9:33am

Definitely weird. As I think you all know, my brother is adopted. When they were here last and I was showing them a bunch of info on our Dad's folks (who both died when he was young) and greats and great greats on that side (including pics), that my Aunt (really my Dad's first cousin) uncovered, he was amazed and very interested.

Edited: We'd never even seen a pic of our grandmother until then.

Updated On: 10/8/13 at 09:33 AM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 9:52am

Deet, that's wonderful news! I'll cautiously await the developments.

Moony, that's such a strange response. But, I suppose to each his own... I wonder what her adopted child would think about it. Family is family and our connections matter, whether we were born into a group or not... in my opinion.
Would love to do the DNA kit test, also.

I'm heading back to Chicago tomorrow, so have been going crazy in preparation. I have Friday, off, however, and we are closed on Monday, so that's something to look forward to. I'm heading to VT on Friday (with Mom) to visit some family friends. We'll return Sunday and I'll have Monday to myself. Much needed.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 9:59am

My oldest cousin, also adopted, is the one who has done most of the geneology work on my dad's side of the family.

Deet, hoping that all goes your way from here forward.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 10:01am

Addy, we have fab weather here.

On my father's side we cannot get back to Ireland! Very strange. We can identify the boat, port and travel to Illinois in 1880, but no family identified in the "home land".

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 10:28am

Cautiously holding my breath for D2. Thinking Good Thoughts Thinking Good Thoughts Thinking Good Thoughts.

Happy Tuesday Adults.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 10:32am

Well, I'm going to chalk it up to: 1) she's just strange and 2) she gets it from her MOTHER'S side. She also said that I should not be surprised by her response since I already knew her daughter was adopted. I wrote back and said "True confessions: Not only did I not know your daughter was adopted, I didn't even know you had a daughter! Your father never told me." As I said, we haven't been in touch in years.

SOMMS - I'm so excited that you're doing the DNA test!!!! You know, the reason I had it done was that I was sure there was MicMaq blood on both sides of the family. My brother was all ready to start a casino. No dice. Not a drop of native blood. Just lots o' Viking DNA. And British Isles, which, we know now includes Irish. All these years I've ignored St. Patrick's Day and I could have been out celebrating. I need to find a Viking holiday.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 10:41am

Wow - what a nasty response from her! You were only trying to be helpful.
Cut that branch off the family tree!!

Where did you order the DNA test from? Ancestry.com?

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 10:51am

Yeah, I'd prune that part of the tree, but it's been dormant for so long, I wasn't sure if it was viable.

I got my test from Ancestry.com. If you do it through them, they compare your results to everyone else on their site (unless you ask for full privacy and, really, what's the fun in that?). That's how i got matched with a woman in Oregon who is my mother's 2nd cousin.She's been a treasure trove of family info. I can't wait see them match up SOMMS and me.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 11:04am

The database is going to implode!

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 11:10am

I know. They will probably post a warning,"DO NOT MARRY EACH OTHER".

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 11:39am

Now I am intrigued! I wonder if any of my family has had a DNA. (Other than my brother for paternity - he was NOT the father. I felt bad for the kid - for 15 years the mother told her son that Bro.Brd. was the father!)

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 1:02pm

My sister has been big on the ancestry thing. My family is basically America personified. My father's family came over on the ship after the Mayflower, English/Irish/Scottish/Dutch/French background. They became farmers, and a bunch of them settled in central California in a farming town called Tulare/Visalia. Pennsylvania Dutch family recipes. Very stiff upper lip and hard working folk. My grandmother was raised on an orange ranch in Southern California, and lived on land that was sold to Burt Irvine (who developed most of the OC). She grew up with a very white and entitled view of things.

My mom's family emigrated from all over Europe. A distant grandfather was a doctor to the King of Spain, while more recent relatives fled the Pogroms in Russia/Lithuania. My grandmother fled hidden in a wheelbarrow.

Once they came to the US, they settled in Chicago, and became pretty prosperous cigar manufactures. My Great Aunt's husband was Al Capone's doctor, and allegedly fled prosecution by working on cruise ships in international waters. My Aunt Clara then moved to California to become a silent movie actress, and something called a Sunshine Girl (one step removed from a Ziegfeld girl). She quit show business to remarry for love, and her only son Jarvis was killed in WW2, My Grandpa Herbie was a bookie in Chicago, and alter became a carny in the traveling circus with his second wife Vickie. My grandma Tybee (pretty clear this is the Jewish side by the names alone) ended up driving a bus for the Bay Cities Jewish Community Center and managing an apartment complex in the Santa Monica - she could have been a character in Tales of the City - with her dyed blond hair, Matzo, diet cream soda, and long cigarettes.

Holidays at my house with my father's prim and proper Republican family (I believe they had sex maybe once) and my mom's raucous, free wheeling JFK and Kennedy loving brood was always entertaining. We had both a Nixon and a McGovern sign on our lawn.

I am sure I have blathered about all of this before, but I am just about as big of a genetic mutt as one can find.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 1:09pm

Now see. I find this stuff just fascinating! I love your story, You!

Brd - get the DNA test - you'll be surprised at the results.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 1:14pm

Mooney - My dad did not even convert to Judaism until my grandmother passed away. My grandma kept hoping he would come to their senses.

My parents eloped because my father's family definitely did not approve.

My dad, for some reason was looking for a Jewish girl while at UCLA. He met my mom and said "I love you" on either the first or second date. He was a scientist - for him Judaism made sense. Who knows what would have happened if he had been exposed to Buddhism!

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 1:18pm

I doubt Buddhism would have made your family more mellow. Those genes are powerful!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 1:37pm

I keep getting from Ancestry.com that they found possibly more relatives....all like 7th cousins. I guess no one in my family really want to know who they're related to.