Can the Adults Please Smoke? Chapter 35: Look Who's Here,We're Still Here!!- Page 74

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 7:08am

Good morning, kiddies. Let the games begin!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 7:19am

Morning peeps! I hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine went too fast as usual. I did spend a lovely Sunday in the cemetery taking pictures of family head stones. After many years I found my great-grandmother's plot again. She died when my grandfather was only a month old. His witch of a step mother did not want the rest of the family buried with her, so she is not in the family plot. I wish they would have put her maiden name on the stone. I can only go by what grandma told me now. Her daughters also put the wrong month she died. They have February 1904 on the stone which is impossible being grandpa was born in April 1904. Good times!

[MotorTink]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 8:04am

Morning!

Not much to report here, normal weekend. I'm down 14lbs though, so, yay and stuff.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 8:18am

Great job, Tink! Wish I could say the same, but it's hard to talk with a donut in your mouth.

Spent the weekend without internet and somehow survived.Should be up and running by the time I get home (Verizon cut into a cable in the neighborhood). Kind of freeing to spend a few days without checking on people's status updates.

Boobs - I love the way you've taken to the geneology project!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 8:53am

Moony, I love it! It takes me in so many directions. Saturday I got in touch with some older cousins to get their parents and siblings b-day and deaths. Of course there are conflicting dates from what the Census reads. I'm going off the tombstones in most cases, except for my great grandmother's LOL

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 9:10am

It is fun, isn't it? I wasn't giving up until I found my mother's family living in France. I finally found the guy who got on the boat to Canada in the mid 1500's. We're like the Jamestownians of Canada. I've traced my off-the-boat English grandmother's family back to 14th century France. Oddly, I can't get past three generations on my father's Irish side.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 9:24am

I can't wait to get into the Italian records...that should be fun. I know that both sides of my mother's family came from the same town. My father's side I have no idea. Do they have records from Hell?

[D2]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 9:53am

Mornin'

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 10:05am

SOMMS - you've got to help me find Neil/Neal/Nal Landry. I can't believe he's not listed in the 1881 Canadian census. I've hit a brick wall with his wife, Philamene/Philomena/Philamena Brine/ Brian/Briant too.
'Morning, Deet!

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 10:11am

Morning Adults!

Moony, my sister is big on the family history. She was able to track down the family home in Chicago, and get pictures with its current owners.

The two tiers of the family (conservative Anglican farmers/Jewish Cigar makers/carnies/bookies/actors) are pretty interesting.

We found a movie with Buster Keaton that has moments with my great great aunt in it. It is is pretty amazing what is out there.

Off to pay for the balance of my trip to Scotland. Have a wonderful week all.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 10:13am

I've hit a brick wall with the Landry's also. Damn that Calixte and his common name. Worse though, are the Bedards in Quebec. Can we say, Smith and Jones in Qubcois?

[glitzguy3]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 10:35am

can i play?????

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 10:49am

Glitzy!!! *hugs* It's been a long time...I hope all is well.

[glitzguy3]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 10:59am

doing well! miss you guys!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 11:09am

You should stop by more often. You know you can always find us here. It's been a little bit quiet being work seems to get in our way, but someone is always home

[glitzguy3]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 11:10am

ahh......it's good to be home.

coffee anyone?

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 11:46am

If it's spiked, YES.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 11:53am

I could use an urn today.

[glitzguy3]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 11:57am

OF COURSE it's spiked! is there any other kind???

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 11:58am

You were in the cemetery too long, Boobs.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 12:58pm

Glitzy!

I too have been bit by the ancestry thing. Unfortunately CR records are not part of the whole ancestry.com thing. Yet. I need to find more info from my mom's side of the family, based on an uncle's work we know my dad's.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 1:03pm

DD- CR records aren't included in the international section or do you just have a US membership? I had to upgrade my membership to access Canadian records (not that it helped).

[MotorTink]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 1:06pm

My grandfather (paternal) did a search of our family about 10-15 years ago. I would have no problem learning that side - my maternal side, not so much. I think ignorance is bliss on that one.


I started watching "8" during lunch and will finish it later. Very well done and acted so far..... and on a completely personal note - Matt, Matt, and George sitting next to each other. *sigh*

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 1:51pm

I was playing during lunch ... Dear State of Massachuesetts Records Department, three records, three spellings. Please choose one. Flebott, Flobette and Filobette. None of which moved me any further. Le sigh.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 3/5/12 at 2:11pm

I'm sorry to say that there are no records for the LeSigh family either.