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Mar. 26th, 2018 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. The only drawback to writing a story in long-hand first, is I can't always read my own handwriting. I have no idea what "Or hauduraue" is. It may be "Or handirance" -- nope makes no sense.For the most part it's legible, but it doesn't help that I can't spell and have a tendency to make up words or just scrawl them. Writing is a craft I'm constantly working at.
2. While The Black Panther lost to Pacific Rim Uprising...which finally dethroned it after almost six weeks in the top spot at the box office, The Black Panther is the top-grossing super-hero flick of all time.
3. Well, hmmm...I've managed to trace my ancestory back to 1675 Virigina when it was a British Colony with a Jerima Bakson, who died at the age of 25 in childbirth. And to the 1745 in Germany, my uncle managed to get my father's side to open up on Germany by doing the test. Also have an ancestor who lived 100 years, female, in England.
My father and I have both done the DNA test. So we'll see what happens with that.
We go back a ways, but then I'd expect we all do...since we didn't just pop up here by aliens, right?
2. While The Black Panther lost to Pacific Rim Uprising...which finally dethroned it after almost six weeks in the top spot at the box office, The Black Panther is the top-grossing super-hero flick of all time.
3. Well, hmmm...I've managed to trace my ancestory back to 1675 Virigina when it was a British Colony with a Jerima Bakson, who died at the age of 25 in childbirth. And to the 1745 in Germany, my uncle managed to get my father's side to open up on Germany by doing the test. Also have an ancestor who lived 100 years, female, in England.
My father and I have both done the DNA test. So we'll see what happens with that.
We go back a ways, but then I'd expect we all do...since we didn't just pop up here by aliens, right?
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Date: 2018-03-27 01:48 pm (UTC)I must do one of those DNA tests sometime; was delighted when my kid sister (kid as in even she's over fifty now!) discovered both our grandmothers were from the far west of Cornwall - as in REALLY Cornish :-)
I can rest a little easier knowing I'm not as English as I'd feared ;-)
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Date: 2018-03-27 05:11 pm (UTC)Feel much the same way. I keep looking for ways in which I'm not English. Wish I wasn't so German, but I'm handling that better. I'm angry at the English -- they made a mess of the world with all of their colonizing.
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Date: 2018-03-27 03:15 pm (UTC)I've noticed that Americans at least until the early 20th century weren't at all bashful about remarrying if a spouse died. Certainly they needed someone to look after the hard work in the house, while the other worked in the fields. So maybe it was the toaster and washing machine that caused an increase in divorce and adults living single. ;o) Any way it sometimes occurs that I have full details from one of an ancestor's wives, but maybe only a first name of another wife, or her first name and last name from another marriage.
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Date: 2018-03-27 04:50 pm (UTC)I discussed it with my mother who reminded me that these people were farmers. Their kids were their workforce. (Too poor to have anything else). And if someone died in childbirth? They remarried. If a man died? The wife remarried. And they had like 16 kids. One did, literally have 16 kids. I'm not exaggerating. I don't think they married for love back then, so much as for survival.
And yep, was able to trace quite a few back to the 1600s in New England as well. Better records, I think.