Mutant ladybugs?
Sep. 1st, 2004 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilight33I'm not sure how to explain the fact that five of us dressed in red shirts & black pants today at work. A few minutes ago, three of us went to the same door at the same time and we & everyone nearby laughed at us trying to swarm out.
Forgot to mention earlier that I've pulled off my 4th quarter in a row of a 4.0 & my prof returned my final paper in the SASE with 'Dr.' written in front of my name. I can't wait til next Spring when I'll take a 3rd ANTH class with him, he cracks me up.
This morning I broke decades of mystery about my great-grandpa besides his extremely common name, thanks to 3 separate facts from my mom & her sisters. That line of the family is from Germany, Austria & Denmark, which explains a lot about how I look. My hope is to track down some distant relatives and find out more, especially pictures. We don't have a single one of him, let alone his family.
A few nights ago I disproved a popular family story on my dad's side that we're related to Robert E. Lee, but I might keep that revelation to myself & simply not pass it on to Kieran. It'll take a lot of digging to find out if the Lees who were close family friends & some of the sisters married are part of those Lees, but it's definitely not direct. I'm glad my 3x great-uncle (middle name Lee) who died in February didn't know this though.
I thought I'd have to sign up for a free ancestry.com trial (then cancel after 2 weeks to avoid hefty charges) by now, but as long as I can keep blasting these bricks with my convoluted research methods for free I won't. It's good to know my COMS investigative journalism background is still relevant.
Forgot to mention earlier that I've pulled off my 4th quarter in a row of a 4.0 & my prof returned my final paper in the SASE with 'Dr.' written in front of my name. I can't wait til next Spring when I'll take a 3rd ANTH class with him, he cracks me up.
This morning I broke decades of mystery about my great-grandpa besides his extremely common name, thanks to 3 separate facts from my mom & her sisters. That line of the family is from Germany, Austria & Denmark, which explains a lot about how I look. My hope is to track down some distant relatives and find out more, especially pictures. We don't have a single one of him, let alone his family.
A few nights ago I disproved a popular family story on my dad's side that we're related to Robert E. Lee, but I might keep that revelation to myself & simply not pass it on to Kieran. It'll take a lot of digging to find out if the Lees who were close family friends & some of the sisters married are part of those Lees, but it's definitely not direct. I'm glad my 3x great-uncle (middle name Lee) who died in February didn't know this though.
I thought I'd have to sign up for a free ancestry.com trial (then cancel after 2 weeks to avoid hefty charges) by now, but as long as I can keep blasting these bricks with my convoluted research methods for free I won't. It's good to know my COMS investigative journalism background is still relevant.
