Geneology

[Saint Therese]

One of my ancestors died in the Alamo.

[Sternhauser]

[quote name='Saint Therese' date='14 February 2010 - 11:12 AM' timestamp='1266163972' post='2057052']
One of my ancestors died in the Alamo.
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Mine too. He tripped and fell into it as he was scaling the wall.





All right, that's a lie.

~Sternhauser

[rhetoricfemme]

[quote name='CatherineM' date='13 February 2010 - 10:16 PM' timestamp='1266117376' post='2056837']
Vanity aside, I especially enjoy the stories of the women in the family. Two especially. Both were fighting beside their husbands, one in one of the later Crusades, and one in the Revolutionary War, and both took over their husband's jobs when they were no longer there. The first because her husband died in the saddle on the horse next to her, and the second because he was taken prisoner. The second one had 15 children who lived to adulthood, and lived to be 98 years old herself. I always tell people that the women in my family are hard to kill.
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This is nothing short of awesome. Does knowing your family history ever make you feel like you have expectations to live up to?

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='13 February 2010 - 10:34 PM' timestamp='1266118482' post='2056856']
Yes. Some of them were made of steel!

My gggrandmum's job as a little girl was to take the silverplate and run for the hills and hide it whenever the Indians approached the house.
My ggrandmum lived on the C & O canal and baked bread for the bargemen. When her children were little she had to tie them to the house so they wouldn't fall in while she worked and grandpap guided the boats thru the locks.
I remember Aunt Rachael up nailing shingles on her roof when she was over 90.
My aunt desperately wanted to finish high school, but it was the depression and there was no money for school clothes. She only had one dress, so every night she washed and dried it to wear it to school the next day. She had to walk the 2-3 miles to town snow or rain, but she never missed a day and she graduated.
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Wow. After hearing how hard these women worked, it seems kind of difficult for a person to make excuses for themselves in our time.

[quote name='King's Rook's Pawn' date='14 February 2010 - 08:58 AM' timestamp='1266155885' post='2057016']
I also recommend Family Tree Maker. Rootsweb.com and Ancestry.com are good sites, although the latter is a pay site. Warning: it's very time consuming. Also be prepared to spend a lot of time on the phone with countless little old ladies.
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The time consuming factor is one of the reasons I'd like to do this. It's a potentially long term project that I can commit to, and in doing so, I'll most likely avoid taking on other projects that I know are doomed to be fads that I drop after a week or two.

[CatherineM]

[quote name='rhetoricfemme' date='14 February 2010 - 11:07 AM' timestamp='1266167256' post='2057066']
This is nothing short of awesome. Does knowing your family history ever make you feel like you have expectations to live up to?
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You have no idea.

[Winchester]

[quote name='Sternhauser' date='13 February 2010 - 09:54 PM' timestamp='1266116052' post='2056825']
Amen, brother.

~Sternhauser
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Yea----waaaaait a minute.

[dominicansoul]

...I have St. Vincent Ferrer, O.P. in my family tree...

[tinytherese]

[quote name='Resurrexi' date='13 February 2010 - 08:31 PM' timestamp='1266111104' post='2056771']
Have you seen his new movie, [i]Valentine's Day[/i]?
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No and I don't plan to. He's known for playing characters who are stupid and or engaging in immoral behavior such as premarital sex or cohabitating.