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Garden Master
Recently, I learned that my Grandmother Pearl's sister married a guy who was known to family and friends as "Wink." I can imagine that this nickname had to do with a problem he had with one eye but, ya know, it could have been that the family was a little embarrassed but accepting of little Wink for some characteristic or other .
This fits a little with @heirloomgal 's comment on a (second?) cousin's name. But, it all reminds me how we miss so much by just looking at old census and such records of names and dates. Just staying with names , Pearl's son Orval's name was written in 3 different ways by census workers!
Something else that I learned recently is that one person in the family married a Foster. No, that was the family name but it just goes to show how the "trail" can be lost and how the whole genealogical scheme can come crashing down .
Would "intangible" be the correct word as one traces ancestry back through the centuries? We have 4 grandparents. Each of them had 4 grandparents, so there were 16 Great Greats and those folks? 💫 . If we just stay on the straight and narrow (regardless of Fosters ), we have to realize that there was a virtual multitude of ancestors.
We may have the confusion of the person my family knew as "Aunt Sis" and @baymule renamed "Ain't Sis," on one of my TEG threads of a similar nature. But, Bay', she really was Aunt Sis because her nephew (my great grandfather) married her husband's sister so 💫 .
Steve
someone said the other day that some of Socrates' DNA might still be around but, so what ?
This fits a little with @heirloomgal 's comment on a (second?) cousin's name. But, it all reminds me how we miss so much by just looking at old census and such records of names and dates. Just staying with names , Pearl's son Orval's name was written in 3 different ways by census workers!
Something else that I learned recently is that one person in the family married a Foster. No, that was the family name but it just goes to show how the "trail" can be lost and how the whole genealogical scheme can come crashing down .
Would "intangible" be the correct word as one traces ancestry back through the centuries? We have 4 grandparents. Each of them had 4 grandparents, so there were 16 Great Greats and those folks? 💫 . If we just stay on the straight and narrow (regardless of Fosters ), we have to realize that there was a virtual multitude of ancestors.
We may have the confusion of the person my family knew as "Aunt Sis" and @baymule renamed "Ain't Sis," on one of my TEG threads of a similar nature. But, Bay', she really was Aunt Sis because her nephew (my great grandfather) married her husband's sister so 💫 .
Steve
someone said the other day that some of Socrates' DNA might still be around but, so what ?