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Geneology

7/23/2022

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Seems like everyone is diving into geneology these days. Sites like 23 and Me and Ancestry DNA are collecting a lot of valuable data and it is interesting to see how that data is becoming more and more valuable.

I'll admit it - I've been interested my whole life - I want to know where we are from back several generations and I want to go visit those places.  I want to stand in the feet of my ancestors, touch what they touched, see what they saw. I want to understand how the way they lived their lives has impacted each generation and how it was passed to the next. 

I want to yank the ghosts out of the family closet, air the dirty laundry of the past uncover the sad, the funny and the tragic. Bring on the gossip!  If it happened almost 100 years ago - how can it hurt today really?
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Ok - so I'm sure you are asking - what the heck is going on in this picture?  Well, back in the late 40s there were a thing called "A Tom Thumb wedding or miniature wedding is a pageant where children act out the marriage ceremony. They were popular in the early 1900s, inspired by the 1863 wedding of General Tom Thumb (Charles Sherwood Stratton) and Lavinia Warren. There were various scripts, with brides named Jennie June or Lillie Putian." Neat, yes? My mom and my aunt are two of the little brides maids along with their cousin, who I think was the groom.  Anyway - I thought it was an appropriate bit of history, so I included it!

As for the rest of the day - well, I picked up my grocery order at Walmart, grabbed a few items from Aldi, had a Big Mac for lunch, unloaded the car, put everything away and then come to find out the driver's side window on my car won't shut..... Right now there just isn't a budget to fix it, so my next project is moving crap around in my garage and putting the car in. Blerg.  Oh and one other thing - I found out someone hacked into the Etsy shop and has been selling crap under my name.  I think not people.  I deleted all the listings and deleted the shop.  Changed the passwords, too. Jerks.  Well, glad I solved that one without too much drama!

Luckily, it is a beautiful day, not too hot and I have some delish left over spaghetti for dinner.

Not a bad Saturday!

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    Hi! Here's the place to put the 'everything else....'

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