This is random, but I'm watching Ridiculousness, and they just showed this clip of "Elephant snacks" and it was NASTY!!

yup... he'd even send me to pennsylvania for it

Yikes. I think my parents would send me to a Mormon school if such a thing existed, but they don't, so I go to plain old public school.

 

You're Mormon??? that's sooo cool!

*flourish* That I am. Any questions for me? BG is too.

 

Not really, but you guys are like really big on ancestry, right?

That is true. We have this website called new.familysearch.com where you can search through records and find ancestors. I've got some lines traced back to the 15th century.

cool. wheeloftime13 and our Nene love genealogy, and they've traced our lines to royalty, other things, and to about the 400's. It's crazy

cool. wheeloftime13 and our Nene love genealogy, and they've traced our lines to royalty, other things, and to about the 400's. It's crazy

I've found ancestors born in a good dozen countries, including Britain, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France (that was a hard one to find), lots of Germany, Denmark, and both the Navajo and Creek Native American tribes.

yup.. I have all those except the Navajo. I also have Powhatan, Bohemian, Greek, Swedish, Persian, (rulers of Jerusalem), Cherokee, Choctaw, Spanish, and lots more. How long did it take to trace your ancestors?

rulers of Jerusalem?

yup.. I have all those except the Navajo. I also have Powhatan, Bohemian, Greek, Swedish, Persian, (rulers of Jerusalem), Cherokee, Choctaw, Spanish, and lots more. How long did it take to trace your ancestors?

I got lucky. My dad's family is really into this stuff, so they did it all for me. The cool thing about the website is that if it knows you're related to someone, it will tack all the work they've done onto yours.

 

That's an impressive list.

What kind of farm? I ask cuz I know that there are different kinds.

Bare subsistence - you make what you need to live, such as we had some sheep for wool, we grew potatoes, barley, cabbage, kale, etc, for vegetables, had a few cows for milk, and then some hogs for meat and chicken for eggs/meat, and if you have anything you can spare, you trade with other farmers for things you do not have that you need or sometimes luxuries. That kind of farm .

 

there's this, not quite a documentary, one of the reality house series shows, where they make people live like it's a certain historical era... frontier house, american frontier late 1800s.... they had a bunch of kids in that one.... which their parents should not have allowed, but anyway, they did.... and the kids were so miserable working on the farms night and day that they looked at school as a treat when they finally brought the teacher in.

Were these kids living a normal life before the show? Living on a farm was all I knew and I never even thought about school because that just was not an option, though I really liked these one religious classes the druids held once a week that I could go to sometimes; got off the farm and away from my father for once and I got to learn some things. Those made me very happy.

 

I am straight up Irish, by the way - we tend to not let anyone who is not Irish or cannot prove they have only Irish (or Scandinavian) ancestry into our community. I might be a tiny bit Scandinavian on my mother's side, if the thing about having a Norwegian settler from the Viking invasions marrying into the family is true, which I am assuming it is because my mother's community has all the records up there for anyone to see, can't just make things up.

My Nene's been doing it for more than 40 years, and WoT13 for about 5. They use anestry.com.

 

I probably should've just said rulers of jerusalem instead of putting it in parentheses. Ex. Isabella I, Fulk of Anjou, etc.

Cool, is living on a farm fun?

What kind of farm? I ask cuz I know that there are different kinds.

Bare subsistence - you make what you need to live, such as we had some sheep for wool, we grew potatoes, barley, cabbage, kale, etc, for vegetables, had a few cows for milk, and then some hogs for meat and chicken for eggs/meat, and if you have anything you can spare, you trade with other farmers for things you do not have that you need or sometimes luxuries. That kind of farm .

 

there's this, not quite a documentary, one of the reality house series shows, where they make people live like it's a certain historical era... frontier house, american frontier late 1800s.... they had a bunch of kids in that one.... which their parents should not have allowed, but anyway, they did.... and the kids were so miserable working on the farms night and day that they looked at school as a treat when they finally brought the teacher in.

Were these kids living a normal life before the show? Living on a farm was all I knew and I never even thought about school because that just was not an option, though I really liked these one religious classes the druids held once a week that I could go to sometimes; got off the farm and away from my father for once and I got to learn some things. Those made me very happy.

 

I am straight up Irish, by the way - we tend to not let anyone who is not Irish or cannot prove they have only Irish (or Scandinavian) ancestry into our community. I might be a tiny bit Scandinavian on my mother's side, if the thing about having a Norwegian settler from the Viking invasions marrying into the family is true, which I am assuming it is because my mother's community has all the records up there for anyone to see, can't just make things up.

 

they were modern American kids, their parents signed the whole families up for this five month show/experiment. from 2001 to 1889 or so ... Wyoming, and they all kinda went nuts and seemed to believe they were there and worked the kids the way they worked kids then. the teacher was like the kind a small community would hire, but I think they did that to get around some laws about how they were using the children.

My Nene's been doing it for more than 40 years, and WoT13 for about 5. They use anestry.com.

 

I probably should've just said rulers of jerusalem instead of putting it in parentheses. Ex. Isabella I, Fulk of Anjou, etc.

 

I never heard the term, I don't quite follow. what does it mean? those aren't rulers of either kingdom that I know of but I only know of OT rulers and a little pre OT... or does Jerusalem mean something else?

Austria-Hungarian and as far as we know Irish, but most of my family can't be traced. most of the records of European Jewish ancestry are gone in any case, even for the ones we know.

Cool, is living on a farm fun?

Hehehe no it wasn't - parents work you like a dog and though they left the farm now and then, they did not bother taking me or my siblings with them most times (and when they did take my siblings, I often times got left behind because I am special like that ). Only place within reasonable walking distance was the neighbours, but if my father was having a tantrum, which was often, I would not be allowed to even go there. Running away at least got you out of there for awhile, even if you had to come back or let someone find you because you had nowhere to go . I would not have minded it at all, though, if I had the right kind of parents, but hahahaha, no such luck in that area .