playing hooky
Sep. 2nd, 2003 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7i feel like a steamroller ran me over. i'm just tired.
so, i'm at home. Called in sick, am going to take an unpaid day and catch up on all the shit I've got to do. Well, not all of it. But, some at least, and I'll get things perhaps a little under control for the first time in six months.
i have so much shit to do today, the day is alive with promise. so far i've emailed a couple of hilarious photos of Dave to his mom-- he put up our shoe rack last night, and he looked so manly with the electric drill... :D
The apartment needs to be cleaned, and I have a billion websites to work on. So i'm going to do that soon.
One of the websites is going to be based off of the binder Grandma Shaver gave me this weekend. It's her geneaological research-- she researched every bloodline she could find because she couldn't find a paper record of her great-great-great grandfather's Revolutionary War service to get herself into the DAR. (She found about three ancestors who had served, and one had a pension record, so the DAR let her in. She also found a Mayflower ancestor-- John Alden, the last survivor of the Mayflower, who married Priscilla Mullins, a fellow Pilgrim, in 1623-4. (But she didn't bother with the Mayflower Society.)
There are hundreds and hundreds of ancestors in there. I think the earliest one is traced through the Denison family Genaeology, which is a published, hardbound book-- they trace themselves to someone called Clovis the Riparian (this confuses me but that's what my grandma's handwriting looks like it says), who lived around 400 A.D. and was a Frankish King from whom descended the more famous Emperor Charlemagne. (I prefer to list Charlemagne's father as my ancestor-- Pepin the Short is a far more interesting name.)
There's just so much information. Here's a sample bloodline I traced back as far as I could through all the charts:
Bridget Kelly, born 1979. Her mother:
Christina Shaver Kelly, born 1951. Her mother:
Elizabeth Denison Shaver, born 1919. Her mother:
Mabelle Zeh Denison, born 1892. Her mother:
Christina Carpenter Zeh, born 1872. Her mother:
Elizabeth Vandenburg Carpenter, born 1846. Her mother:
Elizabeth Anna Whitney Vandenburg, born 1824. Her mother:
Elizabeth Ostrander Whitney, born 1788. Her mother:
(There's some vagueness here as to whether Hannah and Annetje Waldron Ostrander are the same person, so this might not be accurate but probably is:) Hannah / Annetje Waldron Ostrander, born 1764. Her mother:
Catherine Vandenberg, married 1761 to Gerrit Waldron, who was born 1723. Her mother isn't listed, but his father was:
Peter Waldron, born 1675. His father:
William Waldron, born 1652. His father:
Joseph Waldron, who was my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather and lived in New York City in the beginning of the seventeenth century.
That's eleven generations in New York State, eight of them strictly through the maternal line. Pretty cool, no?
There are some wacky drifts off into weird old Dutch names in those charts. i didn't know I was Dutch, but I probably should've figured-- my grandma still goes to the Dutch Reformed Church where her ancestors are listed hundreds of years ago. My grandmother has visited China and was in Berlin the day after the Wall came down, but her family has stayed in one place for many centuries now. Now she has trouble getting around, but she can still talk. So, now is the time for me to embark on this kind of project. :D
so, i'm at home. Called in sick, am going to take an unpaid day and catch up on all the shit I've got to do. Well, not all of it. But, some at least, and I'll get things perhaps a little under control for the first time in six months.
i have so much shit to do today, the day is alive with promise. so far i've emailed a couple of hilarious photos of Dave to his mom-- he put up our shoe rack last night, and he looked so manly with the electric drill... :D
The apartment needs to be cleaned, and I have a billion websites to work on. So i'm going to do that soon.
One of the websites is going to be based off of the binder Grandma Shaver gave me this weekend. It's her geneaological research-- she researched every bloodline she could find because she couldn't find a paper record of her great-great-great grandfather's Revolutionary War service to get herself into the DAR. (She found about three ancestors who had served, and one had a pension record, so the DAR let her in. She also found a Mayflower ancestor-- John Alden, the last survivor of the Mayflower, who married Priscilla Mullins, a fellow Pilgrim, in 1623-4. (But she didn't bother with the Mayflower Society.)
There are hundreds and hundreds of ancestors in there. I think the earliest one is traced through the Denison family Genaeology, which is a published, hardbound book-- they trace themselves to someone called Clovis the Riparian (this confuses me but that's what my grandma's handwriting looks like it says), who lived around 400 A.D. and was a Frankish King from whom descended the more famous Emperor Charlemagne. (I prefer to list Charlemagne's father as my ancestor-- Pepin the Short is a far more interesting name.)
There's just so much information. Here's a sample bloodline I traced back as far as I could through all the charts:
Bridget Kelly, born 1979. Her mother:
Christina Shaver Kelly, born 1951. Her mother:
Elizabeth Denison Shaver, born 1919. Her mother:
Mabelle Zeh Denison, born 1892. Her mother:
Christina Carpenter Zeh, born 1872. Her mother:
Elizabeth Vandenburg Carpenter, born 1846. Her mother:
Elizabeth Anna Whitney Vandenburg, born 1824. Her mother:
Elizabeth Ostrander Whitney, born 1788. Her mother:
(There's some vagueness here as to whether Hannah and Annetje Waldron Ostrander are the same person, so this might not be accurate but probably is:) Hannah / Annetje Waldron Ostrander, born 1764. Her mother:
Catherine Vandenberg, married 1761 to Gerrit Waldron, who was born 1723. Her mother isn't listed, but his father was:
Peter Waldron, born 1675. His father:
William Waldron, born 1652. His father:
Joseph Waldron, who was my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather and lived in New York City in the beginning of the seventeenth century.
That's eleven generations in New York State, eight of them strictly through the maternal line. Pretty cool, no?
There are some wacky drifts off into weird old Dutch names in those charts. i didn't know I was Dutch, but I probably should've figured-- my grandma still goes to the Dutch Reformed Church where her ancestors are listed hundreds of years ago. My grandmother has visited China and was in Berlin the day after the Wall came down, but her family has stayed in one place for many centuries now. Now she has trouble getting around, but she can still talk. So, now is the time for me to embark on this kind of project. :D
