Yo. New site layout. It sucks!!
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dragonlady7You can't update your journal and then go directly to your friends page. All the usual navigation stuff at the left? Gone. That fucking sucks. Why the hell did they change it? Great, now I don't know how to use the site. Way to go, fellas.
It's ok, I wasn't really planning on renewing my paid membership anytime soon. Livejournal has been fun but I don't think it's going to be my primary mode of self-expression for very much longer. I wasn't going to announce that, but the new interface sucks so profoundly that I just felt I ought to. I'm sorry, I'm hostile to change at the moment, it seems. Ugh!
It's not even that different-- they just got rid of all the links I, oh, actually used. *shrug*
Anyhow, on to what I was going to write about-- more genealogy, which none of you are remotely interested in, but I AM so I'm going to.
I was at first distressed and confused when I found so many Denison family charts. I'd traced the Denisons all the way back once and it was a straight line. But then I was flipping through the charts and there was another Denison chart that had different names on it-- well, slightly, as the Denisons were staggeringly uncreative (how many freaking Williams and Johns can you have???). So I traced that line.
Well... I'm descended from Captain George Denison (1620-1694) twice.
His son John had a son Daniel who had a son John. This John married an Abigail Avery, whose mother was Sarah, whose father was William, whose father was the same Captain George. So, there's kind of a little box there. However, it's not *that* little a box-- a bigger box than the one Franklin Delano Roosevelt makes with Elanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, at least!-- and the marriage in question happened in 1738.
But, neither of the two sons of George are the sons of his first wife who seems to purportedly be descended from Clovis. Bummer!!! I have to ask Grandma about that, because I'm very confused. (Bridget, as her name was, died in 1643. George remarried in 1646, and all his sons were born after that. He was 26 in 1646-- he and Bridget weren't married long. I don't know that they had any children. In which case, why the heck would the Denisons care who she was? Her bloodline doesn't continue into the Denisons because she didn't give birth to any Denisons.)
So. Confusion.
I tried last night to trace a bloodline from its earliest appearance and go forward in time until I got to now, but I got very confused. The Vandenberg line (abbr. VDB) was plagued by poor handwriting, it would seem.
Cornelius VDB, born near Utrecht in an illegible village in Holland, was in Albany by 1648.
His son Gepbert (sp? I have no idea) died in 1653.
His son Cornelius Illegible (Sybertse? Gybertse?) VDB was born c. 1645, married his second wife 21 Nov 1702, and died before 1 July 1717.
His son Wynant VDB was baptized 24 June 1694, married his second wife 21 Nov. 1715, and isn't recorded as dying but he probably did.
His son Cornelius (the originality staggers me) was baptized 13 May 1727, and married 13 April 1751. Also, no death date. (There can be only one...)
His son Wynant (you sensing a freaking pattern here? So confusing as you're paging through charts... do me a favor, do NOT name your kids after yourself or your parents) was baptized 14 june 1760, and married 5 Mar. 1781-- apparently in Schaghticoke, which is where my parents live now. Interesting...
His son Abraham W. VDB (thank you!) was baptized 1783 @ schaghticoke, married 23 Oct 1808, and died in 1862, neatly avoiding two major wars.
His son Nicholas Van Vranken VDB (how original, his mother's maiden name... actually, that's useful) was born 20 Apr. 1820, married 13 Sept 1842, and died 14 Jan 1877.
His daughter Mary Elizabeth (the dreaded name appears) VDB was born 16 Mar 1846, married Philip Carpenter, and died in Oct 1873.
Her daughter Christina E. Carpenter was born 9 Jan 1872, married Benjamin Zeh in 5 Mar. 1890, and lived for freaking ever, dying 17 Oct 1967 as my mother's very very old great-grandmother. She was tough, too, by all accounts.
Her daughter Mabelle E. Zeh was born 10 Mar 1892, married Charles E. Denison on Nov 28 1912 (we have the commemmorative plate), and also lived to be ancient but was unable to recognize her own children by the time she was 85. (She died in the late 80s. I met her several times but she couldn't really speak by then, so I don't really remember her too well except that she was a little scary. My mother remembers her as a strong, vibrant woman who was an excellent cook.)
Her daughter, creatively named Elizabeth, was my grandmother, and her dates are already in this journal.
She, in turn, creatively named her own daughter Christina. Fortunately, my mom had a little more artistic license and chose a name that may or may not be in my family lineage at all, Bridget.
It's ok, I wasn't really planning on renewing my paid membership anytime soon. Livejournal has been fun but I don't think it's going to be my primary mode of self-expression for very much longer. I wasn't going to announce that, but the new interface sucks so profoundly that I just felt I ought to. I'm sorry, I'm hostile to change at the moment, it seems. Ugh!
It's not even that different-- they just got rid of all the links I, oh, actually used. *shrug*
Anyhow, on to what I was going to write about-- more genealogy, which none of you are remotely interested in, but I AM so I'm going to.
I was at first distressed and confused when I found so many Denison family charts. I'd traced the Denisons all the way back once and it was a straight line. But then I was flipping through the charts and there was another Denison chart that had different names on it-- well, slightly, as the Denisons were staggeringly uncreative (how many freaking Williams and Johns can you have???). So I traced that line.
Well... I'm descended from Captain George Denison (1620-1694) twice.
His son John had a son Daniel who had a son John. This John married an Abigail Avery, whose mother was Sarah, whose father was William, whose father was the same Captain George. So, there's kind of a little box there. However, it's not *that* little a box-- a bigger box than the one Franklin Delano Roosevelt makes with Elanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, at least!-- and the marriage in question happened in 1738.
But, neither of the two sons of George are the sons of his first wife who seems to purportedly be descended from Clovis. Bummer!!! I have to ask Grandma about that, because I'm very confused. (Bridget, as her name was, died in 1643. George remarried in 1646, and all his sons were born after that. He was 26 in 1646-- he and Bridget weren't married long. I don't know that they had any children. In which case, why the heck would the Denisons care who she was? Her bloodline doesn't continue into the Denisons because she didn't give birth to any Denisons.)
So. Confusion.
I tried last night to trace a bloodline from its earliest appearance and go forward in time until I got to now, but I got very confused. The Vandenberg line (abbr. VDB) was plagued by poor handwriting, it would seem.
Cornelius VDB, born near Utrecht in an illegible village in Holland, was in Albany by 1648.
His son Gepbert (sp? I have no idea) died in 1653.
His son Cornelius Illegible (Sybertse? Gybertse?) VDB was born c. 1645, married his second wife 21 Nov 1702, and died before 1 July 1717.
His son Wynant VDB was baptized 24 June 1694, married his second wife 21 Nov. 1715, and isn't recorded as dying but he probably did.
His son Cornelius (the originality staggers me) was baptized 13 May 1727, and married 13 April 1751. Also, no death date. (There can be only one...)
His son Wynant (you sensing a freaking pattern here? So confusing as you're paging through charts... do me a favor, do NOT name your kids after yourself or your parents) was baptized 14 june 1760, and married 5 Mar. 1781-- apparently in Schaghticoke, which is where my parents live now. Interesting...
His son Abraham W. VDB (thank you!) was baptized 1783 @ schaghticoke, married 23 Oct 1808, and died in 1862, neatly avoiding two major wars.
His son Nicholas Van Vranken VDB (how original, his mother's maiden name... actually, that's useful) was born 20 Apr. 1820, married 13 Sept 1842, and died 14 Jan 1877.
His daughter Mary Elizabeth (the dreaded name appears) VDB was born 16 Mar 1846, married Philip Carpenter, and died in Oct 1873.
Her daughter Christina E. Carpenter was born 9 Jan 1872, married Benjamin Zeh in 5 Mar. 1890, and lived for freaking ever, dying 17 Oct 1967 as my mother's very very old great-grandmother. She was tough, too, by all accounts.
Her daughter Mabelle E. Zeh was born 10 Mar 1892, married Charles E. Denison on Nov 28 1912 (we have the commemmorative plate), and also lived to be ancient but was unable to recognize her own children by the time she was 85. (She died in the late 80s. I met her several times but she couldn't really speak by then, so I don't really remember her too well except that she was a little scary. My mother remembers her as a strong, vibrant woman who was an excellent cook.)
Her daughter, creatively named Elizabeth, was my grandmother, and her dates are already in this journal.
She, in turn, creatively named her own daughter Christina. Fortunately, my mom had a little more artistic license and chose a name that may or may not be in my family lineage at all, Bridget.
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Date: 2003-09-05 07:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-05 03:02 pm (UTC)Oh. Thanks. :D
On reflection, I don't hate the new style as much as I thought, but I'm not thrilled with it. I don't like rollover popupy things. Bleh.
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Date: 2003-09-05 05:37 pm (UTC)LJ news is a good thing to have on one's friends list. They give a way for you to change back to the old skin, should you prefer it.
I, too, dislike the new look and don't think it was worth the ongoing problems I've had with accessing the site, getting comments and updates to actually occur, and other such aggravations. However, I'm too lazy to change it back and I'm struggling to avoid becoming one of those "change=bad!" people.
Change=bad! I just know it!