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Rep Retirement Lodge #178: Oh, mookie's dreams...

Rep Retirement Lodge #178: Oh, mookie's dreams...

  • mookie will keep dreaming about (insert poster here) and fluffy pillows.

    Votes: 6 27.3%

  • mookie will be dreaming about A-girls and more fluffy pillows

    Votes: 10 45.5%

  • mookie will be dreaming about golf courses and non-fluffy greens

    Votes: 6 27.3%

  • mookie will be dreaming about putt-putting with the A-girls and Siamese cats

    Votes: 9 40.9%

  • Giada's melons are all that's worth dreaming about

    Votes: 11 50.0%

  • Freddy Meyer will hack mookies dreams and they won't be pretty

    Votes: 8 36.4%

  • I had a dream that one day we would all have bacon!

    Votes: 8 36.4%

  • All of the Lodge will be dreaming about St. Clown starting no more poll threads

    Votes: 8 36.4%

  • something, something for the ladies, fill in blank here ( )

    Votes: 6 27.3%

  • Twitch will have b-day dreams about hot dogs and hallways.

    Votes: 8 36.4%
  • Total voters
    22
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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #178: Oh, mookie's dreams...

gmann said:
Good evening Lodge.

Another great weather day. We played hard for most of it.

Burgers, baked beans and Pringles for dinner. Gatorade was the beverage of choice and Butterfingers for dessert.

Never attempted ancestory.com or anything like it. Wouldn't even know where to start. Not sure I would even want to as I'm sure it would suck me in and end up being a huge (but probably worth it) project.

Rumor has it that one of my ancestors Erik the Red is depicted on a couple runestones wearing something similar to a speedo.........speedo is actually derived from the Norse word skiver. :D
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I'm just afraid that I'd find out what was told to me over the years was a distorted truth (as far as ancestry). I've ID'd myself according to that, and have no desire to vary from those facts. I don't THINK I've been told "stories," as my ancestry was told to me the old-fashioned way (passed down verbally, nothing legendary or anything, just simple things like "they came over on the boat"). I'd rather take that as the truth.
 
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My uncle did some major legwork on my dad's side. Believe he traced back to Richard Warren, who came over on the Mayflower and was fairly big at the time (signed the Mayflower Compact). I want to say that's my 15th generation grandfather or some such lineage.

Funny story to go along with that. Had to do a school project in grade school about family trees and whatnot. SNAFU with my dad's side, either great grandparents or great-great's. Something along the lines of he ended up having 2 wives, causing a whole bunch of branches that were included in the project that went on display at public library. Grandmother was NONE TOO THRILLED that it was mentioned. She took the project home and made certain I understood that was not to be made public. I was probably still in elementary, just trying to do a good job on it! :(
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
My uncle did some major legwork on my dad's side. Believe he traced back to Richard Warren, who came over on the Mayflower and was fairly big at the time (signed the Mayflower Compact). I want to say that's my 15th generation grandfather or some such lineage.

Funny story to go along with that. Had to do a school project in grade school about family trees and whatnot. SNAFU with my dad's side, either great grandparents or great-great's. Something along the lines of he ended up having 2 wives, causing a whole bunch of branches that were included in the project that went on display at public library. Grandmother was NONE TOO THRILLED that it was mentioned. She took the project home and made certain I understood that was not to be made public. I was probably still in elementary, just trying to do a good job on it! :(
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See, that wouldn't bother me (or my family, IMO). It's more heritage. From what I know, mainly Irish, then Norwegian, a touch of English, and a touch of Gypsy (the ethnicity, not the regionalism).
 
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Brenthoven said:
I'm just afraid that I'd find out what was told to me over the years was a distorted truth (as far as ancestry). I've ID'd myself according to that, and have no desire to vary from those facts. I don't THINK I've been told "stories," as my ancestry was told to me the old-fashioned way (passed down verbally, nothing legendary or anything, just simple things like "they came over on the boat"). I'd rather take that as the truth.
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My dad liked to tell stories about his side of the family. I'm pretty sure they're highly steeped in BS as he claimed that my family lines go back to the House of Hannover and that Buffalo Bill fits in there somewhere. Like I said, he would tell, as we delicately put it to younger generations, "stories." I do know through verified info that my immigrant ancestors on that side were quite wealthy and ended up owning a large area of land in western PA, just east of Pittsburgh, and that it turned out to be rich in coal. They moved there during the industrial revolution instead of just owning the untamed land, land the family had taken ownership of the land prior to the Revolution. They turned it into a mining town and named it after the family, passed it down to through the generations. My dad's side of the family was loaded; my grandfather died in an auto accident and his relatives more or less took my dad's inheritance from him and my grandmother. It's all the more reason I'm not at all interested in researching my family's lineage on that side.

My mom's only a second generation American on her maternal side, and not much more on her paternal side. My maternal grandmother was full blooded German and my grandfather half English and half Irish - an odd combination to say the least since they were both Catholic. I have to think that it was a very fiery household when that marriage was still young.
 
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St. Clown said:
My dad liked to tell stories about his side of the family. I'm pretty sure they're highly steeped in BS as he claimed that my family lines go back to the House of Hannover and that Buffalo Bill fits in there somewhere. Like I said, he would tell, as we delicately put it to younger generations, "stories." I do know through verified info that my immigrant ancestors on that side were quite wealthy and ended up owning a large area of land in western PA, just east of Pittsburgh, and that it turned out to be rich in coal. They moved there during the industrial revolution instead of just owning the untamed land, land the family had taken ownership of the land prior to the Revolution. They turned it into a mining town and named it after the family, passed it down to through the generations. My dad's side of the family was loaded; my grandfather died in an auto accident and his relatives more or less took my dad's inheritance from him and my grandmother. It's all the more reason I'm not at all interested in researching my family's lineage on that side.

My mom's only a second generation American on her maternal side, and not much more on her paternal side. My maternal grandmother was full blooded German and my grandfather half English and half Irish - an odd combination to say the least since they were both Catholic. I have to think that it was a very fiery household when that marriage was still young.
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I know my dad's side came straight from Ireland, and mom's straight from Oslo. That's about it for "big" claims. The only thing I'd ever look into is the Gypsy thing, because it's so off the wall.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #178: Oh, mookie's dreams...

gmann said:
Good evening Lodge.

Another great weather day. We played hard for most of it.

Burgers, baked beans and Pringles for dinner. Gatorade was the beverage of choice and Butterfingers for dessert.

Never attempted ancestory.com or anything like it. Wouldn't even know where to start. Not sure I would even want to as I'm sure it would suck me in and end up being a huge (but probably worth it) project.

Rumor has it that one of my ancestors Erik the Red is depicted on a couple runestones wearing something similar to a speedo.........speedo is actually derived from the Norse word skiver. :D
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I blame my Family Systems professor. I started for a project in that class and have never stopped. Go thru periods of activity checking things and then waning activity. On the hunt for my philandering GGF right now. He moved to FLA and was living with a mistress at one point. Died there too. Attemping to find when and how he died. FLA has very stinky record keeping.
 
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I lost motivation when I got to the point where I'm back to the 1700's in Sweden, and can't find any info in Norway. Norway sucks.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #178: Oh, mookie's dreams...

Yo. Tuesday was Tuesday. The weather isn't helping (really really humid here). Actually turned on the A/C, which is rare for me to begin with.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #178: Oh, mookie's dreams...

bigblue_dl said:
I lost motivation when I got to the point where I'm back to the 1700's in Sweden, and can't find any info in Norway. Norway sucks.
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Post where you are stuck on the ancestry forum. Also, if you search the name and reply to things that works too. That is how the Swedish cousin found me. I posted an answer to a question someone asked about a relative and he was searching the same name.
 
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