Subject: Family History Blog
Posted by: mpkitty
Date: Jun 17 18
I believe all should keep their family history alive, if you know it. If you don't, your experiences are important to keep alive. Can we share some?
I'll start...
Posted by: mpkitty
Date: Jun 17 18
I believe all should keep their family history alive, if you know it. If you don't, your experiences are important to keep alive. Can we share some?
I'll start...
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sadwings 
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Sorry to hear about your dad, brm. I had a friend - my best friend - from the 4th grade all the way through high school and beyond, and the same thing happened to his dad. We were only in the 5th or 6th grade, so I'm thinking his dad was even younger, and it was just very sudden from out of nowhere like you described. As for me, I never even met my father. I was still a baby when my parents divorced in Oklahoma and he went back to Texas and I just never saw him. My mom informed me 15 or 20 years ago that he had died, but I don't remember the cause or remember if my mom even knew herself. Reply #81. Aug 23 18, 8:50 PM |
mpkitty
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Reply #82. Aug 23 18, 9:51 PM |
flopsymopsy
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My family has a rather strange connection with the Americas. In 1593, Queen Elizabeth gave two men a Royal Warrant which gave them permission to build a house in a royal forest, to clear some land, and to cultivate "the new crop". The crop was tobacco, newly brought to England by Jack Hawkins and Sir Walter Raleigh. I think they were reasonably successful at growing the crop because some of the barns belonging to a nearby estate owned by a family with the same name (we assume they were related, there's no proof but the name is unusual) are known to have been used for drying tobacco leaf and they wouldn't have built barns on that scale if there was no money in it. Tobacco actually grows reasonably well in England, so much so that a few decades later the American colonies complained it was harming their trade; as a result Charles II banned the cultivation of tobacco in England apart from a few herb gardens which grew it for medicinal use. And so my family's years as tobacco barons came, and went. I'm tempted to say "in a puff of smoke" but maybe not... Reply #83. Aug 23 18, 9:53 PM |
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That is very cool and interesting, flopsy. Too bad tobacco has to be harmful. I have enjoyed smoking it off and on - mostly on - I guess for about 40 years now, and I suppose that will probably be the very thing that kills me some day. I keep telling my doctors - and other people when the subject comes up - that it will probably be my smoking or my weight that kills me someday. I quit smoking and I start gaining weight that does not come off, and I figure I would rather die happy and not too much overweight than die a big fat grumpy old grouch. :-p By the way, flopsy, do you guys have Sir Walter Raleigh in a can over there? Surely you know that joke, right? :-p Wait, I guess that's Prince Albert in a can. Oh, well. I guess it would work either way! Reply #84. Aug 23 18, 10:54 PM |
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I know you were just being a smarty pants, Stephanie, no biggie! ;-) You still should check out that skit, though. Reply #85. Aug 23 18, 10:56 PM |
terraorca
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I tried to check out that skit, but before I could watch it, I had to subscribe to HULU. Pass! Reply #86. Aug 23 18, 11:37 PM |
| terraorca
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I quit smoking November 30th 1986. Reply #87. Aug 23 18, 11:39 PM |
| sadwings
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That's really weird, Mark, I wonder why I would have access to that skit without any kind of Hulu account? I was not expecting anyone to be told they had to purchase some kind of account. I'm like you, to heck with that. That's great that you quit smoking all those years ago, Mark. You will probably live a lot longer than I will. I can quit - I have done it several times - I just can't keep myself from gaining weight when I do. That's funny, November 30 was the very day I moved into this apartment that I'm in now, only it was in 2001. Coming up on 17 years now. Reply #88. Aug 24 18, 12:24 AM |
samak
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Those who do not drink or smoke will die healthy :) Reply #89. Aug 24 18, 2:38 AM |
| sadwings
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Yeah, that's about the size of it! :-p Reply #90. Aug 24 18, 3:17 AM |
KittyKatey
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samak that is absolutely true. I quit smoking years ago. Only started in my thirties as a dare. I was a chronic asthmatic when I was young. I do however like a wee dram of Drambuie. It is actually cheaper to buy it here in Canada than Scotland where it is made. Go figure. Reply #91. Aug 24 18, 10:07 AM |
C30
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One of the things I hate most about old age, is having to give up things I hitherto enjoyed............one of which is smoking! I gave up drinking, no great problem, didn't miss it. Gave up active sport, no problem, legs wouldn't allow it. Gave up biking, once past 50........gave up driving anything once past 70...........and so on, and so forth. Had a heart attack in 2003, was "advised" to give up smoking......when wife "advises" something, those of us who value a peaceful life, do well to comply............I complied. Havn't had a cigarette since then...........giving up wasn't particularly difficult (I was "only"?, a light-medium smoker anyhow - around 10-15 a day), but boy did I resent having to do that as I ENJOYED my smokes. Reply #92. Aug 24 18, 11:06 AM |
Mixamatosis
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Someone remarked that married men generally died earlier than their wives, but it's also been identified that single men generally die earlier than married men because married men are more looked after. That was the conclusion drawn anyway. I suspect it's because wives oftentry to feed their husbands healthier food and get them to go to the doctor's when they are ill. My parents died in their 60s and I used to wonder how long I'd live so when I was 27 I thought I've lived as long as some big rock stars. When I was 33 I thought I've lived as long as Jesus. When I was 45 I'd Jane Austen. When I was 53, I'd lived as long as Shakespeare. By 59, as long as Henry the 8th. I've lived longer than one of my parents now. I don't know why I think that way. Just a consolation thought I suppose in case I don't make old age. Have you noticed that the idea of 'old age' moves to a later age in life, the older you get? Reply #93. Aug 24 18, 1:05 PM |
| terraorca
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Old age is like a thief in the night, it sneaks up on you. Reply #94. Aug 24 18, 1:09 PM |
| C30
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We seem to have digressed right away from thread theme......now whilst I don't MIND this......................? Reply #95. Aug 24 18, 1:42 PM |
| KittyKatey
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Oops you are right. Just received an eight page document mailed from Scotland about my family tree. My wonderful mother wrote it and although she could not remember what happened the previous day knew who was married to who, in what year and their children and grandchildren. Something I will certainly cherish forever. Reply #96. Aug 24 18, 2:07 PM |
| Mixamatosis
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The theme is family history which is a wider theme than family trees but would be inclusive of that I imagine. The creator refers to 'experiences' in the introduction. Reply #97. Aug 24 18, 2:33 PM |
| Mixamatosis
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Funtrivia is not a secure site (except for the admin part), which people should be aware of when deciding whether or not to share personal or family experiences or information. Reply #98. Aug 24 18, 2:35 PM |
| sadwings
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Wow, that sounds very cool, Katey. I don't have anything like that about my family. There is this huge gap of about, I don't know, a couple hundred thousand years or whatever, but my ancestry goes all the way back to Adam and Eve. I mean THE Adam and Eve. Isn't that cool? :-) No, I don't know about all of that stuff about every person on earth coming from one man and one woman. It's a pretty freaky concept, but then again, #1, we all came from somewhere and it was definitely not from apes or pond scum, and #2, far stranger things than that have happened in this life. Wait a sec, I guess it would have to be more than 200,000 years because they made a movie called One Million Years B.C. You guys remember that one with Raquel Welch and all those other cats and chicks and groovy dinosaurs? Oh yeah, like I am just SO SURE women looked like that back then! :-p Reply #99. Aug 24 18, 2:50 PM |
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I used to have a boss that thought that his ancestry went back further than Adam and Eve. Reply #100. Aug 24 18, 5:06 PM |
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