Genealogy & a Clippet of Humor...

First thing Tuesday morning I found myself reading my son's text from the night before. One I missed, but sure got a kick out of it while eating my oatmeal breakfast! It was of Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" segments that he had on his late show periodically. I laughed again. Even tho I've seen 'em before. Here is the link to the entire series. Even tho it's nearly seven minutes long, it's well worth watching if you need a good laugh! I still consider it my favorite...Jay asks a person on the street "What U S President was nicknamed 'Tricky Dick'"? The gal's answer? "Bill Clinton"!!! Another good one is "What does the D. C. stand for in Washington D.C.?" Answer by some other - "Da Capitol". Click Here. I really think you'll enjoy it all. 

note: image is screenshot, no infringement intended.

Then, speaking of taking screenshots, I was doing a bit of research for our family's genealogy to see if any updates have been focused on since I published our heritage book of some 300 pages. Just for updates mainly. After 25  years of my life working on the book, I tend to check about once a year to see if I can find anything "new" which hasn't been covered in my publication. Or, maybe add births and deaths in my note files at the end of the book.  I came across a photo of an ancestor and had to stop and re-read it [I also have the original photo in my history collection]...the family is related to Gen. Phil Sheridan and Robert E. Lee. Here is a little snippet of the family history site from which I read...

Aunt of Gen Phil. Sheridan - and a distant relation of Gen Robt E. Lee.  She would be my children's great-great-great-great-great grandmother if my math is correct.

She is the mother of thirteen children, eight sons and five daughters; seven sons and four daughters still living. She has 107 grand children living. Fifty one grandsons, fifty six grand daughters. 136 great grand children, and four great great grandchildren. eighty one grand, 121 great grand, two great great grand children in Ohio.

She married on November 2, 1797 in St. Johns Parish Protestant Episcopa, Joppa, Harford, Maryland. Children:
Sarah
Rachel
John
James
Mary Ann
Jane
Elizabeth
William
Thomas
Lee
Archibald
Asberry
Alexander

Another 'new' item I found while perusing online was a painting of the kind of ship one of our anscetors crossed the Atlantic in! Even for me, today, it is just very difficult to imagine crossing in this small craft with hundreds aboard. They all must have been very determined, strong, souls. The image shared here is very large in size. You can read the blue highlighted area if interested. I had proof of the wife dying while at sea, but never the ship. One of the surviving sons was a direct decendant of our family that settled here in America...and his offspring times a few generations, eventually locating in Nebraska where I was born. In genealogy, PROOF is the most important! It may take years to find a record, but well worth the time, cost, travel, efforts.  And I will, to the last breath I take, continue to update anywhere, anytime, with anything I can find to pass it on to another generation.

If interested, and you're still here, reading...Here is a post showing you my published book on my family history.