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Feb. 3rd, 2007 07:27 am1. How far back can you trace your family tree?
My Aunt has traced my father's side back around 300 years. Mom's side.... kind of the boat over is where it ends, around 1900. More from lack of having bothered, I suppose.
Darling's family is more fun. On one side - a Nesbit. And on the other can be easily traced to the stripping of their title after Culloden Field. And from that Baronial family to the Battle of Hastings.
2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?
Great Uncle Harvey was OSS in WWII. And Great Uncle Jake had two silver stars from action in France. Great-Grandpa Och used to read stories to Dad when he was very young - but the story would change each reading. Mostly because Grandpa Och couldn't read, and would just make up a story to go with the pictures instead. Darling wins this one hands down, too. His Great-great Grandfather hung a pair of slave hunters in the family barn. We still have his Civil War Cavalry saber. And his Great Uncle Leo was an "Indiana Jones" type, forever coming home with tiger skin rugs, vases, and other tidbits from the ends of the earth.
3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?
I'm unlikely to do it. Though I did snag the muffin's name from Janice's family tree, in another form. I wanted to tie her to her heritage without saddling her with a name she would hate. Her name is feminine and pretty without being pink and fluffy - and she's growing into it quite nicely. Though I'd be more likely to use a family name as a middle name.
4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional?
For the most part.
5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?
Oh let's see... Grandma's Dutch sugar cookies, Sinter Klaas and Zwart Piet, the Dutch cradle cross, her christening gown and "hanky" bonnet.... I could go on and on.
Off to work in the blinding snow... *sigh* It may be that my answer to emergency callers tonight will be "Sorry, Charlie."
My Aunt has traced my father's side back around 300 years. Mom's side.... kind of the boat over is where it ends, around 1900. More from lack of having bothered, I suppose.
Darling's family is more fun. On one side - a Nesbit. And on the other can be easily traced to the stripping of their title after Culloden Field. And from that Baronial family to the Battle of Hastings.
2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?
Great Uncle Harvey was OSS in WWII. And Great Uncle Jake had two silver stars from action in France. Great-Grandpa Och used to read stories to Dad when he was very young - but the story would change each reading. Mostly because Grandpa Och couldn't read, and would just make up a story to go with the pictures instead. Darling wins this one hands down, too. His Great-great Grandfather hung a pair of slave hunters in the family barn. We still have his Civil War Cavalry saber. And his Great Uncle Leo was an "Indiana Jones" type, forever coming home with tiger skin rugs, vases, and other tidbits from the ends of the earth.
3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?
I'm unlikely to do it. Though I did snag the muffin's name from Janice's family tree, in another form. I wanted to tie her to her heritage without saddling her with a name she would hate. Her name is feminine and pretty without being pink and fluffy - and she's growing into it quite nicely. Though I'd be more likely to use a family name as a middle name.
4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional?
For the most part.
5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?
Oh let's see... Grandma's Dutch sugar cookies, Sinter Klaas and Zwart Piet, the Dutch cradle cross, her christening gown and "hanky" bonnet.... I could go on and on.
Off to work in the blinding snow... *sigh* It may be that my answer to emergency callers tonight will be "Sorry, Charlie."
