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10 years ago•6 Replies

Just written a long article about being 'sexually fluid' the new buzz word apparently...

Then I changed my mind and shelved it for another day...

Actually I've always really fancied Julia Roberts...or I would if I was sexually fluid...but I don't think I am. Just think she's totally gorgeous...mind you I also lusted after Omar Sharif...and Peter O'Toole...and Terence Stamp.

And Daniel Day-Lewis.

Never could be doing with Cliff Richard...

So I've spent most of the afternoon struggling to read the Inventory of a long expired cousin...his loom was valued at two pounds...I did manage to decipher that and also found he had a bread trough and a frying pan...didn't know people had a frying pans at the end of the 1600's...he had a dripping pan as well.

Because of such sound advice from Still-Standing, I also eventually deciphered his friends names...then I went to his Will and my eyes began to whirl round so I left that for another time...

Googling these cousins brought up seriously interesting links to the churches they preached in and the villages the Weavers lived in...someone has done a huge amount of research into that branch of the family...there they are...wives and children and dates galore.

The bliss of being able to add them to the ever expanding tree...

But I do wonder why one of the Vicars only baptised the son who was sickly and died soon after...he didn't appear to bother with the rest of his children...

I belong to a site closely affiliated to Ancestry...one member wrote recently that there is little enough value to place on ancestors you find from way back...even if they are direct. She said the blood is so diluted that the connection means nothing...

And I have to disagree...to know about a cousin who lived and died in the 1600's...to learn when he married and to whom he wed...to know how he made his living and whether or not he lived long enough to bury most of his children...that connection means everything to me.

It gives me a sense of where I am in the scheme of things...

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knitter10 years ago

I think I know what you mean about the connection with the past....I have a photo of my husbands great grandfather , and he has the identical hands to my husband. My aunt and my daughter have similar mannerisms, and the same daughter found herself living in the next street to where her great, great, grandparents lived in the past......and there was no previous link to the area...she was born hundreds of miles away.

RibvanRey10 years ago

The frying pan pre-dates the saucepan by centuries.

baseman10 years ago

eh?

Dmactds10 years ago

I live in and am writing from Julia Roberts' hometown, Smyrna, Georgia, USA..., and you're correct, she is quite lovely, though it doesn't take any 'sexual fluidity' for me to say that.

As far as ancestry, I went through a period of several years where I was obsessed with my genealogy and it was all I could think and talk about.

I eventually wore myself and my fascination with it out and realized the chance of my having anything of substance in common with my family a couple of generations distant (in either direction) would be not all that good.

Blood kinship is something borne of accident and is usually only bonded because of a life spent developing together. Beyond that, one may have shared memories but that, and $5.00 will get you a decent latte at some coffee shop, which is to say not much.

On the other hand, purposeful relationships developed with folks not related to you can sometime be the most rewarding.

Shirat1• in reply toDmactds10 years ago

Oh my, I understand there are those that have no interest in their lineage, as some even in my family but I must tell you, for some of us there are those we find hidden for a time that an instant bond is formed and you discover their heart and who you really are and why things you've always felt, suddenly are explained!! My Dad always had an attachment to ancestors and told stories I wish I'd recorded. Then a cousin had several years of paternal information that caught my interest and Away we go!!!!! I now have 6 family lines back to the 1600's. One of which is Upson County Georgia. And another from Sanderstead, Surry, England buried in the Church of All Saints cemetery within the township of Croyden.

I understand how that illusive one can cause you to just lay it down. But some of us just Have to continue on.

I've done it again, rambled and lol , not even about my current "spell" with coughing and inhalers!!! Lol.

Dmactds, I hope the sun is shining and birds singing in Smyrna and you are having an easy breathing day!! Ragweed is causing problems for many here in Ft Worth this week. Drats!!!!

hufferpuffer10 years ago

Hi Vashti, I don't know about Julia but Daniel Day Lewis....Last of the Mohicans 😘😄😍😱😳😋, sorry spelling error...I dreamt about him once,........ he was tied up and held captive by some Irish rebels...after I had freed his hands ...he kissed me ...then I woke up! (( sigh ))

huff xxx