Read something today on a group I belong to on FaceAche...it's a help and advice forum for those researching their family trees and this woman's question had me laughing. She wanted to know if it would be considered weird if she added her 'fur babies' to her tree...
Now it was mean of me to think that funny...I do know many people regard their pets as family members and do actually refer to them as 'fur babies'...just because I think it's incredibly soppy doesn't mean it's silly...
This is from a woman who once moved house leaving a row of dead pets graves behind...mostly hamsters and goldfish belonging to the children, but each had its own little marker made from lolly sticks...think there was a ferret as well, it had pink eyes and used to bite.
We know someone who has her deceased horses ashes in wooden boxes arranged on her mantelpiece...with brass plaques giving their names and ages.
Can you imagine the confusion in years to come when somebody is reading that woman's research and tree and they come across her cats and dogs...would they be classed as second cousins once removed I wonder.
Another person on the same forum wanted to know how she could find a photograph of her many times great grandparents wedding...they'd married in 1722.
Old name spellings cause some grief...Elizabetha is firmly known as Elizabeth...as for Gulielmus, which was the old name for William...everyone happily puts down William Gulielmus little realising they are naming him twice as William...
Alyce causes a few scratched heads...one person asked plaintively...but how do you pronounce it...a few of the replies were a bit sharp actually.
Mind you, I think that Fernando is a peculiar name for a Yorkshire yeoman...but that is what one of my grandparents in the 1600's was called.
One of Himself's grand-daughters is named Pariss...it's the two 's' which get to us...
