Some catching up to do
Well, you may have missed some things over the weekend if you weren’t goofing off at work, which is where and when American consults the Internet. So, to catch up:
“A prescriptivist’s lot is not a happy one”
But if you’re ready to start a fresh week, the word of the week is consanguinity.
The joke of the week is moving separately.
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Hey, we genealogists know all about consanguinity.
Even when it's distant enough to satisfy church and state, it can make a mess of our charts.
One pair of my ancestors were third cousins -- no problem there, except that their common g-g-grandparents and all THEIR ancestors show up twice in all my charts. But then we found out they were probably also third cousins once removed -- such is life in small Virginia towns in the 19th century -- and the family tree started looking like a bramble bush.
Posted by: anon | May 16, 2011 2:24 PM