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Record low
Jan. 14th, 2009 03:18 pmOn the ride in this morning it was -4*F. Not nearly the coldest I've ridden in, just the coldest this year so far. Just keeping track.
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Jan. 14th, 2009
Kind of fun
Jan. 14th, 2009 10:43 pmI can see why (lj user=rmeidaking) some people both enjoy genealogy and are good at accounting. Today I was going through some scans of 150 year old documents, deciphering spidery handwriting, calculating date offsets, and in the end confirming data I already had and sorting out family members that died > 100 years ago. Same sort of feeling as when you finally get that last number to drop into place on the books.
Added individual # 400 this evening. I'm still in solid "known territory" - people who are no more than two generations removed from people I knew growing up, or are direct ancestors/cousins/siblings. I did at one point get into crazyland with data that was cited on my other dataset as coming from FTM. IMO, data from FTM is for hints only, it's NOT reliable. I saw some just stupid stuff. Obviously I didn't put it in to my new data set.
I just have to put it away at some point, but it's hard not to just keep going. Heck, I should have been in bed more than an hour ago, this stuff is just compelling.
Added individual # 400 this evening. I'm still in solid "known territory" - people who are no more than two generations removed from people I knew growing up, or are direct ancestors/cousins/siblings. I did at one point get into crazyland with data that was cited on my other dataset as coming from FTM. IMO, data from FTM is for hints only, it's NOT reliable. I saw some just stupid stuff. Obviously I didn't put it in to my new data set.
I just have to put it away at some point, but it's hard not to just keep going. Heck, I should have been in bed more than an hour ago, this stuff is just compelling.