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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (52830)	7/1/2000 5:44:59 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

The cursor is in the quote box, I forgot to mention that. What do I wear tomorrow? Tomorrow I got invited by JK to go to the K Y2K family reunion. Looks like it will be quite a bash, horse shoes, pony rides, country band, family heirloom and memorabilia table, hors d'ouvres and beverages available all day, covered dish dinner. Well, what I really got invited to is to help JK with the pig roast. I've mentioned that he is some kind of expert in roasting whole pigs, and I've been saying I want to learn how, so tomorrow I am supposed to show up at 7 a.m. to help get the pig going. Everyone else is supposed to show up at 1:00 p.m. Is just a T-shirt and shorts OK? I guess I need to color my hair, the grey is starting to show, and get a hair cut. Better get my rear in gear.

To: Rambi who wrote (52830)	7/1/2000 7:03:51 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 71178

Kyle Onstott bestseller 1957. #2 son says Santa Cruz marching band is either the "Sea Slug Band" on the "Banana Slug Band." That's something to think about. Either one will do just fine. Speaking of which, I just fed the web some old family names and discovered the following in less than an hour and a half: I am an 11th generation descendent of John Knox, the Scots reformer. (At least) four of my cousins, many times removed were in the Continental Congress in 1775. Three of them -- John Witherspoon, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson signed the Declaration of Independence. The other one, George Washington, was off fighting the war. One ggrandfather owned 150 slaves in 1860. Most of them were descended from the 15 slaves ggggrandfather owned in 1803. They all had the family name. One of my new found 2.5th cousins is trying to get in touch with all of the family black and white. The estate of my ggf was bankrupt when he died after the CW. I think the white guys are going to demand restitution from the black guys who at least got 40 acres and a mule. My newfound cousins have letters, government documents, including ggranfather's detailed military records. I have a bed, a basket, three uniform buttons, and some photographs (ggf in his uniform; ggf's four sons and faughter; ggf in the works at Petersburg (where he was wounded and later captured). Weirdest thing is I have dozens of odd tales told me over protest by my mother handed on to her maiden aunt which turn out to be true to the exact detail (consistent with the facts that have been turned up) but none of my second cousins knew any of these tales. My cousins have a complete collection of the letters between these ggf and ggm during the war. They say they are amazing. We're going to do a book. I believed it was all southern moonshine. Amazed by what I found I stuck in the name of the eponymous founder of my race, and discovered that a man of that name showed up with 800 other protestants from Wurtteberg-Baden-Zurich (legendarily he was from Hesse) in 1752 (we thought 42) and received bounty to take up backwoods (Newberry County) land. He died in 1774 leaving an eponymous son with a name that appeared in every later generation. He was killed in the Revolutionary War (perhaps thus the veneration) and left two sons who in the 1790 census were 18 and 20 living with the maternal uncle. Thence the name continued with no male offshoots except the trunk. Today, there is one male bearing the eponymous name. He is the eighth in succession to the revolutionary hero. Until today none of them knew why they were named to name. In view of the "The Patriot" we will have to find out how truth the other family legend was that our ancestors fought alongside Francis Marion. In addition, I found the name of the plantation whence my grandmother with her orphaned boy came to marry my grandfather, and saw a picture of the house on Bay Street in Charleston which the founder of the family had built (Arnoldus Vanderhorst -- governor of SC 1792-94). A few doors down was the house built in 1830 by my gggrandfather a merchant who grandsons were rich and famous blockade runners. In a few more years it may be possible for everyone to trace their family histories in detail on the web. I have a trick memory and can recall all this junk with little on paper, but I am amazed that all the family tales are true. Now if I can find the skull nailed in the tree and drop the beetle exactly so, I should be able to prove that I am the lawful king of France.