Entertaining the Ill and Injured

[awanderingbard]

Quick health update: I went to the doctor on Wednesday to get the results of my CT scan that I had done in Emerg when I thought I had kidney stones. And I totally had kidney stones, despite what the skeptical ER thought. In fact, I had a 4mm stone and a 2mm stone in my ureter at the time of the CT, which was the day after I went in. And I had hydronephrosis, which is a swelling of the kidney, suggesting that at one point, my ureter was completely obstructed. I'm guessing that was the period of time I felt like my kidney was going to explode. It's also kind of dangerous, so thanks, ER doctor, for not believing me and making me think it was all in my head.

While I've been not well, I've been keeping myself entertained, first with Ancestry.ca's free weekend, which actually led to me buying a month's subscription because I discovered that the stories that my Great-Grandfather had a first wife who left him and was never heard from again were at least partly true! Very exciting stuff. And scandalous: my GGF married the first wife in 1925, and by 1927 my grandfather was born to another woman, so that is a short turn around. Due to the unknown whereabouts of first wife, my GGF and GGM didn't marry for forty years, so scandals all around! And this is not to mention the fact that my GGF was baptized by the priest and listed as being of 'unknown parents'. Now, if I could just figure out how my Great-Great-Grandmother on the other side of the family got to Canada after magically popping up on the 1916 census, I will be quite content. Seriously, Amelia, how did you get here? You sent your son ahead. Then your husband and other two children. I have their boat records. How did you get here?!

The second form of entertainment continues to be Avengers Academy on my iPad. It's really getting fun now. Here are a few screen caps of my favourite things (click and they get bigger)


In order, left to right:
1. Pepper (in her Rescue armor) literally putting out Tony's fires.
2. A statue of Howard Stark.
3. Steve 'bringing back' the Charleston.
4. Pepper looking at files. On the roof. Because she can fly now.
5. Tony testing out his hoverboard.
6. Steve practicing ricochet angles, while Sam, Natasha and Janet dance, and Loki broods at the bar.
7. Tony working with JARVIS.

Comments

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Nit is completel addicting! During my tracking of the mysterious first wife, who I did find in the morning States after she left my GGF, I must have learned everything there is to know about her family, and I'm not even related to them. But it turns out she's the granddaughter of the woman my GGF's dad married to help raise my GGF. I found that completely by accident, and my joy was unbound at finally solving the mystery of how my GGF and first wife might have even met. She was from Massachusetts and he was from a very tiny town in Quebec, so it seemed weird.

We have a fille du roi in our line, too, I think. Other family members traced back. Quebec is great for records, I have to admit. But my family didn't know how to spell their names or what years they were born, judging by their census record variations. One member started her life as Elmina, born in 1864, and concluded it as Rena, born in 1872. Tracking them has been fun.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Quebec is *amazing* for records (in a kind of sucks if someone was illegitimate kind of way) for the X, born of legitimate marriage between Y and Z, married on blah blah date 1, born of legitimate marriage between 2 and 3 entries since it gives ALL THE INFO. Especially for women it's great because there's all that maiden name info right there! Some other places were also as particular with the tracking of people via the church, Hubby has a lot of Swedish in his ancestry and they do a similar thing there.

I tend to only trace blood relations and their spouses, but all blood relatives I can so, for example, I've traced all seven of Hubby's 5x great grandfather's kids and who they married and their kids and grandkids etc even though it's hundreds of people and they're only tangentially related once you get to their descendants living today.

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

I actually found a burial record that had someone as the illegitimate daughter of a couple in my family. Which is weird, because they were totally married before she was born. But not in the Catholic church, so my mom and I theorized that she wasn't recognized as legitimate because the marriage wasn't recognized.

Especially for women it's great because there's all that maiden name info right there!

That's a great thing, it helped me out so often to make sure they were really the kids of that person. So many Maries! But with the maiden name, you can be more sure about it.

I tend to only trace blood relations and their spouses, but all blood relatives I can so, for example, I've traced all seven of Hubby's 5x great grandfather's kids and who they married and their kids and grandkids etc even though it's hundreds of people and they're only tangentially related once you get to their descendants living today.

So many different stories to learn about! I don't even know these people and I feel bad when something sad happened to them.