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Nothing too exciting on the domestic front. There’s some political nonsense going on here, but that’s pretty much the steady-state of things. There’s political idiocy going on in my birth-country, but that’s become the “new normal”.
Apart from the usual, I spent quite a bit of effort this week on genealogical research. I had had what I thought was a breakthrough trying to track down my paternal great-grandfather. Short version of the history: he had one child (my gpa) with his wife, in Lithuania. They divorced, she remarried and had a bunch of kids in the US.
Unfortunately, nobody has any idea what his name was, nor even whether he came from the same shtetl as my g-gma. So that branch of the family has been a dead-end for as long as I’ve been trying to investigate it. But I was given access to a database recently, and looking at it I saw my g-gma’s marriage to her second husband, as well as her marriage to her first one (my g-gpa). Eureka!
Only it turned out that it was just fool’s gold twinkling in the dirt. Someone had posted that information based on a supposition which has (apparently) no basis in reality. So while it was an exciting ride, it was ultimately futile. On the other hand, it spurred me on to do more genealogical investigation.
During which, I encountered some interesting information about another branch, including the actual town they came from.
Of course, given that during WWII all my ancestor’s shtetlach were essentially razed, and almost everyone killed, means finding any sort of documentation is quite difficult. I do hold out some hope, though: Jeremy is lending a hand. His genealogical mojo is very strong…
Various:
- The Revolution comforts the comfortable.
- According to HuffPo, “FOX News” is lying about Seattle’s “autonomous” zone. Is that so? A bit more on CHAZ or CHOP.
- The PA will declare a state on 1967 lines if Israel annexes the “West Bank”. Good luck, bubba. Also: who cares?
- Why I hate JavaScript.
I made a new release of 8th this week, with all the parser improvements and a bunch of bug-fixes. A couple new bugs were found, but they were quickly squashed. I also updated my local family-tree website, and am mirroring the Ancestry site locally. Unfortunately, this software makes it almost impossible to merge information, so I have to do it manually. Idiot software developers!
Coming up: Esther’s birthday! We’ll celebrate in stages: a nice meal, talking with friends, some BENGAY. Eventually we’ll remember that a birthday is just an arbitrary marker and that we complete a “new year” every moment we’re alive. May she have as many “birthdays” as she wants, and they all be fulfilling!
The weather was nice this week, and has become unseasonably cool. It will stay cool over shabbat, with warming next week.
This shabbat we’ll have: homemade ḥalla, brisket, roasted potatoes, various salatim, fruit crumble, and watermelon.
Until next time,
shabbat shalom!
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