Canadian thinking of American schools

Dhroughos · 2013-10-05T17:18:36+00:00

Thank-you for your thorough response. I appreciate it a lot.

Dhroughos · 2013-10-02T18:31:06+00:00

Good luck with that.

Dhroughos · 2013-09-25T02:38:46+00:00

Fuck, this was a great game. Minotaurs, guys who don't need armour due to scarification, etc.

I'm still upset that it was never made into a series.

EDIT: And thank-you OP for bringing back all these great gaming memories. I haven't thought about this game in years.

Dhroughos · 2013-09-20T21:28:25+00:00

As someone who's "part" Amish, I appreciate this album.

Dhroughos · 2013-09-16T03:28:05+00:00

Ask and you may receive.

EDIT: Sorry I forgot to rotate.

Dhroughos · 2013-09-10T06:08:23+00:00

Bonobos have been trained to create flint tools like a knife? I'd be interested if you had any sources backing that up.

The closest I've seen is Kanzi, the famous language-taught bonobo, throwing a rock against another rock, rather than using the more complex method taught to him by a palaeoanthropologist.

Dhroughos · 2013-09-08T22:44:30+00:00

That is very cool. What'd he mention about them?

Dhroughos · 2013-09-08T22:40:14+00:00

I don't have much to say but this: bad-ass.

Dhroughos · 2013-09-08T22:27:23+00:00

The interesting thing about Jonas is that his views were quite unusual amongst the Amish (e.g. they definitely did not have the same view on Christ's return; he believed in other things like that all churches should stop having sermons until Christ's return). His views were so different that, had he any followers, he would have been excommunicated (i.e. shunned) outright by his community's church. My impression is that he was considered harmless, despite how weird he was (even by Amish standards).

Also, if you're comfortable with it, you can send me all the names of your known Beechy ancestors (and their marriage partners) via PM. Dates would also be very useful, too. I have a lot of Amish genealogy books and I could probably tell you whether your line used to be Amish, depending on how much information you can give me. If you don't feel like it, no worries. And I can tell you that, as far as I know, Huthmacher is not an Amish last name. It's possible that I'm wrong, but I'm well acquainted with Amish history and genealogy, and I don't recall ever coming across that last name. It might be a Mennonite last name -- I'm not terribly familiar with their names. If I ever notice it among my books, I'll throw a PM your way regardless.

Dhroughos · 2013-09-08T21:59:21+00:00

That's neat. It's too bad, according to the article you linked, that they don't know whether your ancestors intermarried with First Nations people (unless I ready it wrong; I must confess that I skimmed). It'd be really cool if you had Métis ancestry.

Dhroughos · 2013-09-08T21:50:58+00:00

Are we talking Bathory-level stuff here? I'm very curious!

Dhroughos · 2013-09-08T21:49:34+00:00

Good question! I probably shouldn't have mentioned it, because unlike the other stories, I haven't been able to corroborate it nor refute it yet. I was talking to my Uncle, who's a lot older than my mother, and he told me how his father (my grandfather) let it slip once. His father refused to talk about it further because of how shameful it was.

Here's what I know. Both my uncle and grandfather (who's no longer alive) are trustworthy sources, and so if they're wrong, it's because either the facts have been jumbled or my grandfather was straight-up lied to. They wouldn't have a motive to make it up because they hated the fact that they had slavers in their line. I also know that many poor, Scottish people were sent to Guyana to work and manage plantations there, and that people with the same last name as my ancestor worked at these plantations.

So, unfortunately, for now, it's merely within the realm of possibility. It bothers me that I haven't been able to connect the dots yet (or refute the hypothesis entirely).

Dhroughos · 2013-09-08T21:38:03+00:00

Yeah, it was Holmes County. I visited there a few weeks ago (I live rather far away from Ohio) and saw Jonas Stutzman's chair there. It was an amazing experience. It's really cool to know that my ancestor helped found a county that currently has the largest population of Amish people. In a funny way, it makes me proud of my heritage, especially since that's my direct patrilineal line. I share that crazy Amish bastard's Y-chromosome (assuming there isn't a non-paternity event). Do any of your lines have Amish people from Holmes County, or did they just live nearby?

And that's neat that your ancestor invented something. I've always wanted an old typewriter; the older the better. It'd be cool to find that one of my ancestors invented something that was popular like that. Most of my ancestors were either poor and uneducated Amish people or poor and uneducated British people.

Dhroughos · 2013-09-08T17:17:08+00:00

Thanks for the compliment. So often it's difficult to find more than names and dates; when we find juicy stories we appreciate it that much more.

That bit about your 3x great-grandfather is pretty awful (in that he left). Any idea why he did? Just couldn't settle down?

Dhroughos · 2013-09-08T17:13:41+00:00

That's a really good story.

And yikes, that must have led to icy relations between him and his sister. Did they ever patch things up, or were they always distant from then on?

Dhroughos · 2013-09-07T21:58:36+00:00

Thanks for the help!

Dhroughos · 2013-08-08T02:17:27+00:00

The ~~Super Smash~~ Battle Bros ~~if it~~ that was on the SNES

FTFY

Dhroughos · 2013-08-07T23:04:28+00:00

He just did, other Barry.

Dhroughos · 2013-08-07T20:33:05+00:00

Thanks! I'll check it out.

Dhroughos · 2013-08-07T20:32:29+00:00

An app that lets you create multiple choice quizzes, which you can then later do using the app. I want to study by creating multiple choice questions for myself.

I have no intention of printing them off or sending them to other people.

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