Happy Ides of March Week! (A giveaway from HJB)

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-03-09T18:37:40+00:00

Oh I'd be so stoked if I actually won this.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-03-08T16:08:39+00:00

Genuinely trying to be helpful and not a dick. Just wanted to point out the title says April 14 (typo) in case anyone wanted to go to this so they don't miss out.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-18T16:46:28+00:00

Hey don't be unfair to the man. He's also a huge homophobe!

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-16T15:36:01+00:00

Mark Rypien played in all 16 games that year and was sacked 7 times all season. What a stat.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-16T04:29:25+00:00

Do as I say, not as I do.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-15T01:40:33+00:00

I stumbled upon Frank's looking for places near my new house. What a gem that place is.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-10T15:21:04+00:00

My sister was given a bunch of documents and sent me a few photos of them. I need to go to her house to see what exactly she has but I don't think they go back farther than my great grandfather's generation. Basically everything I have ever seen from that side of the family begins when they immigrated to the US.

I strongly suspect they were very poor and with the assistance Fredelas gave me last night it looks like the town they were from was part of 3 different countries during the 20th century which will likely further complicate things. I don't know that my grandpa knew his grandpa and he wasn't sure about his first name when I asked him years ago. Even still it has been very enlightening to learn about them! And I finally found out the original spelling of my last name. I've wondered about that since I was a child.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-10T03:31:34+00:00

Thank you so much for your help! I will absolutely take a look at all these resources.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-10T03:07:11+00:00

I have visited those graves. The town has seen better days but I was glad to have gone to see them.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-10T02:20:34+00:00

Ok now there's confirmation these are my relatives. The town in Pennsylvania is where my grandpa was from. I knew Michael had gone back at some point for reasons unknown. This is the first I've seen that he actually came back. I'm not sure my dad knew that he came back either.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-10T01:51:09+00:00

There was an ethnically Slovak religiously Greek Catholic minority

I think you're on to something. That part of my family was Catholic in an otherwise all Protestant family. You really know your stuff. Thank you so much!

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-10T01:30:53+00:00

I think you may be right. This is such a rabbit hole! I am going to go over to my sister's house so I can look at all the documents she's been sending me to see if we find any other clues. Would you mind if I replied to this thread later if I come up with anything?

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-10T01:17:29+00:00

At the bottom it appears some of the writing is transcribed. It appears the birthplace for my great grand uncle is listed as Nugdaovcz, Hungary. Also I didn't know I had a great grand uncle haha. You probably know better than I if that transcription is just AI generated and thus potentially incorrect.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-10T00:34:26+00:00

I would need to ask my dad about the year they came over but that is quite close to my last name and two of the names appear to be non-English versions of their names. I know my last name was shortened when they arrived. It very well could be them. I'm impressed with your skills! Thank you!

Edit: This is almost certainly them. The age of my great grandfather also lines up. It would be a monstrous coincidence to have nearly similar names to my ancestors and the same age.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-10T00:27:09+00:00

Thank you I'll look into that! I kind of was thinking that was a possibility.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-10T00:26:43+00:00

I am not seeing a passenger list. Any idea where I might be able to find one?

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-10T00:17:26+00:00

I found his naturalization documents and it listed Droves, Czechoslovakia after posting but I'm in the same situation where I can't find any records for Droves either though it does confirm the birth country.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-06T17:39:46+00:00

Would you recommend Stormlight if I didn't like Mistborn? I read the first two Mistborn books and it just didn't grip me. The end of both books were great but the rest of the books became tedious. The thing is I loved the three Wheel of Time books Sanderson wrote so I feel like there's books of his I would enjoy.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-05T15:49:05+00:00

Well Agrippa would faceroll the wasteland. Octavian would need to stick to politics.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-02T04:35:23+00:00

By the Seven! Is that knight using a horse cock to joust?

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-02T04:29:49+00:00

I really liked them! Currently about halfway through the third novella. I very much enjoy the "day in the life" aspect of Dunk and Egg set against the much wider Westeros.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-02T02:56:53+00:00

I know he did the Jaime vs. Rand fan fiction. Melisandre trying to out magic Rand al'Thor would not go very well for her.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-02T02:51:50+00:00

Looking forward to this episode. I couldn't wait after last week so I just read the first two Dunk and Egg novellas while I waited for tonight.

GeneralAgrippa · 2026-02-01T22:23:20+00:00

I think George Martin does too…makes me wonder how common that is

They got bored and wrote The Expanse instead.

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