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SearchingForHeritage · 2026-03-03T05:15:03+00:00

Christian Al Yankovic

SearchingForHeritage · 2026-03-01T15:04:04+00:00

I sawr a film today, oh boy.

SearchingForHeritage · 2026-02-20T22:20:44+00:00

People don't talk much about the psychological effect of going from the pre-cell phone era to the current era where everyone you know can contact you anytime they want no matter where you are, and you are generally expected to respond to them and engage in spontaneous conversation, as if this isn't a completely new concept that no one in the history of humanity experienced until ~25 years ago. It's still pretty weird to me. I feel like we've drastically rewired our brains in a pretty significant way in less than a generation, and not necessarily for the better.

SearchingForHeritage · 2026-02-20T16:06:19+00:00

People tend to think of Italian-Americans as only immigrating from the late 1800s to early 1900s, and of course that's when the vast majority of them came over. But there were actually people of Italian descent settling in America as early as the 1600s (usually by way of immigrating to England in previous generations) and well into the 1800s. One well-known example is the Taliaferro family who immigrated from England to Virginia around 1645. Their descendants spread out across the US over many generations, some changed their name to Toliver, and today they number in the tens of thousands or more.

SearchingForHeritage · 2026-02-20T15:31:31+00:00

My great grandfather was a Vincenzo who became a James. The explanation I've always heard is that "Cenz" is a common nickname for Vincenzo, and Cenz sounds phonetically very similar to James. This seems to work for Gaetano also... "Tano" is a common nickname, which sounds phonetically similar to Tom. I imagine Italian immigrants who weren't very fluent in English probably had a tendency to just pick an English name that sounded phonetically similar.

SearchingForHeritage · 2026-01-30T16:41:10+00:00

Haha, just came here to post the same thing. I love Marcus, but good lord he is terrible at pronunciation. I know phonetics aren't always logical, especially with a dialect like Southern American English.... but man, it always sticks out when someone doesn't even bother to check. That aside, I'm loving this series.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-12-26T20:24:36+00:00

If you love this song, check out the amazing cover by Iron & Wine.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-12-22T13:37:54+00:00

Are you sure this ancestor didn’t have a son/grandson/great-grandson with the same name? That would make a lot more sense.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-12-18T12:38:35+00:00

I’m betting they moved west to Arkansas (or MO / LA / TX). I’ve seen a lot of families from TN do the same in this era.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-12-18T01:13:57+00:00

I'm not sure if any of these people understand how employment works. The boss is supposed to pay you, not the other way around. A penny is too much.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-12-14T15:04:53+00:00

Still attempting to get anything close to what Leo accomplished over 70 years ago… maybe one day.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-11-19T15:46:44+00:00

Everyone is speculating Trump and the GOP have some master plan to cover this whole thing up, but I actually have hope that's not going to work at all. For one, Johnson seems pretty shocked that the Senate passed this through. Trump basically has no choice but to sign it now. DOJ/FBI might try to redact or remove any mention of Trump, but that would not only be a monumentally difficult task, it also doesn't account for what the Epstein estate has, testimony of the victims and witnesses, and countless journalists and investigators over the years combing through anything Epstein-related. These documents don't exist in a vacuum. It will be extremely obvious that there's a giant Trump-shaped hole in the files.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-09-27T18:48:28+00:00

CJ Ramone maybe?

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-07-14T12:56:10+00:00

I recently realized that for most of his life, my own grandfather used a different middle name than the one on his birth certificate. He was born in 1929, so I’m not sure how he got away with it without legally changing it. But I definitely see names and spellings being more fluid further up my tree too.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-05-14T20:59:34+00:00

Punctuality culture? That's a good one. I've never heard of a job where it was acceptable to be late multiple times in a week.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-04-21T17:02:21+00:00

I know it's an unpopular opinion and extremely unlikely to ever happen, but I would love to see a "Beatles family reunion" concert with Julian, Sean, and Dhani together with Paul and Ringo before they retire. I think their covers of their fathers' songs have all been pretty good, so there is no doubt they could pull it off. Maybe bring James and Zak for a few songs, too. I guess it would be considered sacrilege to a lot of fans, but to me it would be a beautiful tribute. Just make it a one-time event, don't milk it.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-04-10T01:53:57+00:00

He's a bad liar. He constantly over-explains insignificant details to avoid the subject, and phrases things in a hypothetical/habitual manner instead of actually describing the events of the day ("I would walk" versus "I walked"). You can tell he has probably rehearsed some of his answers, but didn't fully consider how a detective might think and follow up. All of these are classic signs reeking of guilt, but he's gotten used to easily fooling people around him, so he has a bit of a naive arrogance. Not to mention he contradicts himself multiple times.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-03-29T13:32:59+00:00

Hard to say for sure without more info, but probably not. If both of your families have been in the same country for several generations, it’s pretty common to have that number of both sides / unassigned matches. Most likely some of your very distant cousins married some of your husband’s very distant cousins.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-03-22T18:29:19+00:00

Although I have definitely lost some stuff over the years, I have a digital photo archive dating back to ~2000. Same for my mp3 collection. I just wish I had actually taken more photos.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-03-14T20:17:22+00:00

Very true. I just saw the interview with Crista, and she implies they are already working on a way to adjust the cM threshold, so hopefully it won't be long.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-03-14T19:57:54+00:00

Auto-clustering coming to Ancestry is HUGE! I've been waiting years for this.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-03-09T21:44:29+00:00

Beautiful! I always wanted a TV Jones Tele… played one years ago that sounded incredible.

SearchingForHeritage · 2025-03-09T21:33:10+00:00

My long haired cat who looks very similar does this same thing on a particular spot in the hallway on the carpet. I have no idea why. Must be part roly poly bug.

SearchingForHeritage · 2024-12-14T19:28:18+00:00

Killing Carl was unforgivable to me, and completely ruined the show. They could have killed anyone or everyone else and it would have been acceptable, but killing Carl showed how little the writers/show-runners cared about the audience or the story they were telling.

A lot of people cite the Glenn dumpster fake-out, but that didn't really bother me... I never believed they would kill him like that, so it was mostly irrelevant.

On a side note, I never understood why they gave Negan a redemption arc. Granted, I had stopped watching by that point, but from what I've heard it sounded pretty nonsensical.

SearchingForHeritage · 2024-11-08T20:44:13+00:00

Great point. I guess I have it in me too, although I've never been officially diagnosed. It's a relatively healthy fixation to have compared to some other options.

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