Comments on: Royal roots https://dfarq.homeip.net/royal-roots/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=royal-roots David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:59:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/royal-roots/#comment-5345 Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:26:50 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=41#comment-5345 Brian, I’ll give you a shout when I get a spare moment.

Dave, you may have just explained the reason men went to sea.

Jamin, what up wit’ that schnizit? I have no idea what you’re talking about. Glock, glock. Know what I’m sayin’?

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/royal-roots/#comment-5344 Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:00:31 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=41#comment-5344 Brian: Steve’s emails have a way of finding themselves getting filtered by spamassassin. Might have something to do with his pimp jive.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/royal-roots/#comment-5343 Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:45:49 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=41#comment-5343 Oh, and Charlie, speaking of your misreading, I think in medieval Europe, “inability to get land” and “inability to get laid” were almost one in the same. Right?

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/royal-roots/#comment-5342 Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:38:29 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=41#comment-5342 Steve!

Chances are you got hit by either my (temporary) white list filter or my (permanent) Bayesian spam filter. Because of my recent PASS Summit trip (2 weeks in length) I had nearly 4000 emails in my Inbox and didn’t get to give the possible junk emails the look I normally give them. Please email again. bmschkerke@charter.net, bmschkerke@netcotitle.com, or brian@schkerke.com.

No, I no longer worry about spambots scraping those emails. Trust me. They’re on every spammer’s list already. 🙂

Brian

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/royal-roots/#comment-5341 Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:10:19 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=41#comment-5341 Do my eyes deceive me? Has Brian posted something? Hey, I emailed you a few weeks ago. Can’t you give your old co-sysop the courtesy of a reply? Geez… 😉

This genealogy stuff is interesting. We (or more precisely several relatives) have traced my paternal line back to the early 1300’s. Our family’s roots are in Flemish part of modern-day Belgium (formerly part of France), and we held the hereditary mayorship of Hainault. My 5th-great-grand uncle represented both Spain and France when the Louisiana Territory was signed over to the U.S. His parents and siblings fled the French Revolution. There are mountain men, fur traders, and maybe even an influential Renaissance composer in my bloodline. There are tales of horrible deaths suffered and dealt out.

My life is boring in comparison. 🙂

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/royal-roots/#comment-5340 Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:31:29 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=41#comment-5340 It is interesting to discover the famous groups and individuals we’re related to, but it’s equally important to know the “black sheep”. My mother’s side goes back to the Mayflower and included, my Grandfather was pleased to point out, many notables. Unmentioned were the rum-runners, slave traders, robber barons, and lesser scoundrels. I am either all of them or none of them. History can both enlighten and entrap. A great freedom in our country is that while we are of our past, we are not bound to it.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/royal-roots/#comment-5339 Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:06:39 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=41#comment-5339 My mother just informed me that she’s traced the Schkerke part of my family line back quite a ways, circa 1400. I believe she’s going to give me it as a Christmas gift — she knows I’m in search of myself — and I believe there’s probably a surprise or two in store for me. (She’s already informed me that my family fought and died in the American Revolution. An awe inspiring thought. My family was here when the foundations of this land were laid politically via my Polish ancestry; yet I am this land in more ways than that with Cherokee and Blackfoot blood running in me – diluted yes, but there. [25% Cherokee and 13% Blackfoot as near as my Mom can figure. This is why I can’t grow facial hair apparently. ;)])

The best way to start (from her) is to just dive in. She purchased Family Tree Maker which has quite a few resources for use — but you might not want to pay. What FTM does provide is a proven path to follow. By the time you get to the point where FTM’s resources fail you you are ready to forge onward on your own. If you’re not looking to pay start with the Mormon Church records. Despite any hostility you may harbor those records are an accurate and ground breaking resource for anyone looking to trace their roots, and they do not contain only Mormon families.

Brian

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/royal-roots/#comment-5338 Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:59:31 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=41#comment-5338 It all sounds cool, but do you have tips for people wanting to get started in tracing geneology? The only cool thing I know that I can say for sure is that my wife is the great great great great great (give or take a couple of greats) granddaughter of Daniel Boone.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/royal-roots/#comment-5337 Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:19:29 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=41#comment-5337 “It was probably something boring, like an inability to get land.”

I read that as “an inability to get laid.”

Which, in itself, might be a good reason to emigrate, come to think of it.

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