Re: Current Raccas
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Re: Current Raccas
Rhonda Racca 3/08/05
Hi Rhonda,
I’m glad I helped. It is refreshing to meet someone who appreciates advice. My teen-aged children don’t; they were evidently born knowing everything they needed to know.
A warning first – don’t let this become an obsession. A new niece / nephew should be much more important than dead ancestors. The people at my office make rude comments when I forget to change my socks because I’m hot on the trail of someone who got killed by Indians in 1834.
If your brother has other kids, they are probably excited and hungry. If you have a 6-quart stockpot, some beef, onions, potatoes carrots and celery, you could make a stew. (Considering where your ancestors came from, giving you culinary advice is probably like telling Bill Gates how to run a business.) Stew, a green salad, a loaf of crusty French bread and a bottle of red wine for the adults make an easy dinner to bring by the house. Hospitality for living relatives is ALWAYS more important than facts about dead ones.
(We had 300 crawfish show up in our pasture once. I put them in the kid’s wading pool and ran clear water into it for three days, then boiled them for five minutes, peeled them, sautéed the tails in butter and garlic and served them on a bed of white rice. They beat beef stew by a mile.)
Back to genealogy, cemetery records, death certificates, obituaries, church records or (at $27, the most expensive) an SSN application will give you Orday’s parents and maybe his other names.
There are two disadvantages to posting your e-mail address in the clear. First, the people who send spam have robots that troll for addresses. Unless you like offers for male enhancement and offers from corrupt Africans who want you to help them spirit millions of dollars out of the country, you should avoid posting your address.
Second, if you change ISP’s and become, for instance, [email protected], the old address will still be here on GenForum and someone trying to write to you in 2007 will have her e-mail bounce.
I would rather post than e-mail. If Oday had 10 normal children, and they averaged 4 children each, that makes 40 grand children. You would, on average, have 3 siblings and 36 first cousins. You may not know them all. If one of them – or one of their children – happens to come here, they can see everything I’ve found out about Oday, even if they come here in 2007. If I sent it to you direct, and you changed your e-mail address, they would be stuck. If the cousin who is looking for you on 2007 happens to have the family Bible and the letters Oday’s grandfather wrote from France in 1865, you’d kick yourself. (I picked that example out of my hat. I don’t know if Oday’s grandfather ever wrote, or if anyone saved the letters.)