Don't do too much when you have a cold. Yeah, I knew that rest was a sick girl's best friend second only to chicken soup, but having gotten back from a trip back east to see Mom, and where I probably got this cold, I was all ready to tackle that long list of To-Dos I made on the flight home. Too bad I didn't heed the dire warning of those sneezes on that flight back and take some Airborne or something... anything. So here I sit with a lot of inspiration and a way-big list of things to do, and no energy?with which?to do it. Even when I tried to do something simple, it was all a mess. I know this but ignored it, then got overloaded and frustrated... then the cold just sat there. Pass a box of tissues, please.
Where did that blog visitor come from?! I'm not obsessed with the number of visitors to this blog but I will confess to taking a peek at the statistics now and again. What I learn from them is what interests visitors and what doesn't. Last week there were hundreds and hundreds of visitors from one web site, so many that I had to click on the link and see what was up. The link was something innocent and friendly, like "Nice little blog posts?that don't harm anyone". When I clicked through my Kaspersky thought it was OK to go on and I did only to find a bunch of half-naked pictures of women who were supposedly in San Diego looking for a "date." Wha?!
I really don't know how my little genealogy blog got all mixed up in this mess. I emailed a very knowledgeable genea-pal and he said pretty much, "It happens." Wait and it will probably go away. So I did. And it did go away.
But meanwhile I thought and thought about what might have drawn the attention of such Tom-foolery and then deleted every use of the word s. e. x. And I'm writing it that way in case some bot is out there looking for that word and goes and makes?the Nut Tree?a target again! I had used that word in two posts about Neanderthals and once again in transcribing?a death certificate where gender was stated.
Never did get to the bottom of it all, but I figure that a girl can't bee too careful out there on the inter-web. It's stopped now anyway.
Writing ahead. Bloggers tend to accumulate a batch of blog posts that can be floated out and posted any old time. They also work ahead so that they can check their?writing?over again before posting or? in case something comes up at the last moment and they can't get to?writing a fresh?post. Even major lineage societies do it as witnessed by the president of one posting her Christmas message a week before the appointed date, in which she tells of the power going out on Christmas Day! Oops!
Getting posts ready for prime-time ahead of schedule is just what the prudent blogger does. Anyhoo, I had no idea that I was going to get sick right after being away on my trip. Therefore I used up my supply of ready blog posts, which was way too small.?That taught me a lesson in being prepared with blog fodder and actual blog posts to a greater extent than I had previously thought. Imagine the nerve: me getting sick! Yeah, it happens:)
Cousins! I just love finding new-to-me cousins!! In spite of sniffling, sneezing, and coughing I've been in contact with a number of folks who are descended from Benjamin Thomas (1793 - 1846),? and his wife Hannah Evans (1798 - 1868). Three of them are descended from their son William Benjamin! I don't know about you, but I love this stuff:) In the days before the internet, it might have taken years and years for them to connect, if ever. But now, within a month or two there are five of us who descended from this brave couple who boarded the Barque Tiberius in 1838 and came to America in search of a better life for their eight children in the coal mines of Western Maryland.
GEDmatch. Wow, is GEDmatch back and rolling on! I want to do a future blog post about what's happening over there for me so I'll keep this short. Just know that I'd tell anyone?who might ask, to go ahead and have your DNA testing?done any old place, and then download the raw data and upload the file to GEDmatch. Really easy, the down and up load stuff and takes just a minute or two. Then sit back and wait for the fun to begin. It might take a little while for it to all roll along, but it does.
Good week. Pass the tissue box, please.
Some of the "goodies" retrieved from Mom's seemingly never-ending stash of stuff, is Dad's high school yearbook from 1935.
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