Roots

When I am unemployed I start hanging out on Ancestry.ca. I've had some breakthroughs with the most difficult side of my tree. (Other than when Miss Smith married Mr. Jones and daughter Jones then married Mr. Brown) Finding out your great-great grandfather probably drank himself to death isn't a great feeling. I have figured out from Google that a cause of death of "phthisis and gastritis" is usually linked to "unrepentant drunkenness".

Figuring out that's why your grandfather never knew his grandfather and why his father never talked about him is sad.

I continue my search for the person I look like.


Today is Mother's Day. I called my mum to thank her for giving birth to me. She said "Oh, you're welcome."

YAY4Mums!