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Genealogy research bummer
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 6:01 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Your name is Smith and you spend hours on Ancestry.com wrestling with the awful complications of that surname. Finally, you find a forebear who served in the U.S. Civil War and with great pride and diligence seek him out, from thousands and millions of Smiths, and then what happens?
60th Illinois Infantry
Co. E
Smith, Samuel B Co. E
Mustered in Feb 17 '62
Discharged Aug 15, '62
For worthlessness
Re: Genealogy research bummer
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 6:40 pm
by Long Run
Damn it all to smitherings . . .
Re: Genealogy research bummer
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 2:09 am
by rubato
Trade in that dusty old-fashioned genealogy for past-life regressions; as it turns out EVERYONE is reincarnated from royalty. Never a disappointment. Just ask Shirley Maclaine.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Genealogy research bummer
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 2:22 am
by Lord Jim
My favorite line about Shirley MacLaine comes from Penn Jillette when I heard him asked about her in a radio interview during a book tour a few years ago:
"Yeah, well if we ran an IQ contest between Shirley MacLaine and a plate of clams, we know who'd win..."
Re: Genealogy research bummer
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 2:23 am
by MajGenl.Meade
Re: Genealogy research bummer
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 2:25 am
by BoSoxGal
Someone who is 'worthless' as a soldier might be a brilliant philosopher. Take heart!
Re: Genealogy research bummer
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 2:28 am
by MajGenl.Meade
Glad it wasn't me. I'm just looking into a new (to me) list of soldiers who supposedly sailed on the General Lyon in March 1865. I've seen others as bad... those who made the muster rolls didn't hold back!