Partly sunny, 31C (33C)
T -12 days
So, I decided to do some work pruning ye olde family tree--checking that things check out, etc, and thought of this rant about the trouble in deciding what language to use for names (OMG, Beatrices, Biancas and Isabelles!) and what practice to adopt for those who were emperors or saints (often defined by their geographical region rather than a 'surname') or didn't have last names because of whatever, what to do with regnal names ; deciding what standard to use for the names of places--the historical or modern ('Akko, Palestine' or 'Acre, Israel' ??), in English or the language of the time, the language the ancestor would have used or the language which is predominantly spoken there, now ; deciding what system to use for dates, the order of months, days and years and the notation of questionable dates ; the problems of deciding just how hard to force congruency across the entire tree or how much to allow leeway and change over time, etc. And I found something maybe kindof fun that I wanted to share.
So I'm working "top down"--which is paternally-preferentially checking back to last known persons and reviewing that birth and death years aren't too wild and that, whenever possible, documentation is attached. Let me show you the twig I was on (I've included years for some sense of realism for the skeptics ; I SWEAR I am not trying to brag about my "lineage" but I'm pretty consistently amazed by how involved my "family" has been in the history of the world so forgive me if it seems like I've lapsed from time to time...) :
Notes for reading :
All noted years are birth years, except in the format xxxx-xxxx in which the first is the birthyear and the latter is the deathyear or where preceded by "d.".
I've added some place information so you can see when the line made notable geographic shifts.
(P) = Paternal ascent, (M) = Maternal ascent. Each line is one generation, seqentially.
And this is where I noticed something interesting :
Only7 5 4 great-grandparents 'cuz two sets of siblings married and became grandparents to the same individual (Pete, for Pete's sake!)! Alfonso O OSADO and Constanca DINISEZ are siblings! So I thought, 'come now, I must've just imported some messed up data on one of my wild genealogy flings...' so I checked Wikipedia and indeed, Lizzy and Dinis had two children, a son Alfonso and a daughter Constanca. Alright, fine. [Backfilling, I've founds that Beatriz and Fernando are siblings, also...]
(By the way, she's also a saint ; but, seriously, I've lost count of how many saints there are on the tree. I think anyone who took more than three breaths was sainted, there, for a while... I find it ironic that part of what drove me to pick this up again with such a fervor was a search for Jews in the history and all I find are these damned saints... Although I did find some very special Jews through my mother's father around 200-400 CE ; but I still need to check all those links before I write more about them, and it's going back twice as far as this, so it'll take at least twice as long...)
Not only that, but Wikipedia has lots and lots and lots more genealogical information for me to add to my tree! Which is great! But time consuming... But in that, I found the really interesting part, and the thing I wanted to share with y'all :
25. (M) Isabel of ARAGON (1271) --Queen of Portugal
26. (M) Constantia of HOHENSTAUFEN (1249)
27. (M) Beatrice of SAVOY (d. 1258)
28. (P) Amadeus IV of SAVOY (1197)
29. Marguerite of GENEVA (d. 1252) and Thomas I of SAVOY (1178-1233)
...and their charming love story of kidnap!!
I also found lots more Crusaders than I had previously thought there were... bah to crusading crusaders. But, also, the more I find out about my family history and it's peculiarities, the more I find it little wonder that I have the interests I do and take the interest I do in world history and politics... it's just in the blood...
===ETA 23:25===
And now the whole day is gone... all of it... eek, I didn't really mean to spend it all like that...
I really want to take tomorrow off... I think I should be allowed to just go in whenever, since my first class isn't until 19h05... But, no, I have to be in by a-quarter-to-noon. Maybe I'll just pack some of that stuff... bah to packing [I didn't get any done, today...]
===ETA 02h34===
Well, shit! Code Geass turned out to be pretty much made completely of awesome from around ep 17 of the second season... I'm glad I didn't give up on it!
T -12 days
So, I decided to do some work pruning ye olde family tree--checking that things check out, etc, and thought of this rant about the trouble in deciding what language to use for names (OMG, Beatrices, Biancas and Isabelles!) and what practice to adopt for those who were emperors or saints (often defined by their geographical region rather than a 'surname') or didn't have last names because of whatever, what to do with regnal names ; deciding what standard to use for the names of places--the historical or modern ('Akko, Palestine' or 'Acre, Israel' ??), in English or the language of the time, the language the ancestor would have used or the language which is predominantly spoken there, now ; deciding what system to use for dates, the order of months, days and years and the notation of questionable dates ; the problems of deciding just how hard to force congruency across the entire tree or how much to allow leeway and change over time, etc. And I found something maybe kindof fun that I wanted to share.
So I'm working "top down"--which is paternally-preferentially checking back to last known persons and reviewing that birth and death years aren't too wild and that, whenever possible, documentation is attached. Let me show you the twig I was on (I've included years for some sense of realism for the skeptics ; I SWEAR I am not trying to brag about my "lineage" but I'm pretty consistently amazed by how involved my "family" has been in the history of the world so forgive me if it seems like I've lapsed from time to time...) :
Notes for reading :
All noted years are birth years, except in the format xxxx-xxxx in which the first is the birthyear and the latter is the deathyear or where preceded by "d.".
I've added some place information so you can see when the line made notable geographic shifts.
(P) = Paternal ascent, (M) = Maternal ascent. Each line is one generation, seqentially.
1. Me (1982)
2. (P) Thomas J CORWIN (1958)
3. (P) Roger D CORWIN (1932)
4. (P) Wieland W CORWIN (1897)
5. (P) William H CORWIN (1862)
6. (M) Lydia WHEELER (1840)
7. (P) Richard C WHEELER (1812)
8. (M) Lydia CHILCOTT (1780) b. in Baltimore, Maryland ; d. in Iowa, USA
9. (P) Richard CHILCOTT (1746) b. Somerset, England ; d. Union Township, Pennsylvania, USA
10. (P) John CHILCOTT (1706-1780) b. Somerset, England ; d. Western Run, Maryland, USA
11. (P) Humphrey CHILLCOAT (1666-1708) b. St. James, Anne Arundel, Maryland d. Anne Arundel, Maryland
[I'm not really sure what was up with ol' Humphrey ; he must've knocked up some girl in England on a trip back to the mother-country, but at any rate both his son and grandson followed him after he died...]
12. (P) John CHILCOTE (1639) b. & d. Somerset
[It's not clear to me how his son was born in the Americas while he was born and died in England...]
13. (P) John CHILCOT (1608) b. Somerset
14. (M) Frances ARSCOTT (1573) b. Somerset
15. (M) Mary MONCK (1544) b. Dunsland, Devon, England
16. (M) Frances PLANTAGENET (1513) b. England
17. (P) Arthur PLANTAGENET (1461ish) b. England
18. (P) Edward PLANTAGENET (1442) --this would be Edward-IV-King-of-England Edward, b. Rouen, France
19. (P) Richard PLANTAGENET (1411) b. Yorkshire [the younger]
20. (P) Richard PLANTAGENET (1376) b. Yorkshire [the elder]
21. (M) Isabel PEREZ (1355) b. Spain ; d. England
22. (P) Pedro I ALFONSEZ (1334) b. & d. Spain
And this is where I noticed something interesting :
Maria AFFONSES (1313-1357) | Alfonso FERNANDEZ (1311-1350) | ||||||
Beatriz de CASTILE (1293-1359) | Alfonso O OSADO (1291-1357) | Constanca DINISEZ (1290-1313) | Fernando de CASTILE (1285-1312) | ||||
Sancho IV of CASTILE (1257-1295) | María de MOLINA (1265-1321) | Isabel of ARAGON (1271-1336) b. Spain, d. Portugal | Dinis of PORTUGAL (1261-1325) | Isabel of ARAGON (1271-1336) b. Spain, d. Portugal | Dinis of PORTUGAL (1261-1325) | Sancho IV of CASTILE (1257-1295) | María de MOLINA (1265-1321) |
Only
(By the way, she's also a saint ; but, seriously, I've lost count of how many saints there are on the tree. I think anyone who took more than three breaths was sainted, there, for a while... I find it ironic that part of what drove me to pick this up again with such a fervor was a search for Jews in the history and all I find are these damned saints... Although I did find some very special Jews through my mother's father around 200-400 CE ; but I still need to check all those links before I write more about them, and it's going back twice as far as this, so it'll take at least twice as long...)
Not only that, but Wikipedia has lots and lots and lots more genealogical information for me to add to my tree! Which is great! But time consuming... But in that, I found the really interesting part, and the thing I wanted to share with y'all :
25. (M) Isabel of ARAGON (1271) --Queen of Portugal
26. (M) Constantia of HOHENSTAUFEN (1249)
27. (M) Beatrice of SAVOY (d. 1258)
28. (P) Amadeus IV of SAVOY (1197)
29. Marguerite of GENEVA (d. 1252) and Thomas I of SAVOY (1178-1233)
...and their charming love story of kidnap!!
I also found lots more Crusaders than I had previously thought there were... bah to crusading crusaders. But, also, the more I find out about my family history and it's peculiarities, the more I find it little wonder that I have the interests I do and take the interest I do in world history and politics... it's just in the blood...
===ETA 23:25===
And now the whole day is gone... all of it... eek, I didn't really mean to spend it all like that...
I really want to take tomorrow off... I think I should be allowed to just go in whenever, since my first class isn't until 19h05... But, no, I have to be in by a-quarter-to-noon. Maybe I'll just pack some of that stuff... bah to packing [I didn't get any done, today...]
===ETA 02h34===
Well, shit! Code Geass turned out to be pretty much made completely of awesome from around ep 17 of the second season... I'm glad I didn't give up on it!