Web surfing and such
Apr. 29th, 2004 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanaiseI'm fiddling around on the web, looking up ancestors.
This is my great-grandfather. The Elizabeth Marsh mentioned there is my grandmother. She was named after his first wife, which I still think is spooky.
This is my grandmother's mother's uncle. (and also this.)
This is why my grandmother worries that we won't have a PhD in the family this generation. It would be the first time in *generations* that we didn't have one.
Ooh, there's an endowed James Jackson Putnam chair out there. And possibly a children's hospital as well. And a page with old pictures: http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/med00013.html#med00013putnam
I suppose the good thing about people giving their kids last names as their middle names is that it makes it easier to track family relationships. For example, James's brother, Charles Pickering Putnam suggests that they're related to another of the guys on that page, Henry Pickering Bowditch. But there's about 940 million putnams out there. And apparently they were concerned about who they married because they all married the same people. Down to a putnam/putnam marriage where they weren't closer than second cousins, yet still had siblings with the same names. (Of course, I've got 4 uncle johns, (two marriage, two blood), and two great aunt Nancies (both blood), so perhaps I should watch the stone throwing.)
This is my great-grandfather. The Elizabeth Marsh mentioned there is my grandmother. She was named after his first wife, which I still think is spooky.
This is my grandmother's mother's uncle. (and also this.)
This is why my grandmother worries that we won't have a PhD in the family this generation. It would be the first time in *generations* that we didn't have one.
Ooh, there's an endowed James Jackson Putnam chair out there. And possibly a children's hospital as well. And a page with old pictures: http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/med00013.html#med00013putnam
I suppose the good thing about people giving their kids last names as their middle names is that it makes it easier to track family relationships. For example, James's brother, Charles Pickering Putnam suggests that they're related to another of the guys on that page, Henry Pickering Bowditch. But there's about 940 million putnams out there. And apparently they were concerned about who they married because they all married the same people. Down to a putnam/putnam marriage where they weren't closer than second cousins, yet still had siblings with the same names. (Of course, I've got 4 uncle johns, (two marriage, two blood), and two great aunt Nancies (both blood), so perhaps I should watch the stone throwing.)
