Well, as everyone else is writing about their Thanksgivings, I might as well add our 2c. Our is, not surprisingly, a Jewish Thanksgiving, in that we’re observing it over two days. Last night we were going to go over to my uncle’s place, but one of the kids was sick and we didn’t want to risk exposure. So, instead we picked up a hunk-o-lamb, invited over ixixlixand her family, and made an evening of it. I went by my uncle’s to drop off some stuff in the afternoon, and they came by in the evening. No turkey (other than what he brought over), but we did have pumpkin seeds on the salad. Today we’re doing Thanksgiving with my wife’s family. That will be more traditional; my wife just put the turkey in the oven.
So what else have I been doing: more and more family tree. For a few days it became an obsession as I was grabbing information on the Weinbaum family line. I’ve learned that a branch of the family may be the basis of the movie Driving Miss Daisy in addition to the previously mentioned Stanley G Weinbaum. There is also a possibily of a connection to Louis Rukeyser of Wall Street Week fame, although I haven’t fully figured out the note yet. This morning I took some time going through old emails and sending out requests for more information. But there is a little burnout: I can only spend so much time investigating old census records on Ancestry, and I still don’t have a good technique to connect from the information in the 1930s to the current generation. Making the census search even more frustrating is when you know that people exist, but they just stubbornly refuse to show up in the census searches. The problem could be variant spellings of names, but I’m not as creative as I used to be. I’ll probably play with it off and on today.
I’m not sure where this post is going: I just know I wanted to write something. I think I need to go get some breakfast…
