Hey--your Kelly family sounds like mine....Mary and John....LOL That's where I'm stuck... Last I have is Nathanial Kelly (b about 1734 d about 1826)who married (about 1756) Ann Smiley....from County Down Ireland. Supposedly his father's name was John.... Purchased a book on doing irish genealogy---in about the first paragraph it said the hardest relative to find would be on named...John Kelly...(great!!!!! LOL) The names of John, William, Mary, Julie have been passed down the family- (my generation has John, Mary and Julie---and myself and two of my cousins have the middle name of Ann) thanks for the lol Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paula Kelley Ward" <chachalady@sbcglobal.net> To: <kelley@rootsweb.com>; <vafloyd@rootsweb.com>; <vafrankl@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 5:11 PM Subject: [KELLEY] Not "Genealogy" - 20 Things That Make Genealogy Fun > Just for fun - this was posted on > > Genealogy Roots Blog, by the Blog owner, Joe Beine: > > http://genrootsblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/20-things-that-make-genealogy-fun.h > tml > > > > This is intended to be a bunch of silly nonsense. So please don't take it > too seriously. > > 1. In Germany all the women are named Anna Maria and all the men are > named Johann. This was done to confuse genealogists. > 2. In Mexico all the women are named Maria and all the men are named > Juan. This was done to confuse genealogists. > 3. In Ireland all the women are named Mary and all the men are named > James Patrick O'Connor. This was done for "fun in the pub." (Paula's > comment: In Ireland, in my family, all the women are named Mary Kelly, > and > all the men are named John Kelly, and all those "Michael's" and > "Patrick's" > don't help, either!) > 4. In New Mexico the "Kevin Bacon Game" is called the "Juan Baca Game." > No one knows who Juan Baca was, but everyone in New Mexico can trace their > ancestors to him. > 5. In Boston the "Kevin Bacon Game" is called the "James Patrick > O'Connor Game." And you're only allowed to play with a Boston accent. > For > tips on fine tuning your Boston accent see the Academy Award winning > Martin > Scorsese film, the Depahhh-ted. > 6. The record you need is always at the end of the microfilm roll. > 7. The records at the beginning of the roll are clear and easy to read > with beautiful penmanship. By the time you scroll to the end of the roll > where the record you need is located, everything is a blurry mess. > 8. Oh never mind. They're gonna digitize all of it soon anyway, right? > 9. You actually know what M237 means. You freak. > 10. All of your ancestors settled in Chicago. Whenever you can't find > something about them you curse Mrs. > <http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/oleary/> > O'Leary's cow. > 11. That same cow is probably responsible for the loss of the 1890 > census. > 12. Stupid cow. > 13. You wonder why a non-profit religious organization can distribute > National Archives microfilm better than the National Archives. > 14. You wish the founding fathers had thought up Social Security so the > Social Security Death Index > <http://www.genesearch.com/socialsecurity.html> > would begin around, oh, 1780 or so. > 15. When someone first tells you their last name you immediately convert > it into a Soundex code. This kind of behavior is so not normal. Er, wait > a > minute, since everything has been/will be digitized we don't need Soundex > codes anymore, right? > 16. Your ancestors did not swim to America. > 17. You are not a Cherokee princess. > 18. None of your ancestors knew Jesse James. > 19. But my Apache princess ancestor knew Billy the Kid > <http://cemeteries.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/billy-the-kids-grave/> . > 20. So yeah, my ancestors are cooler than yours. Well of course everyone > thinks that... Ok, number 19 is not really true. > > Your ancestors really did swim to America. > > Perhaps alongside one of these ships: > > Finding <http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/passengers.html> Passenger > Lists > 1820-1940s (arrivals at US Ports) > > Your ancestors are named Anna Maria and Johann. > > You'll love it here: German Roots: German > <http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/> Genealogy Resources > > Your ancestors are named Mary and James Patrick O'Connor: > > Irish <http://www.researchguides.net/irish_genealogy.htm> Genealogy > Resources > > You've been playing the "Juan Baca Game..." > > New <http://www.genealogybranches.com/newmexico.html> Mexico Genealogy > Resources > > Don't know what M237 means? You do now... > > National <http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/nylists1820.html> Archives > Microfilm Publication M237: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New > York, > NY, 1820-1897, > > which of course, has been digitized. > > The Fate of the 1890 Census > <http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1996/spring/1890-census-1.htm > l> Stupid cow! > > > > > > > > Paula Kelley Ward > > <mailto:ChaChaLady@sbcglobal.net> ChaChaLady@sbcglobal.net > > KELLEY List Admin since 1996 > > San Antonio, Texas > > "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." > Ralph > Waldo Emerson > > > > > > ************************************* > KELLEY/KELLY/O'KELLY Surname DNA Study > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kellydnaproject/index.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KELLEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message