“Ancestor Hate Mail,” Clue Wagon
Sometimes, all The Legal Genealogist wants to do is point a finger at someone else.
Particularly when deadlines are looming on all sides and time is something that’s in unusually short supply.
That’s when I really enjoy having the opportunity to point a finger to send readers off to read something else.
And today I am sitting here giggling while sending you off to read someone else’s blog post.
Because — if you’ve spent more than a nanosecond on genealogical research — it’s one of the funniest posts you’ll come across… and boy, does it ever ring true.
So let me point a finger at “Ancestor Hate Mail” by Kerry Scott on her blog, Clue Wagon.1
As you can see from the posting date,2 this isn’t a recent post — it was first published more than two years ago — but it’s timelessly funny.
And that can be said of much that Kerry Scott writes — it is funny, even when her end point is deadly serious, and it is timeless.
It’s a great blog, Clue Wagon, and it’s easy to sign up to get it by email. There’s a sign-up area at the bottom of every post with the label “Get More Stuff Like This.”
So while I go off to try to meet deadlines, you can go off into gales of laughter.
And while you’re there, don’t forget to “Get More Stuff Like This” — read Clue Wagon. You won’t regret it.
SOURCES
- Kerry Scott, “Ancestor Hate Mail”, Clue Wagon, posted August 2014 (http://www.cluewagon.com/ : accessed 6 Dec 2016). ↩
- You are reading the footnotes to this blog and carefully studying the citations, right? Right? ↩
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! As someone who’s done the Andersens in Copenhagen needles in a haystack search and is the proud owner of a tree with multiple variations of Niels Hansen who begat Hans Nielsen who begat Niels Hansen, I most certainly can identify.
Thanks for pointing us in the direction of The Clue Wagon. Up until now I thought I was the only person who got motion sick when using microfilm. This will be a great new (to me) blog to follow!
Kerry’s blog is always fabulous! I added a few more hate-mails of my own in my head as I read comment after comment, as well.
And – OF COURSE, I read all the footnotes to your blog, Judy. They are a ‘must-read’ part of your blog! Cheers.