I asked my California cousin if he was planning to watch the Super Bowl game. He’s an avid researcher and someone I  can “talk to” via email messages.

On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 4:52 PM <itplanning@zzzzzzz.net> wrote:
We will watch the game, even though our San Francisco team lost in the playoffs to Philadelphia. San Francisco had a good team this year, but we ran out of quarterbacks. We lost our best quarterback after the first game of the season, our backup quarterback in game 10, our rookie quarterback after ten minutes in the playoff game with Philadelphia, and our FOURTH quarterback suffered a near concussion at the end of the game. Starting quarterbacks usually last a whole season, but we lost ALL of ours in one season.

I’ll be FRANTZ [frank], I hope like HECK that it will be a NICE game, but it MEYER or MAY not be. I MAY go into a FUNK if my favorite player gets his BELL rung in a FLUKE play and ends up in a COFFIN.

That last paragraph is a creative “play on words.” The capitalized names are surnames in our family tree. ~~ Below: Balloons in the news.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I’m attempting to accurately document the families of several “same name” individuals.

My camera was lonely and wanted some attention. I won’t go hungry—but I lack perishables. Time to go grocery shopping?!

OBSESSIVE, COMPULSIVE addiction to Ancestry.com.

Yesterday, about fourteen hours sitting at the computer attempting to “git ‘er right.”  Today, I plan to avoid ancestry (no climbing the family tree). I’m using the computer to prepare this blog message and then I’ll walk away. I have a fondness for images and collages. Below are the ones I prepared yesterday and inserted with the individuals in my “tree.”

 
 
 
 
 
 
All these, and more, were prepared in response to the documentation of the obituary for this woman.

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When I couldn’t locate information on Ancestry, I went to FamilySearch.

Lately, there have been several TV news stories about artificial intelligence. “A I” has been at work transcribing public records, for Ancestry. This is NOT the first error I’ve observed.

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My brain seems to have an uncanny knack for catching interesting information before my eyes see it (peripheral vision).

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True story: I was NOT planning to spend the day researching on Ancestry. However, it is almost six PM and I have spent about ten hours researching and documenting… I was drawn back… because I wanted to “tie up loose ends.”

I received another obituary from “cousin” and I launched into the documentation of the individual, and the extended family. Without exaggeration, I’ve spent two days… because sources were impossible to locate. It was like searching for a needle in a haystack. It was so discouraging and I’m depressed because “cousin” now admits the information that accompanied the obituary “was wrong.”  Yes, I was “going in circles” because I can’t walk away from Ancestry until I’ve tied up all the loose ends.

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Rather than “variety” in activities, I have a variety of surnames and methods of documentation.