The good, the bad, the wtf...
Nov. 7th, 2023 12:07![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dantesspiritTook a while to come up with a title for this post. 'Seriously?!?', "WTF, over', '*sigh*', 'You have got to be kidding.'... you get the idea.
CR-V is back in the shop. Check engine light and VSA (Vehicle Stabilization Assist) light came back on, 4 times since last night. Came on, on Mark's way home, he pulled over, checked fluids, VSA light went out, check engine stayed on.
I told him to call them today. So naturally, check engine light went out even before he left this morning (it was on when we went to vote at 630am). But! It happened *3 times* on his way to work (car shudders, check engine and VSA lights come on).
So I woke up to him texting that he called, they said bring it in, they'll run a free diagnostic to see if it's related to the work they did or not and go from there. He went ahead and rented a vehicle. Keeping my fingers crossed that it's related to previous work, because if it is, it more than likely will be free or at the very least, inexpensive.
Got a message via Ancestry last night, from a half 1st cousin 1x removed (she's a Millennial, I'm a Gen X), they are in the same spot I was, in regards to my dad's birth father- their great grandmother never spoke of him, their grandmother, my dad's half sister, didn't remember him, as he'd died when she was 9. (Which can't be right, if she was born in '42 as they says she was, he died in '53, she'd have been 11.) They know nothin of a son, the grandmother says she was an only child.
But if she was born in 1942, she'd have been listed in the military records, and she's not, the son is.
She is *definitely* my dad's sister- dna proved that, as well as they look similar. At any rate, they'd never even seen photos of Algernon, or his dad, Carl, and had a lot of questions I was able to mostly answer.
Turns out their grandmother's older half brother via her mother, had 4 kids, at least one of which lives here in Virginia. The half brother died in Viet Nam and is listed on the Wall.
Warm today, so I have a few windows open. Nice, light breeze. Still very dry. Hoping for rain this weekend, and not the leaves kind. Thankfully the underground spring that fills the well is still going strong, so no worries there.
Got some sewing stuff I need to do, so off to do that.
CR-V is back in the shop. Check engine light and VSA (Vehicle Stabilization Assist) light came back on, 4 times since last night. Came on, on Mark's way home, he pulled over, checked fluids, VSA light went out, check engine stayed on.
I told him to call them today. So naturally, check engine light went out even before he left this morning (it was on when we went to vote at 630am). But! It happened *3 times* on his way to work (car shudders, check engine and VSA lights come on).
So I woke up to him texting that he called, they said bring it in, they'll run a free diagnostic to see if it's related to the work they did or not and go from there. He went ahead and rented a vehicle. Keeping my fingers crossed that it's related to previous work, because if it is, it more than likely will be free or at the very least, inexpensive.
Got a message via Ancestry last night, from a half 1st cousin 1x removed (she's a Millennial, I'm a Gen X), they are in the same spot I was, in regards to my dad's birth father- their great grandmother never spoke of him, their grandmother, my dad's half sister, didn't remember him, as he'd died when she was 9. (Which can't be right, if she was born in '42 as they says she was, he died in '53, she'd have been 11.) They know nothin of a son, the grandmother says she was an only child.
But if she was born in 1942, she'd have been listed in the military records, and she's not, the son is.
She is *definitely* my dad's sister- dna proved that, as well as they look similar. At any rate, they'd never even seen photos of Algernon, or his dad, Carl, and had a lot of questions I was able to mostly answer.
Turns out their grandmother's older half brother via her mother, had 4 kids, at least one of which lives here in Virginia. The half brother died in Viet Nam and is listed on the Wall.
Warm today, so I have a few windows open. Nice, light breeze. Still very dry. Hoping for rain this weekend, and not the leaves kind. Thankfully the underground spring that fills the well is still going strong, so no worries there.
Got some sewing stuff I need to do, so off to do that.
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Date: 2023-11-08 18:51 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-11-08 18:54 (UTC)If I’m reading it correctly, your Dad’s father, your paternal grandfather, was a secret son?
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Date: 2023-11-08 19:05 (UTC)So, it goes like this- Carl, my great-grandfather married Cora. They had Algernon.
Algernon, my grandfather, married LaVanchia. They had my dad.
They then divorced. Dad was adopted out at age 2.
Algernon remarried to Mary Jane, who already had a son, Arthur, from her 1st marriage. They went on to have Thomas Carl- the son we can't find beyond military records for Algernon, around 1942.
They then had Caroline Rose, who, by the 1950 Census, was born in 1946.
Algernon and Mary Jane divorced shortly after. Algernon remarried to Pauline and died in 1953.
Arthur, Caroline's half brother, fathered 4 kids and died in 1971 in Viet Nam.
So, long story short-
Algernon had my dad from his 1st marriage.
He then had potentially a son and definitely a daughter from his 2nd marriage. (The son disappears after 1942.)
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Date: 2023-11-08 19:06 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-11-09 13:28 (UTC)Yeah, that’s tricky, but not as convoluted as I was thinking. :)
Aside from the paternal great-grandfather who maybe wasn’t actually a MyLastName (he just doesn’t exist/connect anywhere prior to showing up as an adult), both sides of my family are fairly straightforward. Lots of children, in some cases, but not much divorce and remarriage.
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Date: 2023-11-09 16:26 (UTC)