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Skriven 2014-12-30 21:51:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: Sunday dinners
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 12-26-14  22:19 <=-

 NB>> Even so, you can get some interesting anomalies.... When I was looking
 NB>> for my Peter Zechariah James Dederick, I had (naturally) figured that
 NB>> with a name like that, he'd be the only one with it...  Turned out
 NB>> that he had a second or third cousin with the exact same name, of
 NB>> about the same age, and living in the same general area...  What had
 NB>> appeared to be a head-scratcher of a second marriage (dates didn't
 NB>> figure properly) turned out to be a different person's marriage... :)

 RH> That is unusual, to have all the same names. (G) 

For sure.  I'd not have been surprised to see even 2 of the three
repeated, but I certainly wasn't expecting to see that triplet of names,
especially with the Zechariah in the middle, repeated in that same
generation...  :)

 RH> Back when we were in AZ, Steve had an e-mail from somebody in, IIRC,
 RH> New Orleans, asking if he was the Stephen Haffly he'd gone to school
 RH> with (in that area). Interesting to find someone else with that name
 RH> but no, he wasn't the schoolmate the person was looking for.
 
That happens much more commonly than one would think.  There was a
Richard John Backus at RIT at the same time as Richard (whose middle
name is Judson).  The former usually goes by R. John, and is still local
here, but is an accountant... on the other side of town...  ;)  But it
did make for some interesting confusions in the alumni office for a
while, and we do get the occasional call looking for the other guy... :) 

 NB>>> That's the fun of genealogy...  running into cousins you never
 NB>>> even knew you had...  ;)  Of course, most of them are much more
 NB>>> distant, but that's the fun of it too...  :)
 RH>> And there are those that may be related on first glance that end up
 RH>> not being so.
 NB>> Or at least not closely so...  generally you go back far enough, you
 NB>> can find a connection... except probably for surnames based on
 NB>> occupation... and even then, we're all cousins if you go back really
 NB>> far enough... (G)

 RH> REALLY (!) going back far there. (G)

Don't even have to go back to Noah for most of them, either... ;) 
 
 RH>> Of courst by the time it gets grease splattered, you've probably made
 RH>> the recipe enough times to be pretty sure of the amounts needed of
 RH>> most all the ingredients.
 NB>> Probably.  :)

 RH> So the recipe is more of a back up, and verifier at that point.

Indeed.
 
 RH>>> I don't fit in any one specific category either; I think that
 RH>>> comes from years of cooking experience.
 NB>>> And thereby a certain degree of confidence in the kitchen...  :)
 RH>> Yes, I'm no longer a slave to the cook book, be it a virtual or an
 RH>> actual one.
 NB>> Quite.

 RH> Allowing me to be as creative as I want. (G)

When you want, anyway... ;)

ttyl          neb

... A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things straight.

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