16 down, 0 to go (unless the transatlantic flight counts)
i did a little math, and i have traveled through 16 states in the past three weeks:
- ohio
- west virginia
- pennsylvania
- new york
- connecticut
- massachusetts
- vermont
- new hampshire
- new jersey
- delaware
- maryland
- virginia
- north carolina
- south carolina
- georgia
- florida
pretty cool, huh?
now i have two days to square away all the stuff that i’ve been putting off until “the next state”, so that i can get on a plane on thursday evening and find my way to scotland.
wish me luck!
August 8th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
Best of luck! Be safe. Love you. Miss you.
Oh! I just remembered I did some ancestry research a few months ago, and forgot to tell you what I found. I found the french line (the name Brunette) into the 1700s in Canada (New France at the time), but the tree I was searching didn’t research Brunette past your great, great, great, great grandfather Dominque Brunette and great (x4) grandmother Domitelle Grignon, who were born in the 1780s and married in Green Bay in 1811. Another family named Brunette, and the Grignon parents and grandparents (including an Ottowa Chief’s sister named Domitilde (one of your great (x7, squared/2) grandmothers) settled Green Bay before the French & Indian War. The people who created the tree were searching the Grignon (one of your great x4 matrilineals) line, and have traced it to 1500 in France with ancestral last names Grignon, DeLanglade, Bourassa, Leber, LaPlante, du Souchet, Mesturas, de Lavalade Montbrun, Thuet, Mouet, Jutras, Toupin, Jutrat, Radisson, de Thosin, Toupin, Boucher, Lemaire, Paigne, Castrie, Mery, Ducharme, de Roy, Brassard, Galard, Richer dit LaFleche, Tessier, Guyau, Boyer, Inconnue, Mesturas, Moulin, Albert, Leriget, Delamarvaliere, and Leriger. The oldest in this tree was Inconnu Leriger, born in 1500 in La Rouchefoucauld, Charente, France. He was one of your great (x13 generations, squared/2) grandfathers. (I think the math is right). It doesn’t say who he married, but his son Simon Leriget (born 1530, same place) married Jeanne Albert (born 1535, same place), so they are one pair of your great (x12 generations, squared) grandparents.
The point is, you’re probably related to everyone in France, so I’m sure you will feel right at home there. If you run into anyone named Brunette, or anyone with any of the other last names, tell them your dad said you can stay with them for a while (if you trust them). For that matter, you’re probably related to everyone in Germany, Ireland, Scotland, England, etc. through all the lines and Pallas’s lines I didn’t search, so of course you will make yourself at home wherever you are.
So this is a long way to say I’ll miss you, I’ll worry about you (but not really, because you’re awesome), and I wish you a safe and wonderful journey. Say hi to all the relatives for me. And I’ll check your blog now and then, so please keep writing.
August 14th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
I’m quite sure that my dad — who I believe is the inspiration for the title of this post — would count that as “17 down, 1 to go”. You definitely count the state you were in when you started. The transatantic flight is open for debate. :)