thefridayfive: Friday Five -- February 2, 2007

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@ 2007-02-01 21:54:00

Friday Five -- February 2, 2007
This week's questions were suggested by

ange420.

1. How far back can you trace your family tree?

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional?

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?

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cyanaelectra
2007-02-02 03:04 am UTC (link)

Friday Five -- February 2, 2007

This week's questions were suggested by

ange420:

1. How far back can you trace your family tree? My father's side, the 1500's, my mothers' side, back even further.

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?The list is long and odd...Too long to post.

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?They are silly.

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional?Traditionally eccentric.

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?The families' twisted sense of humour. You'd have to know us to understand it.

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	lumy12 2007-02-02 03:07 am UTC (link)
	Here are my answers, boring and depressing though they may be! Bleh. (Reply to this)

dreamybritactor
2007-02-02 03:10 am UTC (link)

1. How far back can you trace your family tree?

*** On the one side back to the 1800s.

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?

*** My great grandfather was a farmer and while working in the fields, lost an arm in one of the machines and came back to the house by himself to get help.

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?

*** I like it. My sisters both named their children after family members. Both put my father's name in part one of their son's names and if I had a child, I would have put my Dad's first name as my son's middle name.

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional?

***Yes. We are close knit and very traditional.

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?

***Family comes first. I would also like them to keep the traditions, so the next generation can be like my generation.

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eno_on
2007-02-02 03:11 am UTC (link)

http://eno-on.livejournal.com/21433.html

1. How far back can you trace your family tree?
My maternal grandad's side has a book with the family tree - back to when the first family came out from Germany in the late 1800's I think. The rest I really have no idea.

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?
I had a great grandad fight at Gallipoli with the Australian Army, and my great uncle has near legend status on Crete - and there's a book and movie script written about him.

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?
I don't like the whole Jr, Sr, the third deal, but I like middle names to mean something - my dad and brother have a middle name from my great uncle who was in Crete - it's a Greek name.

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional?
Traditional - very much so. Though some bits really aren't.

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?
Um, need to think about this one.

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alexiel_rieth
2007-02-02 03:15 am UTC (link)

1. How far back can you trace your family tree? Someone on my mom's side of the family traced the history back to the middle 1600s.

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives? One of my aunts on my dad's side went to Kent State University in Ohio and was working somewhere on campus when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a student protest of the invasion of Cambodia on May 4, 1970.

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives? I would never name a child of mine after their father or grandfather or other relative. I think it's ridiculous.

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional? I'm not sure what's meant by traditional. My parents are divorced and I live with my mother and her sister at the moment.

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them? I don't really have any traditions that I would pass down...

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weirddivide__
2007-02-02 03:16 am UTC (link)

1. How far back can you trace your family tree?
On my dad's side, back to about 1812. Not a clue about my mum's side.

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?
My grandma's great(-great? maybe) aunt committed suicide in a gas oven. Harsh.

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?
It's pretty stupid, I think.

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional?
No, not really. I don't know. It's difficult to say, really...

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?
We don't really have traditions in our family...

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geminilove_ca
2007-02-02 03:20 am UTC (link)

http://geminilove-ca.livejournal.com/127654.html

1. How far back can you trace your family tree?
On my mom's side, we managed to go back to the 1600's for certain. My great-something or other ancestor was a captain of a cupply ship for the Mayflower Colony. He settled here and married a native girl.

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?
One of my great-great-great grandfather's left Scotland to escape the hangman. He beat his brother to death during an argument over how to divide their father's estate when he died. His father bought him passage to America.

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?
I pity most kids with legacy names.... but some relatives names can be good, especially as middle names.

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional?
Oh GOD no! My family is hardly traditional.

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?
Generosity - it doesn't hurt. Actually feel good. We always give our spare change to the bellringers for the Salvation Army. We never pass a ringer without giving something, even if it's just a penny.

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rename_love
2007-02-02 03:20 am UTC (link)

1. How far back can you trace your family tree? Further than a lady-in-waiting to the queen of Norway in the 18th century :]
2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives? umm... well, one of my cousins is half-Japanese, 1/4-English (not British, dangit!), and 1/4-Norwegian... I guess that's pretty weird. o_o
3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives? I don't much care for the idea. It lacks a certain sense of, oh, say, ORIGINALITY.
4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional? With a grandmother who's half-Sicilian and half-German, and a grandfather who's half-Norwegian and half-English . . . I'd say, NO.
5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them? The secret spaghetti sauce recipe taught to me by my grandmother :D

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rename_love
2007-02-02 03:23 am UTC (link)

addition to #2: see referrence to the lady-in-waiting to the queen of Norway in the 18th century. Also, my great-grandmother (on my maternal grandfather's side) . . . her maiden name was Hutchison. As in, the Hutchison mentioned in Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Scarlet Letter. However, my suspicions that we are related to her have, as of yet, not been proven neither true nor false. >>"

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rename_love, 2007-02-02 03:27 am UTC

	cnewman1 2007-02-02 03:20 am UTC (link)
	1. Back to 1634 on my fathers side. 2. I'm related to Lizzie Borden (whack whack!) 3. I love legacy names. I think that I'm going to start a tradition in my family. I'll call junior "Duce" and his sons "Thrice" and so on. 4. Not in any significant way. 5. Going to Mexico for Xmas (Reply to this)

nya47
2007-02-02 03:27 am UTC (link)

1. How far back can you trace your family tree? Four generations on my dad's father's side, and only three everywhere else. We are not exactly History oriented...

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?
I've heard a lot of strange things about different family members; HOWEVER, almost all of them need to be served with a side of salt. Of the ones that have a chance of being true, my favourites are that my dad literally ran away with the circus, or that my grandfather took off to Mexico to escape gambling debts, only to have my grandmother follow him and drag him back to Canada ~~by his nose~~.

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?
Heh, I was named after my uncle, and I like my name fine! I would hate to have the number, though- that seems insulting.

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional?
Not under the traditional definition of traditional, no.

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?
It's more of the familial sense of humour and insanity that I would pass down, rather than any one tradition.

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	apple_garden 2007-02-02 03:28 am UTC (link)
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oregonrose
2007-02-02 03:42 am UTC (link)

1. How far back can you trace your family tree?
Back to the early 1800's on my dad's side, no more than a generation on my mom's side.

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?
We're a pretty odd bunch, so a lot of stories filter through the family. An interesting story is that my grandmother was the first telephone operator in our county.

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?
It depends on the name and its connection to ancestors. My middle name came from a Scottish great-grandmother, and I like that connection. But it might not be so appealing if the name connected me with someone whom I didn't like.

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional?
Some parts of our family are traditional in that we value the community we've created, and do certain things certain ways (Christmas comes to mind). Other parts of our family are untraditional. But that's what makes it so interesting!

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?
It's hard to name one, because they're so intertwined with our lives.

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notorious_k_e_v
2007-02-02 03:43 am UTC (link)

1. How far back can you trace your family tree?
To 504 AD, back in Fermanagh, Irelan.

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?
They built a castle in Enniskillen.

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?
I'm named after relatives, I'm fine with it.

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional?
Our generation basically failed with tradition, we're Godless.

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?
Acceptance.

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	notorious_k_e_v 2007-02-02 03:43 am UTC (link)
	*Ireland. (Reply to this) (Parent)

scwolf_10k
2007-02-02 03:45 am UTC (link)

1. How far back can you trace your family tree?
hmm.. can't say. Never attempted it. Probably a couple of generations, because all the old informations were with my grandma, and she's dead. Too late to ask her now.

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?
My relatives are evil, so I don't pay much attention to what is said about them.

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?
I hate it. Unfortunately, it's very common here in Armenia to name children after their grandparents or dead relatives. The kids end up hating their names sometimes.
I would never name my child after a relative or someone famous (unless the famous person has cute/beautiful name and won't make my kid think of changing it)

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional?
Before coming to Armenia, yes, we were. Now we're not so traditional. (thank goodness for that) MORE FREEDOM FOR ME! *does the happy dance*

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?
Armenian traditions. They are going to be Armenian, after all.

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wagrobanite
2007-02-02 04:06 am UTC (link)

1. How far back can you trace your family tree?
On my mom's side all the way back to the 1600s, on my dads, not very far

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?
I'm distantly related to Catherine the Great, and my great grandparents come to America via Canada on the sister ship of the Titanic

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?
um once is okay but to many names of the same in one family gets crazy

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional?
Give me a definition of Traditional? I had a professor tell my class that was one of the worst words in the English language because it has such a different definition to every single person

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?
My German/Russian/Romanian heritage, love of music.

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	zandras_court 2007-02-02 04:09 am UTC (link)
	My answers are here. (Reply to this)

_starkiss
2007-02-02 04:09 am UTC (link)

1. How far back can you trace your family tree? My great-great uncle actually once compiled a history of the Irish side of my family, which went back to the early 1800s, I believe. But like most Canadians, I'm a mix of a few different cultures/ethnicities/whatevers, so it would be hard to trace them all.

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives? My mom claims we're related to Mary, Queen of Scots. She was pretty weird. But I don't think we actually are. Alternatively, my uncle is related by marriage to Alan Thicke. And actually, most of my family is a bit nuts.

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives? Legacy names bug me. I'm partially named after relatives though, so I can't complain. :)

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional? In terms of politics, no. In terms of structure, yes. There are no divorces in my immediate family and only one I can think of in my extended family. But traditional gender roles don't really apply, most of my family members are fairly left-wing and don't buy into them.

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them? Well, I'm not sure I want children, or if I can have my own, but I would like to pass down holiday traditions. Also, a love of reading, which is a very family trait.

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	_starkiss 2007-02-02 04:14 am UTC (link)
	And also, I'd like to pass on the "good cook" gene... which seems to have skipped me, actually, but my grandmother, aunt, mom and sister all possess. (Reply to this) (Parent)

neverfalldown
2007-02-02 04:11 am UTC (link)

1. How far back can you trace your family tree?

Pretty far actually, it was my uncles hobby, tho not on the side I'd like.

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?

That one is AA Milne of Winnie The Pooh fame.

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?

Naming after family is beautiful, naming them after yourself is egotistical and self-serving.

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional?

We're quite nuculear.

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?

Love.

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	scowlette 2007-02-02 04:15 am UTC (link)
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	christinefalls 2007-02-02 04:51 am UTC (link)
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	estllechauvelin 2007-02-02 05:05 am UTC (link)
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oleander_sky
2007-02-02 05:16 am UTC (link)

1. How far back can you trace your family tree?
Not very. My father’s grandfather was adopted. No one can read the handwriting on my mother’s mother’s or grandmother’s birth certificates and her father vanished when she was young. So…the most I know is about my great grandparents, and very little about them.

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives?
My great-grandfather was adopted, presumably in family, and kept his birth name until he married, at which point he took on the adoptive name.

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives?
Stupid.

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional?
No.

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them?
No kids. Never. Besides, we have no traditions.

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riseand_thefall
2007-02-02 05:26 am UTC (link)

1. How far back can you trace your family tree? Me personally? Probably not that far. Great grandparents MAYBE.

2. What is the most interesting (or strange) thing you've heard about one of your relatives? My Aunt through marriage died of anorexia. Not really strange, or interesting. Other than that, my family's pretty damn boring.

3. How do you feel about legacy names like John Henry Smith IV or naming children after other relatives? I don't like them. Just because it's a pain in the ass to have like 12 people in your family with the same name. Like George Foreman and his sons George, George, George, George, & George, etc.

4. Would you consider yourself and/or your family to be traditional? Traditional like how? Doing the same thing every year for certain things? Yes. Traditional like families on TV? no. One thing that's kindof weird, we all stay away from each other. The 5 of us are almost always in seperate rooms.

5. What is one tradition you have passed on to your children and/or plan to pass on to them? I don't plan on having children, & I have no idea what I'd pass onto them...

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