Civil Registration of Orleans Parish Births, Marriages and Deaths 1790-1833 is one of those big thick books you'd wish to have in your shirt pocket as a bullet comes whizzing toward your heart. Captain ILL can only imagine the giddy delight of a genealogist feverishly paging through this enormous volume to discover that their ancestor was: "about 51 years old, a grocer, residing on Toulouse Street at the corner of the Basin Carondelet; recorded on May 29, 1833". Captain ILL doesn't concern himself too much about his ancestors since, in the words of Richard Dawkins, "All earthly living things are certainly descended from a single ancestor." The Captain figures he'll just wait until they finger that single ancestor, and not worry about all the folks in the middle.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Interlibrary Loan of the day
Civil Registration of Orleans Parish Births, Marriages and Deaths 1790-1833 is one of those big thick books you'd wish to have in your shirt pocket as a bullet comes whizzing toward your heart. Captain ILL can only imagine the giddy delight of a genealogist feverishly paging through this enormous volume to discover that their ancestor was: "about 51 years old, a grocer, residing on Toulouse Street at the corner of the Basin Carondelet; recorded on May 29, 1833". Captain ILL doesn't concern himself too much about his ancestors since, in the words of Richard Dawkins, "All earthly living things are certainly descended from a single ancestor." The Captain figures he'll just wait until they finger that single ancestor, and not worry about all the folks in the middle.
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