Family Tree Craziness
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Collette swamped herself with the addiction of genealogy research that morning. Because she knew that Alexander Hamilton was either her 4th great or 5th great-grandfather, she could trace the following:
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Alexander, born in Nevis (British West Indies), had a mother of part-French Huguenot descent.
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Alexander’s wife was of Dutch descent. Collette could trace her line back to one of her greats, born 1668 in Albany, and further, to where his father was born in Holland, 1628.
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Alexander’s father’s line went almost immediately back to at least eleven generations of Scots, back to old David Hamilton born in Cambuskeith, Scotland, 1366. Also in his line were several other Alexanders, one who died in the Battle of Flodden, 1513, and another who purportedly lived to be 117 years old, back in the 1500’s.
Collette was purely fascinated.
In the other room, Puck was busy having a tea party with her silver cast-iron teapot from Relevance and Kitts. When OLeif came in and pretended to eat him, Puck said to him, very seriously:
“You can’t eat my bones, Daddy. They’re very hard.”
Over at the Silverspoon’s…
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Theodore and OLeif moved his office furniture to the new office.
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Gloria returned from a baby shower to spend some time outdoors in the cool sunshine, with Collette and Puck.
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And Izzy had been busy with a swing dance the night before, 2:00am birthday hijacking for Charlie, up till 4:00 in the morning, 6:30 awakening, play practice, pre-calc, and Ultimate Frisbee. (He went to bed by 6:45 that evening.)
They didn’t all leave, however, until there was a pepperoni pizza, White Collar, Puck played with his marbles, and Gloria had loaded up a bag of oyster-flavored sauce, mint sauce, yeast, Ranch dressing, and Spanish olives for their return home. And a new black and dark orange striped collared shirt for OLeif.
And into the night, Collette continued to trace the amazing (albeit not absolutely official) history of her family back to Noah, and ultimately Adam. There was a score of dazzling and infamous, downright horrible, and wonderful characters in the line-up. Everyone from Herod the Great, to Joseph of Arimathea.