but it wasn't my fault that I caved! Honest! Yeah, I wouldn't believe me either, not totally at least :-)
You see, 2 weeks ago, I discovered that a friend adopted a grave at the Military Cemetery in Margraten. We got to talking and he mentioned that he was trying to find more of the personal life of "his" soldier, but hadn't been able to. So I offered to do a little research for him. You see? Totally being helpful! ROFL.
Well, did a little digging, and found some stuff, and found a little more every evening and that started me wondering if I could spare an hour or so, checking out the family tree that had my grandpa in it..... and it quickly escalated into an allweekender. Litterally, haven't slept since Friday.... I'm dead on my feet, but IT WAS SOOOOO MUCH FUN!!!! While looking, I was verifying information I already found, so the progress is not really huge, but to have corroborating information is satisfying.... Some information I had, but I hadn't sourced it, so where ever I found it, doesn't matter, I now have a source for it. I also found a couple of sources, that didn't have the information the source referred to, so I did the right thing, and mentioned the source cited in my notes with the mention that it had "this" information, not the information it referred to. so, either it will prove that the information is somewhere else, and it was just entered wrong, in which case I will use the main source and dig thru the rest of it to see what I can find, or I'm going to have a long road ahead of me, because I won't be able to trust the information on the site....
And that brings me to a pet peeve of mine in people putting things on the internet, and others taking it at facevalue and running with it, without verifying information/sources. With this kind of information "Trust but verify" should be a way of life! :-)
Well, it's 23.00 and I'm going to find a pillow for a bit.... busy day tomorrow.
June 9, 2025
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