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The one time in years I deliberately point people to my blog for ONE PURPOSE, I discovered that WordPress hid the thing I wanted them to see. Neat.
I noticed something about the way I read books, yesterday. When I start a book, it's like I'm sitting in an empty space, completely surrounded by the fog of war. Over some number of pages, that fog is pushed back and the world in the book begins to populate the formerly-empty space. Eventually, that space is on the other side of a portal that I step through as effortlessly as I open the cover of the book. I guess I've been doing this my whole life, but I didn't actually notice and note it until yesterday.
Originally written in 2021, The Ghosts of Christmas Past is a tapestry woven from painful and joyful memories that all decided to surround me that December. I've added to it once, in 2023, and I added to it again this year.
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, in the 70s and 80s. I remember when this kid -- who nobody thought could even make the final, much less win -- in the All Valley Karate Championship.
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Hahaha, nice!! 👍👍
Definite resemblance, the super hero gene stands out in both of you, lol
HA!
“Chasing coeds”? What’s the date fo this ad?
Best I can make out, copyright 1982
Didn’t know anyone still used the word “coed” in 1982! (The year I graduated with my bachelor’s degree.)
Thanks. I was in college in ’82, but no one ever referred to us as “coeds”!
Good point, Stephanie.
I believe that he is a very honest gentleman. Having works with hundreds of celebrities by comparison, I can say that he is socially, politically and personally trustworthy to a fault.
Well, at the 1988 MacWorld, before I knew we were cousins, he actually told a signing-party staffer to find another silver-ink Sharpie instead of doing it himself! Outrageous. The staffer might have been Jack, now that I think about it.
I have your pedigree. Maybe that would tell us something. 🙂
What do you mean you have his pedigree?
Wil I started a family tree for you on my Ancestry account. Since I was baptized By the Mormons their LDS church pays for my World Ancestry account all year long. My instincts tell me somewhere your family tree has Native American somewhere… I had a very vivid dream about this. I started doing geneaology in 1988 when I was 15 when I ran away from my abusive family! That is also the first time I ever met the Mormons at their local Hales Corner branch!
I can show you where I am.
Maybe this Spider-Man Wheaton has is a distant cousin somewhere. lol
Ha Ha!
Already done the pedigree. We are cousins (shh, Wil doesn’t know that yet.) 🙂
How many generations back do you go?
We are (8C2R) with each other.
Forgive me I am not Wasicu genealogist, but am a Native American Tribal genealogist! I help any Tribe get their Tribal Members back! Text me (414) 391-0565 which is my White Turtle Rainbow 🌈 Business!
Remember God’s Promise because of God’s blessing of the Rainbow …the God of Abraham that what is going next like What Grandpa says!
That is some interesting knowledge you must have. I admit that I know little about tribal families. Recently finished my al-Bayt Sayyid Muhammad pedigree. It is probably the easiest pedigree to create (there are plenty of examples). But for me, the most exhausting yet enjoyable lineage.
Again what evidence did you use to verify your geneaology tree?
I also learned genealogy at age 13 years in 1975 at the original Genealogical Society at the LDS Church Office Building (now FamilySearch.com). I prefer to use their database and pedigrees over Ancestry.com and others because it is the largest database and simple, too. Differential pedigrees can be friendly.
No I learned genealogy at 4 also in the seventies. I used evidence based practice for 31 years. I don’t steal other people’s geneaology from their public trees!
What sources of evidence did you use to demonstrate the level of research to verify each and every generations? I hope you are not copying and pasting a bunch of names without actual researched and verifiable with documentary. I can not stand when guys just steal a bunch of names from a random stranger’s family tree plus use no research! For 31 years I specialize bringing & doing Native American Tribal Genealogy to help all Lost Birds find their away back to their tribes!
I promised I wouldn’t share it. But, I can say we are connected to the Salem Witch Trials (where I am a cousin with Jacob Goodall who was a specter) and more distantly, some apparently French Canadians.
Why I am only trying to help Wil while receiving no financial gain! See I have First Nations & French Canadians in my Tree too! I am only trying to help Wil learn his tribal ways… not exploit him for financial gain! I want to see what is your evidence you used! Family Search records are notorious to be inaccurate and a bunch of people just copying off random people’s family tree…which is not true geneaology.
Find a few Salem families like the Ames/Eames we share, and you have it nailed. But, I can’t disclose. Sorry.
Since you cited no evidence to confirm your tree I don’t want to see it… no evidence means it is worthless! I wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole! I back up every member with verified research and attach it to each member of the tree! I have no respect for lazy “genealogists” who rob other people’s trees but do not use hard fought research! I have Ethics & Standards!
Family Search May be the largest but it has the most mistakes I would not use it and I am Mormon. Your “research” is nothing without evidence! You have not cited not even one piece of evidence! My Mother Medicine Woman Wambli Wasu Winyan Hail Eagle Woman taught me the correct way using evidence. She was an expert Tribal Geneaologist for 50 years and knows I did the actual work using verified evidence! Yours mean nothing without evidence! I am Mormon and I know exactly how inaccurate their Family Search is! Do not copy from Family Search!
Curious you state and claim you are cousins? Are you saying you and Wil are 1st level cousins? Or is the distance much greater.?
In case you did not see this:
https://humanparts.medium.com/tales-of-an-obsolete-child-actor-92a120f08576
While working as a tech with hundreds of Sundance Institute filmmakers labs’ “resource staffers (a diversion to protect celebrities, even from other celebrities)” they would describe to me how they were constantly broke (paying lawyers, managers, agents as well as travel expenses for auditions; see Sonny & Cher). A few would include their kids in lab scenes getting them trained for a life of distressing popularity (see Robin Williams among others). I ended up wondering if all actors who enjoyed the month-long labs’ oasis would share some advice to other actors especially those who are new to the game and/or young actors. I hoped.
Nice one!
Then there’s Jack Crusher, your father on Star Trek: TNG. 😉