{"id":259,"date":"2022-02-26T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/?p=259"},"modified":"2025-01-02T12:46:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T20:46:39","slug":"oddities-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/oddities-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Oddities #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Family history research can be full of surprises. Have you ever been tempted to add a pet to your family tree? I came across Sebastian the Himalayan Cat while looking at a DNA match. (The match was to Sebastian&#8217;s human dad, not Sebastian!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"820\" src=\"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Cat-in-ancestry-tree-2022-02-05-deindentified-1024x820.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Cat-in-ancestry-tree-2022-02-05-deindentified-1024x820.png 1024w, https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Cat-in-ancestry-tree-2022-02-05-deindentified-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Cat-in-ancestry-tree-2022-02-05-deindentified-768x615.png 768w, https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Cat-in-ancestry-tree-2022-02-05-deindentified-1536x1231.png 1536w, https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Cat-in-ancestry-tree-2022-02-05-deindentified-2048x1641.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to say, Sebastian&#8217;s people are doing a good job on tree completeness! All sixteen 2x-great-grandparents of Sebastian are identified!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I use Reunion as my genealogy software. I&#8217;ve been a Mac user since the first Macs came out and Reunion has been with me for as long as I&#8217;ve been serious about family history research. I&#8217;ve been through many upgrades over the decades and somewhere along the line some new status buttons became available. I would have never thought of this status choice for a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Alien-Abductee-status-1024x405.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Alien-Abductee-status-1024x405.png 1024w, https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Alien-Abductee-status-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Alien-Abductee-status-768x303.png 768w, https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Alien-Abductee-status-1536x607.png 1536w, https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Alien-Abductee-status.png 1554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And as you can see, Sebastian&#8217;s family is in good company, since Family Pet is also an option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned for further Oddities in future blog posts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family history research can be full of surprises. Have you ever been tempted to add a pet to your family tree? I came across Sebastian the Himalayan Cat while looking at a DNA match. (The match was to Sebastian&#8217;s human dad, not Sebastian!) I have to say, Sebastian&#8217;s people are doing a good job on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/oddities-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oddities #1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary-research","tag-oddities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}