Pets, Photography

Find the Staple

Shelly

Find the Missed Staple

Frances had her stitches and staples removed this morning. HALLELUJAH! I brought her home and went straight to work, because I was afraid I wouldn’t find parking if I didn’t hurry.

Which means I didn’t look closely at her belly. I took a photo when I got home and posted it to Facebook. Someone pointed out the missed staple, and thankfully the vet’s office was still open, so no harm done.

The staple was removed, and Franny is now 100% free of all sutures. No more cone. No more pills. No more restriction from getting on the furniture.

Frances is a happy, happy girl.

Cone Free!

Crankypantsing, Genealogy, Pets

Piglet the Genealogist

Shelly

Piglet the Genealogist

I spent all day working on resolving ONE problem on my error list. Frustrating doesn’t even begin to describe it.

And the reason I was at home playing amateur genealogist, instead of at work where I belonged? Last night the lower section of Franny’s incision started to get a little oozy. I was afraid it had gotten infected or that she was having a reaction to the stitches, so I stayed home today so I could take her to the vet to get checked out. Verdict: seroma. Not an infection, and not a problem with the stitches, so we’re still on track to have everything removed on Thursday morning.

While we were at the vet, Piglet decided to get on my laptop (um, literally) and do a little genealogical research of his own. I came home to find he’d been familiarizing himself with Legacy Family Tree.

Crankypantsing, Genealogy

Unpossible Things

Shelly

One of the many areas where Family Tree Maker is a big, fat slacker is error reports. I ran an error report in Legacy Family Tree, and it was 40+ pages long, with about 10 errors per page.

After working for 8 hours, I had 5 errors resolved. At this rate, data clean-up is going to take me the rest of my life.

One of the errors is something I should have caught as I was entering the information. A child (Thomas) was allegedly born several years after the father’s death. Either the father’s death date is wrong, or the son’s birth date is wrong, or both. Or the father is not actually the father. Possible, but there is no reason to suspect that’s the explanation.  Much more likely that the dates are incorrect. 

Unpossible

In trying to clean up the problem, I came across hundreds of family trees at Ancestry and Rootsweb containing the impossible dates. Do people not logic-check their work?

Turns out, it looks like the father probably died in 1645, making Thomas’ 1644 birth date reasonable. There are other problems with the screenshot, though. Additional children (Edward and George? I have no idea if they are legit. Likely not.) and several duplicates. Additionally, I think Sarah and Phebe may be the same person.