Those That Came Before…
I was playing around with some crazy family tree software put out by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints last night (Go Mormons!). Unfortunately, it’s software for Windows, which blows because I still haven’t figured out how to get my printer working with Virtual PC. I did discover a cool feature however that allowed me to poop the puppy out as web pages. This morning I uploaded it, so go take a look at the Ancestors of John Steele Skelton – I know you’re all as fascinated by my own heritage as much as I am!

The freakiest thing about it, is that it goes back to my thirty-second generation! I did not know I was related to Lambert I born in 950, nor did I know that I was related to King Henry I and Heinrich V Emperor of Germany.

It’s also interesting that all the Skelton’s come from Yorkshire, England. If it wasn’t for John Skelton, who moved his family from England to Canada in the early 1800’s, then I’d still have fucked up teeth and talk kinda funny.

So far, of all my relatives, my two favorite names are ‘Penelope Burlingame’ and ‘Eleanor DeChastellerault’.

I was kinda surprised that no one has put together an Ancestral Wiki. Family history seems like the perfect kind of application for a Wiki. Am I missing something?