Odd topic today! This week, BTT asks: What’s the oddest thing you’ve ever read? (You know, something NOT a book, magazine, short story, poem or article.)Not only odd, but tough! Hard to answer because I'm one of those "cereal box" readers who'll read just about anything as long as it's got something written on it.
But I guess the oddest thing I've read recently would be the tombstones I've looked at while doing my genealogy research. Odd reading matter and very sad, sometimes. But so necessary for a family history sleuth.
Thats a good one, i like greave stones an family history
ReplyDeleteGood one, I like reading grave stones also.
ReplyDeleteAwesome!
ReplyDeleteHere's mine:
http://carabosseslibrary.blogspot.com/2011/03/booking-through-thursday_31.html
Oh, wow, yeah, I can see that being a little bit sad but it also sounds like a fantastically interesting project. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteGood answer. It is sad, however, it is part of life's circle.
ReplyDeleteOh me too! I had forgotten all about this because I don't go to church as much as I used to but back when I younger I used to get left behind by accident because I would be reading all the grave stones. I used to feel like somebody should read all the really old ones that were hard to make out now because nobody else was.
ReplyDeleteSally.
http://theelifylop.blogspot.com/2011/03/booking-through-thursday-11.html
Great answer! I actually had to think about this question. Check out my answer for this weeks Booking Through Thursday.
ReplyDeleteI didn't do BTT this week because my response would be so short, but "tombstones" was my answer as well -- I like to go into old cemeteries and look at the inscriptions, ponder the derivation of various last names, and figure out a person's death in the context of history. ("Oh, he died just a week after D-Day...aw, a child of the civil war...born and died before the war had even run its course..")
ReplyDeletethat's a real good one, I guess we don't realize what we do read at times. Stop and see mine and my giveaways.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's odd that you read tombstones for genealogy. I've gone to cemetaries to walk around and read them and I'm not into genealogy at all :) LOL
ReplyDeleteI'll read just about anything too.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like it would be very interesting.
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in England we would often wander around and see who could find the oldest tombstone.
ReplyDeleteAnn
I'm always disappointed when I can't make out what the really old ones say.
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