What are you Drinking?

[Queequeg]

I think I'm going to give up beer for cocktails and wine. 

[Caliga]

Basil Hayden, straight.

This reminds me: through Princesca I exchanged geneaology notes with one of the guys she works with who is descended from Jim Beam (alot of family members are still in the business), and it turns out she's related to Jim Beam.   Jim Beam was her great great great great great aunt's great nephew.  Since he was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, I checked my ancestry and I appear to be related also, but much more distantly to the point that it's pretty insignificant: 8th great grandmother's husband's second wife's fourth cousin.

[PDH]

Cal married his cousin.

[Caliga]

Cal married his cousin.

The closest relationship I've found between us is this:  Princesca had a g-g-g-g-g-g-grandfather named Needham Dees who was a North Carolina planter.  Apparently he may have also been my 7th cousin 8 times removed, though the links there are very tenuous.

I'm pretty sure we've got to be more closely related than that, though.  We both have Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry and at one time she had ancestors living in York County, Pennsylvania at the same time that I had ancestors living within a few miles of hers.

[Caliga]

Another fun fact:  I was working on one of my maternal lines recently and I found that I appear to be a direct descendant of Sir Francis Windebank (12th great grandfather), who was Charles I's Secretary of State.

[garbon]

Where are you working on all these from?

[Caliga]

Where are you working on all these from?

Various online sources.  I've been working on my genealogy for like 15 years.

[Ed Anger]

Yet still not a Kentucky Colonel.

[Caliga]

Yet still not a Kentucky Colonel.

...and you can help change that, my good man!

[Ed Anger]

I don't see what is in it for me.

[Caliga]

Ten Cal Approval Points.

[MadImmortalMan]

Jesse James is my great great uncle. Can I have some free booze?   

[The Brain]

I'm pretty sure we've got to be more closely related than that, though.  We both have Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry and at one time she had ancestors living in York County, Pennsylvania at the same time that I had ancestors living within a few miles of hers.

Impressive.

[Caliga]

Jesse James is my great great uncle. Can I have some free booze?   

Ok, come on over.  I've got tons of booze.

[Admiral Yi]

Hey Cal, current Atlantic has a moderately lengthy article on the barrel revolution in bourbon making.  Might be worth your while to check it out.

I think you might have mentioned it before, but I didn't know before reading the article that the law requires that all bourbon be aged in *new* oak barrels.  Use them once, then ship them off to scotch makers.