Just Another Day at the Donk Store

I've been working on the 1950 census project at FamilySearch. They used OCR to read all the docs into their system, and volunteers are checking the entries against the images to make any required corrections. In one doc, the software had erroneously read one person's place of employment as "Retail Donk Store." 

 

I could NOT. 

Stop. 

Giggling.

No wholesale. Retail donks only.

 

I don't even know what a donk would be, but it cracks me up. (It was actually "retail book store.") 

 

Also from my genealogy activities... I was telling Jeff about the evolution of the German name "Koch" through the last couple of centuries in the US. There are still Kochs around- some pronounced kawch and others coke, but many families switched long ago to the Americanized "Cook." I told him I wasn't sure what koch actually translates to in English- maybe "chicken?"

Turns out it translates to COOK.

 

Bwahaa. Thanks, Google.

 

Yadda yadda... Well... Gotta get back to my job at the donk store. 

Yep. Still hilarious.

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Genealogy Celebration!

Major genealogy breakthrough on my Wisconsin Kanes and O'Donnells! Whee! At least two other genealogists are as thrilled as I am that we've been able to combine our personal sources to figure out some mysteries we've been trying to solve for years. We brought a total of six siblings together on paper, five generations back, and are about *thisclose* to figuring out the names of their parents (...which will likely put us at a new dead end, somewhere in County Tipperary, Ireland. But I'm not going to focus on that yet.).

I've been playing Zombie Rollerz on Apple Arcade. You kill zombies with pinballs... special pinballs with all sorts of powers, having to do with fire or ice or poison, etc. Best pinball game EVER. I cannot win with the roly-poly robot dude though. Bah. I like it because no game is ever the same. You get all sorts of choices for which prizes you want when you win a match, so your powers are wildly different each time you play. It takes about 1.5 hours to complete all four levels (IF you complete them), and then you start over. The more you play, the cooler the legacy loot you start off with, depending on your character choice. Superfun!!

 

Today, it's been two weeks since my second Moderna shot! Done and done. So happy.

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