Shut Up, and Keep Digging
October 13, 2009
Anybody else old enough to remember “Mommy, Mommy!” jokes? 
Q: Mommy, Mommy! I don’t want to go to China!
A: Shut up, and keep digging.
That’s how I feel researching my family history sometimes. I keep digging and digging, and the hole gets bigger and bigger, but I never seem to arrive.
Case in point: my great-great grandfather, William Thomas. I’ve been searching for his death certificate for twenty years. It doesn’t help that both of his names are very common, but even so … twenty years? It’s in the 20th century, for heaven’s sake!
But I am a bulldog, and once I get a hold of a bone, I keep digging at it.
