Everyone is Irish

Posted on 20 December 2016 by matthannan

My floater coworker brought in a genealogy packet today just to show me. An aunt had put it together for a family reunion in 2000. It was half handwritten and half typed, and full of black and white photocopied pictures. Genealogy has come a long way. … Read the rest

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Gargoyle Router…with OpenVPN

Posted on 19 December 2016 by matthannan

As it turns out, I have two routers on my home LAN. The one I have had in place for a long time is a Netgear WNDR4300. It is not the best router in the world, but it has been very stable for me over the years.… Read the rest

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OpenVPN…for Windows

Posted on 17 December 2016 by matthannan

So, like most times I post to the Internet that I am having an issue with something, the answer becomes immediately available.
This time, I said that OpenVPN seemed to be Linux-only.

Well, it turns out that this is not so much the case.… Read the rest

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SoftEther VPN, follow-up

Posted on 17 December 2016 by matthannan

I am writing at work on my laptop which is connected via WiFi to the guest network.
This guest network dumps you straight out to the Internet, but subjects you to internal proxy rules.
No Social Web anything. And, quite honestly, screw these guys and their data collections.… Read the rest

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SoftEther VPN

Posted on 16 December 2016 by matthannan

So, long story short, I will no longer be an AT&T employee as of Dec 31. On Jan 1, I begin the next chapter in my career, working for a small company based out of North Carolina. They usually are a contractor shop, but due to the nature of the support required by my client, my whole team has been on-boarded.… Read the rest

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John Draddy

Posted on 30 November 2016 by matthannan

John Draddy, Article 1

John Draddy, Article 2

Death Certificate… Read the rest

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Draddy

Posted on 30 November 2016 by matthannan

This morning the Draddy clan were restless.

John Draddy Cemetery Plot Purchase
John Draddy is one of my maternal 3x great-grandfathers.He was born in County Cork, Ireland around 1835 and died in an freak explosion at a construction site in Manhattan in 1880.

Armed with an actual plot number, I turned to FindAGrave.com… Read the rest

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Dive bombed by hawk!

Posted on 11 September 2016 by matthannan

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Twofer

Posted on 10 September 2016 by matthannan

In the latest episode of The DNA Thread, I feel like throwing up.

Last week, I was entering all kinds of DNA data into a program called GenomeMate Pro and I noticed a lot of matches that matched both my mom and my sister, but none of the known, tested cousins.… Read the rest

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Bumper boats

Posted on 14 August 2016 by matthannan

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