[Ads-l] Squirrels in genealogical research

[Laurence Horn]

> On Apr 6, 2016, at 11:15 PM, Dave Hause <dwhause at CABLEMO.NET> wrote:
> 
> This looks to me like an analogy with the ADHD distractibility


Or distractability.  Squirrel, get thee hence!

LH

> memes, such as at https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.google.com_search-3Fq-3Doh-2Blook-2Ba-2Bsquirrel-2Bmeme-26ie-3Dutf-2D8-26oe-3Dutf-2D8&d=AwIDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=t7Xd2MwMG4MQDyon9Uj6ka28gaNEqlo63k1jD0JKT7c&s=9puE9xgcwF2NnuLViLcYjWS6tWfVqAtvdmfm-5eJmPE&e= Dave Hause
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: George Thompson
> Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 11:08 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Squirrels in genealogical research
> 
> "A squirrel![1]
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__vita-2Dbrevis.org_2016_03_chasing-2Da-2Dsquirrel_-3Futm-5Fsource-3Dtwgnewsletter-26utm-5Fmedium-3Dnewsletter-26utm-5Fcampaign-3Dtwg786-23-5Fftn1&d=AwIDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=t7Xd2MwMG4MQDyon9Uj6ka28gaNEqlo63k1jD0JKT7c&s=KMQ9wP8hcfgJf5vhgJ-ZVBEKvEAspgpkfXEUins8q7M&e= >
> I
> find a lot of them while researching and I am sure all other researchers
> find them, too: those pieces of information that have nothing to do with
> what you are researching. You come across them by accident and they pull
> your attention away from what you are trying to find because they are
> equally or sometimes more interesting.  Sometimes it is a quick tangent –
> and sometimes squirrels can lead to an entirely new path of research that
> sticks with you for a long time.
> "[1]
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__vita-2Dbrevis.org_2016_03_chasing-2Da-2Dsquirrel_-3Futm-5Fsource-3Dtwgnewsletter-26utm-5Fmedium-3Dnewsletter-26utm-5Fcampaign-3Dtwg786-23-5Fftnref1&d=AwIDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=t7Xd2MwMG4MQDyon9Uj6ka28gaNEqlo63k1jD0JKT7c&s=bsmxLLTmuicTxhSEzUnrpKiRZNpVb92owmxhFCBOa34&e= >
> See
> the Disney/Pixar film *Up* (2009)."
> 
> Meaghan E.H. Siekman, writing in Vita Brevis, a blog of the New England
> Historic Genealogical Society, entry of March 28, 2016
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__vita-2Dbrevis.org_2016_03_chasing-2Da-2Dsquirrel_&d=AwIDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=t7Xd2MwMG4MQDyon9Uj6ka28gaNEqlo63k1jD0JKT7c&s=3-tcm8jJrQcPndhxlzRYmjbdWuy6zt12y80z_PwfEeI&e= >
> 
> I have not seen the Disney/Pixar film *Up* (2009), and so the allusion is
> lost upon me.  The word -- not the animal -- is new to me.
> 
> GAT
> 
> 
> -- 
> George A. Thompson
> The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998..
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