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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Silvester Boys

I've been looking at my blog list, and there are sure a lot of "Silvester Family" blogs. My cousins aren't very original in blog naming, apparently. It's a guessing game as to whose page I'll arrive on at the click of my mouse. But, in spite of their prevalence on my bloglist, there aren't nearly enough Silvesters in the world.

Grandma and Grandpa had seven sons, who in turn had eleven sons. That's roughly 1.6 third generation Silvesters to every second generation. Not much of an increase. Those eleven sons have also added to the Silvester lineage. There are now six fourth generation Silvesters. For some reason, this generation has produced a lot of girls. That's weird. By tradition, Silvesters don't often do girls. Kate, Brenna, Ellie, Avery, Maggie, Olivia, and yet-to-be-named Trevor's offspring won't do much to perpetuate the Silvester name. So far, this task lies in these boys:


Aaron

Forrest

Sam


Max


Colby


Harrison

Cousins Ben, Brock, Shane, Neal and Jamison have yet to reproduce. There's still hope for more Silvester boys. Although, does that prospect scare anyone else?

Then there's this kid who throws the whole thing for a loop. He actually has the audacity to go by "Silvester" as a FIRST name.

8 comments:

  1. Audacity yes, but I had to do my best at perpetuating the line. Who knows, maybe it will become a Junior, 3rd, 4th deal and we'll be as effective at continuing the Silvester name as anyone else.

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  2. Wow - who knew but you, Brooke, how the family comes together. There's not much we girls can do, unless we want to emulate our ancestress Sarah Silvester, who never let slip the name of the father of her son, thereby keeping us all in the Silvester line.

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  3. Are you serious?! That's what happened?! I'm not even supposed to be a Silvester? And Sarah's in trouble ...
    Why didn't I know this?
    Heather ... you could never have tried ... actually, unless you played like Sarah.
    Amanda ... audacity is actually another family trait that's being passed on along with the name.

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  4. I had the boys, just not the name... just kind of half-assed it.

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  5. you ought to try and figure out Jennifer and my newest connection. We just discovered we have/had nieces in common... go figure.

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  6. No. That hurts my brain. How does that work? you're the ones that figured it out. Didn't you figure it out?

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  7. we had common brother and sister in-law... I think, but they weren't married. So it's buds older sister and my ex's younger brothers kids. So we both were aunts to the girls at the same time before the divorce. Makes me feel all 'redneck'.

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