LJ Idol (2025 Wheel of Chaos) Week 1 prompt: QUALITY

[vik_thor]

 (EEK. and even shorter time to get this hammered out than I wa thinking... About 90 minutes...)
So, most of us prefer QUALITY of QUANTITY when we can only have one...

With my last name being Rose, I used to get asked fairly regularly if I was related to Pete Rose. 

I had always said, "Not that I know of." because I really didn't know or care.
I've never been a big baseball fan. I will sometimes go to a St Louis Cardinals game with work. But I can very much take or leave the game, and don't watch it on TV...

Banana Ball on the other hand (an offshoot of Baseball) is quite fun! I would love to go see it in person, and while I have not watched a full game yet, I have watched significant portions of several games.. It has been described as "Harlem Globetrotters, in baseball form, but not scripted." There are several rule differences between the two games. One of the biggest is, the players HAVE FUN!
There are currently 4 teams in the league, expanding to 6 next year.

But back to Pete Rose (Peter Edward Rose Sr 1941-2024), it turns out I am related to him, distantly. Using the WikiTree information, we are 19C1R (19th cousins once removed.) One of my sets of 19th Great-Grandparents, are his 18th GGPs.) They lived in the late 1300s, and I have no idea without examining the research how high quality that information is.
One of the fun things about WikiTree, is that they also provide a Connection Finder. It looks at the siblings and spouses of the various relations that have been entered.
I am 22° away from Pete Rose.
And I am not connected to him through my Dad's side. but through my Mom's family. Not counting Pete Rose and myself, the only other 2 with Surname of Rose are his father and grandfather.)
The connection between us is 2 brothers who lived in the 1600s.  William and John Thorne. 

I very much enjoy WikiTree! It is a true community with various modes and means of interaction.

When it started, (before I joined) you were able to upload a GEDCOM file to WikiTree. The translation of the GEDCOM files to the WikiTree format was not good. And some of the people who uploaded their GEDCOMs don' seem to have stuck around to stay in the community.

They dropped off their family, and ran...


(sort of a Dad Joke, a low quality one.)

Comments

[fausts_dream]

Pete played with a lot of passion, I think teams like the Savannah Bananas and the Party Animals have a passion for making baseball which can be kind of sterile fun.

Enjoyed the entry good to see you again.

[erulissedances]

I rather liked this, and envy that you have any ability at all to trace your ancestry. Lucky you! And to have Pete Rose in the distant family tree? Rock on!

- Erulisse (one L)

[vik_thor]

not sure why the image is not showing up??? I'm gonna try to get it showing...

There we go.

[vik_thor]

I needed to insert the IMG tag in the HTML editor, rather than RichText editor...

[krispykritter]

A fun discovery to be related to Pete Rose! Smile. And I've not heard of bananaball. I'll have to explore.

[halfshellvenus]

I'm not really a baseball fan (too much standing around, and the players on both sides are usually too good to make it interesting). But Banana Ball sounds like fun!

[muchtooarrogant]

Huh, interesting. I had never heard of banana ball or WikiTree. Not being much into sports, WikiTree seems more interesting. (grin)

Dan

[legalpad819]

Genealogy can be so cool! From my grandmother's profile, we discovered a bit of a mystery where an aunt or uncle of hers had a child out of wedlock. We still haven't solved who it was.

I love the idea of banana ball and was lucky enough to get tickets to a game in a couple of weeks. I can't wait. I have always been a baseball fan, but I think this form of it adds so much fun and so many extra variables.

[marjorica]

I need a famous relative now!

[murielle]

One of my father's cousin out together a family tree years ago. I have asked, but never received a copy. But they are fascinating. Like your Pete Rose, I am distantly related to a couple of long-term Scots. 😊

Great to read you again!

[rayaso]

This was very interesting. Genealogy has always interested me, although I have yet to explore my ancestors. It must have been fun to discover that you are, in fact, related to Pete Rose.

[adoptedwriter]

I grew up watching The Big Red Machine! Love family history stuff. Now gotta look into WikiTree.

[xeena]

This is awesome! I find tracing ancestry so interesting, I'm a descendent of Elizabeth Bathory which I love telling people because the reactions are always fun haha

[alycewilson]

Fun! I've found the Cousin Calculator (http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/cousincalculator.html) to be very useful for figuring out exactly connections. So interesting to learn you really do have a connection but that it's not through your shared surname, after all.