Novice genealogist here. Check findagrave.com to see if the cemetery and maybe it’s interments are listed. There's so many squirreled-away old small family cemeteries around my current location and there's a huge effort to get them all accounted for.

You still haven't refuted the possibility that your friend's acquaintance is a cow. I am still holding out hope.

...no Renovation Realities?!? I just...no?

Duodenal Switch patient here. I had to do all the pre-op screenings/counseling you described PLUS I paid out of pocket for everything ($12K, to include screenings, etc) and my vitamins run about $90-100/mo. 2 years out, it was the best thing I've ever done for myself. Going through it, it felt like most of the pre-op…

After 6 years of unexplained infertility, 4 IUIs, and facing expensive IVF ($9K per attempt, pkg of 3 for $15K where I am) before I somehow got pregnant with our first child (we couldn't afford IVF, we were done, I just took the rest of the Clomid I had on hand from a couple derailed cycles as a Hail Mary, expecting…

"You're militant, but I love you!"

Has Piggy tried the marriage app? Because this has been a really long chase. Maybe a little judgy guidance would help her.

Omg y'all, this comment made me think there needs to be a Rush Limbaugh muppet. Stay with me - I think he's an idiot, too, but the BITS. THINK OF THE TOPICAL BITS OF UNNECESSARY CULTURAL OUTRAGE. I would laugh so hard.

I can singalong to this entire song. I am 40.

King's phrasing is kind of telling considering that I don't feel that he can write women very well. I was a fan in high school reading everything King wrote as soon as he released it, but as my awareness of women's issues developed I realized that all his female characters adhere to predictable stereotypical character…

Completely understandable, Kristen! My mostly-estranged sister occasionally posts pics to her Facebook that include me or my kids. Sometimes it's a couple pics from when we all got along and she snapped pics of my husband and then-newborn son. It's weird because she's not in our lives now and she's not even in any of…

Do you have any idea how hard I would watch a Bravo spinoff of the Dugger kid who falls out of the quiver?!? Statistically speaking, you know it's just a matter of time before one is swept up into the Big Freedia NOLA Bounce scene! Love and acceptance, baby! #PeanutButta

I chose 2 odd (common in old French) names, one of which is misspelled on this list. They were not given first names of anyone specific because I wanted to avoid the "expectation of living up to a name" though we DID use our favorite grandmothers' maiden names for middles. This used to be a popular practice in the…

I suddenly became aware of Jeff in 7th grade and though I understood immediately that I had to have him, I wasn't entirely sure yet what that meant. He was the arty type; I was invisible.

I bet Rush really misses his heyday of "Rush is Right" bumper stickers, the then-novelty of the word feminazi, and unfettered Oxy access. Irrelevancy is a hell off an eventuality!

Can Jezebel please hire an obese (or formerly obese) person to write these articles? Bariatric surgery shouldn't be exploitative medical voyeurism. This reads like my bitter Aunt Helen wrote it. I have no idea if this method would work; I can't get past the first description as "terrifying" and a reference to…

Can we please NOT gloss over the fact that Fred Savage now has THREE children and not a single one was with Winnie Cooper? Which guardian of my childhood let this happen?

John Mayer has just taken the gold medal in the "Slade Smiley Your Way Through Pop Starlets" competition.

Just a side note to this: Our oldest child is a boy. We just a baby girl. When people realize we have a boy and a girl, they usually mention something about us probably being soooo happy that we have "one of each" like we've achieved some kind of 'level up' status in parenthood. It's odd when you hear it multiple…

We tried hard not to find out the gender of our second child. It drove my husband crazy, but he went along with the idea. There's just so few true surprises in adulthood, it seemed a great opportunity to enjoy an authentically surprising moment together. Everything went fine until there was a late-term ultrasound…