OK, it's been more than six months since I've published one of my "weird search term" lists. These are actual searches from Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. that have hit my blog since the last time I posted a list. These are found just casually when I happen to be perusing my blog statistics. I often wonder what weird and wonderful things people are searching for on the internet when I'm not looking!
Google My Comment
Nutfield nh map 1620 Sorry,
didn’t exist in 1620
kennedy lake park salem new Hampshire It’s
“Canobie Lake Park”. Even so, this got
to my blog
Vanzetti in colonial Boston - Really?
Nutfield NH coins gold proof Who is minting money down in their cellar?
History of “salmon and pees” OK, I admit that I wrote about
salmon and peas, but this one makes me laugh
Photo of salem witch hanging Not unless you are a time traveler
Stne neage of newhamphire I’m guessing this was “New
Hampshire’s Stonehenge”?
Can you will your body to a descendant to use for
ancestor worship?
1)
How did this end up on my blog?
2)
Ewwwww!
3)
You just can’t make this stuff up!
Gum
copal Did
this one stump you? Two years ago I was googling “gum copal”
too,
after it came up on a census image. So I
wrote a blog post about
my
search for gum copal. I just learned
that the Peabody Essex
Museum’s Phillip’s Library googled it, too, and hit my blog.
Their comment:
Museum’s Phillip’s Library googled it, too, and hit my blog.
Their comment:
“Thanks for this well-documented
post. At the Phillips Library (at the Peabody Essex Museum) in Salem, MA, we
just received a gift of two account books of Jonathan Whipple's. They describe
in great detail his trade with various vendors in Zanzibar and other places in
Africa for gum copal. Your information will be very helpful in cataloging these
items.” See this
post at http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-heck-is-gum-copal-worker.html
Everyone wants a Mayflower Ancestor
Southwicks on Mayflower passenger list
– No,
they weren’t!
Cassandra Southwick Mayflower No
Peter Folger Mayflower No
John Winthrop Mayflower Definitely No
Cabot
ancestor on Mayflower 2nd trip Absolutely
No. The Mayflower made only one trip.
(However,
there were other ships with the same name)
Images
searched online that actually landed on my blog website ….
1843 family pics - [does Google actually understand “pics”?]
Funny lobsters Strange
looking, but not very good at telling jokes
Questions
on Google?
“what happens to weathervane when
horse race is over” – Can anyone answer this one for me?
“when did Uncle Ted fall through the
ice?” – When
he was drunk?
“was my great great grandfather in the
civil war?” - Am I clairvoyant?
“why is Mack’s Apples closed?” -
Ran out of apples?
I’m beginning to feel like Jay Leno on one of his
“Jaywalking” episodes. Or a
soothsayer. Some of these questions are
… well… is “bizarre” the correct word?
Click on these links to read some past blog posts on weird search terms:
2011
18 May 2012
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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
I enjoyed this!
ReplyDeleteBetty
I love your commentary on the search terms! I think the "ancestor worship" one takes the cake.
ReplyDeleteMy blogs get some bizarre ones... ones about which I'd rather not engage in any sort of speculation.
Really enjoyed this one!
ReplyDeleteI liked the Kennedy Lake Park one since in the late 50s to about 1961 my family lived within walking distance through the woods opposite the entrance to Canobie Lake Park (in what was then called Salem Depot, NH). Every Saturday night during the summer we could watch and listen to the Canobie Lake Park fireworks from our bedroom windows. When I got my grandfather's 1913 diary about two years ago I discovered for the first time that he used to go to Canobie Lake Park from Phillips Andover when he was a student there.
Those are hilarious! The one I keep getting is from the "open court sound spelling cards" that I posted on one blog in regard to the phonetic spelling of my ancestor's surname. It keeps getting hits.
ReplyDeleteHeather: I listed this post in my Saturday Serendipity today at http://filiopietismprism.blogspot.com I hope it might help lead others to read this post. I also responded to your comment at Leaves For Trees about cemetery use by the living. http://leavesfortrees.blogspot.com/2013/02/what-are-your-thoughts-on-cemetery.html
ReplyDeleteI think that reply was for Heather Kunh Roelker, not Heather Rojo! Confusing now with two genealogy bloggers named Heather!
DeleteHilarious!!! Thanks for posting these. And your commentary, too.
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