Today is the birthday of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, one person I have yet to be related to. 
Speaking of which, right now I’m not verifying anything or looking for new alleged connections. I’m trying to weed out all the duplicates. And I have those a-plenty! But it takes some detective work to get rid of some of them because different researchers use different names/spelling for the same person. It’s… time-consuming. On the other hand, I’m finding lots of English & French nobility. Barons and earls and dukes, oh my!
Last night, I tried to watch the new Patrick Swayze series on A&E, The Beast. “Tried” being the key word. I could not get into it. At all. Which actually works out for me. I can go back to my boycott of A&E without feeling guilty. 
Tonight we only have a couple of things on. A special two hour Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and part one of a four hour movie The Last Templar. It’s based on the book of the same name by Raymond Khoury which is most excellent. When a mysterious group dressed as Templars steals an artifact from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, archaeologist Tess Chaykin and FBI agent Sean Reilly head off in hot pursuit.
Reading: Now I’m reading A Few Good Men by Tori Carrington. This a Harlequin Blaze with four novellas in it. I’ve only read the first one, so far, which was really good. The whole book is about the romances of four Marines who work together.
