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Its the 6th of Timber, 263 in Beardedrings.  This is the 12th year of the Fortress.  After the first two migration waves I sealed off the entrance and called off any future migration.  We've currently  a population of 33, 18 adults and the rest are children.
 
There are now seven couples married, hopefully the start of seven clans that will have their own warrens in the future:
The Blackhollows, the Steelskins, the Rivenoaks, the Netherstones, the Hellforges, the Bloodhands, and the Bronzebeards.

We've managed to wall off the top elevation of the map which includes a large forested area where we keep the tame herds of cougars and racoons.  We've also managed to tap into a volcano for our magma workshops. 

I'm trying not to dig out more than I have to until the existing stone and ore is processed. 
 

Similar to DNA, Deer N/A are the building blocks of deer.

I mostly play mmorpg type games when I play something on the computer but I do know how to play Dwarf Fortress and I play it sometimes.  Playing or not playing a game has nothing to do with femininity.  I would guess that the learning curve is what holds most people back whether they are male or female.  Anyway, I know at least one other woman who plays Dwarf Fortress and I know lots of other women who play online games.   

I've encountered dwarves from a previous abandoned fort in some human ruins where I was starting a new fort.  Awkward! This was with 31.12 or maybe a little before that but definitely with DF2010.  In Legends I've seen dwarves from an old fortress stay at the same site and just change their group name. 

Not a mod but what I do if I am planning to have generations of dwarves at the same fort is to rename them and give them family names.  When they marry I change the last name of the wife and all the new babies get the right last names.  Its easy to see the lineage that way.  In one of the init files, there is an option to have nicknames replace first and last names.

I always figured "oliphaunt" was just what the hobbits called elephants because they were so secluded in the Shire and they were just fairy tales as far as they were concerned.  A word they heard from a traveler long ago which got distorted in the retelling.  The movie took  Sam's imagination as literal. 

Here's one of my old bedroom layouts from a fort I had a while back. 

Once I discovered that you can replace all of their names with some options in the d_init file, I started always giving them last names and changing last names when they marry.  Its kinda fun to watch the families grow and be able to more easily see the lineage.

Good luck on your fort!