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It’s time for the Weekend Chat! Welcome, my fellow WikiChatterers! And greetings form Cathey’s Creek where the grass is now jungular. (If Shakespeare can make up words, so can I). It’s not because of rain; it’s because my mower died. The engine runs, the blades turn, but there’s no forward and backward movement. I called support. A technician will be here on the 8^th. I guess it’s time to invest in one of Paul K’s super-duper human-powered mowers.

On the Home Front: I’m excited to share with you that we now have 4.5 acres under contract! I took a trip last Monday, and viewed two homes and three lots. The two homes were built in the 1950s and would have needed some expensive upgrades. They were both in a great neighborhood. Two of the lots were near each other on the same dead-end dirt road, but the care of this little neighborhood was much to be desired!

The third lot is in a very rural area with easy access to a four-lane leading a small town and a larger urban area just beyond. It’s a beautifully wooded property. Some of the nearby road names represent early settlers in that area: Cloninger, Hardin, Rhyne, Ramsuer, and such. The old Philadelphia Lutheran Church is nearby with a cemetery filled with families of colonial German settlers. It’s just a few miles from my ancestral cemeteries, the ones my grandfather often took me to.

 A scary thing: My daughter and her husband went out to eat last weekend. They left the restaurant 15 minutes before it was vandalized by rioters.

On the Genealogy Front: I stumbled across the first husband of my gg-grandfather’s second wife. Now I have a whole passel of new families to work on. This fella, James Bynum, joined the Confederate army in February of 1862, and was dead of typhoid fever the following August. He’s buried in Wilmington, North Carolina. Here we go with more bios to write!

I want to say how proud I am of my fellow Greeters! We had big changes to deal with for the new joining process implemented on Monday.  All seems to be going smoothly, and credit has to be given to our project’s leaders who laid out the new procedures and followed us as we worked the guest and family member feeds.

Also, the revamped US Southern Colonies Project is ready to roll! For those of you with ancestors in the Blessed Realm, this would be the perfect project for you. I’m on the Carolinas Team (of course!) headed my Mary Richardson.

I had a most wonderful talk with a fellow member this week about my Big Y results. It was like being in class, but not over my head (I think my fellow conversant knew I’d need it plain). Apparently, my terminal subclade, R-CTS13034, is so rare (right now) that I’m not sure how I’m going to connect with anyone. One of my two exact matches have Shepherd ancestry, but I cannot find the connection yet.

Check it out! Tomorrow’s Live Chat is here. Set yourself a reminder.

I hope all of you are staying safe for all the reasons we need to these days (especially here in the US).

Enjoy the Chat!

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I know what you mean Pip. There is nothing worse than not having tools and equipment function properly when you go to use them. I hate to have to wrench on something to use it. Especially a mower.

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On the Homefront, The son in the National Guard has left the Columbus Area but we have no idea where he is now or when he will be back home. Even after he returns he will have to Quarantine for 2 weeks so he will be out of work fo a while yet.  I will most likely not be on WikiTree much this weekend because I am having some medical problems, nothing major but enough to make the computer not a good place to be.

On the Genealogy front, Nothing this last week unless you count reducing my watchlist by about 400. It is now down to about 4100 but I do not plan on stopping there. Yes I did make some minor contributions but nothing I would think of as Genealogy, for that I am using a different platform.

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Dale, please take care of yourself! Don't let it turn major. Do what you need to do for your health.

I haven't done too much, either, but did find that my Neal line needs much work. I've made a start, but finding the time to sit for a lengthy period of time at the computer is difficult with all that is going on here. A little here, a little there.

Hope your son is safe and will continue to be well.

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Pip, One of the profiles I improved was [[Geraci-104|Mike Geraci]] . He was the grandfather of the singer Sonny Geraci.

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Really nice work on that profile, Dale.

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Making up words now? Well that's just absolutely funtackular. ;)

It takes a creative mind to make up new words on the spot. Or a crazy one. I forget which. Either way, it is cool and helps in the writing process for when you are creating an alien language.

Stay safe out there, everyone!

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Thanks for hosting Pip!

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Thanks for hosting, Pip.Interesting about your Big Y results. Check with FTDNA periodically since that terminal SNP will change periodically. I just updated mine again on WT since it changed recently on FTDNA. With mine, the terminal SNP matches a McShane and the next closest matches are O'Neill. The name change was sometime before 1730ish.

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Do we have another budding Dr. Seuss?

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Dale, praying for your health and for your son. We have a grandson currently deployed with the National Guard. We know where and, when I found out about it this past Tuesday morning, I cried all day. So far, he is okay, but I really want him to be able to get back home safely to his family.

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Pip, thank you for hosting the Weekend Chat. You do it so well! Sorry about your mower. My husband had his forward/reverse go out year before last. He got it repaired and it lasted that summer. Last year it went out again and I made him just buy a new mower. Exciting news about the property--hopefully all goes smoothly with the closing. So glad Providence was on the side of your daughter and her husband. These are scary times right now.

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I have some jungular spots in my yard too, and I think that will be a useful word, Pip!  

I have a couple of ancestors who are reputed to come from the southern colonies, but I don't think its possible to connect them to their families, as they seem to have been disowned, expunged from the records and disinherited for their Loyalist leanings. I'm not even sure DNA could confirm the connections, as there was some endogamy in that branch after they settled in a Nova Scotia Township, and its hard to assign those bits of DNA with a specific ancestor.

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Thanks for hosting. Sorry about the mower. Just this week my husband rebuilt the carburetor on his old mower. When we combined households 10 years ago we had two (or more of most everything). I told him not to worry about a 15 year old mower since mine still works, but...

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Thanks for hosting Pip and congrats on the acreage. It sounds lovely. Do you plan to build there? How big is the small town? Does it have any amenities?

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Interesting, Doug. I have that McShane match, too.

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Beulah, Dr. Seuss was the MASTER of word creation.

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@Laurie: I have a Loyalist ancestor in North Carolina who ended up in Nova Scotia, that part that became New Brunswick. Since he left his wife and children behind, there are no connections there anymore, unless I can find descendants of his brother who DID take his wife with him.

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Diane, we'll build there eventually, but we'll wait to see the disposition of my step-dad. Someone has to stay close or he'll have no family closer than Atlanta.

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Inventing words is absolutely no problem. The most important thing is that people understand what you mean. Mum always tells the story of an Esperanto-speaker she knows, who in one moment couldn't remember the word for "umbrella". So he invented a word which can be translated as "tool against raining". And everybody understood he meant umbrella.

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@Pip, is that a rabbit hole?  What clues do you have for the brother?

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Pip, we had a few years where I just told people we were taking a naturalistic approach to the landscaping.  That worked great until we finally had to hire someone to clear out the huge mass of greenbrier that ate the backyard.  (I like native plants in general, but poison ivy and greenbrier are my exceptions...)

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Howdy, Diane! The lot is about 10 minutes from a small town which is now nearly a suburb of a much larger town, so close to all the necessary amenities. And we do plan to build. Looking forward to getting a house the way WE want it... for a change! 

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Laurie, just some land records:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Underwood-4663 You can see them at the end of the bio.

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Lisa, we have a brier where we call "sawtooth" brier, because it's just like that. It's a glove ripper.

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My human powered mower plows through all heights of grass with no problem. Hills have little impact on it either. I honestly like it better than any engine powered mower I have ever had. My yard is pretty big.

Answer 1

Hello everyone, hope you had a good week navigating these trying times, and looking forward to the weekend.

We have had hot humid weather during the day, with afternoon and evening thunder showers here in Central Pennsylvania this week. That is great weather for all my garden vegetables.

On the tree this week, I adopted 2 distant cousin profiles to source and update. These are from my family line out of Virginia. In addition, there was some discussion on G2G about WikiTree Apps. I never really explored those before, so I have been going through them on the WIkiTree App page. My interest in Apps started with the latest 2 we have seen, the Fan Chart and the Ancestor Listmaker.

There is one other thing I learned in G2G this week. I use “Research Notes” a lot when I am creating profiles. I learned how to sign them quickly using the   ~~~~    method. Since there are several of us distant cousins working on the same profiles, it helps to quickly identify any discrepancies in sources along the way I might have noticed, and any other points to ponder.

Hope you all have a good productive day, and a fun and enjoyable weekend.  

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Hi there, Rodney! We've had pretty good weather here, too. Rain for our new trees, and sunshine for outside chores.

I haven't used the ~~~~, but that really is a good idea for research notes, especially since it dates the work done. And I like that we can leave research notes on profiles. Any difficulties or discrepancies are what I put there.

The apps are cool. I wish there were more of them!

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Rodney, your weather sounds like ours.

I also use Research Notes. I try to use the ~~~~ when I add a work in progress banner to the profile.  Then I will add the [[id | name]] link in the research notes as I finish a (group of) profiles. I just started Marion yesterday.

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Hello Kay, hope all is well with you. I checked out the profile of Marion, and it looks great. You are providing a lot more definition than I am. I need to study that profile for your style a little more and see where I can improve. Stay safe my friend.

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I see how you are using that Work In Progress. Do you remove that at some point?

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I use research notes when its a work in progress, but I haven't used the ~~~~ code.  Its a good suggestion!  Thank you Rodney.  I find the apps quite useful, each in their own way, to check on my progress and organize my work.  Enjoy your weekend.

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Rodney - thanks. I just edit the profile to remove the work in progress when I "finish". As for the dry and wordy profile text... its mostly a prose transcription of the source record... in YYYY he/she was living in CUT/PASTE cite. The family included transcribe, then work/children details. If you look closely you'll see that the blurb can then be copied and pasted to related profiles with minor edits (he/she and the correct citation). Even the marriage is written to copy/paste.

Of course I was one of those folks in school who dreaded the max page limit on written papers....

Answer 2

Today is...

         

NATIONAL GINGERBREAD DAY

‘Tis the season to celebrate National Gingerbread Day. While that may sound strange, on June 5th each year, gingerbread lovers across the country celebrate by sampling their favorite recipes and gingerbread treats. Whether in the form of bread, cakes, bars, biscuits, or cookies, they’re delicious any time of year.

The term “gingerbread” originally referred to preserved ginger, later referring to a confection made up of honey and spices. 

Gingerbread is a sweet food that typically uses honey or molasses rather than just sugar and is flavored with ginger. Gingerbread foods range from a soft, moist loaf cake to something closer to a ginger biscuit.

It is believed that gingerbread was first brought to Europe in 992 by an Armenian monk. He lived there for seven years teaching gingerbread cooking to the French priests and Christians until his death in 999.

Sources indicate that in 1444, Swedish nuns were baking gingerbread to ease indigestion.

In the 17th century, gingerbread biscuits were sold in monasteries, pharmacies and town square farmers markets. During the 18th century, gingerbread became widely ava ailable.

HOW TO OBSERVE National Gingerbread Day:

Break out your favorite gingerbread recipe. Another way to celebrate is by visiting your local bakery. Pick out a variety of gingerbread treats to share. Be sure to give your bakery a shout out, too! We even have a few recipes for you to try. It’s not just for cookies, you know. Here is our list of favorite ways to enjoy gingerbread.

Favorite Old Fashioned Gingerbread
Gingerbread Pancakes with Fruit Topping
Gingerbread-Cupcakes-Holiday Gingerbread Cupcakes

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It the food pictures that get me, Dorothy. I can get hooked just looking at them. I want to try the pancakes!

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Lord Farquaad approved.

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Pancakes, now that's worth a try!  I love ginger, any way you serve it, but I haven't had gingerbread pancakes ... until this weekend.

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I'll have to try to put together some gluten-free Gingerbread pancakes with supplies on hand.

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Chris -- Run, run as fast as you can!  You can't catch me. I'm the Gingerbread Man!

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I love ginger bread or cookies, just have to eat suger free ones

Might try the pancakes not made them before

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Not the gumdrop button!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

Good morning! How's everyone doing. I'm the only one up so far. The others are sleeping in on this rainy day, I'll have to wake them up by making coffee.

During the last few weeks, police have been noticed more in towns where we shop. One town about fifty miles away had demonstrations last week. Everything stayed peaceful. The other town's about ten miles away. The real large cities are more than a hundred miles away and have had some rioting.

We are the only ones in our circle of close friends that have a hatcher. Had a variety of eggs that we hatched out last month. Some haven't been picked up their birds yet. Have a large cage set up in the woodshed so we can visit them often. They all are getting friendly and run to us when we visit. The guinea keets are ours to keep. Hopefully, they are going to help us with the ticks that are unusually bad this year.

I'll let you know if the coffee works!

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Enjoy your coffee Pat!  Early morning is my favourite time of day. I hope your guineafowl keep the ticks at bay. I hear they've been awful in the east the past couple of years.  Maybe we should all start keeping birds.

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Made a good batch of coffee today. However, the phone rang, waking everyone up, just as I went to kitchen to start the brew.

We had guineas a few years back that kept flying  into trees and on the roof. Only way to stop that is to clip off a few wing feathers on one wing just enough to throw off their balance.

Guineas can be noisy, running back and forth near the fence screaming "buckwheat, buckwheat ...". My hubby used to keep telling them "Ain't got any buckwheat, All I got are these "d..." guineas.".

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Pat, coffee always works around here. Whoever is up first starts the coffee. The other follows soon!

Ticks are really bad around here. Found one crawling on me in the house just the other day. Lots of woods and brush and I'm generally out there doing something. Hate 'em!

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Some of the birds were boxed up earlier today and delivered:

A few ducklings

Baby Chicks

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Oh, how cute!

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This is a new experience for them. Except for the packing material, their lighted cage with a view has been exchanged for a box. They arrived to their new better-than-a-cage home within the hour of being photographed. Different view and all the comforts of their cage: Lighting, food and water.

Answer 4

I am not working on genealogy at the moment, but I am hard at work making a car out of a cardboard box with  my 5 year old granddaughter  xxx

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Ooo, turns out someone over in g2g? was talking about how someone in the UK? two women, hungry, drive-through fast food joint, no vehicle, not gonna walk through the drive-through, constructed a car out of cardboard and "drove" it through the drive-through and exited with their meal-to-go

A Great Idea is hard to Suppress ? Great Minds Think Alike? 

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What fun!

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That sounds like fun. We made a robot costume from a cardboard box for the grandson a few years ago for a campground Halloween costume contest.

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Right on Susan.  I posted it several weeks ago and you remembered the facts perfectly.  I had your same thoughts when I read Karen's entry.

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That sounds like more fun, Karen! What a great way to take a break from all the rabbit holes!

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Thanks Pipster, it was great fun, she really enjoyed herself, and I enjoyed it as well, now I am back to genealogy, and I have connected two of my unconnected profiles, so I am a very happy bunny today   xxx

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Karen: Your granddaughter will treasure those memories for a long time to come.

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Thank you Anne, I hope so, I have lovely memories of my grandparents they were amazing people  xxx

Answer 5

I'm sure this is wrong.  It is only Thursday!

Big genealogy week.  I found on Mondy a line that leads to a Puritan Gret Migration ancestor and another that leads to a Magna Carta gateway.  I spent Tues-Thurs going profile by profile on the PGM line and was sure I found the holy grail of sources.  It turns out that the source (the one that I based this line of the tree on) is just flat wrong.  The author has received criticism for sloppy genealogy and of conflating many different families.  Argh.  Back to the research.  This weekened I'll look over the Magna Carta line.

A 2nd cousin forwarded me an email from yet another 2nd cousin.  While cleaning out the attic she came across a letter written by my great-grandmother in California to her daughter in Minnesota sometime in the 1930's.  In the letter she tells her about the cost of rent, cost of groceries, how much the salaries are, etc.  It is a huge primary source doc and I'm so happy to have a transcript of it.  I've requested a copy of the original letter.

The family had landed to Santa Monica, California around 1930 and here is what she has to say about sunny Los Angeles.

Cost of land:

  Yes, you can get an acre of ground planted with oranges or nuts or something else for $490 and less but with a house on you pay from 1600 to 3 or $4000 some of them with chicken equipments...

Cost to migrate:

  What money we had along when we came west?  Well, cannot now recall, must have been about 4 or $500.  We used up one or $150 coming over as we did not have so much repair or maybe a little more and we stopped nights at camps.  They will charge you $1.50 for two beds if you bring your own bedding for one night...

They bought a small apartment and rented some of the flats:

  The place is 50 x 150 (15m x 45m) and has four houses on it.  The front one rents for $25 the second we live in, third for $14 and the fourth for $22.50 per month.  Our payments are $60 per month including $10 interest.  This place costs $3.400 More about it later...

My brother called from the US west coast this week to tell me everyone was OK.  I thought he meant that there had been an earthquake.  He then told me about some riots?  Hmmm...  I hadn't heard.  I don't have a TV and I've had my nose in PGM and Magna Carta lines.  For all of you in hostile zones, be safe!

Our beaches are open and the weather is very very warm.  Feels like July already and the water is now 21.6 (71 f) - looking forward to some swimming this weekend.

Hope you all are doing well; I look forward to reading your news.

edit: added URL to great-granny's profile

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Oh that letter is such a great find! Isn't it interesting? At my mother's funeral it turned out the funeral director had an original picture of the Red&White grocery my parents owned (the funeral director's grandfather and my grandfather were friends). I now have a copy of the picture in my home, and love to wander by and look at the 1938 Pontiac parked out front and the signs in the windows -- Washo was 38 cents, Coffee was 53 cents/pound and flour was 43 cents for a 5 pound sack.

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Haha, I live on the West Coast, and paid a little more than $4000 for a house and land!  That letter is a treasure for sure.

Enjoy your swim.

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That letter is a gold mine!  So lucky it was kept and found.

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SJ, that is a goldmine of a find, that letter!

There was  a 5.5 earthquake near Ridgecrest, the same place there was a big one a few years ago.

Answer 6

Hails and horns, Wikipeeps!

On the genealogy front, I posted a blog about my grandparents' wedding: https://allroadhaverhill.blogspot.com/2020/06/52-ancestors-week-23-wedding.html

My mother told me some interesting things about it. Like how the bridal party all made their own dresses. I even attached several articles related to the wedding AND an anniversary. Yes, the Newburyport newspapers are all online. There was an article about the motel my dad worked at in the '60s. 

And speaking of Newburyport, we are going to attempt to uncover the boat. Weather permitting of course!

I should also note that I talked to a cousin of mine in Italy and she is going to see what she can find about Domenica Gullo. I asked her if she could help me find her exact birth date and if she can find out who her parents were. That's all I need. I don't want to be pushy.

Wish me luck on that front!!

I've also been making use of the new Ancestor Listmaker. It's a great app. I found I have a lot of profiles to adopt. I'll get around to it. Some were gedcom uploads and I upgraded a couple of them the other day.

On the non genealogy front, we're getting ready to uncover the boat, finally as I mentioned earlier. Dunno how much boating we'll do. But, my brother and his family are coming up in a month or so. So, that will be fun. Not sure what all will be open in July. BUT! We'll still have some fun. =D

I hope everyone is doing well!

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Paul, I don't think I'd be interested in a Viking longboat unless the hammer of Thor is on there.

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Chris, I can get you a Hammer of Thor kilt pin, but then you'd have to go out and buy a kilt! 

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Mortal, you strive a hard bargain.

In other news, I got back from helping my parents uncover the boat and put up the enclosure. It was so warm and windy out there. The only saving grace was that we had ice cream after. Of course it poured after we got on the road.

At least phase one is complete. Next step is getting her in the water.

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Finally warm enough to hit the Seven Seas (or you little portion of it)?

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More or less. We usually put the boat in the water in May. But, with the human malware, things got delayed. The Marina was closed and we couldn’t do anything,

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My human powered boat has Maui's fish hook. Thor, and his hammer are over rated

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My husband owned a sail boat.  While it was pretty and nice it was also a lot of work and it seemed like we just didn't the time to really dedicate to the water with all the other things going on in our lives at that time.  We ended up donating it, the trailer, the motor, the life jackets and other accessories.  So if found a good home.  

I'd rather rent a boat now and then than own one after having owned one.  I know that is not a popular position with the boat loving crowd but it just did not fit well with our life style.

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@ Paul: What about the King of Red Lions from Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker? Talking sailboat, man. Talking sailboat!!

@Laura: There was once this sailboat at our marina that I took a tour in. It was 45 ft long and had a pretty decent sized cabin. Was so cool. Reminded me of a futuristic pirate ship.

That said, we got the enclosure up regardless of the wind blowing everywhere. It's no use fighting the wind. And our boat is a motorboat. Here's hoping the engine works.

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Dude, talking sail boat? That's a double edged sword. It's like getting a car, finding out its an Autobot. But not a cool one. The most annoying one ever made. The one that never shuts up, and only listens to disco. Or it could be the most awesome thing EVER!

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It was my husband's midlife crisis....  need I say more?

Answer 7

The hot weather that has filled our beaches has abated somewhat but on the south coast it's still pretty nice. It's scary out there now as a handful of folk really don't care about distancing, mostly seem to be bent on EXERCISING at any cost. Otherwise it's good fun as everyone else seems to be joking about it. We've been down to the beach quite a lot lately. Today the crows turned up with their young, they've really done well this year and the flock runs to a couple of hundred but they're really good at social distancing when they settle. They can do 6 feet unlike lots of humans. They adore grapes! Saw a cormorant for the first time in months. They fly along a few feet above the sea when hunting and I love the way they fly up out of the water. I've missed seeing them. I thought earlier in the year that the goldfinches had nested but they've been very secretive. Today they flew just while I was watching. Four babies at least.

Our grandson came over and sat on the lawn. It was a bit odd not being able to hug him or feed him, but he shares accommodation with others and that really would not be fair. He's young and non-essential and can't work from home, and has been really lucky that the government has been paying him 80%. Can't wait for the day we can go out to eat. Might be 4th of July. We'll do our civic duty and go for a really super lunch at our favourite hangout when it reopens (but only if I am happy with the numbers out there, they're coming down really slowly). Then there's this place in the forest that did afternoon tea on the lawn, complete with posset and a glass of bubbly, a real summer treat. It's quite nice knowing it's our duty to spend!

I've been on Wikitree every day but not really able to settle to solid work. I've done a lot of linking of families that were already connected. So many that it might soon become obvious when checking how close we are to Henry VIII.

Take care, everyone, be nice, smile.

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Crows are fascinating. We have some that seem to live in the neighbor's tree. This past week they weren't doing their usual caw-caw-caw shouting but were gathered around our compost bin, sitting on the edges looking in and talking quietly, but definitely talking. Eventually one flew out with something very small in its beak -- either a baby or something to eat.

I've been telling people you can't see that I really am smiling under the mask....

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We've been enjoying the goldfinches too. They nest in the woods below us, so we don't see that action, but they do like our bird feeder and our pond. We have lots of cover for them in case of birds of prey, but the other day we saw an eagle out hunting, and those little finches didn't turn a feather. They seem to be small and too quick for eagles.

I second your motion on eating out. All in all, I think I'm coping well with the lockdown, but I do miss a shared meal on a certain deck overlooking the harbour ...

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C, I've never seen that many crows around here. Usually this most I've seen is about eight or ten. Our goldfinches have passed through, sadly. They are such beautiful birds. They must nest further north.

We've been out to eat twice, and both times there was only one other couple in the restaurant. Some of our favorites have not opened yet. 

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Good to see that you're able to go back to the beach. We've been avoiding our nearest one because it's just too crowded  and not my favourite place (Weymouth) besides which half the country seemed to descend on Dorset beaches last week. We have been out to 'exercise' most days. We're lucky to have a network  foot paths and can walk several circular routes over either downland or arable fields.  Even on more popular paths, there's never too many people and almost all have been very careful about distancing and very polite and friendly.  

But we did venture further last weekend. (all of 8 miles).Whilst the hoards flocked to Durdle Dor, we went to Minterne gardens  created by  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Digby-176  and saw only a handful of people. Apparently the family archives show that every time Capability Brown made a site visit to Sherborne castle (home of Robert's elder and more wealthy  brother), Robert went along to filch  some advice and ideas for Minterne. He was a romantic sort and had this bridge built for his wife Eleanor . The gardens were looking a bit shaggy in parts,  and we probably missed the best of the azaleas by a week; but the fact that  even normally, it's not over manicured is part of it's appeal to me.  In normal times they have a cafe on the terrace. It was a pleasant surprise that they have opened up  for 'take aways' so you can have 'socially distanced'  tea and cakes or even a cream tea on the lawn. (served by the youngest generation of the this branch of the Digby family, clad in masks and visors. )

Take care. Hopefully you'll soon be able to resume your trips into the New Forest and further affield. 

Answer 8

Pip, are you planning to move or just an investment for the future plans you may make.  All you need is more grass to mow, miles away from the mower that does not work where you are.
I just watched a touching article on NBC news telling of a family whose mother was in a concentration camp in the 1940s.  Her two year old daughter was separated from her
and not to be found after the war.  The mother eventually had two more daughters but died in 1996 after looking her whole life for the first daughter.  She asked the living daughters to pursue the search and they just found a niece
as the result of a DNA search.  The sister was in an orphanage and then adopted and taken to Israel.  Her daughter took the test just to find out something about her past and you know the rest.  A very refreshing story.
1920 (Women's Lib) newspaper article gave me a chuckle.
The telegraph manager was having trouble finding messengers  due to shortage of men serving in the war.
"He partially solved the problem by putting on a force of girl messengers.   He reports the girls are proving very satisfactory.   The girls are unlike the boys in that they do not stop along the route to pitch pennies, read novels or play baseball."   Today I have two grandsons earning extra cash on weekends delivering pizzas.  Times have changed
so that the manager will not send women out into the area to deliver them.  It's becoming too dangerous to them in his
opinion and experience.
Weather in northern New York remains sunny and dry as in the last two weeks.  A neighbor cut my grass so I can now find my sidewalk without worrying about catching my walker on the two large clumps of grass that had sprouted up on the edge and over hung the cement.  Five more days of restrictions and I hope I am home free.

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Glad to hear you are doing better. Remember to take it easy. I also wondered about Pip moving, or just getting more land to landscape and mow.

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That was a good news story for sure!  The more good news, the better.

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LOL. Beulah, you make me laugh. We are planning on moving, but not right away. And as for mowing, we plan on clearing just enough to have a small yard. Glad you have someone to do the mowing for you!

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Hello from soggy north Georgia!

I haven't done anything extraordinary on the genealogy front this week. It's mostly been routine--checking the profiles on my anniversary list. I've created a few new profiles, too. I've worked on backgrounds for my profiles and created a couple of sets of monograms for profiles for which I don't have images. I've applied the backgrounds and monograms to a few profiles and I really like how they "dress up" a profile and make it look more finished.

On the home front, hubby had to see his cardiologist yesterday. Hubby is holding his own--seven months since his heart attack. However, when we asked about him resuming cardio rehab when they reopen in July, the cardiologist said, "Absolutely not." My husband's age and weak heart put him at such high risk for the virus, the doctor just doesn't believe it's something he should do right now. So, for us, quarantine will continue to be a way of life for even longer than others. Not what we want, but it is what it is.

Take care and have a good weekend, WikiTree friends!

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My father and I moved in together when he started to have health issues a few years ago, and we're in the same boat with you and your hubby Nelda!  Fingers crossed for a vaccine or a treatment, meanwhile we're staying pretty close to home. Focusing on the good things in life 

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Best wishes and health to hubby!

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Nelda, we were planning on joining a gym, mostly for my heart condition, but the pandemic shut that down for us. We ordered a treadmill, and that is what we have been using for the past 2 1/2 months.

Since the weather got warm and the riding mower broke, I've used push mowing to get my walking in. (Not that I like it!)

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Nelda: All the best to you and your husband during his recovery.

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Nelda we also continue to self quarantine until the stats in our area go way down.   Last week they just had a jump in our state.  Those of us in a high risk group are not ready to take chances.  Cyber hugs and prayers coming to you and your family.

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Happy Friday! 

I found this lovely wild rose climbing over the wall of the golf course while on my morning walk, and thought you might enjoy it too. 

I've been helping my father polish his memoirs this week. He dictates them, so the transcript needs reviewing, and some of the bits are out of sequence.  I'm also having fun finding the WikiTree profile of some of the characters who populated his childhood.  Its surprising how many are already there!   I've scanned a few of the old photos too, so will be uploading them. 

I'm nibbling away at some of the founders of Lunenburg Nova Scotia who emigrated from the Montbeliard region of France, and I had great fun with Chase Ashley's ancestor listmaker app.  Have you tried it?  At first I wasn't impressed, but he fixed a few bugs and now its WOW!  WT has me connected in theory to 5034 ancestors in 20 generations, close to 10% of the total. The app has identified several new connections to Mayflower passengers that I need to look into, and some 380 PGM.  I take it all with a grain of salt, the farther back I go, the more speculative and conflated information I'm finding, so my personal inventory may be smaller, but this app shows the power of the world tree.

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What a pretty rose.

I know what you mean about the ancestor listmaker. As if we didn't have enough rabbits to chase! I certainly agree with the grain of salt. For me it shows 2991 ancestors and 186 PGM. There are also 295 American Immigrants, and I know that only 2 of them were after 1800.

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Haha, when I started looking into my family tree, I decided to limit my research to the first ancestor who came to North America.  We're all immigrants, right?  I thought maybe 4 or 5 generations, max. I thought I'd be done in 3 weeks. That was in 2016 and I'm still not finished ....

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Laurie, genealogy is the never ending hobby. I'm just hoping I have enough time left to get so much more done.

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Thanks for the flowers.

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Laurie: Thank you for all of the work that you do on WikiTree. Your personal Lunenburg project sounds interesting. Lunenburg is one of my favorite places. I have been there many times. I was hoping to visit Nova Scotia this summer, but instead I may have to wait until next summer.

Answer 11

Good Morning!

Pip, I must begin by complimenting your phrase "Blessed Realm" referring to our Southern states. I love it and a good thing since ALL of my ancestors going back a long time were rooted and stayed in the South! I, too, am happy about the Southern Colonies Project getting off the ground. I remained and am on two teams - Georgia and Sourcing.

Yesterday, I received one of the dreaded FamilySearch messages about changes to people I am watching - there were 38 changes. <Groaned Aloud> Once I looked I saw that most were on one family in my husband's line. Someone had removed the correct wife/mother and inserted someone else and removed her first marriage and children from her. I took a very deep breath and contacted the person nicely saying I was puzzled by the change and could she please help me understand. Turns out she was very nice and said that was just what her husband's family had told them. She changed it all back and we have exchanged a number of emails and she said she thought their information was wrong. Whew!! So my husband has a new distant cousin.

I missed last weekend's chat as I had an unplanned stay-over in the hospital. It seems I had a TIA but all the tests have been good. I am on a couple of new meds (blood thinners) and am hauling around a heart monitor for 30 days. Limits my wardrobe as I need a pocket or I have to wear it in a sling over my shoulder. I was excited that I was able to cover my Greeter shift on Monday night and handled the new protocols with no trouble so guess my brain is functioning on its usual cylinders!

It is hot here in Texas - 90's so my walking is on the treadmill. Next week supposed to hit 100 - it is very early for those temps.

I hope everyone has a great weekend. I hope all stay safe from the Covid virus and the unrest many areas have experienced. See ya'll next week.

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Wow, 100 already!  Have a cool drink and take it easy!

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Take good care Virginia! So glad your TIA was caught early and you're not having side effects. I had to carry one of those things around for a month too. Irritating though it was, I felt a little lost when we parted.

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It is the Blessed Realm, ain't it, Ginny?! Glad you were able to find a cooperative genealogist when it came to that family on FS. Would that all genealogist were so.

Take it easy and be well! It's great to see you still working with the Greatest Gang.

Answer 12

SKYFRONT -- The Strawberry Moon Eclipse of June 5th ... it's the 2nd penumbral lunar eclipse of 2020 ... 3 hr 18 min worth watching many say 

The really FUN events are when everyone troops out to see the New Moon Eclipse ... (go figure) .. really, it's happened 

HOMEFRONT with Sig O going whackers trying to find out how the feral cat is getting into the garage ... he's sure he's covered every hole from the outside into the garage ... found the cat in there again ... found one of its five kittens in there yesterday and picked it up and put IT outside ... he's been out there 3 days off and on moving bins and boxes and then outside staring at exterior walls ... eh, everyone needs a hobby, yes?

FLU BITES -- I blew off last week being ill. Recall the Hong Kong Flu? This was a lot like it without the stomach part. To be polite, I had a heap of laundry because I was not fast enough to get to the bathroom ... hmm.  How did that virus get INTO this house? Dunno, other than it must have come in on a package, because packages are the only things coming into the house.  I am now standing over Sig O and bullying him to make sure to use disinfectant spray on EVERYTHING coming in ... 

THE WEATHER around here has been "fry me hot" pretty much 8 or so of 14 days ... lol, try having fever, chills, sweats during a Heat Wave. Oh, it's nasty.  Some cloudy nights. ONE cloudy day, well 1.5 or so. Dry, dry, dry ... and Calif going to start it's Fire Season ("formal" start) in October and a long dry dry dry summer ... Gov Newsom is already trying to work things out ... there's still social distancing, protests and / or riots in various parts of the state, spikes in new cases of Covid 19 reported, unemployment at an all time high for Calif, shortage of crop pickers, there's all the detainees in the ICE camps still yet, ... the man actually WANTED to be Gov.  "Who's sorry now?" (Connie Francis song) ... yes, and all that (aside from the quarrel with POTUS)  more is happening in Calif.

NOT sure what happened ... if you see a pix, it is the running of the bulls ... NOT what I intended and I can't figure out what I keyboarded ... 

GENEALOGICALLY still clicking and wresting more info for profiles when I can find it .. only 171 clicks so far this month ... being ill slows you down, eh? 2,068 profiles (they seem to proliferate, in spite of making some orphans) ... STILL have 909 profiles last attended to in Aug - Dec 2019 .. I may leave the Nov & Dec untouched if I can just complete Aug, Sept and Oct .... you will see me flaked out on the ground, panting, worn and frazzled .. well, okay, a bit dramatic ...overly dramatic ..... 

STAY SAFE, SANE, SOLITARY, SOBER, SEDATE, SENSIBLE, ... ETC and hugs to all who could use one

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Those bulls look really excited to see the eclipse ...

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Oh, Laurie, various someones and myself (in my Real Life) exchanging comments on Stress and "One of Those Days" and "Bad Hair Days" and the like and I picked up on two pix, that was one, and pointed out that yesterday it was the Running of The Bulls around my place from 5 AM to 1 PM --  what with the Sig O's computer and his moaning and wails, the stray cat where none should be (how does she DO it), waking up to find a total mess in the fridge which had to be cleared out and cleaned up and no coffee first and the house cats being anxious (anxious cats are cats under your feet and in your face) and for whatever reasons the company that delivers the meals to us (10 of them, five each) DELIVERED THEM ON THURSDAY which created a crisis with the FREEZER etc ... the list goes on a bit more ...  As it turns out MY day was not the "winner" of the prize ... naturally I pointed out being rejected ought to be the clincher for MY bad day but nooooooo ... 

You know, you're old enough probably to KNOW, that there are Days, or Weeks, sometimes MONTHS when the ongoing acrobatic dance to COPE .. is stressful 

It helps enormously to find a way to provoke laughter about it 

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Susan, I once had food poisoning that did the same with my clothes. Yeah, it was pretty bad!

"...you will see me flaked out on the ground, panting, worn and frazzled .. well, okay, a bit dramatic ...overly dramatic ..... " 

No, that sounds normal, really normal while WikiTreeing.

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Hope you are feeling better!  Stay safe and stay well once you are back to being well!

Answer 13

Greetings from Everett, Washington!

Today is the feast of St. Boniface, Apostle of Germany, who cut down the great oak tree to prove to the pagans that Christ is Lord.

When I am anxious I make quilts of smaller and smaller pieces. I worked on several 81-piece blocks of 1 1/2" squares.  Then I sat here in this chair until my spine melted down.  That was on Monday.  I felt horrible Monday night and Tuesday morning with headache and backache from hours of being in the same posture.  I quit listening to the news.  The mall where my daughter once worked has not been attacked.  It's across from the Everett police station l.o.l. and since the Sears and Macy's closed last year it's not a target for looters.  Lynnwood police have barricaded the more upscale Alderwood Mall.  We have not ventured out except to go to Mass, which, praise God, is now available to all.  Husband is in charge of bringing an audio/video feed to the overflow people in the parish hall downstairs.  Also we are cataloging all the books in the parish library.

While this was going on his mother got dehydrated from not drinking enough water and her blood pressure got dangerously low so the aide took her to the doctor and stayed with her all day.  The doctor says her dementia is worse but she did express gratitude to the aide.

I got onto my watchlist and these days I remove a few, I add a few, so it stays right at 5000.  Yesterday was a good day on Wikitree. I discovered that my mother's college roommate was the niece of an Oregon governor, [[Lord-2485 | William Paine Lord]], who was without parents, so I added them.

Also I had a happy resolution to what appeared to be a wholesale makeover of a profile.  I couldn't comprehend why a PM would change the LNAB, continent of birth and death and everything.  Turns out it was an honest mistake and I was able to restore the profile.

I mentioned small quilt pieces.  I took apart the Grandmother's Flower Garden and separated all the flowers.  Now I am outlining the flowers in purple and it looks much better.  I am using the English paper piecing method.

I finished two quilt tops this week.  That brings my pile to eleven.  When I can get batting again for them I will be sure to stand in line at the fabric store.

Good news: my husband is definitely wanted back at his old job when Boeing factory tours resume.  He will be required to wear a mask.  With a mask on he looks sinister and/or absurd and definitely a distraction from what he wants his audience to look at.  Also his long sideburns stick out in the weirdest way.  He is still trying to fit his role to his costume.

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Do please post some pics of your quilting project if you get a chance.

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Sounds like your anxiety is producing works of art!  You're not alone. My mother painted when she was anxious, and the pieces she painted during her darkest days are the ones everyone fights over, the detail is amazing.  

Just take care of you, okay?  

I'm having a chuckle at your hubby's new "costume".  I suspect we'll grow accustomed to wearing face masks, and they won't seem so absurd after a while, but the men in my family are already trimming their beards differently to accommodate.  We have a zoom dinner each Friday, so they can admire each other's new look.

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Margaret, I remember the story of St. Boniface!

I've wanted to categorize and catalogue all our books at St. Pat's, too, but I'm going to have to get some help. When I first suggested it some years ago, I had no idea that folks had so many books they wanted to get rid of. Hundreds!

Great news for your husband! Are you glad he's going to be not underfoot so much when he returns to Boeing for the tours?

Answer 14

Hello to all from beautiful southeastern Arizona. We've been having some warm temperatures here. Forecast high for today is 99F, but it will then cool down for several days. Still, it's much cooler here than Tucson or Phoenix. The mornings are gorgeous!

I can't believe its already Friday. Where has the week gone? I even woke thinking it was Thursday. My calendar notification at 8 am let me know it was Friday. It also reminded me that I won't be hosting at the senior center. *sigh* I'm so tired of sheltering in place. I met a few of my senior friends for a BBQ. It was lovely to see everyone. I do call several of them each week, but it's just not the same. *enough of my pity party!*

Writing: I'm finally making some progress on my second novel. Have revised up to Chapter 23, and I'm almost to the point where Increase begins his journey home.

Thought I'd be able to get some WikiTree profiles done, but didn't get anything accomplished or revised. I also need to do some work for a community group, but I'm still procrastinating, not sure why!

Hope all of you are staying healthy and safe. Have a great weekend!

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This:

I can't believe its already Friday. Where has the week gone? I even woke thinking it was Thursday.

was me also 

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I'm a little scattered too Diane.  I had two Wednesday's this week.  The first one was better.

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Not a pity party, Diane, It is hard being sequestered for so long. When we finally opened up church again (masks, social distancing), it was like I hadn't see folks for years! I really missed them, even through some of us did do the occasion video get-together.

I'm procrastinating on some work I need to get done, but it's also true that I had a lot of appointments this week. I'm tired!

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Hi Diane,

It's always nice to see another Arizonan on the Chat! Glad to know your writing is going well!

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@SJ and Laurie - must be something in the air! Yeah, that must be it, because I always know what day it is. It's only appointments that I must put into the phone's calendar with reminder notifications. LOL

@Pip Aww, but this week I procrastinated on procrastinating! LOL

@Carol *Waves!* Howdy neighbor.

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Thanks for hosting Pip.

The weather here is hot, humid, possibly sunny, with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms. (And, I can use that same blurb until mid September.)

Not much happening here, we did finally visit our RV in its storage spot (its fine, waiting to go somewhere). I continued with sewing projects and my husband made a clothes hanger stick to put on the back of the RV, as well as some ham radio cables.

Genealogy-wise I'm still in the Reeds. Simon and Currance now have 45 grandchildren and 397 descendants.

It seems that I always find someone who makes me wonder about their life. Eliza (no profile yet) is one such person. According to a county history, Amanda and Eliza were half sisters; Marion married Amanda and after she died he married Eliza. That in itself is not surprising. Why was Eliza living in Marion's household 3 years after Amanda died? Was she possibly taking care of his 7 and 4 year old children, or was Rosana, age 70, also in the household her grandmother? Just one year later Eliza and Marion were married, but their first child wasn't born until 6 years later. Did she lose a child, or was it because she was only 15 when she married?

Did you see the G2G post Just for fun, history lessons for genealogists? https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1046845/just-for-fun-history-lessons-for-genealogists?show=1046845#q1046845 Well, I always check Ancestry Trees for clues. I have found treasures like death certificate images. This week I found a tree that shouted the clue ignore this tree! It not only had Marion as a twin of his sister (who was adopted) born 18 months before him, it also had all of his children as the children of Eliza, which would have made her 7 years old at the birth of her first child. Gah.

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Haha, I once had a hard time convincing a WT member that my great-grandfather did not marry his grandmother before he was born, or have children with her.  If its published on Ancestry it must be true ....

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Kay, how many more Reed descendants left? That is a small town of descendants.

I have an ancestor with a profile on Ancestry. He died about 1838. The photo on that profile is of a Spanish-American War veteran of the same name! Give me a break. Wasn't it just too obvious? Makes me wanna slap someone. 

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Pip, those numbers are for the 5 children who already had WikiTree profiles. There are another 10 children plus one adopted daughter (no clues yet about her parents, would guess she was a granddaughter or niece). This is double sideways genealogy for the 15 double first cousins of my great grandmother. More interesting is how many new connections will I find.

Answer 16

Hi Everyone

We are set for a rainy weekend here in Cheshire, England so adopted a few Langridge profiles to work on in relation to the one name study I have going.

We just sprinkled Weed and feed over our lawn as the weeds are making a take over bid... Black lawn next week, hopefully green again soon after.

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The only problem with the weed and feed is then the grass needs mowing....

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Janet, I'm afraid to use weed and feed as our yard just might be totally barren afterwards!

Answer 17

Seeing the Chat come again reminds me how quickly the week has gone and that we are now upon another weekend!  Pip, I love that term jungular and remember so well how fast everything grew at my Illinois and Michigan homes.  Not so much here in the desert.  A few inches a year is a lot for some cactii.

We sorted out the family with the illigimate baby and in the end agreeing that we had it right to begin with, but now more proof has been found and I am adding the sources to the profiles.  That ended up being rather satisfying.

And now I've been obsessed with several families from Acadie/Quebec.  It started with a marriage entry in 1757 for a couple on Isle St Jean (now PEI) that had no parents already on the Tree.  But as I searched for these families they were quite well regarded, many military officers, family members marrying into other well to do families.  Seigneuries, squires, lords, etc.  None of them are my family, but working to find their relationships  and sources and get them into WT has been so interesting.  These things keep me busy and having fun.

Especially since we are in our hottest month now.  Temps are forecasted for 106 today, though we often get into the 110-115 level in June.  Hiked on our nearby mountain on Wednesday where it was in the low 80's at 9,000' elevation - just perfect.  This is "winter" here when we need to stay inside more.

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Cindy, I've quit wearing a watcvh, so I never know not only what time it is, but what day it is either. If I didn't have a calendar on my phone with reminders, I'd never make an appointment. (I have two reminders for the Weekend Chat!)

106? How do you stand it? I can barely function outside if it gets much above 80.

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I haven't worn my watch inmonths!  And actually not too often before that - only when I would want to know what time it is without everyone seeing me pull out my phone!

106 is hot, but feels about equivalent to 80 and humid in the Midwest.  Having gone back and forth during the hot season, that's how it feels to me.  I actually would prefer the 106n because it's dry.  115 feels like an oven!

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Well, they always say, "It's hot, but it's dry heat." So, you proved the old adage, Cindy.

(Shhh... I use my phone as a watch, too.)

Answer 18

On this day:

1224: The University of Naples is founded

1780: Johan Gadolin, who found the chemical element Ytrium, was born

1968: Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated 

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I remember watching the TV when the news of the assassination of Robert Kennedy was announced. Very sad.

Answer 19

First thing I can think of is "What in blazes am I doing awake at 8:15am on a Saturday?" Having said that, it's still later than when I have to be up tomorrow (about 6:30am) church duties (first time in about 3 months), definitely going to miss the 9:30 wakeups being able to head downstairs, make breakfast, make coffee, back upstairs and tuning into a livestream followed by joining the after church zoom hangout.

The week has been a crazy rollercoaster, caught up with my father for dinner on Monday night (last time I saw him was 6 months ago while I was in hospital), main talking points were : 1) the 'p' word and 2) the surge of pneumonia cases between November and December 2019.

Earlier in the week, I had an error with the syncing with my offline/online trees with MyHeritage (basically the wrong version was selected losing 800+ personnel and thousands of record additions) not frustrated just a little disappointed. I mean I'm made dumber and stupider mistakes in my earlier days with researching.

Started working on the family I mentioned last time, took a while to get started but there is progress.

Gotten round to setting up a Free Space page addressing the problem of parentage for the forefather currently named Richard Shelley I. It also regards his wife as well (time to set about updating the G2G threads about them

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I am so sorry about the record loss.  I know and understand this sad event.

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Richard, you are still not holding church services where you are? We started back two weeks ago (granted, we do have a very small church, so easy to spread out).

I think I would have pulled my hair out screaming if I had lost all that data. I admire your cool.

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We restarted hosting services a couple of weeks ago according to the vague rules for the current level of lockdown. Today was the first Sunday where we had a full team serving with the allowed congregation numbers. It still felt weird to be back behind the tech desk after so long.

I know the Scottish branch of my Danish Grandmother's family was erased, I'm not sure who else has disappeared. Part of the fun will be checking in on the c6.2k DNA matches which have been calculated by MyHeritage and seeing how many of them I can determine what the actual relationship is (transferring that to here is going to be a whole other ballgame.

Yeah, I've stopped the hair pulling (mainly because it was the extraction of the whites from my beard), especially considering it achieves nothing.

Last night, I discovered probably the closest cousin so far to have been involved in both World Wars, and was awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal and the Military Cross (both in WWI). Have yet to include him on the respective panels of my page

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A Scottish branch of your Danish grandmother... now there’s a story to tell!

Richard, I used to pull the gray out of my mustache until I realized I wouldn’t have one if I kept that up.

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Pip, it gets more interesting than that, not only does she have Scottish ancestry but also is descendant of a French Huguenot

Answer 20

Well, summer is in full swing. Temps went above 90F (30C) today so we have switched our gardening times to morning and late afternoon. Planting is well underway and should be done planting on Monday. The field is mostly mowed. That will finally be done today.

Genealogically, it has been a fun week. I started down the Tartan Trail which has been a lot of work but well worth it. Haven't done anything on my own line this week but will be back to that next week. I did adopt a few ancestors and will update them next week.

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I need to start that trail, too, Doug, but I fear my skills in Scottish records are very lacking. I'll probably pick that up next month, if only to get away from the stuff I'm working on now.

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The Trail is actually pretty good at teaching you the skills needed and the guides are there to help.

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I did the Orphan Trail for England. It was a great experience. I know the Tartan Trail will be too. Keep me posted on how you are doing with it!

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I too have started on the Tartan Trail.  I have a few more sources to add and then need to flesh out more of the bio.  Some unanswered questions nagging at me.  And although I did inline citations they want full citations and I did the URL to the data.  So I need to add the full citation which I need to find. I will be working on that today again some.

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Just completed level 2 this morning!!!!!! Since I always use full citations that helped. I learned a lot in the process of researching those records. Citations can be tedious to write but once you get used to them they get easier.