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CHANGE TO BEST ANSWER PROCESS: After much discussion we have come to the conclusion that all answers in the Weekend Chat are of equal importance and weight. So we are going to discontinue the Best Answer portion as it adds points and then takes them away from posters and is causing some hurt feelings. So in the interest of everyone is equal and valued we will delete any best answers given which will deduct those points because it has been pointed out that to give everyone best answer is also not a viable option.

Weekend Chat is for everyone. It's a place to catch up on what people are up to and to share what you've been doing. New members can say hello, introduce themselves, ask questions, and meet each other. Our seasoned members can share progress or successes from their projects, give tips and advice, or chime in on hot topics.

Post as many answers and comments as you wish. It doesn't hurt anyone to post a lot and enjoy the multitude of topics.

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WikiTree profile: Pip Sheppard

closed with the note: Have a safe week. See you next weekend!

asked Aug 28, 2020 in The Tree House by Pip Sheppard G2G Astronaut (2.7m points)
closed Aug 31, 2020 by Pip Sheppard

Welcome to another Weekend Chat, my fellow WikiChatterers! And greetings from Cathey’s Creek, at least for the next couple of minutes. We are headed out the door to see our daughters and their husbands for the first time in nearly eight months. It’s been a sore trial, waiting this long. It’s not very often that all of us are together at the same time. This is the reason I’m posting this so early. I have an eye appointment right away and we’ll be leaving town right after that.

On the Home Front: Having both of my brothers up last weekend was a treat. Like our daughters, the three of us are rarely together, usually just one or the other visiting us. Just got lucky this time. Funny, they live about 20 minutes from each other and didn’t tell each other that they were planning up a visit. They could have driven together.

On the Genealogy Front: Along with the visit of my brothers, one of them brought me a box chock full of goodies. When we were packing to move up here, we gave him some stuff to hold for us which we promptly forgot about. We had no idea where that stuff was. My younger brother handed it over to me and I nearly cried. In this box was my grandfather’s own genealogy records, the ones that got me started on this journey. Other files included many old documents Grandpa saved.

Also, in this box was an album of photos that Grandpa put together during his stay in Texas from 1911 to 1916. Many of the people are not identified, but some are, including his first cousins who lived there, children of his aunt, Margaret Underwood McGee. Others with names were just friends. Grandpa was in his early 20s, and it shows a side of him that I never saw, the playful jokester. Other loose photos were of my grandfather’s nieces, both of whom I remember. These were children of his sister, Jane Underwood Jones. The photos are dated in the early 1970s.

And, there was my great-grandfather’s account book from when he ran a grocery store in Charlotte. The entries start in 1917 and as far as I can tell nothing after 1919. I see a cousin mentioned in it.

One last gift of my brother was my father’s scrap book of his football days at Ashley High School in Gastonia in the late 30s and early 40s. Dad was a star player, and as far as I know, maybe the only high school player selected to play in two consecutive Shrine Bowl games (the best players from North Carolina versus the same from South Carolina).

My brother and I are going to start an application for my dad to be included in the Gaston County Hall of Fame. Dad lived or worked in Gastonia nearly all of his life. His exploits on the gridiron were still talked about for decades. We heard him mentioned on the radio in the 70s during a broadcast of a football game; his old high school was playing.

So, it was a very satisfying week, genealogically speaking. Very satisfying. (My daughters may not think so when they inherit all this stuff!)

What with the pandemic, hurricanes, and wildfires, I hope all of you, wherever you are, are safe and well.

I will check in with y’all over the next few nights.

Enjoy the Chat!

commented Aug 28, 2020 by Pip Sheppard G2G Astronaut (2.7m points)

Hi everyone, and I hope everything is going great with you all. I am a new Ambasador on WikiTree, and if there is anything that I can do for you, just say the word, and I will do my best to make it happen. I hope that I am not the only wikitree genealogists who thinks that multi tasking several files at once is not always a good idea. I pull out three boxes of hard copies of stories that I want to add to profiles, and give their life stories a interesting factor. So as I was sorting through paper work, I would just put the info in each surname file I came across. Also at the same time I had my 92 year old Mom over for dinner, as I am searching the internet for legit sources to add to whatever profile I just happen to come across that needs work, and continue to load up the file of people I want to add info later. The thing I wasn't thinking about was that I have several people with the same first and last name that are not even close to being related, and now I have created files that I have to read every page again and put them in new correct files. I know this doesn't sound that bad, until I get back from walking my Moms little dog Molly, and my Boxer Lila decided to clear the table of everything I was working on, and put them into scattered piles of paper on the dinning room floor, which were no longer in the files I placed them in. So I realized again today that I am terrible at multi tasking, and ended up putting all the mixed up paper work into a few boxes to sort through again this weekend. I really do love being a wikitree genealogist, and I want to convert as many people that will listen to me tell them to quit spending $44 dollars a month on ancestry. One last thing I want to say about ancestry.com is that when you come out of fog, and stop shelling out all that money for their sources. They will take them all back away from you once you cancel your membership. One thing I don't know if they realized was when I uploaded my GEDCOM four years ago, every file attached to each person in my huge tree downloaded to my computer as well. Hundreds of Census records, death records, birth, baptism, and marriage records, and so on were donated to me, I am sure not on purpose by ancestry. Now when you upload your GEDCOM, you only get your tree without the sources.

Have a great weekend

commented Aug 29, 2020 by Keith Mann Spencer G2G6 Mach 3 (31.1k points)

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Answer 1 · 2020-08-28T12:41:52+0000

Hello from north Georgia!

I've had an uneventful personal life this week and that is fine by me. The hurricanes did not impact my Gulf Coast relatives in any way. I am praying for those who did sustain damage.

I worked on WikiTree quite a bit this week. I'm still focused on my Hildreth relatives. I created and completed (to the best of my ability) thirteen new profiles this week and "improved" others. That may not sound like much to some of you, but it was a lot for me.

I hope each of you will have a wonderful Weekend!

Answer 2 · 2020-08-28T13:58:41+0000

Today is...

NATIONAL CHERRY TURNOVER DAY

National Cherry Turnover Day on August 28th praises a tasty and sweet hand pie. These cherry-filled pastries are best enjoyed hot. However, like any pie, many eat them at room temperature, too. Add a dollop of whipped cream or a scoop of ice cream. No doubt your enjoyment will be doubled.

Cherry turnovers are a pastry made by placing a cherry filling on a piece of dough. The dough is folded over and sealed. Then, the individual turnovers are baked or deep-fried for a golden and flaky crust. Tart cherries make the best pies. Since they need added sugar to be palatable, their juices meld with the sugar when baking. The results are tasty perfection!

A turnover a single serving. They fit nicely in a hand, making them portable. Another name for turnover is hand pie. However, we recommend a fork and plate when eating them piping hot.

Cherries on their own offer a bounty of nutrients. For example, the antioxidants in this red fruit protect cells from damage. Because cherries pack an anti-inflammatory punch, they may help reduce the risk of heart disease, too. Find out more about the benefits of cherries, tart or sweet at Nutrition and You.

FUN CHERRY FACTS:

Related to plums, peaches, and nectarines, cherries are drupes or stone fruits.
Cherries were brought to North America in the 1600s by the English colonists.
There are more than 1,000 varieties of cherries in the United States.
There is an average of 44 cherries in one pound.

HOW TO OBSERVE Cherry Turnover Day:

Following are a few cherry turnover recipes for you to enjoy: (links updated)

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/cherry-turnovers/

http://www.youmustlovefood.com/how-to-make-fresh-cherry-turnovers-from-scratch/

https://dinnerthendessert.com/cherry-turnovers/

Answer 3 · 2020-08-28T14:19:22+0000

Hails and horns, Wikipeeps!

On the genealogy front this week, my #52Ancestors post reads like a how-to guide for photo editing: https://allroadhaverhill.blogspot.com/2020/08/52-ancestors-week-35-unforgettable.html

I thought I got a little carried away. But, whatever. It's my blog and I'll ramble if I want to! I actually wasn't sure what to write about this week because I'm already one step ahead of making sure stuff isn't forgotten. I've also mentioned this site often enough in the blog. Hey. The Internet is forever and the profile you made for Joe "the Face" Mancucci ain't goin' anywhere.

Totally need to make that profile, by the way. Nah. Though, that would be a decent April fools day joke.

I also scanned and uploaded a new version of this photo: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Ferraiolo-6

The old version is right here: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Ferraiolo-5

The new version just seems more clear, I think. I converted it to black and white and I might upload it again. We'll see.

In other family news, I am awaiting news on my 2x great-grandfather's brothers. I get the feeling they missed one as one of them died in 1940 and may not have heard of him. I'm unsure. Still doing research on that front.

OH! And the Italy project is taking off again as we're adding new members and creating teams. Check out the South Italy team page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Italy_Southern_Regions_Team

For some reason I really like the images I made. I know they took like five seconds to make. But, whatever. We have a ton of people joining and I've been keeping up as best as I can. I've noticed a ton of people wanting to join the south and islands teams. I think that correlates to Italian immigration tbh. More people came from the south and Sicily than the other areas of Italy. That isn't to say people didn't come from the central region or higher. Just most came from the south.

At least the project is growing and if you want to join a team, let me know!

On the non genealogy front, I've been working on my comic and getting close to #500. It's a huge milestone for me as I've been working on the comic since late 2008. I can't wait to put it online. It should be good. =D

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Answer 4 · 2020-08-28T15:18:26+0000

Greetings from Everett, Washington!

As I write this, my husband is, I hope, getting some answers about why pressure on his chest is preventing him from sleeping. He spent most of Tuesday in the emergency room at Providence Hospital in Everett after he was checked out for the problem. His present EKG was compared to one from 12 years ago; the doctor freaked upon seeing the inverted T-waves and he was sent to the ER.

Meanwhile his van was sitting in the parking lot of the clinic and I got a ride there so I could drive it home. I NEVER drive his new van. It has bells and whistles. It has keyless ignition. All kinds of electronic controls. I managed to get the gas cap door open. I opened the hood. I set the emergency brake and couldn't figure out how to unset it. The owner's manual was no help. In all my fumbling I managed to lock up the steering wheel. I sat there for over an hour waiting for a friend to come who knows how to drive these things. He brought me home and I continued to wait.

Got a text from husband. His phone battery was dying and they hadn't fed him (he is diabetic). The friend who helped me with the van brought me and daughter to Providence to get things moving.

At ER admissions only one person was admitted to see him. That person was me. I went in while friend and daughter waited outside. I tried to text them but texts were not getting through. Husband was fine. The doctor recommended an ultrasound, which he is having this morning, to determine whether there is fluid behind his heart. Also he was given a COVID-19 test, that shoved long swabs way up both nostrils (it hurts). He is negative.

But last night he felt the same chest pressure and could not sleep. After the ultrasound today he will see his regular doctor this week. All the pieces of evidence will be put in place, I hope.

Yesterday we walked nearly a mile with a neighbor as part of the exercise we both need. I will miss him this morning but I will still try to walk that mile. I went to my own doctor yesterday and I have nothing new to report. Health is good.

Pip, I found in a box some yardage. It was a Hunting MacFarlane tartan that I paid $$ for years ago. It has only a couple of tiny moth holes. I also found a Black Watch that is probably flannel. I want to make something out of the MacFarlane yardage that I can wear in my historical interpretation gig, assuming that can resume sometime next year. I have been looking at historical patterns for women's jackets. Something from the 1880s to early 1900s. Lots of tailoring involved, I know. Maybe with those Inverness sleeves.

The Mukilteo Historical Society board meeting last night was discussing ways to have a virtual Christmas party. Our one big event this year will be an outdoor sale at the lighthouse grounds on Labor Day weekend. I think I will go just to say hello in person to all the folks that I miss.

On the genealogy front I have been working around the edges of the tree. It has been slow because my mind is elsewhere and I am frequently interrupted. I wonder, Pip, if we may have a connection between the Quaker Underwood family that married into my Smiths and your Underwoods.

I am thankful for all of you and I read through all the recent G2G posts every day. The highlight of the week, Wikitree speaking, is this weekend chat.

Answer 5 · 2020-08-28T15:39:20+0000

Thanks for hosting Pip. I hope that everyone is faring well with hurricanes, fires, and virus. It is hot and humid here.

I have been continuing to work on the tool to find unsourced profiles, which now has some pre-1700 tests. I'm currently working on the design of the user interface to make it into an app. (GAH - adding style issues makes for a very long table...) I have also been using the tool to find pre-1500 profiles for the Medieval Project to investigate. I need to take a break and look into the list of the 1300 profiles that I might address during Source-A-Thon.

A couple of interesting finds were A Virginia Lady (her last name was Lady) and Unknown First Wife (her last name was Wife and she had no husband or children or sources). Interesting, there are quite a few profiles with the last name Wife (and Daughter and Sister and Mother). Sorry for sharing this rabbit hole....

Needless to say, I haven't done much work on my own ancestors.

Answer 6 · 2020-08-28T16:08:54+0000

We had heavy rain last night and this morning here in Northeast Ohio. That also caused us to cool off a lot so no AC today. I have been running the grandson to and from school and work all week so not much time for anything else this last week. I did manage to get a little done on WikiTree including open up an unlisted profile as well as create a profile for a Scottish Notable, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Connolly-2616 , but other than that nothing major. At least there is no bad news this week.

Answer 7 · 2020-08-28T16:22:31+0000

I'm looking forward to a "school reunion" next week. In the Christmas card exchange I invited a friend to have a strawberry shortcake with me this summer. She and I are the only ones I know of in the area that attended our small country school from first grade to eighth grade in her case,
and me to sixth grade. In the six years between her going to a central school and then me going to the same school
our local school was down graded from a 1-8 to a 1-6 grade school. Three years after I left our local school was closed and centralized with the larger school we were then attending. Mary is close to 90 and doesn't go anywhere much. I am glad to get together with her and reminisce
about the past 70 years since we both had "graduated".
We have both stayed in the local area so it won't be hard.

Answer 8 · 2020-08-28T16:30:17+0000

Buenos Dias from the Old Pueblo! It is 9-ish am and 87F (30.5C). We expect a high of 106F (41.1C) today. It is the end of August and we are still having heat wave warnings. And I am still doing rain dances.

I attended a webinar this week that was extremely good, "When Grief Goes Viral" sponsored by the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC). These webinars are focusing, now, on working with death, grief and loss-related outcomes of the pandemic that are based on evidence. Several of my colleagues are already developing scales and other forms of assessment and publishing results specific to Covid19. I'd like to see a comparison of outcomes grief/loss between countries (e.g., USA and Spain, Italy, etc) that display psychological/emotional recovery. As well, I think our first responders would benefit from such studies with psychological/emotional support as soon as possible. So many are already 'burning out.'

I heard from my brother (a retired sheriff) who is making arrangements for placement for our mum. I mentioned that she has been living with my kid sister and her family for 7 or so years. Mum will be 96 in October. Between August of last year when she was cogent and now, she doesn't recognize anyone and becoming very combative, which occurs with Alzheimer's. My brother and I have worked at a distance to arrange for social worker, cognitive assessment and so forth. Everything has been completed and now it is just waiting until we hear. It is not the best time to do this, but there never is a best time for this sort of thing and my heart goes out to all WikiTreers who have been in this situation.

As to genealogy, I am looking forward to tomorrow as we have out monthly genealogical society DNA SIG zoom meeting. Tomorrow's topic is Y DNA and the teachers are fantastic. This past week, I have been working on and cleaning up Green family biographies with inline sourcing and have managed to get more sources in order to return to and complete the Walton family of New York.

Finally, I want to thank Pip and another friend/colleague of mine Stuart Quan (a sleep doc/researcher) for helping me convert PDF to JPG files. These JPGs are a transcribed letter from a 3rd cousin, Pvt.Edward Sturges Manley who fought in the Civil War and was at Gettysburg. He wrote a letter to his family in Vermont giving them a description of his experience at Cemetery Hill. Pip and Stuart helped me so that I could add this letter to Edward's profile. A joy shared is doubled, a task shared is halved. Now I wish I knew how to add pictures and the first page of his letter to 'within' his profile! I still learn something new every day.

Have a great weekend!

Answer 9 · 2020-08-28T16:41:38+0000

On this day:

1749: The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is born (Happy Birthday relative!)

1963: Martin Luther King holds his speech "I have a dream"

1995: The writer of the Neverending Story Michael Ende dies

Answer 10 · 2020-08-28T17:05:58+0000

Its been a few weeks since I participated in the chat!

My summer brain was remembering past adventures and decided it would be a good idea to go bush-whacking up a rocky ridge. As a result, I acquired a temporary friend, pictured here on the right. Please save your sympathy, I shouldn't be bush-whacking any more at my age and stage of life. Also, I'm healing fine, and it doesn't look like surgery will be required. At the same time, so many people are experiencing real suffering here and abroad.

It's given me time to watch the birds, consider philosophical questions, and catch up on some genealogy projects. I've completed a number of merges for the Nova Scotia Bouteillier family and will soon be able to call that task complete. Plus I've traced my Wolfe cousin's ancestors, and filled in some of the blanks. There's always a silver lining!

answered Aug 28, 2020 by Laurie Giffin G2G6 Pilot (104k points)

Answer 11 · 2020-08-28T17:38:24+0000

Hi from southern Ontario;

Or more accurately on vacation just north of Parry Sound, where the first 3 days were sunny, hot and humid weather, now we are on day 3 of much cooler, cloudy, damp and rainy weather. However, I'm not complaining our friends in Regina, Saskatchewan woke up to 6 C this morning. We travel east tomorrow and theoretically the weather should be sunny and warmer, not hot just a little warmer.

I had not planned to do much if any WikiTreeing while we are away but it's too cold to sit on the deck, and very windy at the provincial park at Killbear. The park is on a peninsula that sticks out into Georgian Bay.

We did some great hikes on Sunday, the area is solid granite and the rock shorelines are all multi-coloured granite. We saw a deer family, a doe and two fawns, the wildlife is quite tame, they must know that they are safe in the park. We also saw a half grown black bear just wandering through the campsite. This time of year they are eating non-stop trying to fatten up before winter.

I forgot the connector to download from my camera so I can't post any pics of where we are, and Yes, I am one of those people who do not have a smart phone.

We will be seeing my daughter and family in Ottawa next week and my brother who I haven't seen since Christmas on the way home. We will also be visiting the Upper Ottawa Valley Genealogical Group Library as my husband has many immigrant ancestors in that area.

On WikiTree I have been editing profiles that I created last fall, checking off the confidence levels for parents and adding profiles to cemetery categories.

I did donate a prize of garden related advice to the Source a Thon

That's all for now-M

answered Aug 28, 2020 by M Ross G2G6 Pilot (724k points)

Hi Helen

Do you know when they arrived? Large portions of this area had been clearcut by loggers before it was opened for settlement.

There are still what are called colonization roads mostly going through areas that were not farmable, that would have been covered with tree stumps and all the space in between either solid granite or bogs.

The Nipissing colonization road that was the only way into the area still exists and the historical record tells a sad story, about 80% of settlers either died or left within a few years.

A diptheria epidemic killed most children under the age of 10, in one family all but one child died in about 2 years, the remnants of the family moved elsewhere. I have driven along that road and it is barely 2 lanes wide and is not even now able to be farmed.

Today we were discussing how a log cabin could have been built with no trees available as building material.

As for the bears, there are many bears in the area today, provincial parks have rules about food storage and steel food storage lockers for campers. All garbage cans even in towns are bear proof.

There are still many wolves, though they very rarely attacked humans but certainly would have eaten the livestock.

I have often thought about how I would have coped as a settler, and I don't think I would have been good at it.

commented Aug 28, 2020 by M Ross G2G6 Pilot (724k points)

Here's a picture of the 'log' cabin that my cousin's husband built http://s3.cottagecountrynow.ca/special/parrysound/data/pdfs/181/03.pdf (not the top one, scroll down)Take the rest of the article with a pinch of salt, Jonathan Crisp probably never went to London in his life so was not a Cockney. It does demonstrate that oral tradition is often far from accurate.

He was born in Clay Coton, a parish with only 24 cottages in Northamptonshire, his father was a shepherd. as was his wife Sarah Linnett's father. Jonathan Crisp went to Canada in 1871 One source says that, at first, his nearest neighbour was two miles away.

This afternoon, I thought I better do something about their profiles https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crisp-650 which are still unfinished. Whilst looking for a birth record for one of his children, I spotted another name from my family on the same page .Castell is not that common a name so another rabbit hole ensued. A quick bit of research and it transpires that two more of my first cousins (removed) also went to the same township in Canada about 10 years later.

I'm not really surprised. In my grandmother's cookery book there were some Canadian addresses presumably dating from the 1920s so the families obviously kept contact.(sadly now disappeared, my father got rid of it when my mother died) My mother and her sister were about to be evacuated to Canada at the beginning of WW2 but the sinking of the Benares put a stop to that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_City_of_Benares (if they had gone, I probably wouldn't have been born!)

commented Aug 29, 2020 by Helen Ford G2G6 Pilot (470k points)
edited Aug 29, 2020 by Helen Ford

Answer 12 · 2020-08-28T18:09:54+0000

HOME FRONT - no rain over Modesto so far ... I mean if we HAD HAD some they'd have held a parade and shot off champagne corks, ya know? We did have a bit of "rapidly passing over us dry thunder and lightning storm" but in the subsequent silence I heard no sirens hearkening to the call of fires ... not that I can hear it from ALL parts of the city, no, but the local news the next day mentioned nothing ...

Well, summer is passing and handing the baton off to autumn and with it we may get some torrential rains and if so we will see numerous mountain and hill sides all burned off do the avalanche thing ... ALMOST an annual series of events ...

Which reminds me that the Summer Olympics 2020 have been postponed to Summer of 2021, if all goes well -- if it is to be situated in Tokyo as was planned ... given some of the quakes and tsunami that afflict Japan aside from being a target of N. Korea now and then ... and the country, I have read, is majorly crowded anyway ... "if all goes well" may the mantra of this century

GENEALOGICALLY I have wended my merry way making connections with branches other PM have created ... I try to remember to leave a note about why I'm attaching so and so to their person's profile ... "Hello, it's me, again, so and so married my xyz cousin ... " and I'm about 2,600 profiles now -- and let me tell you, the way some of these people acted I could easily add another 200+ more profiles of their kids after the last 30 days of labor ...

One PM went so far as to offer me a more or less blanket permission to access the profiles he manages but so far they've all be Open (white padlock) ... I shall continue to cautious and try to remember to be gracious ...

AH and the green meanie profiles are very nicely dealt with, I have access, and I've used it ... Oh, happy daze are here again ...

GEN TALK -- at G2G it is the usual struggles about "why isn't my gedcom populating WikiTree" and "I loaded it, where is it" which is when some brave soul (other PM) ups and says, "Honey, it isn't automatic, you can load, but then you have to look at each on in Gedcompare, and then .... and really it's a tad bit faster if you just did it manually ..." and "btw, if you don't do all this, the gedcom will disappear in about x number of days " ... and then you can almost hear the long sad wail of a sax in a smokey nightclub ...

Saddest thing in the world to see, holding out a large tasty "join us and load your gedcom" lollipop to the kid and when the kid's about an inch from successfully grasping it ... Gives a whole new meaning to the words "... a howl of frustration rent the air ... " You do NOT want to be in the same room with someone who just found out there's no Easy Street by using a gedcom, and that if they had created profiles one by one, it would have been a lot easier on them ...

And all this comes with any number of bewildered questions of "what happened here??" from Newbies and Oldies alike -- I am SOOOOOO tempted to say something "funny" ... but I refrain ...

I love the ones that ask how to get rid of an spouse ... and it's me doing a kind of Dr. Strangelove sturggle with myself -- "oh, bite your tongue, Woman, go get a drink of water, chase the cat, anything but SAYING WHAT FIRST CAME TO YOUR MIND MIND (which will get you barred from G2G for 12 months!!" ...

Glad to see everyone is with us once again ... stay alert and careful ...

Answer 13 · 2020-08-28T19:43:18+0000

Hi hi,

it got cooler here in Germany since last weekend (actually last Friday was the last really hot day, it seems, for this year) and the Corona-numbers are currently kind of levelling on quite a high level for my taste. Some regions invented some stricter rules now to try to push Corona back again, including my town.

Pubs and restaurants have to be closed between midnight and 8am. Around a table are only allowed up to 5 persons or all persons from 2 households.

Public events are only allowed with up to 100 persons outside and 50 persons in rooms.

Team sport practice is only allowed in groups up to 10 and only with 1,5m distance. Teams cannot compete in their respective leagues (for example the soccer team of our town).

In schools sport is forbidden, schools can decide to force children above elementary school to wear masks also in the classrooms.

When mum arrived in her rehab, she got a new Corona-test done and again she was negative. That's good as she could today start with her therapy there. The "there is absolutely no way to visit her" is a little bit lighter. They have a terrace outside the café, and there people from outside are allowed to meet with "inmates". I did that today because I had to bring her some stuff she forgot to take with her to make the evenings more eventful. :)

The other great family thing today was a phone call from one of my 2c1r from Serbia. I couldn't help myself and ask him how his sister (who is living in San Francisco) doing now with all those fires. At least she doesn't seem to be affected by them, although the pandemic also affects her life in a way she couldn't imagine. But that's a problem all of us have.

Genealogy-wise, I thought at the start of the week I might be able to shut one window down, because I'd be able to close a few tabs and then maybe rearrange my windows. But then I arrived at a family that made me open some more tabs, so here I go again trying to reduce them. Also in this week I was able to expand a bit the ancestry of the Dutch King by adding some relatives to his tree and I got my first official point in the connector's challenge as I remembered to click that when I ran into an unconnected profile.

Stay safe and healthy, and you folks with health problems, take care of yourself!

Answer 14 · 2020-08-28T21:37:40+0000

Just this week I was sent the Master's thesis paper I was interviewed for/quoted in for people affected by non-paternity events due to direct-to-consumer DNA tests. I loved seeing someone actually looking into the topic of how people are affected by at-home DNA tests leading to finding out your parent(s) is/are not your biological parent(s).

As a genealogist, it has led to a total upheaval of my genealogy work the past couple of years! Gives new meaning to the idea that there's always more research to be done!

Thesis paper is here if anyone is interested.

Answer 15 · 2020-08-28T21:54:21+0000

Good Saturday morning to all from a sunny (if a little dusty) south east Queensland, Australia. So happy for you Pip and family. Enjoy your magic time together.

Work has continued to be hectic this week so Wikitree has provided some much appreciated me time.

I have finally found evidence to support my grandfather's grandfather's (mum's side) arrival in Australia from Scotland. It was not one of the stories passed down in my family and until a year ago I had no idea where to look. A cousin who was researching one of her family lines we do not share found references to he and his wife's arrival in 1838 on the very ill-fated William Rodger grieving their only child Sarah who died as an under 2 year old on the voyage. I had investigated this information and decided it couldn't be "Our Robert Kelly' because his wife Elizabeth was still alive for almost another 20 years after he remarried 20 years after their arrival in Australia. I had not considered that she had left him and she remarried the new man she had 8 other children to in 1853.

I feel like this is a major find and I am feeling pretty pumped

Hope everyone else is also having more wins with their research.

answered Aug 28, 2020 by Rosalie Neve G2G6 Pilot (174k points)

Answer 16 · 2020-08-29T00:12:04+0000

GEN TALK -- disconcerting to discover that having been feted for having nearly 450,000 G2G points someone or something walked away with over 100,000 of my points and reduced my G2G profile scoreboard to 322.xK ... dare I say ... probably not

You know, this is just outrageous ... also a bummer and also discouraging ... 100,000 points taken away, thrown to the wolves etc ... likely to never see them again, too

Did I complain, yes I did, I have said something, for all the good it'll do ...

GENEALOGICALLY -- Am now piecing together the Bort-Bilbrey (or Bilberry) families ... two male Bort sibs (Rufe and Willie) married to female Bilbrey sibs (Bertha Lee and Bessie Lou) -- the Bilbrey girls are MY second cousins once removed [that was an edit for clarification]

I don't know that these two couples had any descendants as married each other, but if I understood what's been said, if a descendant of each couple married and had issue, the resulting issue would ... how do we say this? ... hmm ... anyway there'd be a pedigree collapse? Is that right?

Answer 17 · 2020-08-29T00:47:18+0000

Happy weekend, everyone! I hope that no one here was affected too badly by all the recent weather, fires, etc. A cousin in Connecticut had a tornado pass nearly through her backyard yesterday, but everyone's fine and the house escaped damage. We're supposed to get hurricane leftovers tomorrow but it looks like it won't be all that bad. Not planning to go anywhere anyways...

Survived my first week of class... 14 to go. Turns out that teaching over Zoom in real time is at least as tiring as teaching in person. About 4 hours of lecture on Tuesday, and Wednesday I was so exhausted that all I could do all day was veg and make a bunch of WikiTree profiles. Still working on my husband's grandmother's side of things, using her family history as a source but now backing it up with primary sources. And meanwhile, I've got a couple of other small mysteries to chase down, prompted by various recent cousin contacts. So much still to do, but this weekend I'm going to have to focus on prepping next week's lectures.

Back to ice skating, too... just managing one class a week so far because it's hard to find open practice sessions (and time!). Working on regaining skills and strength I lost while everything was shut down.

Answer 18 · 2020-08-29T00:56:12+0000

Weather wise ... I need to look at my calendar again ... is it October already? We (Denver, not us) just had 17 straight days of 90+ temps ... today, we're in the 70's ... woo hoo. And it's finally raining a bit. Hopefully that will help the wild fire fighters.

On a kind of sad note, at least for us, grand daughter has a soccer game in Denver on Saturday ... we were all set to go watch ... BUT, no spectators allowed ... dang! She has another game in Laramie on Sunday and I think we can go see that. Fun to watch those girls play ... they're good and like 9 or 10 years old.

Just cleaning up some profiles ... other folks make some changes so I look at what they've done and try to add a bit more. Oh, and every now and then I find that I've listed a birth/death country as Canada well before Canada was established ... well, duh!

Answer 19 · 2020-08-29T01:13:03+0000

Today wasn't such a good day. I got my foot caught in a rut in the yard and sprained my ankle. But on the bright side it isn't severe and the doctor said with rest it should start feeling better in a day or two. The rest of the week was ok, but weird. I had customers coming through buying Halloween candy, cards, decorations, etc. I didn't even realise we were already selling them. I had to look at the date on my register because I thought I stepped through a time warp or someting (lol)!

On the genealogy front: I've been working on my Mom's "Steies" family, and I've started a Steies Name Study on WikiTree.

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