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There a tartan for you, Carol. At least the Bruce tartan if not more!

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Thanks for hosting Weekend chat, Pip! I love the Scottish proverbs! I'd bet, though, if I said to someone who wasn't familiar with Scottish dialect, "Lang may yer lum reek!" I'd probably have to run or risk getting clobbered.

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What fun to read Pip!    I'll double down on Laurie Giffin's 

My yer lum reek for a lang, lang time.

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Nelda, it does sound a little lewd, doesn’t it? 

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Hi Pip, thanks for hosting. I love your fallen leaves approach!

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Laurie, when the Scots claimed the area in 1629 until 1632 that's what they called it (naturally) and then yes it got onto maps.  Naming things on maps was also a land grab ploy to make it seem like an area belonged to a country just because it was so named.  That was prevalent during the contested years with both the French and English making maps favorable to their side.

It would be fun to make a list of sayings.  Maybe some members of the Acadian project would have suggestions.    My husband I always think we should make a list of sayings from our parents.  They aren't used much anymore, but fun to remember.

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Cindy, my younger brother and I sometimes talk in “Grannyspeak.” At other times it’s “Grandpaspeak.” I’m going to have write these down as here sayings are about as far down the line as they’ll go. I sometimes wonder if I’m saying something my ancestors might have said in their own colloquial way but the connection has been lost.

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Pip: "Awa' an bile yer heid. Yer bum's oot the windae!"

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Haha! Good one, Rob!

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I remember making a sign for my grandfather camper that said "The Smith's Wee Hoose."

Answer 1

Thanks for so much Pip!

 

Weather:   Unseasonably warm here in Catoosa County, Georgia.   Great conditions for morning walks.

Genealogy:  Not much happened to improve my family lines,  just giving a few  “assists”  to newer members.  I’m proud of the sources they’re providing on their profiles!   They’re developing into incredible new members.

Home Front:   Took a short break from the  “Covid Projects” at home to go on a 3 day birthday trip  (my husband’s birthday and OUCH!  it starts with 7) .  Minimized Covid “expose”  by sanitizing the hotel room when we checked in and only ate take out.   We were in the Smoky Mountains  (near Knoxville)  where we could hike beautiful trails with few other visitors.  

Looking forward to reading your posts! 

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“Starts with 7.”  You so funny, Peggy!!!

I’m so glad you enjoyed your visit to the Great Smokies. (Ever notice that they don’t call the Rockies “Great? They’re not as Great as the Smokies! )

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Being an old computer hack ... emphasis on old ... when I turned 64 I started using base 16 when folks asked my age.  So, all of a sudden, I was 40!  This worked great until I turned 74 and I was 4A base 16.  Now I need to wait until I'm 80 to start doing that again ... ah, I'll be 50 in a few years!

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Haha, there's no rush Bob!  

I was 16 for 30 years. The 30 years wasn't age as it accumulated, just experience. And it accumulated until I had to swear that I was 18 or older for legal purposes.

When I set out on that path, I didn't imagine that there would be children, let alone grandchildren, to confuse, but it is fun!  And you can probably understand my patience with my great-great-grandmother who got younger on every census.

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Great approach Bob...... but using base 16 I'd be 42.   Which may sound great but as I recall I was no where near retirement!    

@Laurie,   got to love your gg grandmother.    My 6 great grandfather had all of Marion County Arkansas believing he died at 107 years old,   when in fact he was 87at death.  He must have looked pretty rough for a long time to pull off the deception.

Answer 2

Virtual Vacation! 

As part of my ongoing frustration with not being able to travel, I looked at pictures from a 2013 vacation to both South and North Carolina, then went back up the coast to the outer banks. We stayed in Beaufort, then Charleston, then Wilmington ending in Nags Head. We left home in a blizzard and arrived in Beaufort to spring and this beautiful house with Spanish moss and a verandah. Charleston should have been wonderful, but our van died at the top of a multi-story parking lot, amazingly both cell phones had been left at the hotel. Have you ever recently tried to find a payphone? To call CAA so we could be transferred to the local AAA to get a tow truck. And it was raining not only cats and dogs but all other lifeforms as well. Two days later the van was fixed. 

Wilmington was nice but they really have to do something about their traffic signs.

We loved Nag's head and area, beaches, shells and feeling like 'Nights in Rodanthe', we stopped at Kitty Hawk before starting the road home, and back to snow!  

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Is that Beaufort house on Bay Street, M? Love the double One Way signs. I remember visiting the Wright Brothers monument when about eight on vacation to the Outer Banks. That vacation stuck in my mind.

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The house, I just took a little trip on Google Street View and though there are similar houses on Bay Street, they are all bigger and taller.

One of the photos after that one in the folder so taken about 2 minutes later, is looking along a street which seems to end at the water, a narrow residential street with parked cars, lots of trees with spanish moss and a sign on an overhanging branch that says low clearance 10 feet.

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Yeah, beautiful area. And the airstrip is something to see.

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M, there’s a lot of streets that end at the water in Beaufort. Can’t be helped, with all the marshes and streams, much less the Beaufort River.

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The only other things that might help, we stayed at the Best Western, it had to be within walking distance after spending the day biking at Hunting Island, and we were tired. The other pictures around that house, all shady narrow streets, all the trees were covered in Spanish moss, and we ended up at the Henry Chambers waterfront park.

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Perfect place to stay, being so near everything else.

Answer 3

Flu shot here baby! Bring on winter now, please.

Mags

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Got mine two weeks ago, so I’m ready to go.

To which address should I send the blueberry pie? 

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Huh. I mention blueberry pie and Mags shows up.

I promise to only use this power for awesome.

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You kidding me Chris? I have a blueberry pie sixth sense!

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Yep, all it takes.... You’re just that easy, Mags! 

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Got mine a week ago. The rash is almost gone, and doesn't itch much anymore. (Similar to the rash I get for any common cold.)

Don't you know it is now apple pie season? Soon to be pumpkin.

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Bleh on the apple anything. Unless it is a crisp apple fresh from the tree. yum!

I am ok with Pumpkin and even enjoyed some over our Thanksgiving Holiday a bit ago.

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I had pumpkin pie for breakfast this morning. But I have remember the blueberry thing when Mags is needed. Thanks Chris!

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We got flu shots two weeks ago,  no reaction to the shot as usual.   (Unlike the second shingles shot which caused 8 hours of misery.)

Speaking of pie....bought a sugar free apple pie last week that was great,  but it's  never to early to make a pumpkin pie.

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So, Mags, you get celebrate Thanksgiving twice?

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Glad to year you all got shot (in a good way)! Very smart.

Are we back on the pie kick? I thought that ended with the SAT! Pumpkin pie for breakfast? Good! Squash is a basic food group! Blueberry? My daughter used to call it 'glueberry' pie when she was about 4 years old. Name still sticks in our family (no pun intended...'glue'...'sticks')

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Peggy, when my wife got her shingles shot, she couldn’t use her arm for weeks! I felt so sorry for her. Makes me dread getting one, but I gotta do it.

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Yes, I get to celebrate Thanksgiving twice. Jealous yet?

It is always time for Pie.

Answer 4

Another week just seemed to disappear!

The 2002 Tahoe is back in the shop for a check engine light. At least the last (apparently unsuccessful) repair for that had a year guarantee. It needs a paint job, but has less than 210,000 miles.

Lots of distractions, and a couple of connections. I found the parents of an uncle (by marriage) and connected them. I need to get back with the PM (his great niece) and share some of my memories from time spent with him.

The other connection was the addition of my husband's ggg grandfather Austin (or Osson or Orson or Orstin or Ossen or Orsen) Knight. We have some random notes for sources for him, so I am trying to get my husband to gather this into some form we can fit into the biography. The Revolutionary War pension application is a great starting point, it had a comment about him not knowing how to spell his given name. We may need to see if the Genealogy section at our local library has reopened.

And finally, a distraction with WikiTree+ Maps. I see a couple of my father's ancestors that have incorrect locations (should be in Massachusetts but are appearing in Virginia) -- based on incorrect entries in the profiles. But it is very interesting.. Here is the map for 5 generations of my father (the 4 generation map collapses to a radius of about 30 miles).

Moving out to 9 generations is a similar story

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I haven't spent much time with the maps tools, it looks like Nova Scotia (NS) gets translated to Kansas (KS), but I can see what you're talking about from these images. I guess that's how so many of us got connected, the little petrie dish settlements in Massachusetts and Virginia - and 30 miles is a long walk to woo a sweetheart.

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It is the 300 to 400 mile journey made from Connecticut and Maine and New Jersey into New York around 1817 that amazes me. Once the families arrived, they married close by (e.g., < 5 miles) neighbors and then moved to another farm (or retired from farming and moved to town) and that kept bringing families closer together. So eventually they were all fairly close to the same village -- perhaps to more readily ship/receive goods along the Erie Canal. My great grandparents lived next door to each other in the census a few months before they married. Their parents were early members of the same church formed about 1828 (and yes all church records were lost to fire).

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Kay, I noticed that county line changes make a big difference. A pin for an ancestor is today near Belmont, Gaston County, North Carolina but ends up in a neighboring county. Sigh. At least it’s not in a different state, though.

Answer 5

Hello from the Pfalz, Germany.

The virus has attacked us again. Overnight my city is suddenly a risk area. Restrictions everywhere. In some stores the goods are limited. "Only in household quantities." What's this? We're a family of five, three small children. And we get as much as one lonely student (sorry to all students here). Only 4 bags of milk (1 liter each), 2 kilograms of flour, one pack of yeast (28 grams) ...
We bake bread ourselves, 6 pieces a week. For breakfast we need 2 liters of milk. How is that possible? Today I was tired of the explanations at the cash register. We went shopping with the whole family. So! And we actually got twice the amount. A success after all.

Genealogically, I just can't get past my brickwall. All the hints I received lead nowhere. Or have no legitimate source. My uncle thinks we are related to the Queen of Sweden. Queen Sylvia is a German from Heidelberg. I have seen a document, but have not saved it. I'm annoyed about that, I can't find it anymore. As far as I remember it was a reading error in the old script. But why should I argue with my uncle? He turned 74, and I have another goal.

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So sorry you're having to lock down again!    While our supplies aren't really limited at this time,   I've stocked up pretty well on non perishables in case of a second round.

But as for yeast,   when I bought 10 packets of yeast the clerk laughed..... explaining they would probably never have a yeast shortage because few make their own bread anymore.

Stay safe.

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Lothar, I remember well my mother buying a gallon of milk each week. She would divide it in half and make a gallon of milk from dry milk out of a box. This was so her three milk vacuuming sons would have enough.

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My oldest brick wall took almost 6 years to knock down, and it was a fluke that I found the record, while looking for something completely unrelated.

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Peggy, we have already stored the last months. With 5 people, we need something more than others anyway. But when the stored things come to an end and there is nothing left, what then? It will be Christmas soon. There will be a lot of baking.

Pip, I'm an only child. We seemed to have enough milk at the time. A cousin of my mother had a small grocery shop. Maybe that's why. But when I see how much milk goes into my little son, I get scared and anxious.

M, I hope for this luck to break through my brickwall by chance. It goes on, always a little bit.

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Lothar, If I post 2 photos that I believe were taken in Koln/ Cologne about 1910-1912, one I'm reasonably sure is front of the cathedral, the other I don't know, can you help identify where they were taken?

My Grandmother went to a music school or maybe finishing school from about 1910-1912. I thought it was in Munich but after finding these photos perhaps it was Koln.

Both photos have a large number of people including girls in school uniform.

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M, yes, sure. Post the photos and I'll see what I can identify. Maybe another of the german members can help too.

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Thanks I'll post them in the photo forum and tag them Germany

M

Answer 6

Foreløpig er det 26 ° C og stort sett sol i Fort Erie. Det er vår forventede høyde for dagen. I natt skal det ha vindkast, tordenvær og en kaldfront som kommer gjennom, med et lavt nivå på 6 ° C, og morgendagens høyeste bare 8 ° C.

Livets lys og gleden fra øynene mine planlegger hvilke planter jeg skal ta med inn i vaskerommet om vinteren. Gressløken kommer helt sikkert inn. Den ene gryten som jeg kjøpte for en stund siden, er delt opp i fem gryter. Vi elsker gressløk i sandwicher med egg, skinke, kylling eller kalkun, og jeg elsker dem i wontonsuppe. Vi er kanskje villige til å gi en pott eller to til venner, men vi kommer ikke til å overgi dem til brutaliteten til en vinter i Ontario. (Selv om det blir bedre tidligere og blir bedre lenger på Niagara-halvøya enn det gjør i det meste av Ontario.) Hun vil sannsynligvis også få inn noen av paprikaene, siden det tok så lang tid før de spirte at de ikke har Jeg hadde ikke en skikkelig sjanse til å produsere paprika. (Selv om vi har hatt glede av noen av dem.) Hun snakker til og med om å plante gulrøtter, siden de tilsynelatende ikke trenger å bli pollinert.

På slektsforskningsfronten er min siste besettelse Henry Larsen. Han ble født i Norge, og dro til sjøs. Til slutt flyttet han til Canada, ble med i Royal Canadian Mounted Police og ble kaptein på en R.C.M.P. skipet som ble kalt St. Roch, som var det første skipet som seilte gjennom nordvestpassasjen fra vest til øst, det første som seilte gjennom nordvestpassasjen i begge retninger, og det første som omga Nord-Amerika. (Skipet utgjør midtpunktet i samlingen til Maritime Museum i Vancouver, som var et av mine favorittsteder å gå på skoleturer.) Han er oppført i "Kan du hjelpe med å koble en oppdagelsesreisende?" utfordring, og har blitt koblet gjennom kona, men det ville være hyggelig å vite om hans egen familie. Så jeg la ut en melding der jeg spurte nordmennene om de kunne hjelpe.

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Greg, det er bare MÅTT FOR KALDT! Jeg orker nesten ikke det når det er i 20-årene (F). Hvordan overlever man? (Selvfølgelig tror vi i sør at alt nord for Mason-Dixon-linjen er i Arktis. )

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Say what?

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Greg en Pip hebben elkaar gevonden!

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Michel, one of my great regrets in life is not learning another language.

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I am sure you have loads of time to get started

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Was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr.

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Hi Greg, welcome to WikiTree and G2G.
Nice that you found your way here. Surely someone will be able to help you with your search.

Fortunately, we can leave chives in the garden, they come back every year. And I can certainly recommend carrots, they grow like weeds.

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Michel, you’re right. I have no excuses.

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So true, Lothar! 

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Uh, Pip, 26 ° C er omtrent 79 ° F, så jeg bryter ikke ut muklukkene mine ennå.

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You have a point, Lothar. After mowing over them for several years, we finally noticed a small patch of chives which probably date from the previous owner of the house. But the light of my life and the delight of my eyes insists on planting in pots, rather than in the ground*, and I'm not sure how well the chives would do when exposed to cold on all sides like that.

* That's not unreasonable here. We don't so much have "soil" as "clay". After every rain, the water pools on the surface instead of draining into the soil.

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Well, if y’all had stayed with the old standard measurements, I’d have gotten it. Your 79 will soon turn to -79. 

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Chives are very hardy, to climate zone 3, if you're concerned about drainage sink the pots halfway or more into the ground, make sure the top of the pot is above ground level.

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This is why we have a raised bed for our plants. And I no longer have to bend down to harvest. :-)

Answer 7

Happy Weekend!

I glanced out the window this morning and was startled how red the leaves on the dogwood had gotten. It's like it happened overnight. We've had some coolish nights, so I guess that's why. Daytime temps have been in the upper 70s, though. No rain lately.

Our dear dog is not eating well and is losing weight. I called the vet and they will see her on Tuesday this coming week. She's 13 years old, which is quite elderly, I suppose.

My husband has his appointment with the surgeon re his aortic aneurysm coming up this week. I dread the 80-mile drive into Atlanta during rush hour on the first Monday after the time change.

On the good news side...

One of our great-granddaughters was elected Homecoming Queen for her school. 

I got a reimbursement check for $350 from our medical network because I had overpaid them. (That was because they over-billed me!)

WikiTree work...Early this week I worked with a large family group--revising the profiles I'd already created and creating the profile I had not yet created. The mother of this family, Mary Elizabeth (Cotter) Clark, was my great-grandmother's sister. She was the mother of fourteen children, the first of whom was born when she was only fifteen years old. It took a couple of days to get this family group completed to my satisfaction. I've been revising other profiles by moving source citations to inline. Actually, though this is a bit of a chore, it has also been a good thing because I re-check the sources to see what fact(s) each source supplies and often I see information I overlooked before. I ended up doing a major re-write for one ancestor-by-marriage yesterday. I'll probably go back to that one again someday in the future. He was married at least four times and had children by each spouse. I need to sort out the children as to who was the mother of each and I will need to make a time-line to do that. (I do not depend on family trees on other sites to help with that--they are too often wrong. I've already observed errors on them regarding this person.)

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

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I got a reimbursement check for $350 from our medical network because I had overpaid them. (That was because they over-billed me!)

answered by Nelda Spires

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I had a similar situation after my husband died.  The one hospital (which recently sent me an apologetic "we're sorry, but we've had a data breach and your late husband's information, including his social security number and other personal details, may have been accessed by unauthorised persons" letter) kept sending me bills with threatening letters, then sent me two or three refund cheques because I had overpaid them. 

Overbilling seems to be a thing.

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Nelda, I feel for you, for both situations, husband and dog. I know it can be emotionally distressing. Hang in there and keep us posted.

The most children any of my female ancestors had was 12. Fourteen? She must have worn herself out raising all those younguns.

An ancestor that married four times?!? At my age, I can’t imagine getting married again, much less having more kids. It’d be like Strom Thurmond (late senator from South Carolina).  

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When I hear U.S. medical billing stories, I am very grateful to have 'socialized medicine'.

I have only seen hospital bill once, several years ago the Ontario government decided that people should see the bill they would have got if government health care did not exist. After having a child in hospital for 10 weeks I would have had to sell the house to cover the cost.

Answer 8

Got done with work at 7:30 tonight. It was crazy today, really busy. Still feeling pretty under the weather, but not as bad as before. Genealogy wise I haven't really been able to do much other than my greeter duties.

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Chandra, hope  you feel better soon. It’s not fun to feel ill while trying to get stuff accomplished. At least you can do your Greeter shifts sitting down!

Answer 9

Greetings and Salutations fellow WikiTreers!

It's been a wild ride these past two weeks with no end in sight. We recently remodeled our family room, with drywall instead of paneling, new ceiling fans, laminate flooring, and new rugs and furniture. And had just begun settling down to enjoy the new room when we noticed some dampness on one of the walls. Which seemed to spread under the flooring, but ever so slowly - then it would vanish. We thought maybe we had a leak to the outside wall, but it turns out it was a slow leak in a pipe that ran along one wall. Sadly, it was so slow, that it had to leak for almost 2 months before we could locate the source. By this time, we've ruined 2 areas of walls, about half the laminate flooring, and really stressed myself and my wife out. The leak's been repaired as of Wednesday, and the flooring is pulled up and mostly dried now, so we can now start trying to determine how to get the walls repaired, then repainted, and find a flooring guy/gal to come by and give us a hand trying to put the flooring back together. More stress than I bargained for, but I'm hopeful we'll somehow muddle through.

Still on target for my first grandchild to be born. He's supposed to come at the end of November, but we all think he'll be early. We attended the baby shower (yes, Men were invited) and I actually won one of the prizes (something about knowing the bride, which was funny since my son is my child and I don't really know her all that well). Guess I just guess fairly well. But it was fun to watch the couple open their presents and see their smiles at the expectations for baby to come. And I'm thrilled I'll get an opportunity to spoil him rotten... or at least as much as they'll let me (until they look the other way).

From a genealogy standpoint, I've been hard at work researching the tennis player Arthur Ashe. I believe I just managed to connect him and his family to the larger tree tonight, so once the links update, we'll have another Notable cousin to connect with. I've also been trying to squeeze in some additional Fulkersons. I think we're up around 2621, so my goal of 3000 by year end is slowly slipping from my fingers, but it's still possible if I buckle down a bit and work harder. To get the last 375 in there in roughly 10 weeks, it means about 40 per week. So while that's possible (and there's 2-4 of us working occasionally on them), it's still a pretty big order. I'll settle for now with getting as close as I can.

Hope everyone continues to stay safe and healthy, and those who are having issues - I hope you have a swift recovery. TTFN.

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Yeah, those nice and simple remodeling jobs can turn into long running nasty projects before you know it. We had a professional maintenance guy telling me I had done something wrong with the water... he changed stuff and three days later we had a massive leak at that spot. I was really happy I was home at that moment, but what a mess it made!

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The leak couldn't show itself a little bit earlier in the year, could it? ;) To have that kind of repair at this time of the year is clearly subpar. I hope you get it done quickly and when the weather is as dry as possible.

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Gah! Scott, I’d be pulling my hair out over something like that leak. Sorry to hear about all the damage.

Grandchildren are grandparents’ way of getting back at their children. Comedian Bill Cosby, referring to his dad, called it trying to get into heaven by being nice after his dad steamrolling own children all those years. Your first? I know you are going to be a proud grandad. Good for you!

You’ve really put a lot of work into those Fulkersons. An all out push just might get you over the goal.

Answer 10

One of my sister-in=laws was born this month; she is a  wikitree member.

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Happy birthday to your sister-in-law, David!

Answer 11

On this day:

1795: The third Partition of Poland takes place

1929: The Black Thursday starts the Great Depression

2005: Rosa Parks, who didn't want to leave her seat in a bus, dies

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I remember, when I first became interested in history as a child, that the partitions of Poland was one of the saddest thing I read. I’m going to spend some time in this one. Thanks, Jelena. I’m always learning something new from your posts.

Answer 12

Today is....

 

NATIONAL BOLOGNA DAY

Each year on October 24th, people across the nation make a sandwich to participate in National Bologna Day.  This would be a good day to have a bologna sandwich for lunch.

Sometimes this specialty meat is spelled baloney since that’s how many people pronounce it. However, the more common spelling is Bologna. That’s because it originated in the city of Bologna, Italy. This type of sausage is similar to the Italian mortadella. The finely ground pork or beef sausage or a combination is smoked and cured. In Italy, bologna includes a variety of spices not found in American bologna. In fact, in the United States, regulations require American bologna to be finely ground and without visible lard pieces. It hardly resembles anything found in Italy. It can also be made from chicken, turkey, venison, or soy protein. 

Many people enjoy bologna sandwiches with a variety of garnishes. Some of those include mustard, ketchup, mayonnaise, cheese, lettuce, pickles, tomato, and onion. Bologna Bowl – When a slice of bologna is heated, the fat renders and the round slice takes the shape of a bowl which may be filled with cheese or other fillings.

HOW TO OBSERVE National Bologna Day:

Pick out your favorite bologna. Make a sandwich or two. Share with us your favorite toppings, too! Do you toast your bread? Before you take a bite, take a picture to share. Also, if you have a favorite deli serving bologna, give them a shout out!

Celebrate by trying something new and enjoy these bologna recipes:

Fried Bologna Casserole
Various Bologna Recipes
Fried Bologna, Egg on Challah Bread with an American Cheese Rarebit Sauce
Big Daddy’s Prize-Winning Bologna Sandwich
Barbecued Bologna

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Dorothy! You’re up early!! (Me, too. Woke up and couldn’t go back to bed.)

I grew up as a bologna (balcony) boy. Mom taught school and had home stuff to take care of, so if one of us (or all of us) got hungry, she had a stash of bologna and taught us early on how to make a sandwich. To this day,I’m still love a good bologna sandwich.

Thanks for the memories!

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Hey bologna is one of my five favorite foods. I will have a sandwich sometime today. Hmmm... almost time for second breakfast.

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I’m with you, Anne! Go for it.

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One of my favorites, I'm famous for my fried  baloney sandwiches, but you have to cut a slit in it so it doesn't curl up, lots of mayo, mustard and ketchup on french bread.

I also like a space sandwich, "launch" meat. (a nickname in New Orleans for luncheon meat).

James

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Alas last night I ate the last piece of my bologna allotment (four pieces each time I go to the store). Pretending to be healthy, I put it on top of leftover cauliflower with cheese sauce. It was delicious.

Answer 13

Hi all from Black Forest, where it was a lot sunnier and warmer this week than in the weeks before, at least that's my perception.

Home

On Monday I pushed some people to get in touch with me about an offer for the new heating and about car tyre changing and by the end of the week, nobody got back to me :(

Since Wednesday we're finally allowed again to work from home fulltime (thank you for that, dear party people!). I will still have in-person meetings with my boss every once in a while, because he lives in the neighborhood. So far working from home is not that relaxing as it was in spring, since schools are still open and we have to drive 4 x 15 minutes per day because of that. Because of the mold drama I meanwhile share the living room/office with our two monk parakeets, but they're quite calm most of the time, except when I'm doing video conferencing of course. Then they are jealous that somebody else gets my attention ...

Next week there will be school vacation. My wife also plans to take most of the week off, I still have some work to do and will see what I will do with the overtime that has to be consumed next week. And I have the very determined plan of installing the new garage door motor I bought in summer vacation.

Genealogy

On Monday afternoon I went to the archive in Freiburg and was able to take picture from eight microfilms. I mainly looked up records I knew from FamilySearch already, but where I want to see the non-indexed information. Highlight was a note about August Seng being acknowledged by his father, even if he is only a second great grand uncle (says WikiTree) and no direct ancestor. Most of the records I didn't really process yet, because I focused on getting as many lookups done as possible in the three hours I had.

Then I somehow got invited to a Discord chat(?) room(?) about genealogy and helping others to find records. I didn't know about this platform before and I'm still trying to categorize it. Feel free to message me for an invitation if you're curious.

Yesterday evening I accidentally chatted with a 3rd cousin of my wife from Las Vegas which lead to spontanously founding a facebook group about her rare surname. She then immediately invited all of her cousins which lead to the group having 13 members already. We also started discussing questions in documents. Very catchy and distracting, I can tell you :)

That's it for now. Stay healthy!

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Hi there, Florian. I’m on Discord, on several Wikitree channels and love the camaraderie, especially the Greeters channel. We are, after all, a chatty bunch. 

Congrats on your successful trip to the archives. I hope you were able to find all that you were looking for. Europe’s archives have so much older stuff that we do in the US, I’d feel as if I was in wonderland (if I could read the documents).

Do I hear parakeets in the background when you post here? 

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Thanks for pointing out that there is also WikiTree at Discord. I was surprised to see what channels are there listed at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Ambassadors#Forums_Team . Let's see how this continues ...

I didn't understand your other question, you'll have to repeat it, it was too loud here

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  You so funny!

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Hey Florian, Garagentormotoren werden doch so überbewertet ... :-)

I do not have that much time to be in Discord so often. Our children are also still at home for the school holidays. This is similar to many parakeets. Very many parakeets. Next week we will probably continue at school. Lets see.

I couldn't do a home office at all. Besides, home office as a paramedic ...

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Last night I did manage to do a bit of genealogy. Alas I added no new profiles but I did open up a previously unlisted profile and corrected an error on that profile that did not show on the suggestions list due to the privacy. I also reduced my watchlist a bit more.

For the audiophiles out there; Today is National Record Day, of course I am referring to those vinyl disks that play music for the younger members who may not know of or  remember those things.

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Dale, I’m going to have to buy a turntable. I have records I haven’t heard in years.

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Dale, I have a couple of my older brother’s albums. One is Iron Butterfly’s In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and another is Chase Pure Music’s first album. I occasionally listen to them in YouTube to bring back the memories.

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Pip, I have the Iron Butterfly album you mention and about 100 or more by various artists covering every type of music except opera. At least I have a turntable and the grandson who lives with us also has a turntable so we can listen when we wish.

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Most of my personal records are from the 70s and early 80s. Have you seen that vinyl is making a comeback?

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Yes even our local WalMart sells them again.

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My first LP was Rubber Soul by the Beatles, the English version released 3 December 1965, I got it for Christmas and I still have it. We have 2 turntables, ours and my dad's; his is much better quality than ours.

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The last time I contributed to one of these I'd been living on a yacht for nine years. Since that time I've found my ideal home (my first house, at 67!) and moved from coastal Queensland to a tiny village in country New South Wales.

The property is a decommissioned Post Office built in 1893. It's double brick, two stories and has ample space for my belongings. There are three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs but I spend most of my time in the loungeroom, which is adjacent to the kitchen on the ground floor and has its own tiny bathroom attached.

I've planted a few fruit trees - a peach, a nectarine and a dwarf lime - as well as some vegetables, and have begun renovations including replacement of all light switches, power points and globes. The outside hasn't been painted in about 50 years so that's next on the list.

It's a quiet town with no entertainment save for the ubiquitous pub (not much use to a teatotaller), so I have plenty of time for genealogy and other hobbies now.

It's spring here in the southern hemisphere, and the garden is looking lush and flowers are blooming. With almost half an acre to mow I bought a ride-on and it needs to be used once a fortnight so the land is quite fertile. Loving the tree change.

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Even comes with a flagpole and a monument!

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Are there any restrictions on what you can do? Some places only allow certain changes to older buildings like this one.

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There's a local council preservation order that covers the façade of the building, and I need permission to remove any trees I want to take down. All else is a free reign. Not too restrictive at all.

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Good. That gives you lots of leeway in what you want to do. He outside doesn’t look like it needs too much anyway. Those two monuments are on your property?

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I think your house looks great. Do you have people stopping by to buy stamps? My doctor has her office in an old Post office, and she had people doing that in the beginning.

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Yes, they are. Just about every town in Australia has monuments to the fallen in the Great War and World War Two, and they were built on what was Commonwealth Government land at the time. The monuments are on the land to which I now hold the title.
The photo you're seeing is about 14 years old and comes from WikiPedia. There are now two silver birches growing behind that monument that are about 10 ft tall. The roof was also replaced since the photo was taken, after being damaged in a storm.
More recent photos can be seen at Bundarra Post Office - For Sale

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AnneB: No, it's not a Post Office any longer. Stamps can be bought at the current PO at the general store about 150 metres away.

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Dl you have a requirement to take care of the monuments, or will the gov't still do it?

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I meant do you have people thinking that its still the post office? Obviously they can't really buy stamps.

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Pip: The monuments are granite so there's no real maintenance needed. The community only gather there a couple times a year, Remembrance Day on Nov 11th being the big one. I haven't seen any flowers left there so far.

AnneB: I honestly wouldn't know. If anyone came to the main entrance I wouldn't hear them at the rear of the property, and being a nightowl I'd probably be asleep anyhow. It's a small community (400 people) and I'm pretty sure everyone is aware by now that it's closed. I use the residential entrance at the side exclusively, the front doors are never open.

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Things here in New Zealand haven't been to good. Two things in particular, one I'm going to be liberal about

The other? Well, I'd like to rage! (Not, this isn't D&D related). For a while, I've trying to determine what has been ailing me, however the medical people weren't listening. I have no idea how much time has elapsed since I cottoned that there was an fault. "Fortunately", a rough answer has now been given: IBS (Irritable bowel syndrome). I had to go home and read the gist of what was meant and it was not helpful... Given that IBS is associated with at least 7 different conditions.

Really looking forward to the day when I can sleep normally (it's after 1am Sunday morning - a few more hours at least before sleep is a possibility

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IBS? Been there, done that. No fun at all. Have you thought about taking melatonin to help you sleep? Works for me.

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Oh, Richard, so sorry you have IBS. I was diagnosed about thirty years ago. It is not a fun condition to have. You are right that the info you find online is not helpful. Although a common condition, it is not well-understood what causes it or what to do about it. I joined a Facebook support group for a while about a year or so ago when my IBS was flaring but I did not find the group helpful and dropped out. I hope you and your medical people can work together to find things which work to ease your symptoms.

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This landed in my corn field Thursday.

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What the heck?!? Did they pay a landing fee?

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Nope, I didn't even get a bottle of champagne, but it was fun watching so maybe I don't mind.

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Beautiful fall colors in the background. Was he balloon able to get back underway or did they call for help?

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They were done and the chase truck is there you can see the white trailer.

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so I got to watch it being deflated and packed up.

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That is about as unique an event as could happen. I've never seen anything like it.

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Thanks for hosting, Pip.  The big news from this past week is that I finally received my Big Y results.  It had taken quite some time, as I had ordered it during a FamilyTree DNA sale back in early August.  That said, it's 2020 and one must be patient with everything going on this year.  There were no big surprises, but it was good to finally get that done.

I had noticed some bugs with the DNA Descendants view around the time that I had ordered the test.  I was hoping that the issue would be resolved by the time I received my results, but to my surprise the bug had actually been reported back in 2018.  I hope that my additional data points will help guide the Team to a solution in the not-too-distant future.

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Howdy, Greg! I’ve never noticed that bug before. Now I’m going to have to and check it out in my lines, to see if it replicates there. Hmm...

Any matches to your Big Y? I have a couple but can’t work them out.

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I have three matches, two of whom share my surname.  One of them is a cousin here on WikiTree, Phil Lavoie.  I have many more Lavoie cousin STR matches, including Gil Lavoie, that I had previously identified.

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ACCUWEATHER says THIS WEEKEND moving southward across the border (Canada or the North Pole sends greetings I guess) "colder than a well-digger's buns" storm skids by California (if not OR or WA), to the east of CA, and heads on into the the mid-western states ... again, central and southern CA are to be left dry ... big bummer IMO

We had a pretty stiff breeze yesterday and it was a "cold" breeze and it was for some hours and I went hunting for my early winter clothes -- this AM is calm no cold wind -- no rain drops either -- so the storm front has skidded by us already and we're left with the tag end and edges and ... no rain here in Central CA ... 

PROBABLY should not complain, none of us, since when the official rainy season starts (Nov through Apr) we'll have a deluge and we'll hear about dozens or hundreds of mud & debris slides off hillsides and blocked roads and houses wiped away ...  

Halloween Negatory -- THIS MEANS I will attempt to bug Sig O to remove the (plastic) skeleton (headless, BTW)  from the front yard .. been there all these years day in and day out ... something like 3, 4 yrs? 

You'd THINK someone would have stolen it by now, -- they DID steal the head we THINK ... but the way he went and planted all those prickly pear cacti, neither one of us is at all eager to find out if it's in there anywhere ... 

Really don't know why anyone would think we're weird just because we have a skeleton in the front yard year round ... I have urged its relocation to the back yard or garage and so it still sits lays down etc in the front yard.  He won't let me give it away nor sell it, and thieves have failed to remove it -- and I've given up hoping they WOULD remove it ...  

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Skeleton in the front yard? He’s representing.... your ancestors! (Maybe Sig O should build a closet around him.) 

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PIP, read that, looked around at context, read it again, okayyyyy, closet, skeleton, ... cute.  Slow as ever I was, I did see the light

Reminds me of the time my mother and I were sitting on the front steps and some fellow went scurrying by on the other side of the street all intent and focused and my mother said "Tsk" and so I wondered who HE was and she said he was John Peter Everhard.  I spent YEARS, DECADES thinking that was a really solid name, it had substance, it was upper class as a name ... decades before I realized what my mother had actually said ... eh. Story of my life.

PS/ I've since figured out why I was clueless:  My mother DID NOT make jokes. It was totally atypical of her.  

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OMG, that is about as funny as it gets, not the name, but that your mother would say it. My mother, on the other hand... that would have right in character.

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Greetings from Everett, Washington!

Another living cousin emailed me about some information to add to her grandfather's profile.  

A professor from, I guess, Romania, also contacted me.  He found my father's profile on Wikitree and asked my help identifying photos of attendees at a conference in Romania in 1969 to see which one might have been my Dad.  I confirmed that Dad attended that conference and I  identified him (probably) in a group photo.

My husband is back to work helping the public enjoy Boeing.  More tests on his heart function pelted him with gamma rays.  The technician knew what happened to Dr. Bruce Banner when HE was pelted with gamma rays and he assured my husband that he would not become green and lose his ability to speak in complete sentences, nor would he become The Amazing Colossal Man and tear through Las Vegas looking for the 50-Foot Woman (ME?). All part of our drama-drenched life & times (Thank You, Stan Lee).  

Yes, the result was pretty normal. His fingertip blood pressure device was giving too-high readings so he got a cuff type.  Medications were adjusted too.  He's still sleeping ok and has had no blood flow problems to his brain.

We got word from King County that the final inspection will be done next month on the home care facility where his mother lives.  This will end, we hope, the LONG red tape process of certification. Septic tanks, wells, concrete pouring and so on all were dealt with over the past 3 1/2 years.

My daughter has asked me to edit her fanfiction based on Shakespeare's history plays.  She has four long files on Google Docs for me to work on.  I go lightly on the blue pencil when I do this.  Punctuation and reworking sentence structure (for emphasis, not poor grammar) is mostly what I do.

The weather continues in the low 50s and windy and rainy.  I brought in all the notebooks full of my annotations from the carport, trying to save my work life in the early 1990s from mildew, and wondering what to do with this biographical information.  Not many of the autobiographies contain enough information to establish family relationships and find the authors on Wikitree, although I have found a few.  A very few I have created profiles for. Some are so famous already that I can't add anything new.

I have 1000 contributions this month again.  It's a goal to shoot for and I have many more to add, thanks to the contributions of distant cousins over the years.  I have loads of files to go through before I can start tossing things.  Pip, I have a receipt signed by my grandfather for a train ticket in the 1950s.  I have no more desire to toss it than you have those pay stubs.  

It is time to have my husband pick out a pumpkin.  Actually, five pumpkins, one for each of our family and one for grandma.  We place them at the end of our cul-de-sac with candles inside on the eve of All Saints, and they hang around our porch through All Souls, and Christmas, and the Feast of the Circumcision (Jan 1st) and so on, until they turn to dust.

I am so glad to be able to read the posts here.  You all study your foreign languages now (see my reply to Melanie).

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Hi here, Margaret! It’s always so wonderful to ear from you. You have so much news to share each time you’re here.

Your description of the gamma treatment made me think, like you, of those old movies. They were some of my favorite entertainment as a child.

I’m with you in making 1000 contributions a month. I don’t feel like I’m accomplishing much if I won’t make it. The last time that happened was in June ‘18. It’s like I’m late to getting all my years of research onto WikiTree, and I’d better hurry up.

About saving stuff: I’m beginning to wonder if I ought to start donating some of the things I’ve collected over the years, civil war letters, wallets, other documents, to some repository. I know that things that mean so much to me will not mean as much to my daughters.

No quilting this week?