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Sorry to hear about the shoulder Pip, hope you are right handed. And I wish you patience because rest and recovery can be so aggravating.

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Pip, Just a regular fire, long before bombing

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Pip, I WISH I could get my husband to clean the garage!  He has boxes that haven't been opened in 20 years and got transported here when he moved in last December.  April is designated box clearing month!  How many done yet?  Zero.  Let's think of it as reciprocity - we'll clean here so you don't have to clean there.

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The 1931 Census of Canada is preparing to release on (or shortly after) June 1st.  I'm excited because the 1920s were an eventful decade for my Mom's bio family in B.C., and I've had only the "before" snapshot from the 1921 Census.

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I have been waiting for the Canada 1931 census as it will have my husband's parents on it, there was always a question about a possible additional sibling for his dad.

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Pip I need to do more on my living or recently deceased family before I forget the important things only someone like me would know. These should be great profiles but we are attached to the memories so strongly that it is hard to look back at them.

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having lived an adventurous life (swam with sharks and whales)  multiple sports injuries, bad arthritis I keep Blue Emu on table next to me  it works!  hope you feel better soon  sending you hugs of crystal green energy for healing.

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Haha. Cindy, I still have boxes in the basement, opened but not emptied. My wife swears I'm hiding her stuff, but it just ain't there.

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Hilary, your are exactly right. There is so much in my head that isn't put down. I'd feel really bad if I didn't at least get a free space page for all those memories.

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Thank you, my dear Laura!

Answer 1

Happy Easter Weekend!

Easter has eluded me so far as my husband had surgery yesterday morning. Our arrival at the hospital was 5 AM. By evening he was fully awake and doing well so I abandoned the thought of trying to sleep on the very uncomfortable little "sofa bed" in his room. He was discharged this morning but had to come home with a catheter until Monday or Tuesday. That was not in his plan but the doctor thought it better than taking a chance on any issues over the weekend. He has several appointments during the next couple of weeks one being a PET scan to see if the cancer has metastasized anywhere. This is all in preparation for beginning radiation in May.

Needless to say, my genealogy has been limited and I have cut back on a bit of WikiTree activities. I have worked a bit on finding living descendants of my O'Neals for possible Y-DNA testing. I will continue with small things like that for the present time. I really miss being more active on WT but I know it is always there when my time and energy are up to it.

I always bake a ham and make potato salad and baked beans for Easter. This year one of our daughters is bringing some of those dishes to us tomorrow so I don't have to cook. It will be much appreciated but I will still miss the preparations!

For those of you who celebrate Easter, have a blessed Holy weekend.

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Sounds like circumstances are making the day-to-day stressful for you and your family, you have my sympathy. Sometime it just is what it is, holiday or not. Enjoy the moments you can this weekend - Best to you and yours.

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Thank you, Momo! I usually carry stress very well but this week has been difficult. I guess I let it get to me on my post. Next week will be better - and, "tomorrow is a new day" is a great philosophy!

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Ginny, everyone has their own version of potato salad. Do you put anything special in yours?

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Eileen, I am a creature of habit and this is how my maternal grandmother, my mother and my aunt all made their potato salad. I dice the potatoes, cook them and then smush them to make a smooth rather than chuncky salad. I add diced onion, chopped dill pickles, a small glob of yellow mustard and enough mayo to make a smooth consistency. Then, I add chopped boiled eggs and a dash of either white vinegar or dill juice. Mix all well and refrigerate for a while.

(editing to add) add more salt if potatoes aren't salty enough.

That's it! Since I am not cooking for Easter, our oldest daughter said she is bringing dinner to us. She is making potato salad so we'll see if I taught her well.

Happy Easter, Eileen!

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Unusual for us: we had no kids to visit this Easter, Ginny. Just three friends from church for lunch. Very nice.

I want you to know that we (at St. Pat's) will be praying for you and your husband for as long as you need us to.

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Thanks so much, Pip! We have a journey ahead. Today was not as good but we see the doctor tomorrow and hopefully all will improve after that; and I managed a bit of greeting!!  I appreciate your concern and prayers.

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the day after surgery is always the worst.  Hugs of caring and support.  Prayers for good news and good healing.   

this is something I wrote when my husband was diagnosed with cancer over 10 yers ago now..  "Many of you have asked how we are doing.  He is doing much better with whole thing than I am.  His nature is to ignore things he can’t do anything about.  My nature is to worry about him.  So there you have it, he is doing better than I am.  He also knows how he feels and tends to think in terms of get it out, move on with your life.  Sometimes this feels so unreal.  It is like walking around in a dream and you know it will disappear if you can only wake up… but it is real and we are trying to get our heads around it. "

He is fine.  I hope you have the same outcome.

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Laura thank you so much for your message. You are so right! Every day is a new day and we forge forward. His PET scan is next week and we are certainly anxious to get the results of that - one way or the other. We are both better dealing with something that is not an unknown. We went through the cancer scene with our younger daughter a few years ago and it was scary - 2 rounds of chemo and 7 surgeries in all. Happily, she is doing great now so with that happy ending under our belt, that is what we are hoping for here. Words of encouragement like yours really help.

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so glad your daughter won against the disease.  Let's pray your husband does too.  Prayers for your family nkghtly started last nught.  Stay positive negative thinking and worry depress the immune system.

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Thanks, Laura!

Answer 2

Weather/Garden: Well I have no idea what the weather is like because I have actually been working on genealogy this week! Just kidding, it's raining. But I am excited to report that my raspberry stick has leaves now and is not dead after all!

Currently Reading: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu; The Art of Slow Writing by Louise DeSalvo; & a bunch of other books I'm stuck in the middle of.

Gen-wise: I have finally settled down with this amazing Holmquist Family History that my cousin Susie wrote (have not been able to get her to come to WikiTree yet) which we collaborated on docs in bits and pieces, but this is really her work, with 50 printed pages of dense information that I am trying to review for accuracy/typos etc. But I keep having to stop and fix my own work, check where my documents are that say different etc., so it is very SLOW going!

And I met a possible cousin, definite collaborator, on WikiTree, we are working on sorting that out, to see if our Holmquists are connected, so that's cool.

SO this has been the source of my mulling and pondering, and Ghost helped to get me back out of my head again.

Uh oh, I think I might have done the picture wrong, we shall see. I have to re-figure it out every time. I guess I'm giving up, I don't know why it won't let me embed a photo, so I just linked it.

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Momo, before my own post, I noticed you were attempting to post a photo and I have just come back and introduced myself to Ghost.    PS  The Holmquist Family History sounds interesting.

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Momo, you read like I do, several books at a time. When one has been too long in the stack, I just read the last page to catch up.

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Pip, The last page of the book? Haha, very sneaky! Only works with fiction though. I'll let books stay in my tbr pile a long time, they are like wine, all different, and I have to be in the mood for a particular one. That's how I feel some days. On others, I might feel like a purge is in order. We have a complicated relationship 

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Haha! Right on the nose, Momo!

Answer 3

Good evening from Germany

where the weather is rainy, quite cold and not comfy. I know that there wasn't still enough rain to compensate for the drought we had in the last years, but still... give me at least a bit higher temperatures. Oh well, enough of moaning.

Personally: On Tuesday a friend helped us clean the balcony. On Wednesay we were in Frankfurt. Mum needs a bit more of some thread for an embroidery she does. We went to a shop there and "you could've sent us a mail and ask if we have it." Mum tried to call them by phone several times, but never got anybody on the line. She rather uses the phone than mail.

Genealogy: The German Notables for next week's Example Profiles of the Week cast their shadows ahead. For months I haven't created this many profiles in a row like in this one. I'm mostly working on the near relatives of Justus von Liebig, as there are really many many Notables in his - let's say CC10. The first German President after the WWII is his grandson-in-law.

One of the more recent Nobel Laureates in Medicine is his descendent. If I knew the name of her sister I could add her nephew (Edit: I found an article saying that her older sister is the mother of the nephew... Ben List, you will get your WikiTree-profile really soon.)

Then we have several resistance-fighters against the Nazis in the family, some of them were killed in Concentration Camps. So yeah, tomorrow will be a day of writing two biographies. (Justus von Liebig and Theodor Heuss)

Have a great Easter and enjoy the tons of eggs :)

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Hope your bio writing goes well, Jelena. When I write one, I obsess over getting it just right.

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Happy Spring, Happy Eggs, Blessed Easter!  Good luck with your profiles.   wishing you unicorn luck

Answer 4

The Week That Was......We lease out our hay fields and a new tractor arrived to plough and improve the West field.

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Show off, lol.

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Momo, as I turned to the South, I wanted to show off my exercise center, a firewood and kindling manufacturing facility, but, as well, captured the sky scrambling to adjust to the changed weather forecast and sprinkle the newly seeded West field.

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SO sorry I didn't explain myself better, although your photos are really cool and beautiful, I was accusing you of showing off because you were able to embed a photo and I WASN'T, , and you posted right after me. The struggle is real. But your pics are lovely, my favorite colors, too.

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Momo, I enjoyed the opportunity to have some fun together.....I remember well my father commenting to me, in my teenage years, that it is important to go through life with a sense of humor.   I was helped to learn how to post photos by, first, transferring them to a Free Space page and I keep practicing and trying various methods along with learning how to type. 

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This sky is just stunning, John. I'm a little jealous!

Answer 5

Worked on the usual items this past week:

• Increasing CC7, but this has been taking a bit of a back seat.
• Scanning and uploading photos. My family and my wife's family.
• Writing Biographies. This is something that I've been doing more over the last several weeks and months, but I haven't really discussed it here before. Coupling this with the photos (above) really helps to flesh out a profile.
• Chipped away on my Suggestion list. This is going to take all year.
• Identified more DNA matches and added citations. I'm up to 82 now.
• Updated the Weddington Name Study. I really feel like it's turning a corner and some things are starting to come together. At the same time, I have a lot more work to do. 
• I've had to update and add to my list of goals. There are so many threads of research I'm trying to follow up on.

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Eric, do you have the profile completeness category enabled on your profile.?

It will really add to the number of suggestions, but they are easy to fix and make you focus on detail.

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I don't think I know what that is. Can you enlighten me?

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Eric, here is a bit about that. It's a feature of WT+.

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Eric adding the profile completeness category to your profile will add suggestions for:
Confidence levels, not checked for mother, father status, birth location, death location, short biography which is less than 500 characters and other issues.

Some of the suggestions such as death date  ErrorID=461 and ErrorID=463 death locations will not ever be able to be resolved, most of them are for profiles of siblings of an ancestor born in the 1600-1700s and all I have is a birth or baptism record, and I'm not very interested in what happened to the 7 siblings of a 4 x GGF  The short biographies can usually be fixed, unless they are for a child who died young.

Using profile completeness has made me more aware of missing information, and has encouraged me to do further research and /or pay more attention when I create new profiles.

Even if you only enable it for a short while it will definitely make you very aware of what is missing on the profiles you manage. I find it helps me focus on profiles that need additional information, often if I have been less than completely diligent when recently creating a profile

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Profile_Completeness_Suggestions

On your profile go to add category and pick Profile Completeness.

The added suggestions should show up on the next suggestions report that will be done Sunday night, then you will be able to see the profile completeness suggestions,

There is a cutoff time/date for suggestions that are included in the next report, I'm not sure exactly when that is.

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Excellent! Thanks for the information, M and Jelena!

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For a change, my CC7 is rising... slowing, but rising, Eric. I mostly work on families too far out, but lately I've been hitting closer to home.

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@Pip: I've found it definitely takes dedication on that singular task in order for those numbers to move significantly. But it all depends on what one's genealogy goals are.

Answer 6

Greetings from Winnipeg, Manitoba! The weather here is finally looking up! We had a winter storm this week and went rapidly from lots of melting snow, to being buried under snow again. But now we're back to sun and slightly above freezing.

My big WikiTree accomplishment right now is that I got my CC7 2000 badge last night!! I've been pushing for that since January. I wish I had another CC7 badge to aim for now but I'm not sure I would hit 5000 even if I filled in every last gap lol.

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Congrats on your CC7 badge, Liander! How cool. Enjoy your warmer (finally) weather!

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Thanks, Pip! I saw your comment about your CC7 slowly rising, so I looked and saw you're not far off that 5000 badge. Amazing!

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Thanks, Liander! Yep, it's a slow mover. You'd think I would focus on family that are closer, but there are just so many relatives out there that need profiles. I'm working a couple of cemetery categories right now, so none will be added to my CC7 for a bit.

Answer 7

Happy Easter to those who celebrate..... we are low key this weekend as we just got back from vacation and husband is working this weekend..... If anyone is looking for a small challenge on WT this weekend, I posted a popup challenge for dateless profiles.... check it out on this G2G post!   Dateless Profiles Pop-up Challenge!

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Thanks for that post, Donna. I hope folks will jump in and help out. Those pop-up challenges are perfect for folks who want less pressure than the big ones.

Answer 8

Virtual Vacation!

We visited Iceland in June of 2019. In the north of Iceland is one of the strangest places I have ever visited. It is very volcanically active. We stayed in the Lake Mývatn Area at the Skutustadir Farm House for 2 nights, directly across the road is the lake. It has many small islands and is the fourth largest lake in the country, it is really shallow, most of it is about 2.5 metres deep. It is famous for several reasons. First it is home to more duck species than anywhere else in the world, we saw some of them, but I have no idea what species they are. 

In this picture you can see the place we stayed marked with the white asterisk. There is a walking trail through the craters across the road from our B & B. The lake has many small islands, that are actually something called a pseudocrater, that were formed by steam explosions as magma rose beneath pools of water. 

I think this is where the second last pic was taken from. 

This is not my picture, it came from an Icelandic tourism site, you can see where the trail winds between the pseudocraters. In the background is a much larger real not pseudo crater.

One of the things I found very fascinating and maybe it was just the light conditions, the colours seem very vibrant. There were lots of interesting clouds. 

This one was taken from the top of a high crater. 

Other strange formations are vertical basalt columns that were formed by very quick cooling after volcanic eruptions.  

It also has very odd moss balls, they are spheres of fluffy green algae that float just underneath the water surface, they seem to appear and disappear with varying environmental conditions, right now they have almost disappeared. 

The area was used as a film site for the Game of Thrones. In mid-winter, it was used to represent the lands North of the Wall, namely Mance Raider’s Wildling camp. Not that I have seen much of the series, it just didn’t appeal. 

Arctic fox are also very common in the area, they are Iceland’s only native land mammal. 

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Hi M, thank you for these wonderful photos of Iceland. I have heard that Iceland is green and Greenland is icy! Well, your photos highlight the green of Iceland! The tourism photo looks like a lunar landscape, only green. I especially liked the basalt columns. They reminded me of similar forms that I saw in the northern part of Taiwan when I was there in 1992! I would not have known this as a Game of Thrones site as I wasn't much into it either.

Thanks for the vacay!

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Carol, Iceland is fascinating, we were there for 16 days and had a wonderful time, there was only one major lesson learned, don't go to Iceland for the food.

Many places in Iceland were Game of Thrones filming locations, plus lots of other movies, and TV shows including some parts of Vikings.

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My son-in-law asked my daughter to marry him on a black sand beach. And, all i could think was, "You couldn't have waited two days and asked in Scotland?!?"

Answer 9

Good Good Friday from Everett, Washington.

Since Tuesday morning I have been having episodes of BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo). When I lifted my head up upon waking, I felt intensely dizzy and my eyes spun out of control. After a few seconds I could stop my eye movements, but I was very cautious about taking a step. Mild nausea persisted all morning.

Last night I slept with the light on and on my right side instead of my customary left. I also put a soft black garment over my eyes. It helped. Still, I remained seated during the liturgy this afternoon when we stand and then genuflect repeatedly. It brought the nausea back.

What happens is that, frequently among women my age, a small particle called a canalith breaks loose from one part of the inner ear and migrates to another part, where it triggers this intense reaction. I remembered upon Googling the symptoms that I had had these episodes before, a few years ago. I remembered the exercise I did to counteract them, called the Epley Maneuver.

Hm, I wonder if Dr. Epley, who treated this condition, is related at all to the John Adam Epley who married my cousin Abigail Robe for her property back in Kansas...Yes! They are cousins. I guess I can forgive Mr. John Adam Epley https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Epley-358 for the sake of Dr. John McNaughton Epley https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Epley-415 who helped so many people with these exercises. He also developed the first cochlear implant. I created the profile for Dr. Epley on Wednesday.

The brouhaha has died down. The Mayor of Mukilteo has dropped his plan. The Historical Society's archives will remain at the lighthouse. It is time to mend fences.

Today I went shopping for ham and ground chorizo so I will not be caught Easter morning without a meal plan when most restaurants are either closed or very crowded. I took my son George to the post office to see whether they had the "Angel Bunny" he was expecting. That's a character in the My Little Pony universe. It wasn't until 7 p.m. when we arrived home that he found the Angel Bunny on our doorstep.

It rained all day yesterday. This afternoon the clouds parted and it was sunny and warmer.

Hand quilting is slow but satisfying. Generally you start in the center and work outward toward the edges. I don't always do that. I created a meridian from top to bottom on the "Star Trek" quilt (only one panel has Star Trek characters, but I call it that anyway). Now I have a quilting line to work from.

I have more fabric in this house than I can possibly use in one lifetime. But I feel good when I can put crumbs of fabric into a quilt block and stash it among blocks of the same size, awaiting the day when I or someone unknown to me will integrate it into a project.

Kind of like making a little contribution to a profile.

Blessed Easter to you all.

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I can totally sympathize on the size of your stash.  For 27 years I have been making charity utility quilts for the Women's Crisis Center and then eventually other groups.
This was my last year in Florida and I donated over a bushel basket size pile to my former neighbor to give to her new daughter-in-law who does the same thing.  Needless to say I have a five bushel supply here at home, accumulated over 40 years.  I kept stealing cuts from the Florida pile that I just hated to give away and putting them in my clean out the trailer pile, along with the tops and backs I had sewn this winter.  Finally I called my neighbor to come get the donations, or I swear, I would have ended up with almost all of it back in New York, where I also will
not be able to use up in 20 more years, even if I never buy another scrap of cloth.  And at 86 I don't expect to be around that long.  I am hoping my left over stash and blocks can be given to a local Mennonite church in the area that makes and contributes many quilts each year.  With the current cost of material these days, I'm hoping it will help them.  My daughter and son have been given this directive.  Any other ideas on dispositions?  The closest Linus center is about 60 miles from me.

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Is there a quilt guild in your area? Nicely packaged, and made into kits, the fabric may tempt someone to start a project. I also find fabric at Goodwill, but usually as yardage, rarely as scraps or blocks.

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Unfortunately, we have lost three very active, own everything that comes along type, members lately due to health and death problems.  Our guild has had several rummage sales to dispose of their donated items and the proceeds have been used for the caring and sharing projects.  We are becoming an "over the hill agers" group and not feeding many new members in at younger ages.
All of us have so much material we can't seem to even give it away.

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I haven't quilted anything for years, I gave a quilt top to the local quilt guild several years ago, hoping someone would put a back on it and finish it.

One not quite quilt project I have done-but not recently- is buying sheets and oldish blankets from the local thrift store, then making a not quite duvet with them. The blankets go inside the duvet cover made with the sheets, with enough stiches to stop the blankets moving around.

It worked well with single flat sheets and made a kid size bed cover, they were given to the local women and children's shelter. Then the families could take them when they left the shelter.

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I am facing a trip to the doctor to talk about the BPPV. The nausea wears off mid-morning. I need some better sleeping positions.

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I am sooo very glad to hear about y'all getting to stay at the lighthouse, Margaret! I just hope it stays that way.

Answer 10

On this day:

217: The Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated

1820: The statue Venus de Milo is discovered

1973: The Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso dies

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Hi Jelena! I will go with the Venus de Milo today! I saw her when I was in France several years ago! I hope you are having a Happy Easter in Germany!

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Round two for tonight: Caracalla. Thanks, Professor!

Answer 11

Hello and Glad Påsk (Happy Easter) from Sweden!

I'd like to share a gravestone I saw today at the church of Torna Hällestad, Skåne.

It was beautiful and I felt I had to add the buried pastor Sven Knutsson (Svenonis Canutii) to wikitree.

It is the first day of real spring weather here. I have been to the city center with just indoor clothes.

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Wonderful picture Maria

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Hi Maria! This is a real beauty. Thank you for sharing!

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Thanks M and Carol!

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Maria, is that stone attached to a wall? It's a very well done piece of work.

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Yes, it's attached to an outdoor wall of the church. I guess it has once been laying on the church floor, but that it was moved not to be totally worn out. The couple that were buried under the floor lived in the 1600s.

Answer 12

Okay this is why I am not doing much actual genealogy right now. Yesterdays post was messed up by me. Granddaughter 1 is pregnant but the one I listed as #1 yesterday is #2, yes she is also pregnant and she is the one that moved in with us. The one listed as #2 yesterday is actually #3. #3 is also pregnant and moving near us so that part is correct. Number 3 is due this month, #2 is due next month and #1 is due in the fall. I think I have it straight this time.

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Wow, Dale!   Grandchildren due......I'm even excited!

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John

GREAT  grandchildren due, in addition to the 3 already here.

We have 5 granddaughters, 4 of them adults, and 3 grandsons, 2 of them adults and 3 great grandchildren so far but 3 more great grandchildren on the way.

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Great grandchildren due, Dale, I'm even more excited.   Kathy and I are also due for another great grandchild in a few months.

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Dale, when I shared the news with Kathy, I realized that I had become confused and doubled your descendants due to be born.    Did I get it right this time?

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Yes John, at this time it looks like we well be going from 3 great grandchildren to 6 by years end.

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Too many at one time, Dale. I'd be confused, too!

Answer 13

Big week here:  My daughter and her husband and three girls have been here for several days on their spring break.  My youngest daughter also came.  The weather and pool cooperated and we enjoyed swimming and using the hot tub.  It was everything I had hoped for when I designed the back yard.  We even ran out of time to have s'mores so they can look forward to that on another trip.  It was so nice to have the daughters and the families together - very special.

Back to WikiTree very soon!

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How wonderful you had a house full, Cindy! Our kids were busy, so we had friends over today for lunch. Nice company.

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It was really great.  The aftermath - a little lonely, very tired.  Many loads of laundry with all the bedding and towels, endless number of towels!

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I do not envy you and the clean up!

Answer 14

What a treat, to be enjoying the 2-3 weeks of spring after the winter rains and before the temperature soars into triple digits!  We have a bounty of wildflowers in the desert right now.  I've been maximizing my outdoor time, getting some hiking in and meeting with my running club - we had an "Easter brunch" in the park this morning after running along the canals.

Last week I spent some time untangling the lives of two women named Carrie Ellen Judd in late 19th century Michigan.  They were born almost exactly three months apart, to twin brothers Edwin and Edward Judd (both Civil War veterans) who were neighbors in the town of Juddville, formerly known as Judd's Corners.  Phew!  It's no wonder that some trees have them mashed together as one person!  I've decided to put Michigan aside for a while and work on the Scottish branch of the family.  A bunch of the Loudens were early settlers of Medicine Hat, and they might be related to some Loudens that wound up in New Zealand a generation earlier.   It would be exciting to make that connection!

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Nancy, my brother in Tucson loves to torture me by sending his weekly weather report to me, what with all his perfect temps and such. Rainy and cold yesterday, but sunshine today. Woohoo!

Answer 15

Happy Weekend, Wikitree Cousins!

Thanks for hosting, PIP.

I thought I wasn't going to have photos for this post, but yesterday I was out on errands and stopped off at Abigail Adams State Park on the way home. It isn't looking its best this time of year but you can see more of the water from the top of the rise next to Bridge Road.

The walking paths are studded with natural boulders which have excerpts of Abigail Adams' letters on bronze plaques. 

There are several more, but this should give you a sense of the place. 

I've been slogging away at filling out family groups involved in that Ellis/Jones/Richardson/Partridge tangle. My Partridge kin had children by the dozen, so slog is the word. 

I have to add more sources to Holmes Ellis Partridge but I'm leaving off for the day. I think he and his sisters are the most inbred cousins I've come across to date. You can see what a puzzle this has been. 

Happy Hunting!

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A, I think it's pretty cool to go to a park and see quotes of the person being honored. Better than the typical bio information. Great pics!

Answer 16

@PIP and All, I just returned from the University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography. A friend and I went to see the Linda McCartney Retrospective Exhibit. It spans 1965 to 1997. It was really excellent and brought back wonderful memories, not just The Beatles, but the many musicians as well as artists of that time. There is also a section of photos of the family, particularly when the children were young.

PIP...you might want to mention this to Mike as I think he would enjoy this. It is FREE; however, they are more than willing to take donations. One interesting tidbit: there is a photo of Linda holding a camera that was taken by Eric Clapton! She has photos of him and Ginger Baker, the Stones, Twiggy, etc.. Two walls have polaroids (remember those?) of family. Each photo is in a little glass enclosed frame. A great idea for a family room wall (except they will be you and your children, not Paul and his). It was curated by Paul and their daughter, Mary.

https://ccp.arizona.edu/events/3732-%E2%80%9C-linda-mccartney-retrospective%E2%80%9D

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Carol, I sent Mike the link. I hope he takes advantage of the opportunity.

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I'm going to see the exhibit this week!

Answer 17

Hi all!

This is my first post in a weekend chat, even though I've been plugging away at Wikitree for years.

This weekend I'm working on adding sources to unsourced Victorian profiles. My goal is to get at least 50 done in the April challenge, and I'm over halfway there.

I will probably also try to add some more profiles within my 7 degrees this weekend, and add to my 15 for 15 project. I believe I've got about 10 of the 15 nailed at present.

Finally, I'll also spend some time thinking about starting a ONS. Not sure it will get past the thinking stage. My grandmother's maiden name, Hanniver, is quite uncommon - all 23 profiles on Wikitree are direct relatives of my grandmother. FindAGrave has 36 graves worldwide, which overlap with the 23 Wikitree profiles but also include a family in California. At minimum, I may create profiles for all Hannivers (within the privacy rules) that are listed in my state's BDM records.

Enjoy your weekends!

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Welcome to the Weekend Chat, Carol.  

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Hi Carol! Welcome to the chat and hope to read more. You have a great first name!

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Thanks for stopping in, Carol. How neat!

I was hoping to get some close-to-home Wikitreeing done, but we have painters showing up tomorrow. Looks like I'll have to put some of my family on hold for a bit.

Answer 18

On this day:

1867: The Australian Prime Minister Chris Watson is born

1933: The French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is born

1959: The American architect Frank Lloyd Wright dies

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And, for my third lesson tonight, I'll read up on Chris Watson. Definitely new for me. Thanks again, Professor. You add so much to our weekends with your history links!

Answer 19

Just popping in to wish everyone a Happy Easter for those who celebrate it.

I've been in genealogy heaven lately. The Catholic Diocese of the area where my maternal line is from released all their records. I've found so many records in there that will allow me to add profiles to WikiTree as the civil records just didn't exist.

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Oh, you are going to be busy with that release of records, Jody. I hope you find the things you wish and make some interesting discoperies along the way!

Answer 20

Happy Easter everyone. Just got the news that by next weekend's chat I should have a 4th great grandchild, Daisy Cosper.

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Congrats to you, Dale!!!