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Good Morning Pip and Crew! Ha Ha that sounds like "Pit Crew" in my head.

Its slowly warming up here in the mountians of East Tennessee. 64 degrees already.

I am reading "Restoring Relationships" by Michael Campbell. He is a minister and member of my church. It is pretty good so far and I haven't read a book book in years.

Our chicken farm is doing pretty good. I think all the neighbors around us buy our eggs. We also donate to our church food pantry and the soup kitchen we have here in town. If anyone has some extra egg cartons they wanna throw my way it would be awesome. If anyone has any suggestions for getting rid of Lily Pads I would love to know them.

On the genealogy front...

I have recently stepped up in the Kentucky Project. It just makes sense with me living so close and all of my Maternal side are from Kentucky. We just added a Join post if anyone is interested and We are doing the Pop-Up this week-end. Come on Down!! (or Pp, Over, I don't care how you get here just sign up! lol

On the non-Gen front. I have started making Anointed Candles and Bath Stuff again. The church is having a sale next month and I am going to make a batch and donate them so the kids can go to church camp and have Vacation Bible School.

Have a blessed weekend everyone and Happy Mother's Day to all the mom's on here!

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Condolences, Pip

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Light yellow with white trim sounds very nice.  I have to paint my house this year and am unsure of what colors to choose.  It is currently light gray with white trim, but I would like a more cheerful color. Since the bricks on the front are white with light and dark gray blotches, I may be stuck with gray.

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Michelle, you could do what I call New England blue or the equivalent green, softer colours that would work well with the gray and keep the white trim.

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I send my condolences to your entire Church family and to Lorraine's family.  

.... I have some Pucketts in my family but from WV.  Interesting.

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Pip, I noticed you are reading about Archbishop James Ussher DD, my 3C12R, the name is familiar, as our MRCA is Arland Ussher-8.

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Just how many chickens do you have an how manty eggs are they producing that you can give them away?!? Sounds like a regular operation going there. 

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Michelle, our POA has a restriction on colors, so we just went with a light yellow than we already had. Not that we would have chosen some wild color. We are too conservative for that, though thinking back on our hippie days, we might have gone with tie-dye just to freak everyone out! 

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No blood relationship to Ussher for me, John. 

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Hi Pip,

Best wishes for everything to go as well as it can tomorrow. Condolences. Looks like you have had a very productive week, on top of it all. Hope you find time to give yourself a break, take care.

Answer 1

Our Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)

Song by Chilliwack - My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone) (1981)

• Written by Bill Henderson & Brian Macleod

• Unauthorized parody by Dave Draper

Here is the music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMf4NapohUQ

Click on the link, then click back here and the music should still play as you try to sing along.

• Gone, gone, gone, she’s been gone so long
• She’s been gone, gone, gone so long
• (Repeat 4x)
• Ever since she left us
• On the Connect-A-Thon
• A little misunderstanding?
• On a profile that went wrong?
• Hanging out on the G2G
• Looking for that little girl
• I’m hanging out on the Weekend Chat
• Talking about this girl
• Our girl, she was on WikiTree
• She’s gone, no see on G2G
• Our girl might be a memory
• She's been so long away
• Gone, gone, gone, she’s been gone so long
• She’s been gone, gone, gone so long
• (Repeat 3x)
• She didn’t have to leave us
• She didn’t have to run
• She didn't have to go
• Without a word to anyone
• I hope she’s doing alright
• There was an F-5 tornado
• That took her whole community
• I heard it on the radio
• Our girl, she was on WikiTree
• She’s gone, it was a tragedy
• Our girl, may be a memory
• She's been so long away
• Music (then abrupt stop)
• Gone, gone, gone, she’s been gone so long
• She’s been gone, gone, gone so long
• (Repeat) add: Well I ever wonder if I’m ever gonna see that girl
• She will not get our message
• She has no Internet
• She might just be in heaven right now
• Or living in a make shift tent
• Put the word on the forum
• Spread it all around the world
• Sooner or later I know we’re gonna find her
• I’m talking about our girl
• Our girl
• Music
• Our girl [Repeat x12] (gone, gone, gone, she’s been gone so long)

More of Dave's WikiTree Songs

Enjoy The Weekend Chat!

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With the music in the background, this is just perfect! Well done, David!!!

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If you just leave the music playing, after the song Gone, gone, Gone, you will probably hear the other songs we have parodies for.  Its a great way to have music playing while we chat!

Can you believe, there are enough parodies now to have an album!  12 songs now and one more ready for next week!

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Very cool, I'll say!

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David, I might be able to help find 'Our Girl', John from Chilliwack, British Columbia.  

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John, I hope she is still alive and doing well! Thanks for searching for her!  John and David are 18th cousins 6 times removed

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Cousin David, 'Our Girl', Kathy, as found in Chilliwack, last Monday, with her Starbuck's green, cat's eye claws.                                

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Hi Kathy! Glad you are OK!  Thanks John!  We have missed you!  How did you survive the Tornado?

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Hi David, Just blew me away.... not sure it's the F-5 tornado or waking up to this episode, Kathy.

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Hey John, I think you nailed the color. If that was a paint match from a paint chip, I'd say paint it.

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Kathy agrees.....she 'nailed' it.  

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And Dawg? Same color?

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Dawg......we'll run it by the groomer next time......candy apple red maybe!

Answer 2

Goodmorning and greetings from Lone Jack Mo.

I'm off to the Historical Society this morning. We have about 180 8th grade students scheduled to arrive in about an hour. Will report later if not too stressed.

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180?!? That's going to be a long tour! Can't wait for the report (if you are not too stressed ).

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I am so grateful that your Society encourages the younger generation into genealogy.   They are the hope for taking our work and continuing it.  Many thanks!

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We had 13 groups of 13-15 students. We had 13 stations that each group spent 15 minutes at. We had a group that did small arms of the civil war. Mainly reenactors of the GAR. We had a station where a civilian woman and her children were packing to comply w/ Order #11. Virtually no one knew what Order # 11 was or who it effected. A blacksmith where a working forge was heating metal that some got to hammer out. A spinning and weaving station that showed how material was created to be made into clothing and blankets. A classroom  where subjects of the day were highlighted. One station discussed and demonstrated the toys/games of the day. Of coarse the cemetery and discussion of who and how the dead were tended to. A tour and discussion of the museum was also included.

 We do it again for another school in two weeks. I will save the other six stations for then. Most of the kids were mildly interested. Some totally bored and waiting for summer. Most were polite enough yet indifferent to subject matter. Only a few struck me as future probation and parole clientele.

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@ Sandy  I haven't bored too many w/ the genealogy aspect, yet! I know of a couple people who do some genealogy. Once I am comfortable, I will take my laptop with me and show them connection finder and how easy it is to find relationships. I think I will convert a couple to Wikiland. Any youngster that shows interest I give them a full dose of history and encourage them to see how they relate to the people who made it. Yesterday, I was surprised how many youngin' didn't know who Jesse James and Cole Younger were.

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K, you reminded Kathy and I of when we were involved in hosting well over a hundred Brownies at our Pioneer Village.....we remember them as being quite interested in the displays and have fond memories of them climbing all over the machinery.

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I'm racking my brain to come up w/ something to engage kids. History, kids, I guess if it were easy, it would already be done.

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History might be too complex for the first childhood.....might come around in the second childhood.....plant the seeds and let them grow.

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I went by yesterday to cover a few hours and got the other stations. They included sewing for soldiers, soldiers drills complete w/ mock weapons fashioned out of 2x6's cut into the shape of a gun, archeology of the Cave hotel that is located on the battlefield and was used as a hospital and wash day of the 1800's and every kid's favorite, a historical review of the causes of the war. The main glitch which created the busiest station, we forgot to order the port-oh-potty. Oh stands for Oh-No! Good thing I didn't drink much coffee that morning or I would have stood in line to de-caffeinate as a perpetual activity. I told our president she needed to delegate more of the responsibilities and she said thanks for volunteering. Now I remember, step back when volunteer is mention and nod with approval but, keep your mouth shut. Oh well, never too old to relearn that which we have forgotten.

Answer 3

Happy Weekend Everyone,

It is the 5th of May here in Texas and it's supposed to reach 95 F. Yikes! Not ready for this yet!! I grew up in the Chicago area but have lived in Texas over 30 years and am still not used to these hot temps. It must be something in my DNA.

Pip, I see you have McClure ancestors. Where are they from? My best known ancestor was Peter McClure, McClure-7780. He was born in West Virginia about 1811. He and his family moved through Ohio, Illinois and eventually settled on the border of Iowa and Missouri. I haven't been able to get much further than Peter. Do we have a connection?

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Hiya, Jody! Those McClures were in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. I haven't traced them back as this particular family married into a collateral line of mine. I knew some of the descendants in high school. I thought I'd go ahead and add them to WikiTree as I know that I'll be coming back to them eventually. We're a tangled bunch!

Give me your 95° and I'll pass along my 48°! 

Answer 4

What a wonderful week. Was able to enjoy a campout with the scouts where we worked on some requirements for their STEM badges, learning how binoculars and telescopes work and how to identify constellations. We also hollowed out oranges and used the peels as cake pans for little chocolate cakes (wrapped the whole thing in tinfoil and put it in the campfire coals). I love campfire cooking, I always try at least one new recipe every campout. The kids try things they wouldn’t normally eat just because they cooked it themselves! We have our big crossover ceremony coming up next week so there was plenty of planning to do for that (where the kids rank up to their next year’s rank). I try to give them a meaningful trinket, this year I got some great scouting pictures so sometime this weekend I have to print them and frame them. It’s so easy to let the time just rush by, it’s nice to try to mark it every now and then before they are eagle scouts away at college and the whole thing ran by out from under us! I know, I know, getting ahead of myself…but anyway I try to make it memorable.

In genealogy, did some more cemetery work in Berea, Kentucky. Decided to go ahead and join the Kentucky project since I’ve been spending so much time there and it’s carving out a place in my heart. Would love to vacation there sometime though I feel like it would end up being a research expedition as much as a “vacation”. That is the last project for a while, I swear! (I feel like I said that before but this time I really mean it…I blame Friday Night Bingo for showcasing so many awesome projects and places our genealogy work can take us without leaving the couch). I may take a cemetery break soon, my heart can only take so much. So many young Appalachians gone to childhood diseases and rough life. I’m so grateful for the advances in healthcare (even though we have a long way to go yet, as I’m learning in dealing with my mom’s dementia).

So excited for our millionth member! I hope we are able to get them all to join Appalachia :D

Well, must run...next week is Teacher Appreciation Week so, much PTO work to do! Have a great weekend everyone!

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Erin, I really have no idea how you keep up with everything. And, you know that more projects are waiting just around the corner (and not just WikiTree projects, but you know).

What a blast you had with the scouts. I fondly remember my time so long ago.

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It's so fantastic that you're contributing so much to Berea, Kentucky on WikiTree, Erin (and thanks for squeezing the Kentucky Project onto your already crammed-full table!) If you do ever decide to take a trip there, you will love it - so many amazing artisans and craftspeople!!

I'm inspired by your campfire cooking 

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I love camping!   And, Scouts are so much fun to camp with.  With all the greeting you are doing, I am now doing a side bet... which Greeter will be the Greeter for the 1 million WikiTree'er!

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Sandy it will be someone who was Greeting today as I noticed we have passed that number. Not me as I have been busy doing other things.

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Oh!  I can't wait to see who the person was and who the Greeter was!  Exciting!!

Answer 5

Good Morning/Guten Morgen! Growing up with an english speaking father and german speaking mother, and not reading or speaking german, I grew up understanding what my oma/opa and mom were saying. Over time I've been able to pick words out and read documents/records. I'm trying to connect my oma KOTZSCHMAR-1 with the Kotzschmar KOTZSCHMAR-3 Music man in Finsterwalde,. My dad's side was pretty is WILHITE/WILHOIT, STRONG, EWER, goes back to Germany and England. Now I'm learning to write eaches story.

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Hi there, April! I have German families, too, but they are so far back that none of the language passed down. Most of mine are Scottish. I wish you be the in your research!

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Hey April, greetings. I have some Wilhoit connections out of Kentucky. I look forward to hooking-up with you- Genetically speaking of coarse, Cousin Kev.

Answer 6

Hi from southern Ontario,

Chez moi/at home: what's happening here? Rain, rain and more rain, last weekend the forecast was for 6 days of rain and guess what, the forecast was correct. 

I have an empty large plastic planter on the patio, and it now has water in it that comes up to my knuckles, that’s just about 4 inches of rain. The weather for the coming week is much better, plenty of sun, and temps between 15 and 20C which of course means that everything including the weeds will be growing like weeds! Today and the rest of the weekend will be spent tidying up the garden.

WikiTree: while it has been raining non-stop lots of time was spent improving profiles, working from my short biography suggestions. Many of the profiles are for the siblings of several times great grandparents of various degrees. They are/were all sourced, but many needed more detailed sources and many needed Research Notes. I’m adding this person has not been researched after X date such as the baptism date to many profiles. If I counted right, it is 28 biographies that have been improved. 

It did require looking for more sources on Family Search. It is quite amazing how badly messed up many entries are on FS, the sort of stuff that would trigger suggestions on WT, no she did not have several children after her death, and no she was not 150 years old. The sources are good, if attached to the right person, it just amazes me how many people just don’t look at dates and locations. 

Other: my father in law died in August 2016, we buried his ashes in Alton Cemetery in October 2022, and now need to organise engraving for the headstone, the stone already had his parents, plus a cousin and his wife. 

The stone will say Robert (Bob) Ewart Dods son of Roy and Hazel plus birth 1925 and death 2016 dates. 

After spending much time figuring out the family connections for many others buried at Alton, we thought why not include his parents on his inscription. It is often done for children who died young as part of the parent’s inscription but seldom done for adults. I hope future family historians will appreciate the added info. 

The cemetery steward has found the cornerstones for the family plot, yes they had sunk about 8 inches into the ground, now we know that we can pick a space for our grave. 

Oh, that sounds a little gruesome! I’m not planning to use the space for 15-20 years, maybe later. 

What else: my daughter who lives in Ottawa will be here for the weekend, she is attending the 25th anniversary event of her high school graduation. 

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Hi M, I just returned from Eagle, Wisconsin where it was rain, rain, rain. What a pain! I totally agree with you about FamilySearch. As I matter of fact, they made some changes and I find it more difficult to access. I have found way too many conflated famililes within one profile, etc. and am very careful now not to muck up the WikiTree profiles with erroneouls FamilySearch information.

So glad to know you won't use your plot for a while. I like the idea, though, of adding parents to a headstone. So...familial?!

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M, you're having rain, rain, rain, and we are waiting for our last frost so we can buy and plant our annual mandevillas in our planters. Weather is not cooperating for either of us.

150 years old and still having kids. I think I've run into a few of these on FS AND on WIkiTree!

Enjoy your visit with your daughter!

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Carol, FS search has had many changes to the search process in the past year or so. Most of them are very bad.

The simplest way around it, is on the home page there is an All Collections Search, start there it is almost but not quite like the search from a few years back.

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Thanks for the FS tip, M! What the heck were they thinking...or maybe they weren't and that's why this is such a mess!

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If you want to see the very critical comments on the various new things that have been introduced on FS in the past year or so, go to their feedback etc page, the link is at the bottom of I think all pages.

Then you have to pick the correct forum, can't remember exactly which one it is. There are some posts about how to work around the 'new and improved' searches, but they are so complicated to be almost impossible.

I think the All Collections search which is quite recent is an attempt to provide a simpler process without admitting that all the previous 'new and improved,' searches were a disaster!

Answer 7

¡Buenos días a todos from the Old Pueblo y Feliz Cinco de Mayo! It is 7am and 58F (14.4C) with an expected high of 80F (26.7C) with mostly sunny skies in Tucson. This weather is a far cry from what I experienced while in Wisconsin last week! The temperatures hovered around 40F (4.4C) with generally cloudy skies and rain.

I left for the Midwest last Thursday and returned this past Wednesday. It was a very nice, albeit short visit. I just needed to get away for a while and get ‘real’ hugs from my family. My brother, Lev, collected me at the airport. Lev, a retired Milwaukee County Sheriff, his wife Sue, a retired Milwaukee County Supervisor/Parks Commissioner, and their children visited for a bit before my brother-in-law, Jack, picked me up on his way home from work. Sue’s ancestry on her maternal side goes back to Stephen Hopkins (Jamestown/Mayflower: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hopkins-373). I stayed with Jack and my sister Bonny in Eagle, Wisconsin. Jack does computer troubleshooting for General Mills and Bonny works as a legal secretary for a batch of defense attorneys in downtown Milwaukee.

 Bonny and I always have a great time together even though we are 17 years apart. She and I binged-watched the first two seasons of Derry Girls on Netflix last Thursday night. We watched the last season on Sunday night. If you have not seen this show, based on the experiences of five teens who grew up in Londonderry during the armed police and Army check points era during the 1990s in Northern Ireland, it is well worth the time! There are some fun surprises as well as poignant moments in the show. Bonny had her Android handy to use as a ‘dictionary’ given that we are not used to the Derry accents and ‘cant.’ It is a terrific show!

We saved the last season of Derry Girls for Sunday night because I found that Bonny’s movie viewing was sorely lacking. She has NEVER seen Mel Brook’s Young Frankenstein with Milwaukee ‘home boy’ Gene Wilder. I made her watch the movie on Friday night because we had a major ‘girls’ night’ on Saturday. Following dinner, Bonny, her daughters Emily and Elyse, Emily’s partner, Rachel, Bonny’s widowed mother-in-law, Faye, her two daughters Carol and Dawn, my daughter Jennifer and I went to the local Elm Gove Sunset Playhouse, to see Mel Brooks ‘Young Frankenstein the Musical. It was hilarious and Bonny was prepared ahead of time to get some of the jokes and innuendos. While this was a musical production, it followed the movie closely. Bonny was looking up trivia during the film and discovered that Aerosmith’s Walk This Way (a line/sight gag in the movie) was derived, in part, after viewing the movie!

My daughter, Jennifer, who teaches 8^th grade language arts, and her husband Curtis, retired Air Force, came to Bonny’s home on Saturday morning, and I treated the gang to breakfast at a local restaurant in Palmyra. Curtis gave me a very special t-shirt for Mother’s Day that reads, “My son-in-law is my Favorite Child.” I wore it for a day and posted a photo on FaceBook. 

Following breakfast, Bonny and I spent time at a very old library in Palmyra. They were having a book sale. We purchased six hardcover books (like new) at $1USD each. I gave them $10 given that it is used for library programs. Most were mysteries a la Stephen King as my niece likes his work.

 I purchased Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s “On the Shoulders of Giants” for a friend who is a major sports freak. Coincidentally, I came across Tracy Groot’s “The Sentinels of Andersonville” which I bought for myself. Last Friday, Sandy Patak covered the Civil War during the Friday Night Bingo session and Andersonville was discussed briefly. This book addresses the conditions at Andersonville that contributed to 13,000 deaths. As I paid, I had mentioned the Bingo sessions, then gave the librarians information about WikiTree because I had piqued their interest. We might have some new members soon!

 Bonny and I spent Sunday at Urgent Care because I had a second urinary tract infection in less than a month. I can only hope that my UnitedHealth supplement will cover that visit given that it was Waukesha, Wisconsin and not Tucson, Arizona! We lazed around Sunday night watching the last season of Derry Girls because antibiotics just knock the wind out of me.

I took some time while family was at work to organized the  WikiTree ‘face pages’ for the pre-1500 Baldwins and will start to source, in some cases, and merge then source in others during the merry month of May. These Bucks Baldwins are a real mess and there are times when I must stop just to keep my eyes from crossing. I am also seeing about taking on the Baldwin Name Study and organize these older Baldwins by location once they are organized.

Pip, thank you as always for being the Weekend Chat Helmsperson! I will give/gift the Andersonville book to you when I see you next in Tucson. You can then give/gift it to Sandy! And to all my WikiTree family, friends, and colleagues, have a great first Friday in May 2023!

 

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Young Frankenstein was fabulous! I've watched it several times, and familiarity doesn't damped my laughs. Good choice, Carol!

Mike is coming this way for a change at the end of this month. My WikiTree-member brother, Tim, who lives about two hours away has some time off. Our nurse daughter will also be up this way around Memorial Day. It's going to be a busy end of May for us! I'll take some photos to share.

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Carol - Thank you so much for being such a great Ambassador for WT Bingo Fridays.   It all started out a fun game and has turned into such a learning experience, for me, with the Projects in WT.  I learn so much from each of you and each Bingo session.  I don't know how but I always seem to find a Nurse's Profile to share.  It truly is random!

I have toured Andersonville and although it is nothing today like it was back then, a person can't help but be moved and silenced as you walk the grounds. I will patiently wait until Pip has finished the book for my turn. :)

An ancestor of mine, John Rufus King, wrote a "booklet" on his experiences during the Civil War.  It is free and available online.  He was in Point Lookout Prison in Maryland. Three brothers, two for the South and they never spoke again to their brother that fought for the North.

I hope you are feeling much better.  Love Derry Girls!

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Thank you for highlighting JRKings memoirs. I feel no less connected to him as I do connected to my own Confederate relatives. When reading personal accounts of confinement during the war, it is hard to differentiate which prison is referenced if it were not stated somewhere in the beginning of the text. As far as division of family, I assume some of my kin put it behind them and continued moving west to escape the past while others stayed to rebuild what their fathers were willing to die for. Cousin Kev

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it is sunny and 87Fhere expected to go up to 91 today.  We jumped from 40s to summer in blink of an

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Oh, did the same here, Laura! Coll yesterday, hot today (and raining tonight, which we need to get the pollen out of the air).

Answer 8

Decisions decisions. Kentucky Derby vs the coronation. I might win money betting the Derby. We could have a Triple Crown winner this year. So...  potential Triple with $$$ possibility vs one British crown. Dunno. Contemplating the situation.

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Eddie, I'm going with working on WikiTree profiles! That is another option!

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History major sez coronation.

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I won $400 last year betting the Derby, my brotha ! And got to holler NeenerNeener at my buds who picked wrong. Anyhow, will be cooking ham hock, black-eyed peas, cornbread & peach cobbler

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Miss Carol, 

You be a wonderful lady and I send you a big hug and smooch. But... guys who be armchair athletes view the weekend pro sports events as almost churchly. 

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Easy one... pick the Kentucky Derby!  My horse, Practical Move, scratched so now I have to go pick another one. 

And, come join the Kentucky Project's Popup this weekend.  

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Guys - don't know if you noticed, but you can do both!! There's a WikiTree pop-up challenge for the Derby this weekend .  And a month-long Biobuilders challenge for people named Charles and Elizabeth. WikiTree's got you covered!!  

Jinx, Sandy Patak - we were writing these at the same time LOL

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Home cooking! Invite me over some time, Eddie!

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Pipkin ! Pip! Pip!

I make my cornbread with a cup of brown sugar and butter - not margarine- in the batter.

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Mint juleps, Sandy? I will sip my tea while sourcing and think of you, Eddie, Pip, Mel et al.!

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Pomp and circumstance for all. I'll have dead flowers and a ride in a rose pink Cadillac.

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I did a huge spreadsheet to figure out my derby picks and then this morning Forte was scratched. So I had to look at my pick list and adjust it.  First year I have not gone to place a bet.  Didn’t matter because I never would have picked Mage with so few starts  last two years have been odd ball winners I truly think 20 horses is too much and dangerous for both horses and Jockies

I taped it because we went to music recital for my oldest granddaughter she played the piano and did a solo song. She did well and afterwards we all went out to eat.  CincodeMayo here is very popular to the point trying to get into a Mexican restaurant is almost impossible so we celebrated on Saturday the 6 tH

Hugs to all our wonderful WikiTree chatters and family.  I did no genealogy this past week.  My ancestor studies were equine.   It is so interesting to see how many of the horses have shared ancestry

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@Laura

I've only delved into horse Genealogy a very (very!) tiny bit because a friend has horses.  Many times I have remarked to her that if people kept such great Genealogical records as horses, brick walls could be a thing of the past.  

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Laura, I never bet, because I have a terrible track record when betting.. Who would have thunk Mage would have had a chance. Some of the other races during the day were pretty cool, especially Colt's Wish.

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Blood horse has free 5 generation pedigrees.   Northern Dancer,  Bold Ruler, Mr Prospector show up in almost every derby contender line.

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i often pick horses and never place a bet.  I just keep track on paper to see if I would be ahead or lose money.   I my virtual world I have dpne pretty well over time.  Nailed the Oaks but never placed a real bet.     Mage had Mr Prospector  and Northern Dancer in his ancestry

Answer 9

Good morning Pip and all.

I have been plugging away at the Axtell GED again this week. It's a slow, but steady grind with 2000+ profiles.

The weather has been great here in the mid-Atlantic. Cool days with just a few showers now and again.

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Bill, I commend you for working that gedcom. I did a bunch of work on the Hayer one as I have some distant connection with his families.

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So far, I've got as close as 9 degrees to the Axtells.  A Pennsylvania Uncle of mine went to the Midwest and married into the family.  There was also an Axtell who married a Baylis on Long Island who's probably connected but wasn't able to track it.

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I think I am finally finished with a bunch of orphaned profiles that I adopted a few years ago and were part of the infamous DeCoursey Gedcom.  I don't want anything more to do with GED created profiles.

Answer 10

Hails and horns, Wikipeeps!

 I hope everyone is doing well! On the genealogy front, I posted a blog about pets. Come follow the pawprints through time and see just how important pets are to our genealogical adventure. And yes they even have pedigree charts. Well, a few of them do....

https://allroadhaverhill.blogspot.com/2023/05/52-ancestors-week-18-pets.html

In other news, this morning a known third cousin's DNA test results popped up on Ancestry and I added her in. Her mom's test should be in in a few weeks. We're friends on Facebook so this wasn't at all shocking or surprising. It was like "Oh. Another match for my mom who belongs to Antoine Legault and Lucie Cadran. Okay."

Not that it wasn't exciting or anything. It was. It's just like "Cool. A new DNA match!" I knew her and her mom tested because we talked about it many times on Facebook.

On the non genealogical front, I sold some more Marvel stuff on ebay. I gotta ask the hive mind. Is it ethical to use your genealogical skills to check if a buyer is a real person? I mean....I don't like dealing with bots. (Unless they are friendly and not a bunch of Decepticons.)

On Wednesday we went out to the Tuckaway Tavern in Raymond for my father's birthday. We had fun. I had the shrimp and fries. He had a fisherman's casserole. We had leftovers for days. Was good, though. =D

I hope everyone has a great weekend! Enjoy the pet blog!!

Oh! And I have an update on the Giovanni Coppola situation from last week. As you may know, I had the wrong parents. But, don't worry. I may have placed him in the right spot using the WATO App on DNA painter. I used what I knew of the family and everything and I hope I came to the right conclusion. =D After all over 100 cMs is not a small number.

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Yep, dogs, dogs, and more dogs. The best pets, Chris. We've had our share, but it's been about seven years since the last died, and we have not replaced her. Great blog.'.. as usual. You're a natural story teller.

Whooboy! I looked at the menu for Tuckaway's and if I ever get up there, you'll have to take me.

Nothing more from San Pietro?

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Hey, Pip! Thanks for the comment. We have indeed had the best pets ever. Sorry about the last one. =( I hope you can get a new furry friend soon!! Remember to adopt! Or get from a breeder!

Yes, that menu is filling just from looking at it. I will definitely have to take you.

Nothing yet from San Pietro. But, I have some idea of what to ask for next time.

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I should post about chickens as pets.

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Oh my gosh... I totally love that you used your genealogical skills to determine if a real person was buying your Ebay merch.  

When we were looking at houses, a year ago, I did the same thing.  Found some cool stories too but a shame we didn't find a house.

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@ Eileen: Totally!

@ Sandy: Why not, right? I mean there was this one time someone won one of my auctions and never paid me. I waited a week and never got payment. So, I cancelled and started over. From then on I decided to look into a person to make sure they are real. Safety first!

Sorry you didn't find a house!

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@ Chris Are you related to John "The Ranger" Taliaferro? If so, I can't find the connection and if so, I believe, we are closer than 11c2r. I have several connections to the Taliaferro name in at least 4 lines. u

Just trying to find my connection to Haverhill.

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Just a quick hello to all, I have been swamped at work and today is no different. I have 4 new rental houses to get put into the system before I leave. Nothing new on the genealogy front to speak of. Weather is typical Virginia weather...tornado warnings all around. Headed down to my cousins for the weekend in Raleigh NC. Going to try to get her on WikiTree! Well wishing all a happy and safe Wiki-end, I better get back at it!

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Have a safe and enjoyable trip, Teresa! Let us know if you get your cousin to join.

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She did indeed Pip

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Super, Teresa. Hope you had a wonderful visit!

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So glad your cousin joined! I hope she loves it.

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Howdy folks! Greetings from what is going to be a hot and steamy Central Oklahoma! We've had rain all week, thankfully, and temps in the 60s and 70s. Today and tomorrow it's going to be up around 90. Right now the humidity is 94%. Yikes. The garden and flower beds will be loving it!

Happy Cinco de Mayo! Today we are going to hit the Hispanic market and grab all kinds of taco meat and chorizo, then give the Blackstone a work out. The rest of the time will be spent sitting on the porch with some Dos Equis, salt and lime, and listening to tunes. Not quite like the Cincos of our past, but fun just the same. 

Last weekend we hit a garage sale, and I found a tote that was FULL of BBQ gear that was all new, unopened, with tags. The lady said she was in a deal making mood, so I told her to shoot me a price. She said, "$20 and I'll throw in the tote." We also got a new electric ice cream maker for $10 and a breakfast sandwich maker for $5. All of that stuff new would have been over $300, so we made out like bandits!

Genealogy wise, mostly Ranger shifts and plunking along on my profiles. Wash, Rinse, Repeat. 

Thanks Pip for being the host with the most, and I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Until next time.......

John

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John, I drove in that lovely rain on the way from Wichita to San Antonio. Send some of that water up here!

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90 and 94%. This sounds familiar and would rather not have that kind of weather, John. UGH. "I'm melting, I'm melting...."

You got room for all that stuff you bought at the garage sale?

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Happy weekend!  It is a cool and dry day here in Wichita. We have not had any rain lately and it is getting very dry, so I watered my baby trees and plants Wednesday to keep them going. The lilacs are on their last legs, but the first of my purple irises bloomed yesterday and they are so pretty.

Family wise, I drove to Texas to visit my parents and sister. Loved to see and visit with my mother and sister, and I will leave it at that.

Just before I left, a local group called to see if I could speak at their monthly meeting for their speaker had just cancelled. I was to be out of town that day (500 miles away) so my supervisor took my place. She used my powerpoint and syllabus for the presentation and said it went well. I don't have written notes for my presentations, but perhaps I need to in case someone needs to step in.

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Micelle, our irises just bloomed last week and we are so pleased. We planted the double-blooming variety, so we expect to see them again in the early fall. You are right: so very pretty.

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A raw morning in Rochester, Minnesota...

Currently it's 62°F with clouds. 

Family: My parents in law are coming to Rochester! My nephew in law will receive his 1st Holy Communion. 

School: I've got a 85 on the 2nd A&P lab exam which puts me in the B/C range! I'm doing well in Microbiology. Finals are Monday and Tuesday. 

Health: My allergic rhinitis/sinusitis is finally under control. I'm COVID negative once again and sadly I'm treating and caring for residents during the allergy season. I'm glad it's not the nasty norovirus. 

WikiTree: Next week, I will have time to greet, source and update on profiles.

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Eileen, my daughter just finished her A&P classes (for the second time since the first ones were too old for acceptance at Western Carolina). She was pleased to get through. Not a very good prof.

Enjoy your family get-together!

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Sunny in Bloomington, Illinois, USA!  So, I seem to have become the "Community Granddad" as bicycles keep showing up in my driveway, abandoned and needing tires inflated.

After I posted the "Gone Gone Gone parody above, I took the dogs out to potty, and there in the driveway was yet another bike needing fixed!  This makes about 10 so far and I have no clue where they come from or who these bikes belong to!

So, I inflate the tires and set them by the garage, and then they eventually disappear.  Then another replaces it!

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And, your family of grandchildren keeps growing!  

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I think it is fabulous and you should have a little sign made and put outside by the mailbox... Tires inflated - No Charge!

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Word of mouth referrals is a powerful thing!  I don't need a sign!  When I was in the sign business, I didn't need to advertise because of "word of mouth" testimonials!  Evidently, it seems to be working better than ever!

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People just drop off bikes at your house, David? They must know something, like you are the repair guy or something.  That is actually kinda cool!

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Well, wait till the neighbors see my riding lawnmower!  I will be mowing their lawns!  I better mow at night, huh?

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My Mom and sister live just north of you in El Paso. 

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John, I have a Wikitree member and cousin that lives in El Paso, IL, so I checked your and my connection and we are cousins, so now I wondering if your family is my family?  This is getting weird!

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That bike reminds me of my first bike. But it had no blue on it, just pink and white. It was nearly as big as me.

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That is so sweet. I hope the bikes keep showing up, you are making a lot of kids very happy.

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This week was the start of Vacationing Planning!    Now, all I have to do is narrow it down from the 30 Places I want to vacation at. :)  It might end up being not far and in Rabun County, Georgia where the mountains are a calling.

The Kentucky Derby is tomorrow!  My horse, Practical Move, scratched with a fever so I am off to make a practical move with my $5 to another horse.    BTW, the Kentucky Project is having a pop up this weekend to celebrate the Derby.  I gotta go pick my Jockey.

Eight descendants of Secretariat will compete in this week's Kentucky Derby!

(if they didn't scratch)

After the Thon, I realized that I am so close to 5000 CC7 that I've been focusing solely on adding one of my six brother's two wives families.   I am making headway.

No Bingo tonight but don't forget to comb your hair and join Friday Date Night!

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Sandy, you know Secretariat was born right here in Doswell VA, our fairgrounds are on his birthplace. I'm always doing shameless Virginia plugs LOL

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Sandy, I'm close to making my 5000 CC7. Don't know when I'm going to find the time in the next several days. Just have too much going on, even into next week.

Come to beautiful Brevard in the Land of the Waterfalls for you vacation. You've got a tour guide.

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Teresa - Thank you for giving me something better to know about the Doswell exit on I-95.... I've only known it as the Kings Dominion exit.  <walks away with her head in shame> 

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 Always glad to help LOL

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Hey Sandy, If you are taking suggestions, I would like to go to Stone Mountain and spend the night at the Duff Green "Haunted" Mansion in Vicksburg. With proper planning toss in King Biscuit Festival. Would a guided catfish trip on the Mississippi be pushing it, Vicksburg is right there after all.

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he is son of Bold Ruler

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Greetings from Nevada, where it’s cloudy with rain predicted. I hope it holds off, as I’m going over the mountains today.  

Pip, I’ve heard that King Charles has considerably edited the coronation program, so it will be quite a bit shorter this time.

Haven’t decided if I will stay up for it.

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Yep, it will be shorter, much shorter. Apparently there are some who didn't get invited that are not too happy about it, like maybe the Duke of Rutland, if I heard right.

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I hope the rain holds off for you!   What time would you have to wake up to see the Coronation?  I think I might sleep in. :)

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Good morning (barely) from Texas! As someone has already said, we are expecting temps in the 90's for the next two or three days. We really did not ease into summer; it was practically freezing and boom! now the 90's. You gotta love Texas!!

I guess our big news is that our boat, Sea Lark, sold and the sale is final. We are happy that the new owner is very knowledgeable about boats and plans on having her in tip-top shape soon and cruising her in the Pacific Northwest with other friends who have Krogen boats. That is consoling since we owned her for 23 years.

On the genealogy front: I finally "bit the bullet" and jumped in to documenting some slaves owned by some of my ancestors. It isn't as difficult as I first thought. I have actually been able to pair up a few with where they appeared on the Slave Schedules of 1850 and 1860 which, at first, I thought would be impossible. I hope when I am finished with a few of these profiles that it will help others who are searching for their ancestors. It does take time and I am just now getting to the part where I will create the Free Space Pages to link everyone.

Also, on the genealogy front, we finally got the mtchrondrial dna test back on my O'Neal line. It was not what we had hoped but now we have to really dig in and do the "genealogy" to see if we can match the research and the DNA. This will not be a quick feat!

For the upcoming weekend, our new tree is arriving - the one to replace the beautiful tree that one of the storms took out. The arrival is tomorrow morning (Saturday).  In the evening, our younger daughter and her husband are coming over to visit and  have dinner. They will be minus the two sons who, I presume, had better offers!!

I am hoping to tune in to at least some of the Coronation and I am sure it will be replayed many times so I will not be rushing to the TV at 4 or 5am. I could have yesterday and this morning as I awoke at 3am both mornings and could not go back to sleep. I hate it when that happens!!

Have a great May weekend doing whatever you love and stay safe. See everyone next weekend!!

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So, now your are Admiral Ginny, WikiTree navy (ret.). That feels so weird. I know you'll miss sailing. You'll always be Admiral Ginny to me.

I'm going to try to get up for the coronation, but it's going to hard.

Enjoy your time with your kids!

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Farewell Sea Lark! May she live long and venture far. I'm sure it is bittersweet giving that up. Sending hugs

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Thanks Erin. It was bittersweet but our time at sea and keeping up a boat was done, done, done!! I am happy with the memories!!

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The usual this week:

• Photos
• DNA matches, but nothing greatly new happened in this area. Thought there was a chance to break through a brick wall, but it turned out to be a false alarm.
• Chipping away slowly on my Suggestions
• Same on writing Biographies

I've been deep in research on a side project with an article to come out of it. I don't want to go into details of it now, but hopefully more to come over the next few weeks.

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The false alarm: I get all excited when I think I'm on the verge of a breakthrough, and then just crash onto the floor when it doesn't work out. Had that happen more than once, Eric.

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Yep. Not all holes lead to rabbits.

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 Touché!

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Good morning from Everett, Washington, where it is raining. This morning I walked the dog, made breakfast, did my online solitaire challenges and--gasp!--took a bath! I almost never bathe because water and my head disagree over my balance or lack thereof. Now, however, I have clean hair and a mostly clean front. I am ready to do good deeds, such as:

Sew together nine rows of seven blocks to make a quilt 60" x 40" made mostly of batik fabrics with a fish/ocean theme.

Watch "Santo contra las Mujeres Vampiras," to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.

Work on WikiTree profiles for random people. Yesterday I created a profile for Clarence Clement "Shovel" Hodge, a pitcher for the White Sox in the 1920s, who as a reliever gave up about one home run per inning pitched. Great discussion yesterday on the Mariners radio broadcast,

I want to thank racing fan Sandy for adding the jockey sticker to my cousin [[Shields-3433|Henry C. Shields]]. Last I knew of him, Henry had returned to Havana in 1920 as a trainer. I have no information on him after that.

Sunday I took son and daughter to a rope climbing park near our house as part of a birthday party for their friend from church. Son George took the higher level challenge, picking his way across the rope spiderweb, imagining himself as Peter Parker.  Daughter Isabella did a lower level and concluded with three zipline runs at the back of the park. At one point, when she was furthest from my vantage point, she missed the platform and gravity took her back to the midpoint of the line, where she lost all momentum. Oh no! Oh no! I cried. Painfully she tried going hand over hand along the line, but she had no strength left. A staff member took off at top speed toward her with a lifeline and pulled her to the platform. She completed the last zipline leg rapidly and came to me. Said Isabella,
"I'll never do that again," but she was glad she did it once.

Husband Chris is getting set to resume live tours of the Boeing factory. Things are slightly different. Last night he was writing and memorizing his new script. Having the tour again is renewing his energy. Having more exercise will be very good for him.

All have a blessed first weekend of May.

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Now, I just have to go on a tour with your husband of the Boeing Factory.  I am glad he gets to resume them again.  

And, thank you for allowing me to celebrate the love of Jockeys on your cousin's profile.  I would really like to know what happened to him.

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You're getting rain, as we are avoiding it, even though the predictions say we should be getting some. It was supposed to rain today, but as the day came closer the percentages got lower. Hard to make plans based on the future weather report, Margaret!

Glad to hear that Chris is going to continue with his tour guiding. It's an activity he loves, so that oughta perk him up.