Week End Chat - All Members Invited!!! March 25-27, 2016

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Week End Chat - All Members Invited!!! March 25-27, 2016

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Welcome! This is an ongoing "Chat" post that can be added to throughout the weekend. All members of WikiTree are encouraged to join in, especially first-timers!

Say Hello and introduce yourself... where are you from and what are your interests?

Do you have any tips to share?

How can we improve WikiTree?

What do you enjoy most about WikiTree?

How do you spend your time when not online?

What's the weather like in your neck-of-the-woods today?

What did you do for fun when you were 18?

Do you have a unique pet?

Any great recipes to share?

It is a long week end for many....any plans?

... anything that you want to talk about!

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asked Mar 25, 2016 in The Tree House by Doug Lockwood G2G Astronaut (2.7m points)

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Answer 1 · 2016-03-25T13:28:45+0000

Good morning, Doug! I always check my ANNIVERSARIES wikitree list in the menu to see what profiles I can fix from my watchlist. I should be colouring eggs soon for baskets (-:

Answer 2 · 2016-03-25T13:31:03+0000

Hi Gang

Holiday weekend for many....my plans are church services & enjoying the nice weather.

If you have not seen the FAQ page for the One Name Studies Project, created by Alison Andrus, please check it out.

My week has been great, I had several major breakthroughs on my wife's line leading to Puritan origins & two common lines with me. I had been working on those lines for several years....all of a sudden VOILA, the records were there!

What's new?

Answer 3 · 2016-03-25T13:35:29+0000

My wife and I are staying at home this weekend and studying Koine Greek. We're going to look in particular at the passion passages in the origiinal Greek to see what we can find.

As for my Genealogy, I'm going to follow up on a remark I made in answering a question here and find out what communications need to be followed up on. I'll be setting up lists in Microsoft One Note to keep from losing track of what I've done and what i need to do and maybe even send out some invitations to correspondents to check out WikiTree.

Answer 4 · 2016-03-25T14:41:19+0000

Hey All,

Easter Sunday will be spent at my Mother-In-Laws in Puyallup, Washington. (Puh-al-up) It's an Indian name.

Via the Urban Dictionary:

Middle-class town surrounded by hick towns, and often confused with being a hick town. When consulting one of the surrounding town's residents they will tell you that Puyallup is full of "spoiled rich kids." If you venture further north they will swear that it is a trash town where people live in trailers and have cows. The reality is somewhere between, although the only cows that actually end-up in Puyallup are brought there for the fair by the toothless hicks from surrounding towns such as Sumner, Graham, and Orting. These cows are promtly taken home after the 17-day stretch that is the fair.

DumbA%^: "Hey, you're from Puyallup? Haha, do you like have cows? Do you go to the fair a lot?"

Puyallup Resident: Um... No.

I have seen cows there but not crossing the road. The town has been uncountrified in the past twenty years. Big plots of farm land sold for apartment houses. Such a waste.

Anyhoo, the fair is fun once a year. Plus the Daffodil festival is exciting for all the "Daffodil princesses."

Betty

Answer 5 · 2016-03-25T22:46:44+0000

Its a long weekend - and plenty to do which is just as well as it is a long weekend. Did some work gardening this afternoon in warm and sunny weather. Managed to paint the garden seat that had needed painting since last summer. Weather is not looking so good for the rest of the weekend though. So maybe find some time for Wikitree. One of my friends from school is back here in Brightlingsea. His house is the old part of town and he had been tracking down ithe history of the building. what makes it interesting for me is that one of my ancestors was the owner - a connection to the Jefferies, which is my Mum's family, which I think is brilliant ......

Have a good weekend

Chris

Answer 6 · 2016-03-26T01:35:24+0000

Hi WikiTreers,

We're recovering from a nasty run of colds here, so we'll be staying home for the Easter weekend, but I have our favorite holiday foods made, including our eggs benedict casserole. The weather is beautiful so we'll be hunting eggs outside after they've been colored tomorrow.

One of my favorite things right now is my One Name Studies. I have a few brick walls that have gone nowhere for years, and I am hoping by adding all the folks I can with the last name, I can finally track down which Czech village one grandparent was from. The other I don't have high hopes for, but in adding all the George and Ben Browns in Yorkshire for a number of years, maybe I'll finally find mine. ONS are ones thing I would recommend to anyone to add to your research!

The hubby's birthday is Monday, so I'll be making a caramel pretzel-crust cheesecake, too, so it can refrigerate before then.

With the weather turning I hope to start getting back to Iowa cemeteries to add here, too. It's been over a year since the last time I went out, so I am excited. The kids' bikes are getting tune ups so they an entertain themselves once they tire of watching me walk around :-)

Off to catch up on email. Happy weekend everyone!

Answer 7 · 2016-03-27T10:55:40+0000

First, Happy Easter to everyone

Last night while helping my granddaughter with a family tree project for a youth group, I gave her a list of important facts to find out about her fathers side of the family. This included First name, Last name at birth, Birth date, and I thought I said OR Death date. she went up to her Grandmother and "Grandma when do you expect to die?". It is a good thing that Grandma has a good sense of humor. After she had the information needed and the others left my daughter was amazed when I had taken the one line back to the early 1800's in 20 minutes and even traced some back to the early 1600's before we went to bed. I did not have to create all new profiles because I found some of those ancestors already on WikiTree and adopted those that had no manager. Well off to get ready for church and hope to possibly do more on this project for my Granddaughter before we leave for home tomorrow.

Answer 8 · 2016-03-27T22:16:50+0000

just wanted to drop in now at the end of a great Easter Sunday. Together with family.

I have just celebrated my first year on WikiTree. It took me a while to figure how, and what to start. It has definitely been successful trip so far. Learning a lot from everyone and getting some expertise that I can share to make the Tree stronger. I spend almost no time on the other optional sites. That surprises me somewhat. I thought I would do a bit of everything. I still have close regular messages from some "cousins" who are working hard and smart on the other sites and they certainly pop up with a variety of good potential links.

That world outside Wikitree is different, but worth the time to sustain contact with genealogy workers that you can keep up-close contact with.

Hi again to all, and thanks for guiding me.

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