Happy Saturday, everyone, and thank you Keith for the invite!
I'm fairly new - this is going into my second month here on Wikitree. Absolutely loving it though. Genealogy has always interested me, but I'd never done much with it - but my mother got me and my husband the ancestryDNA thing for our one year anniversary this May, so I finally took the plunge. I'm fairly thrifty, so I use familysearch mostly, but do get an occasional month here and there with ancestry for the other sources - doing that now, actually, and going back over all of the profiles I've done to make sure I have everything added, see what I need to clean up, and try to build some sort of biography (instead of just sources). Not even gonna lie - I do keep a word doc open to use as a notebook as I research. It's a thing.
There are several brick walls I've hit, where I've found nothing yet, or nothing concrete. Once I've looked at all I can find, I'll reach out to other Wikitreers for help - sometimes, fresh eyes are the way to go!
As far as discoveries, the coolest thing I've found is a story my grandmother was told as a little girl reprinted as a story by the original ancestor it was about - as a confederate POW, he broke out, stole a horse, and rode back down to Georgia to marry his waiting woman. When he got back, he realized that the horse he stole was General Grant's. Apparently, he would tell people that "it's the one time I got one over on them Yankees."
It's full-swing summer here in Georgia, and it's FINALLY stopped raining, though to be fair it won't last, hurricane season is starting. It's hot, though the hottest will come in August. Still, I'm excited because my blueberry bushes are fruiting, I discovered three pods on my pomegranate tree (first fruiting ever, actually), and the kiwi I thought was dead is throwing vines everywhere. The magnolia is almost ready to burst out, also - that's my favorite smell of summer, not gonna lie.
I got lucky, the mister works at the college library, so I get access to books they have. I work from home, and sit with the kids. Four of them, not the two-legged kind, but the four-legged kind. Two dogs, two cats, all spoiled rotten. To be fair, the big one really is like a giant three year old. He even throws fits.
We're fortunate enough to be homeowners, so no complaints there, but our home is... elderly and in need of serious TLC. So, in-between wikitree and the kids, there's been some home improvement going on. My hope is to get ready to be painted by the end of summer, though I'm not sure if that's really going to happen. First I have to learn plumbing and drywall - but that's ok! Once I figure it out, nothing will stop me!
Nothing exciting in the kitchen to talk about - it's been too hot to bake, though I've been really feeling Thai lately, so that's the direction most of my recipes have taken. Whitefish coconut curry, mmmm..... You know how it goes.
It's been great reading all of your stories! I hope to maybe get more familiar with g2g, and maybe starting to get to know some of you! I hope you all have a great day, a great weekend, and please always say hi if you ever wish!
