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closed with the note: Weekend event now over

asked Jun 1, 2018 in The Tree House by Robynne Lozier G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)
closed Jun 4, 2018 by Robynne Lozier

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Answer 1 · 2018-06-01T16:51:14+0000

Today is.....

NATIONAL DOUGHNUT (DONUT) DAY

Each year on the first Friday in June, people participate in National Doughnut or Donut Day. This day celebrates the doughnut and honors the Salvation Army Lassies, or Donut Dollies, the women that served doughnuts to soldiers during WWI.

In 1917, the original “Salvation Army Doughnut” was first served by the ladies of the Salvation Army. It was during WWI that the Salvation Army Lassies went to the front lines of Europe. Home cooked foods, provided by these brave volunteers, were a morale boost to the troops.

The doughnuts were often cooked in oil inside the metal helmets of American soldiers. American infantrymen were then commonly called “doughboys.” A more standard spelling is donut.

How to celebrate:

Dunkin Donuts, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, LaMar’s Donuts, Duck Donuts, and many other shops and convenience stores are giving away free doughnuts on June 1 to celebrate National Donut Day 2018—or National Doughnut Day 2018, if you prefer the original spelling of “doughnut.”

Even Papa John’s is jumping on the National Donut Day free donut bandwagon, giving away orders of its brand new doughnut holes for free on Friday. Walmarthas free doughnuts for all customers too.

Here are all the places with free doughnuts on National Donut Day 2018, along with the details on how to get free doughnuts. http://time.com/money/5295680/national-donut-day-2018-free-doughnuts/

answered Jun 1, 2018 by Dorothy Barry G2G Astronaut (2.8m points)

Answer 2 · 2018-06-01T16:54:57+0000

I will jump in while I can. Thank you for hosting Robynne. I am feeling better but got some bad news health wise this week. Don't worry too much because it is not hard to control but will mean some serious lifestyle changes but thankfully no additional medications if I make the other changes. The bad news about this is I will no longer be able to sit all day and work on my computer. Speaking of computers this last week we bought a new laptop to replace the one that was over 5 years old and took the old one and set it up for the youngest granddaughter. Then last night the third oldest granddaughter bought herself a laptop and spent several hours over with us so that I could help her get it set up. I did manage to add some sources to some profiles and fix most of the suggestions on that list, one is unconnected and another is for a profile I do not manage, and even had time to add a couple of profiles. I am still trying to reduce my watchlist but every profile on my watchlist has been edited within the last year and even if I stopped doing anything on them I could still say that until sometime in September. Tomorrow I have a short meeting at the E M A about my work in Amateur Radio.

Well back to work on some profiles while I still can.

answered Jun 1, 2018 by Dale Byers G2G Astronaut (1.7m points)

Robynne and Steven, I have 2 windows 7 desktop computers that run just fine. 1 I use for both genealogy, mostly for my offline work, and my Ham Radio, digital modes and logging, and the other was given to me because it "no longer worked". A simple monitor replacement and cleaning the viruses from the hard drive fixed it but I have no real use for it. My main go to machine is a Windows 10 netbook, originally Windows 8, with a 1 T external hard drive. The one replaced was also a Windows 10 machine, also originally Windows 8, but she wanted to bet a new one and give the old one to the youngest granddaughter who is always trying to help us out. I also have two android smartphones and an android tablet, but I find them too hard to use on WikiTree.

As for my health, I do have some nerve damage due to a different problem, my B12 is fine. They want me to lose weight, cut down on the caffeine, cut back on salt, and cut back on my sugar intake. Also reduce my intake of bread and pasta but to increase my intake of calcium rich foods and spent less time sitting around, for both weight loss and joint problems. As I said, a total lifestyle change.

commented Jun 1, 2018 by Dale Byers G2G Astronaut (1.7m points)

Answer 3 · 2018-06-01T17:01:00+0000

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Answer 4 · 2018-06-01T17:05:13+0000

This week has been fun genealogy wise. I helped fill in my cousin Nancy's tree AND I decided to get my dad his Father's Day present a little early: https://www.amazon.com/Italians-Haverhill-MA-Images-America/dp/0738508551/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527614644&sr=8-1&keywords=Italians+in+haverhill&dpID=51UJSNVn0xL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch

If you are studying Italian genealogy that is a good place to start. Fun fact. New York and Philly weren't the only go to destinations for Italian immigrants and their families. They made names for themselves in Boston (North End), Woburn, Haverhill and all points in between. That book series is awesome and it even has pics of my great grandparents and a few others in it. I've seen the book before. My grandmother had a copy and it was given to a friend. So, now we have it. It's sitting on my desk in its Amazon wrapper....beckoning me to open it....to....set it free from its tan prison.....

Gotta be strong. Gotta resist the urge. It's a good book, too and the author's other books about Haverhill, Mass are great. So, with that said my tip is to check out these books. They count as genealogy books. Why? Because I said so!! They're chocked full of info and pictures. Don't take my word for it. Check it out!

On another note my admixtures changed on AncestryDNA. Still 46% Italian and the rest a mix of British and such. The rest are trace regions now. So tip #2. Don't freak out if your admixture changes. I saw how many people of Italian ancestry took AncestryDNA. I um....Don't think it's gonna change any time soon. Not with almost half a million people. I should go around Haverhill and get that count to a cool million. >=)

Third tip. When you are labeling a family picture and sending it to cousins make sure you get all the names right. Just saying...Sigh.

Have a great chat!!

Answer 5 · 2018-06-01T17:29:15+0000

Hypothetical question

So if I get 2 top matches showing descent from a certain Irish family at FT DNA, and then on My heritage, I get those same two matches showing up in 3rd and 4th place on my matches list AND the very TOP match at My Heritage also showing descent from this same Irish family, the chances are pretty high that I also descend from this Irish family as well, right?

The top matches from FT DNA are second cousins twice removed or 3rd cousins.

The very top match at MY heritage says Great Uncle, and 1st cousin once removed to 2nd cousin.

I have been creating profiles for the members of this Irish family - the BDM records are good and there is some pretty good documentation in the local newspapers. I have narrowed down the one person who might be my unknown grandfather. He was in the right place at the right time, and was of the right age. He seems to have actually never married, and he died in the 1990s. My maternal grandmother died in 2013.

The only reason I can think of for why he and my grandmother did not get married is because he was Catholic and she was Protestant. And in the 1930s. it was just NOT DONE to have a mixed marriage like that!!

We are now waiting for my mothers DNA results to be done. Hopefully it will show a 1st cousin match to my top match at my heritage

It is agony having to wait for 6 to 8 weeks for these DNA results to come back.

Anyway, I am just asking if you guys agree with my logic and thinking or am I way off track?

Answer 6 · 2018-06-01T17:31:36+0000

First of all,. a HUGE thank you to Robynne, Chris, and Dorothy.

As many of you may know, I have been on a weird two week treadmill to close a company. I honestly thought today was Thursday! I need a new life! Oh, yeah, I am getting one, since we closed the company! I have more to do on that but not on the breakneck timetable we had. So I really really really goofed this week!!!!

You are SUPER STARS!

I am bad. I have no tips ready or a puzzle. So give me a little time and I will do something!

It is so good to know there are people here who truly have your back! Thank again for picking up the pieces and hosting the chat! And don't forget to put a sticker on your profile! I will send you the URL.

answered Jun 1, 2018 by Laura Bozzay G2G6 Pilot (870k points)

Answer 7 · 2018-06-01T17:35:38+0000

Hello Wikitree,

Not quite time for "Where in the world is Steve" but I will give you a tiny taste of a project that I'm working on. Not far from where I live is the Historic Quakertown Passenger and Freight Station you can find out more about this historic train station in a freespace in the works here

So this past week I been still busy catching up on some emails along with other details. I also been working at Transcribing the Union Cemetery in Quakertown that's a huge project and is going to take a significant amount of time. My plan for next week is the Quaker Meeting House in Quakertown. Will find out if I get that far. We been having tantalizing reports of rain and has been hazy and very uncomfortable humidity last couple days. Although today has been the worse it just about takes the breathe out of you. Oh and before I forget Happy National Donut Day. So make sure you eat one. I enjoyed 2 with my coffee this morning I most likely will regret the extra calories. But you only live once.

I'm still waiting on my DNA Test to arrive in the mail. Snail Mail is operating at snail like speeds. I reckon you can't complain when it was free

Till Later Cousins.

Answer 8 · 2018-06-01T18:50:46+0000

TIPS

1. Make sure when you adopt a profile to run suggestions. I had almost 200 of them with the profiles I adopted. But it is a good thing because I am working to clean them up and the tree will be healthier for it.

2. So, we now have a GDPR compliant tree. Somethings have changed. Much remains the same. I took a look at the Find / Surnames and the unlisted people are there. You see them listed as Unlisted with the surname. It shows the Project Manager. So, while you will need to drill through the large names and send an email to each of the PMs to see if it is someone who is in the 100 year range, we still can see that they exist. Unless they were children under the age of 13. Those were removed. Which, is probably the right thing to do. They can add themselves back in if they want to when they are old enough.

3. Merges have been a hot topic for a variety of reasons. I used the new merge layout and I liked it a lot. I adopted two profiles that turned out to be the same people (same parents, same siblings, same birth date). So I merged them. It was really easy to see what I wanted to move over and what I did not need in the profile and clean it up like having two biography sections and two source sections. Remember to merge the higher numbered profile into the lower numbered one.

Answer 9 · 2018-06-01T19:06:00+0000

Puzzle

Yep, this is a quick one... Kind of a quiz... but good things to know!

1. If you want to search all the people attached to a surname, what path do you follow in WikiTree menu prompts?

2. If you want to know what things need to be fixed on your profiles what do you run? There are two places to do this. What are they?

3. If you want to run some reports or different views of your tree where do you go to do that?

4. If you want to adopt profiles with your surnames where do you go to do that?

5. If you are adopted and either want to volunteer to be an Adoption Angel or want help from the Adoption Angels where do you go?

6. If you need to find a project how do you do that?

7. If you want to be able to work on pre-1500 profiles what do you need to qualify? Where do you go to accomplish this?

8. If you are new to WikiTree and want to know how to use it where do you go for a Tutorial?

I will be posting the puzzle and the answers in dropbox before Saturday

The link will be: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rqo8mt2eobujwgd/AAAzB3IGNHqNKXBfdE985NBZa?dl=0

Answer 10 · 2018-06-01T20:31:36+0000

I just spent a good couple of hours removing brush so I could see out of my front windows and into the road and driveway. The brush is actually a plant called Japanese knotweed by the horticulturists, bamboo by many common gardeners, and words only fit for pornographic magazines (I imagine) by me. It grows 6 to 12 inches a day in hot weather and spreads by underground roots, seeds, lawnmower cuttings, and I swear, by my glares. It was sold as an ornamental plant in the depression and my past mother-in-law cursed this place with it. My husband kept it under control with the lawn mower but having a tree removed gave it
sun and no competition and it has spread terribly through the hydrangeas. With a bad knee and back I have to use a folding chair to weed so it took me a long time. I cut them with my brush clippers, move my chair and repeat every three feet. I have even learned how to rake leaves that way. I hope to have the knee fixed this summer and that should help the back problems.
I am waiting on someone to come and look at our old bulk milk tank. He
wants to store used cooking oil in it. How times have changed for our old way of life. I hate to see the things go but don't need them any more and
never will see a dairy here again. They should be moved on if usable. As I often said when we retired "I miss the milkcheck but not the milking"

Answer 11 · 2018-06-01T21:32:56+0000

10 days ago it was going below the freezing point at night. Now it is spiking over 90 during the day and only getting down to the high 50's at night. I just got done installing the air conditioner.

Now I bet tomorrow will go back down to the 60's during the day and upper 40's at night. Crazy how the weather is. Darn that global warming/cooling/warming/change.

If anyone here happens to forget, that sheet I maintain that has unsourced, all the suggestions, as well as the current Data Doctor challenge on different tabs ALSO has an info tab with tips, tricks, commonly used stickers and catalogs. Feel free to stop by and add your own favorite tips and often used links or info.

INFO TAB

Currently there are 57. Lets see if we can hit 200. Just try to avoid duplicates.

Answer 12 · 2018-06-01T22:01:52+0000

The grades for my first two classes as a Graduate student came in. I am currently rocking a 4.0 GPA and I start another class this Monday. Woo!

I was freaking out over the idea that I might have to host a Jupyter Notebook on my computer. The idea rubs me the wrong way, to have to open up my computer's ports and the like. But guess what? I don't have to. Microsoft Azure actually has a free Jupyter Notebooks server you can use without downloading anything. Heck yes.

Pretty sure I'm going to have to make myself a website at this point and get a domain name to go with it. Everyone I've met from my field has their own website with their own top-level domain. I know how to make a website and how to do the CSS for it, but... not really excited about it coming to this. As it is, I'm going to have to take a picture for LinkedIn, which I'm not thrilled about either.

My biological father's DNA test results came in for 23andMe. This made me happy, because so many people growing up (even my siblings) told me he wasn't my father, but my mom said he was before she died, and gave me his surname. Guess what, he is. Take that, naysayers! Unfortunately it doesn't open up anything new on his side of the family in terms of genealogy.

Speaking of, I still can't find more information on my father's paternal grandmother's parents, Vincenzo Cafaro and Caterina Mangieri. Where they were born, when they married, when they died... nothing solid. Heck, I can't even find if my father's paternal grandmother had siblings! She was supposedly born in Montesano (her marriage says she is, but I haven't found a birth record), but if her parents were from Montesano or if they moved there from somewhere else, only to move somewhere else... I have no clue. My father's ancestors are already showing they don't mind leaving home to go far away, even within Italy.

Hope everyone had a great week!

Answer 13 · 2018-06-01T22:05:20+0000

Well I am glad to be back in the Chat after an extended break from Wikitree! I went to my family reunion over the Memorial Day weekend and got newly inspired. I have a lot of new scanned photographs to upload and work through. I think that needs to be my next project - systematically working through all of my material I have already collected, and uploading and organizing it on my laptop! It is going to be hot here in Texas this weekend so it will be a good weekend to stay inside in the cool!

Answer 14 · 2018-06-01T22:45:17+0000

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Answer 15 · 2018-06-01T23:41:05+0000

Hello all, I've just had a very enjoyable and productive few hours. I started with one of the Norfolk unconnected profiles, added her parents, did a search for the name on WikiTree and found all her siblings already had profiles. So a bunch of connections immediately made. Looking at the search results further I saw the name appearing in Hobart. Turns out a brother and the son of another brother went there in the mid-19C and their Aussie families had profiles. Better yet they were already connected to the big tree. So that's a whole bunch of profiles now connected, just need to add the finishing touches. What a good way to start the weekend. Bring on the next profile!

Answer 16 · 2018-06-02T00:36:42+0000

l am here a little early for once. I went with my mother Sunday to see my dad at the rehab in Sweetwater, Tennessee. My brother and sister-in-law and my sister and brother and sister-in-law and my nephew the dog Ollie came down also to see my dad. We were all down there except my brother-in-law and my nephew the dog Ollie came to our house while rest of use visited my dad. He still has that cifid the very contigious stuff of diahara. Before he was transferred to the rehab two weeks ago when he developed pneumonia at the hospital so he had to take antibotics again which started it back again and this time the doctor at the rehab had taking a sample of his poop and this time it came back positive instead of negative as it was when he was in the hospital and before he went to the hospital because he had taken antibotics to clear it up. So they came back negative. But he is getting stronger. He is now able to set up on the bed on the side of the bed and fed himself. A lot of times he doesn't want to do his excersise because he is lazy and he is hurting. One day he threw a pillow and mom said dad we don't throw pillows. He doesn't want to go to dialysis but we told him if he doesn't he will be dead in a weeks time and he thinks now since he has vascular dementia that mom made him to go to dialysis and we told him that he himself made the decision not us. So he does go. He getting where he can get out of the wheelchair and get on the side of the bed and fix himself in the bed and get out of the bed and get in the wheelchair. But the ambulance takes him in his bed to dialysis and get him in the chair and goes back and gets him and puts him back in bed and takes him to rehab three times a week. Because he not strong enough to get himself out of the chair and into the car then out of the car and into a wheelchair or push his walker into the dialysis and the same when to go back to the rehab.

We are leaving the fecal transplant as the very last hope if we need to do it because my dad will need to be off all of his medicine for 3 days before doing the transplant and that could be very dangerous for my dad because of his kidney disease and his vascular dementia and blood pressure. Also his age at 85 which he will be if he lives to July 11 then he will be 86.

My sister came down today and took me out to lunch and then she went down to the rehab to see my dad. Tomorrow is my brother-in-law and he will be 57. Last Sunday my dad took a long walk looking for my mother because we were going down there later than she did when he was in the hospital and he thought she was lost so he was trying to find her and the physical therapist told us that. His vascular dementia is getting worse every day.

Tomorrow I will add pictures of the different pets we have had and the ones that my sister and brother-in-law and brother and sister-in-law has now. Also different pets that my sister and brother-in-law has had also.

Welcome everyone to the WikiTree Weekend Chat.

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