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CHANGE TO BEST ANSWER PROCESS: After much discussion we have come to the conclusion that all answers in the Weekend Chat are of equal importance and weight. So we are going to discontinue the Best Answer portion as it adds points and then takes them away from posters and is causing some hurt feelings. So in the interest of everyone is equal and valued we will delete any best answers given which will deduct those points because it has been pointed out that to give everyone best answer is also not a viable option.

Weekend Chat is for everyone. It's a place to catch up on what people are up to and to share what you've been doing. New members can say hello, introduce themselves, ask questions, and meet each other. Our seasoned members can share progress or successes from their projects, give tips and advice, or chime in on hot topics.

Post as many answers and comments as you wish. It doesn't hurt anyone to post a lot and enjoy the multitude of topics.

Enjoy yourselves and spread the love!

WikiTree profile: Pip Sheppard

closed with the note: See you next weekend!

asked Nov 1, 2019 in The Tree House by Pip Sheppard G2G Astronaut (2.7m points)
closed Nov 5, 2019 by Pip Sheppard

Welcome to another Weekend Chat, my fellow WikiChatterers! And greetings from a wet Cathey’s Creek. Yep, we finally got some decent rain after a fairly dry summer. Much as we need it, I am reminded of how this worked out last year: flooding, trees down, power outages. Here’s hoping for better weather this time around. We are less worried about how severe weather will affect our landscaping. Even if you are a nominal reader of my posts, you know what we have worked all spring and summer to redo much of our back and front yards. We finished just in time for the season change. Yes, there are a few minor things to take care of, but the heavy work is done for now.

On the home front: I’m leaving NOW for the weekend, so I’ll be checking in and out of the Chat sporadically. This will be our first getaway since a year ago last June (not counting the wedding last January, which was a lot of work for everyone but me – my job was to cry the whole time), and I am thrilled! This weekend I’ll be in Charleston, South Carolina, for the Charleston Scottish Games, and this will be a family affair, one of those rare instances where everyone’s schedule worked out. Both of my daughters and their hubbies will be there. Tonight, we eat at a really nice steak place downtown, and they Saturday is the big day!

All of us will be at the Games, and everyone is pretty excited (except my wife who indulges me: attending, mending my Balmoral, ironing my 35-year-old kilt, etc.). For my sons-in-law, this will be a first for them. I’m hoping this will “hook” them. One has Mccrea ancestry on his mother’s side and is a sportsman (maybe he’ll want to work toward participating in the athletic events in the future?). The other son-in-law just wants to enjoy himself. I haven’t worked his maternal lines yet: his paternal line is all Puerto Rican. Of course, I have Mccrae ancestry, too, along with several others like Patterson and Kerr.

My daughters attended with me in the early 90s, and the last one I attended probably about 1999. The younger doesn’t remember, but the elder of the two does. She’s pretty proud of her Scottish heritage, just as she is of her Volga-German ancestry through her biological father (I discovered this latter for her).

I know that some in Scotland looks askance at how we interpret our Scottish heritage here in the United States, but even amongst all the “frou-frou” (kilts for Lowland Scot descendants, tarter this and tartan that, jewelry, accessories) there are components of Games that does help us to celebrate our heritage. And I am proud of my heritage, especially since I’ve been able to delve more deeply into my Scottish ancestry since joining WikiTree, discovery upon discovery!

On the genealogy front: GALLOWAY, MCCALL, OWEN. ‘Nuff said! (But a special shout-out to cousin and WikiTree member Donnie Blackstone who has paved the way for me through our shared heritage. I regularly come across his work and that makes connecting and sourcing so much easier. Thank you, Cousin Donnie!)

This week, I’ve had the special honor to write up full narrative bios for a couple of WWI vets. Thanks to Natalie Trott for assisting with categorisation.

And an earnest thank you to all those members who have helped me interpret difficult handwriting on old documents several times over the past couple of months. Your ability to decipher Southern hieroglyphics helps me to make bios all that much better. Your assistance is most appreciated!

Be blessed, everyone, and enjoy the Chat!

commented Nov 1, 2019 by Pip Sheppard G2G Astronaut (2.7m points)

@Pip, "... tarter this and tartan that ..." ... okay

CALIFORNIA -- SoCal fires a cause of concern ref relatives I cannot get a response from but I figure with 1000's and 1000's evacuated and all things considered with flames springing up and devouring the environment, it will be another few weeks before they can respond ...

GENEALOGICALLY I have been testing the entry of explanatory commentary (The Box on a Profile) that will show up in Family Feeds ... timed out a few times so I suspect that "frequent saving" anxiety is NOT going to be allowed to rule me.

I discover anew that while it's easy enough to profile one or two children when I'm looking at and processing more than five of them, transcripts in the biog, and sourcing .... even the mouse begins to sag in fatigue ... it's certainly challenging ... so I do one complete (I hope, barring any Category stuff) and roll over for food, rest, renewal and then tackle the next one ...

Currently updating the Pemberton files I'm related to. MIND YOU, it's JUST the kids for this couple and NOT (yet) the spouses and grandchildren.

If I've discovered any new cousins, it's lost in a blur of fatigue.

INVITATIONAL - "BE MY GUEST" -- DID get a query about the Longley ranch, Campbell Longley and 1st spouse Sarah. Sarah is the only one buried in one cemetery (of the Longley) but the cemetery was removed to Caddo, TX, when Authority decided to construct Stillhouse Hollow resevoir etc c1955/62. Campbell married second but I don't recall issue at this moment. QUERY was about the LOCATION of the ranch. Well, Bell County, TX of course, with a prior land purchase in Washington County (later some part of another county), etc ... I think they want the GPS of it, barring the fact it's under water. The man making the query is a writer, a historian, traveling, gathering materials, etc. (Must be a lot younger than I am). Profiles in question are Campbell Longley-1009 and his 1st Sarah Ann (Henry-9077) Longley AND if ANYONE wants to contribute to Bob Boys (the Querent) information contact me and I'll send you his email

I went ahead and adopted Campbell & Sarah, and added some URL stuff in the biog box on Campbell's profile. On Sarah's profile I entered some materials from her FAG about some of the children. I may go ahead and profile the kids, but anyone who has an Idle Moment (LOL) is free to do so, both files are OPEN

Campbell's horrid son William P. Longley, was notorious and totally bad -- of course if YOU want to do a Black Sheep on him, fine by me. I won't. You'll be overwhelmed by Legend and Rumor and have to be careful in construction -- William IS in Wikipedia I think so you've got a double whammy going as a Notable and a Black Sheep ...

I see that ONE child is profiled by someone, Elizabeth (Longley) Walton, that needs SOURCES by crackey that whole line of descent is "Ancestry.com" which is not acceptable.

avoir, mes amis

I THINK we can say with confidence that Pip and Spouse have worked wonders, or at least I have spent a lot of time WONDERING ... I have to give them major kudos for Herculean Labors on the renovation and repairs they have made

PS / I contacted someone who contacted someone who contacted one of the unresponsive family members who said they are "fine". I'd love to know if fine means sitting in a refugee camp or at home ... but I'm lucky to find out that much. LOL (well, he was an Eagle Scout, so a refugee camp wouldn't present too much difficulty for him)

commented Nov 1, 2019 by Susan Smith G2G6 Pilot (656k points)
edited Nov 2, 2019 by Susan Smith

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Answer 1 · 2019-11-01T12:52:17+0000

Good morning everyone, hope today finds you in good health and in good spirits.

Here in Central Pennsylvania we had about 2.5 inches of rain last night, with some local flooding in low areas. Temperatures are predicted to dip slightly below freezing at night over the next several days.

I had a good week. Received my DNA results on Wednesday, so I will be going through those this weekend, trying to educate myself on what it all means. At first glance it is a lot of information and seems overwhelming, so I will have to break it down into manageable pieces.

I spent most of my genealogy time this week walking in the local cemetery. Found a few tombstones I was looking for, and found a few tombstones that may give me clues to other surname lines I was interested in.

Travel safe and enjoy the weekend. Keep the wind to your back. Forward progress will be much easier.

answered Nov 1, 2019 by Rodney Long G2G6 Pilot (868k points)
edited Nov 1, 2019 by Rodney Long

Answer 2 · 2019-11-01T12:58:25+0000

Today is....

NATIONAL DEEP FRIED CLAMS DAY

National Deep Fried Clams Day on November 1st recognizes a popular seafood item enjoyed since the 1840s.

Fried claims have been on menus in restaurants since the 1840s. They were served alongside mutton, liver and veal cutlets up and down the Eastern Seaboard. And they have quite a history, too.

According to legend, Lawrence Henry “Chubby” Woodman from Essex, Massachusetts deep fried the first breaded versions of clams over 100 years ago. On July 3, 1916, in his small roadside restaurant, now Woodman’s of Essex, it is believed Chubby served his customers the first modern-day deep-fried clams.

It was later on that Thomas Soffron of Soffron Brothers Clam Co., based in Ipswich, Massachusetts, created clam strips, which are made from the foot of hard-shelled sea clams. Soffron sold these to Howard Johnson’s in an exclusive deal, and as the chain expanded, they became popular throughout the country.

Clams are low in cholesterol and fat without breading and oil. However, when fried, they absorb cooking fat and calories.

Fried clams to New England are what barbecue is to the South. ~David Leite ~August 29, 2007, New York Times ~In A ’64 T-Bird, Chasing a Date With a Clam

HOW TO OBSERVE "Deep Fried Clams Day":

Enjoy this Battered Fried Clams recipe.

Answer 3 · 2019-11-01T13:04:58+0000

Good morning to all. First some good news for a change. I am recovering slowly from my recent illness and even managed to work a a few profiles over the last couple of days, nothing major but some sources and family members were added.

We had the first snow of the season, just a trace but it still counts, last night. My sister had an accident yesterday and totaled her car. She has some minor injuries but should be returning to work on Monday so that is good news. We are in the planning stages of planning a short trip to North Carolina in December, exact dates and length of time is still undetermined, but we have not visited relatives down there in over 3 years so hopefully it will not be much longer for those visits.

Well back to the tree and work on some profiles and possibly even some pruning of my watchlist.

Answer 4 · 2019-11-01T13:12:33+0000

Good Friday Morning, WikiTreers! Happy Weekend!

I sure hope November is a better month for us. In October, one great-granddaughter had to have jaw reconstruction surgery. Another great-granddaughter broke her wrist. A son-in-law was force-retired (just a few years shy of his actual retirement.) I fought bronchial asthma (still not over completely.) We had to put our 19-year-old kitty to sleep. AND the coup de grace was my husband having a heart attack accompanied by some mini-strokes last Friday. He is home and doing fairly well--we can already tell major improvement from the effects of the strokes which primarily affected his eyes and left arm. His heart is weakened and is in AFib but he is alive. Edited: Took husband to ER Saturday morning for shortness of breath and fluid retention. They said he has Congestive Heart Failure. They transported him to Atlanta and are giving him meds to get the fluid off.

I have gotten some genealogy work done during the month of October, but not as much as I would have liked. I'm continuing to focus on my Hildreth (maternal) line. (Anyone else think a 500 contribution badge for the month would be nice? Especially now that we know "frequent saving" is costly to WikiTree?)

November 4th will be my first WikiTree anniversary--my account was "created" on October 29th last year but I wasn't "confirmed" until November 4th. Being part of the WikiTree community has been a wonderful experience. I've learned so much and I'm looking forward to a productive second year.

Y'all take care and have a terrific weekend!

Answer 5 · 2019-11-01T13:24:09+0000

I am busy trying to get things in order to head south sometime this month. It seems harder every year to have
the things lined up in case I need long distance help from
remaining family here.
I was surprised to see Donnie Blackstone referred to. Some of his ancestors lived within five miles of here and Blackstone Hill is a real challenge to the snowplow drivers
every slippery winter day. There are Blackstones buried in the same cemetery as my great grandfather.
We had a big wind storm last night but luckily no wires were blown down so I can write this. We are still having
long term problems in this area with the long term too high
water levels on Lake Ontario. The home owners and businesses are asking for shipping to be stopped early so extra water can safely be let out of the dams on the St. Lawrence River and the water levels reduced by at least a foot. Two years, back to back, of unusually high water has
caused a lot of financial and environmental problems in this
area. We would have been very glad to have some of that early spring rain and snow pack melt through the whole Great Lakes area to have been shared with the state of California. I can't imagine having to grab my things and rush away and possibly come home to a pile of ashes. My heart goes out to any one living through that, after having gone through just a kitchen wing on our house burning down about 45 years ago.

Answer 6 · 2019-11-01T13:27:22+0000

Hails and horns, Wikipeeps!

How is everyone doing the day after Halloween? We good? Good here. Halloween was unfortunately delayed because of the rain. It sucks. But, what can ya do? Mother nature doesn't play fair and doesn't much care for holidays. Nope.

On the genealogy front, I posted about Halloween in my blog: https://allroadhaverhill.blogspot.com/2019/10/52-ancestors-week-44-trick-or-treat.html

I ain't afraid of no ghosts. Let alone one of my grandmother. Still, it is a good story and I don't mind repeating it.

Here on Wikitree, I've been working with Natalie Trott to recategorize Italian profiles so that the towns nest better in the categories. The way we do it is simple. "Town/Commune,Province" It's like how in America we have "Town, State" or "Town/Country". Dunno if that makes sense. But, we are working to edit all of the pages so that they'd be in the right categories.

We seem to have more Sicilian pages than Calabrian or even Campanian....Interesting. I should remedy that.

On the non genealogy front, things are okay. Hope you all enjoy the blog!

Answer 7 · 2019-11-01T13:27:46+0000

Currently, it's 4˚ C in Fort Erie and windy. The wind was gusting up to 121 km/h last night, and Environment Canada issued a Small Craft Warning for the puddle in our back yard. The predicted high for today is a sultry 5˚ C, with a low tonight of 2˚ C.

On the home front, the light of my life and the delight of my eyes gets to take off her heart monitor at noon today. I predict periods of singing and dancing when that happens, as she has found that monitor really annoying.

On the genealogy front, I'm most of the way through the list of Frenches on ThePeerage.com as part of the French Name Study. So far, I can report that there are about four times as many Frenches on WikiTree as there are Slades, and the proportion of Frenches to Slades on ThePeerage is nearly as high (although there are only about twice as many Frenches as Slades listed on Wikipedia). However, the proportion of Frenches from ThePeerage and Wikipedia who have profiles on WikiTree is considerably lower. (Probably because I haven't been putting much effort into the French Name Study.)

Even the proportions of sourced and connected Frenches on WikiTree is lower, even though those numbers depend on the work of way more people. At this point, I can't say whether Frenches or Slades (or Welches) are above average, below average, or in the middle of the pack on these measures. I did start a thread last month on "Stuff I put on my One Name Study pages", and a number of people commented that they planned to add at least some of those elements onto their own One Name Study pages. If enough people start charting the number of connected and sourced profiles for the surnames in their studies, we might be able to build charts showing how well each surname is doing. (Or, for that matter, it would probably be possible to build an app to do that.) I can imagine somebody being right chuffed if every single profile with the Last Name At Birth of their One Name Study was sourced and connected to the main tree. I know I would be.

Answer 8 · 2019-11-01T13:29:42+0000

Hello to all from beautiful Cochise County, Arizona!

Been a very busy week. The Open House for our senior center last Friday afternoon was a huge success. It even made the front page of the city's newspaper. It was nice for our small town to get good press coverage.

I had a fun time at last night's "trunk or treat". I string a giant, crocheted spider web plus large spider across my trunk and make the children reach around/through to get the candy. I enjoy interacting with them and seeing the costumes.

One of my snowbird friends has now read the first 30 chapters of my book. She is anxious to read the rest. My two beta readers haven't gotten back to me about those chapters yet (and probably won't for another two weeks!). Seems like I need to print out those chapters now. lol Haven't done much writing this week cause I've had too many other things to do.

WikiTree: I managed to get all of the White family from Aunt Sue's tree done for the BioBuilders challenge. Fell into so many rabbit holes along the way, I wondered if I were becoming a character in "Watership Down".

I had been thinking of starting on the Irish Brennans next, but not sure if I want to fall down more rabbit holes searching for Irish records. Think I'll focus more on writing this upcoming week.

Have a safe and wonderful weekend!

Answer 9 · 2019-11-01T14:06:04+0000

Happy Weekend! Remember to VOTE next Tuesday or before. NY just passed early voting so we have actually worked twice so far and it isn't even election day.

Enjoyed the responses to my post on all the German DNA in the British. Interesting comment about being attached to the continent and people crossing over. Later the channel was created and it became an island. The original BREXIT?

Trying to create an address list for my cousin who sends out birthday and Christmas cards. Her daughter hasn't returned hers. Her mother did this before her. There are 17 left out of 24 cousins. Her birthday is this month so I can send it then.

Found out AARP taxaide is going to Chromebooks. They have been using Microsoft PCs. Anyone have experience with Chromebooks? It is cheaper and mostly a way to connect to the internet I guess. (200-600 dollars).

Answer 10 · 2019-11-01T14:11:47+0000

Thanks for hosting again Pip and hope to see pictures of your kilt !

Weather: Here in Catoosa County, GA, it finally started raining again last week and it’s been great fall weather UNTIL……… Halloween. The morning started out in the 70s but by late afternoon was 40’s and dropping with an overnight frost. Add a bit of wind and the trick-or-treat costumes couldn’t provide much comfort.

Leaves are now showing deep reds, purples and yellows ….. will probably peak in a day or two.

Halloween: Costumes don't need to be difficult nor expensive...... perhaps this costume was inspired by the Gong Show (remember the Unknown Comic?)

Genealogy: I’ve been creating Elliott family profiles , based on some Elliott family research I was given by a “cousin”….. she found me through Find A Grave. Without her research, it would have been painful to piece the facts together. Back in the 1800s, the Rhoades continually married the Elliotts and they all married the Finks from Germany. A wife’s death inspired them to marry a sister-in-law, keeping it all in the family I guess. Everyone named their sons Lewis and their daughters Serena (later just Rena). Some of the relationships were difficult to sort out, so I didn’t save anything for the next Connect-A-Thon; where you only want the swift and simple.

Music: The G2G forum had a topic on generating a WikiTree Playlist. It will certainly be fun to see the outcome. While it’s hard to classify Victor Borge (is he a pianist or comedian??)…. If you’re not familiar with his work you might enjoy it. In this clip, he doesn’t play much piano…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtDX1Vl-Jxk

I’m sure Susan Laursen is familiar with her countryman’s work.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend. (Especially Pip)

Answer 11 · 2019-11-01T14:35:32+0000

Hello all from snowy Colorado. We just had a foot of snow and temps dropped to minus 2 yesterday morning. Since I’m a duck hunter, I got to experience that cold and snow first hand. But not for long because all the water so so frozen that we went skating instead.

So forget the hunting and I will now continue working on my cemetery study. I'm 2/3rds done with a 1400 memorial cemetery. That means entering a profile, putting it in a cemetery category, taking a pic of the headstone, transcribing the headstone, and then connecting the profile to the world. I am guessing it will take me a full year to complete and I’m 8 months into it. But I sure learned a lot about alternate and local sources that have aided the process. And I now understand a lot more about local history and what people dealt with in moving to a new territory. It’s been fun.

Answer 12 · 2019-11-01T15:06:18+0000

Hello fellow WikiTreers. Has anyone figured out anything about the two of us who walked into a bar....

Yesterday we set a record high of 86F, but it dropped into the 50s sometime overnight, probably when the tornado alert woke us up around 1am. Haven't heard anything about any tornado touch down, though.

We have prepared the RV for winter, and go to the first basketball game of the season tonight.

I have been adding the (deceased) descendants of ggg grandparents and got to the last one (Viola) about 2 weeks ago. Oh what a rabbit hole! Viola and Her second husband Gates married after his first wife Louisa died. They were divorced 5 days before he married Harriet, whom he divorced 5 years before he married Louisa's sister Cynthia. Viola's father was the witness for Louisa and Cynthia's father's will. The father along with his children Louiza, Albert (really is Halbert) and Syntha (Cynthia) had profiles from a 2000 GEDCOM, but Louisa was a different person, married to a different individual, and a mangled version of their stepmother was their mother, instead of their mother Louisa who died in 1874. All of the family individuals married, typically 2, 3 or 4 times. There is another guy named Gates, but he is a different person. And so on. So you would expect that Viola and her daughter appear in the 1940 census, and the son-in-law is on a different sheet. Next is Viola's first husband, who married 3 or 4 times. Gah!

Answer 13 · 2019-11-01T16:04:18+0000

Grace and peace to you, Wikikin!

I haven't posted in a couple of weeks. I've been busy with the full time job, wife, three young sons, and the house and yard with tons of projects to accomplish before the arrival of our first daughter/fourth child in 18 days (scheduled C-Section).

It's a cold All Saints Day here in metro-Detroit. Yesterday, Halloween, was cold and VERY wet, and rumor has it we had some snow overnight that didn't stick. Quite early for snowfall in southeastern Michigan. My grandmother's brother posted a picture of a thouroughly snow-coated landscape in northern lower Michigan. I'm just glad it isn't like that yet here. I'd like at least one full month before that please.

Yesterday I was able to leave work early and go to the school where my twin sons go to kindergarten for their costume parade and classroom parties. It was fun.

After that, we went home for dinner to discover a sump pump disaster in the basement. Well, disaster is a strong word - but it wasn't a good situation. It had been pouring all day and the sump pump must have been overwhelemed and it stopped working and some parts of our basement had up to an inch of standing water. After my in-laws and I bailed out the sump pump for almost an hour it suddenly started working again, thank Goodness.

I finished just in time to take the kids trick-or-treating. It wasn't terribly rainy at first, but it got worse, and it got windy and cold. Many, many houses were giving out candy by the handful since there were fewer trick-or-treaters out than usual due to the weather, so the kids got quite the haul.

I finally got to have my dinner at 9pm after the kids were in bed.

Tonight, Holy Mass of All Saints. Tomorrow - new session of swim lessons begins, this time with all three boys. Also, the attic insulation saga continues - and hopefully concludes. Sunday, I'm probably going to assessemble the crib and help my wife finish off the baby's room.

Answer 14 · 2019-11-01T19:38:33+0000

Greetings from Everett, Washington!

I want to give a shout out to new member Amy Meredith https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Meredith-4236 She has just uploaded a GEDCOM and she is asking all the right questions, of me privately and here on G2G, about formatting and sourcing. I do not have experience with GEDCOMs, so I suggested she ask all you fine people.

The cemetery event last Wednesday was not what I'd hoped. The police officer forgot to publicize it on social media, although I did get the word out through other sources. Mostly, though, I learned that we have to start before 6 p.m., as the sun went down very rapidly after that hour. BIG maple leaves obscured many of the flat grave markers, so I concentrated on the older, upright ones and kept my small group close to me. The sun went down in a halo of red (red because of distant smoke from the California fires), the weather being clear and rapidly falling into the low 40s. It was a beautiful view before it got very dark, and cold.

We had one trick-or-treater last night. Just as well, as Halloween night always requires me to be cooking for the family in between looking out for potential visitors. I made a pumpkin pie out of the ropy pulp that the seeds cling to. Unfortunately the premade graham cracker crust that I employed as a shortcut was burnt. I also made pumpkin pancakes this morning.

Deep fried clams sound good today. As we are not required to abstain from meat on a holy day of obligation (All Saints Day), I also cooked sausages for my daughter and son.

My husband and I were introduced by an avid Scottish gamesman from Los Angeles. When I got that historic voicemail from him in April 1989 about his wanting me to meet a friend of his, I almost didn't go, because I thought that all his friends were also bodybuilders who tossed the caber and the 50-pound stone. Husband and I later attended several games with him, such as the one at Costa Mesa in Orange County. I have several pieces of McFarlane headgear, neckties, and, somewhere, some hunting McFarlane tartan wool material that has moth holes by now. I enjoy Highland dancing and sheep dog trials.

Answer 15 · 2019-11-01T20:27:51+0000

Greetings and Salutations, Wikitreers!

It started off as such a nice week here in central Indiana until the cold arctic winds cut in on Wednesday and by the time Halloween rolled around, it was like ice daggers with the sleet and snow coming down. Fortunately the pavement was too hot for anything to stick. Unfortunately, the precipitation kind of forced all the celebrations indoors. So our Trunk n' Treat at the church turned into more of a Table n' Treat, which was just fine with me. Last year I believe we saw about 1300 kids come through. I don't think we had as many this year, but it certainly was a steady stream for the 2 hours we held the event. I tempered my enthusiasm for handing out multiple pieces of candy with my experience from last year, and started off with 1 piece per trickster, but by the last 30 minutes, upped the ante to 2 pieces and ended up taking 2 bags and some remnants home with me. But by the time I went to work early, left early, packed the car, ran out, set up the table, treated for 2 hours, rushed home, slammed down some fast food, and went straight to bed, I was exhausted. Today's been one of those sinus/dizzy days where some unidentified illness is creeping around the edges, so I'm trying to both ignore it and drink LOTS of fluids as a precaution. We'll see how it all turns out.

On the genealogy front, I've been steadily working Fulkerson profiles - most of which are distantly related, but I'm pleased to see that several trees are filling out. I'm come to the realization that I just hate to leave pieces left out of a tree, so I add a few non-Fulkerson pieces while I'm out there rooting around those branches so that maybe I'll be lucky and someone will see the name and follow along behind me and maybe add a few more branches to them.

I also connected actress and Oscar winner Sandy Dennis this week. She was relatively easy to connect, and I probably could have added another 20-50 profiles to her tree, but when I'm doing these Notables, I try to give them a good start and then need to move along to the next one so that we can continue to grow our tree. Hoping I'm hitting the reasonably proper balance of quantity AND quality in these things, although sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't just sit on a profile for a week and just improve the heck out of it and then be happy that I got ONE completely done. Reminds me of the Tootsie Pop and the owl - how many licks... one... two... *CRUNCH* three. Three was enough. For him at least - not so sure with me.

Answer 16 · 2019-11-01T20:43:48+0000

Happy weekend, everyone! Halloween at a friend's house was fun despite the weather; the teens chilled in the basement watching Psycho while the younger sibs went out for a while. But then Halloween had one last trick for us... last night's storm was a doozy, and we've lost power. Trees and lines down all over the neighborhood. It'll supposedly be fixed by midnight but I never trust those estimates to be accurate. So I might be spending the weekend at the office just to have lights and wifi. Meanwhile, the truck is about due for new tires... skidding a bit on wet pavement. It's always something...

Answer 17 · 2019-11-02T04:46:46+0000

Good Friday Evening from Pima County, Arizona!

It's getting mighty chilly (not chili) in The Old Pueblo...perhaps 70F during the day and the low 50s at night. I know this sounds whiny; however, 70 here is akin to 40 in the Midwest as far as I'm concerned.

I did completed my first Biobuilders on Halloween. I managed to do biographies for 15 Brown and kin profiles. I might have gotten more completed, but some were GEDcom riddled, some had no sources, and some were missing family members. I got a notification from the genealogy principles course that I could 'print out' my non-degree, non-certificate verification of completion. Much to my surprise, I got an A- for the course. My best two of seven scores the seven weeks were the sections on 1) slave schedules and 2) DNA.

I won't be doing much relevant to WT this next week. I leave for Mexico on Monday and have a near full week of teaching. I still have to review my PPT presentations. I will return, hopefully, Saturday night and maybe get to post something on Sunday for next weekend's chat.

Thank you, Pip, for hosting!

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