Welcome to the Weekend Chat, everyone! And greetings from Cathey’s Creek where we are in full swing into the complaint season (“It’s so cold! I hate the cold!”) I’ll be hearing that for the next five months. <sigh> This is our fifth winter, so you’d think I’d be used to listening to this day after day. Already looking forward to April!
On the Home Front: The road is paved! However, there are no lines painted yet, so we are trusting everyone else’s superior spatial abilities… NOT! Nice to have it done, though. The highway department got it done rather quickly (after they finally got started), and it’s paved all the way down to my mom’s neighborhood. Smooooth drivin’! I’m guessing that the signs that have been up since last March will not be taken down until six months after the painting is done. Gummit work.
My new kilt is in! Robertson Red for my three Reid lines. It’s made not of wool, but of poly-viscose material that is lighter, so I’ll more likely be wearing it more in the summer. And yes, let me head off the question: I do wear my kilts around the house and once in a while in public. Robertson Red and a dark green sweater = themed attire for Christmas. I’ve got a list of four kilts I want (limited from a longer list after my wife’s input) and am saving up for the next one, in wool this time. If anyone wants to know what to get me for Christmas, it’s a gift certificate to my kilt company! HA! Actually, I’ve emailed the form to my brothers and my daughters.
Really good news: Our paramedic daughter and her firefighter husband are, after many years on different shifts, are finally on the same shift. This means we might get to see them more up here. It was our daughter’s promotion to crew chief that helped this along. We are thrilled, not just for us, but because they will no longer be “ships passing in the night.”
On the Genealogy Front: This week I worked from the North Carolina Needs Profiles Created category. I started on this one particular family in Gaston County that was not related to me, went down a rabbit hole, and found a distant connection to my Moore and Rankin families at the bottom. Turns out that as I followed this line to more recent years, I came across a name I was familiar with, and it turns out that I went to church with some of these people, particularly the parents of a gal I dated in high school! She is doubly related to me through both of the afore mentioned families. It’s a small, small world. Her uncle married a Davenport whose mother was a Killian. Another double connection.
My personal veterans list of needing biographies has now grown to eight. Mostly, they are World War I (Great War) veterans, but I did come across a couple of World War II vets whose discharge papers give quite a bit of information on their service, including schools attended, awards, areas of service). Adding as much relevant information from the forms, especially from the World War I draft cards (the physical descriptions and employment), adds so much to a biography, helping those folks to become more than just dates and places.
I am looking forward to hearing from the usual crew and new folks too, and also to seeing what Dorothy and Jelena have for us this weekend. Blessings on all of you and, as this is the weekend before Thanksgiving, thank you all for the assistance and friendship you’ve so freely given to me since I became a member of WikiTree.
Now, jump in and enjoy the Chat!