Welcome to the Weekend Chat, my dear ones! And greetings from Cathey’s Creek where we’ve had very little rain this past week and temps creeping up into the low 7-0sF. I am posting this Chat much earlier than usual as I will be delivering the family I’ve been helping to a court hearing in a neighboring town. I have no idea how long this is going to take.
On the Home Front: It’s been a busy week with lots of time spent in the car. I am learning the value of saying, “no,” which relieves some of the stress I have been under. I just cannot be there every single day. My wife is beginning to think she’s lost me. I took her on a date Wednesday night to see a movie, The Long Game, which is showing now at our local theater. Not a great movie, but one still worth seeing.
I’m not going to go into all the details for privacy concerns, but the needs in that family are greater than I can possibly meet, financially or time wise. But, for the sake of my mentee, I do what I can, including picking him up tonight from work so he can get a shower here to look presentable in case he is called as a witness.
Physical therapy continues apace. I don’t know how much longer I will be there, but they are really pushing me lately which is a good thing. I am making great progress.
On the Genealogy Front: I did do a little work on that Underwood-McKee family, and I mean a little. Most of the rest of my time online with WikiTree has been greeting (as usual, but with help from my fellow Greeters when I could not be there for my shift). I have had, recently, a lot more requests for help from new members.
The therapist who I was working with on Wednesday asked me what I do with my time, and of course I mentioned genealogy. He asked for a couple of stories.
One was where one of my ancestors and one of my wife’s were one above the other on a ship list coming for what is now Germany. Small world that it is, about 250 years after they arrived, my wife and I married.
The other story was about my ancestor William Lawing, twice caught stealing watches in London in the 1740s. He was convicted on the second charge and at the age of 14, the youngest age at which a convict could be transported, was sentence to a little vacation to the Colony of Virginia. He ended up marrying a daughter of the ancestor who was on the ship list I mentioned above. Yeah, it’s a small world.
My wife has a better story about a rogue of a cousin from Kentucky. Maybe I’ll remember to share it with you some day. I think you’ll get as much of a kick out of that one as we do in the telling.
I broke 200,000 total contributions during the last thon.
For an anniversary this week, I offer my parents wedding on 28 April 1951.
Be blessed, dear ones, every one of you.
Enjoy the Chat!
