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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.

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WikiTree profile: Pip Sheppard

closed with the note: Great to hear from everyone. See you next weekend!

asked May 27, 2022 in The Tree House by Pip Sheppard G2G Astronaut (2.7m points)
closed May 30, 2022 by Pip Sheppard

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Happy belated birthday, Pip! At my age they tend to be just another day. The Hub and I have birthdays 5 days ( and 3 years) apart, so I usually make a German chocolate cake - his favorite - and call it good. :) On Monday we'd forgotten it was our 32nd wedding anniversary, until we got a cute card and note from our neighbors...

Ugh. Eye goo. Hope it's nothing too serious. I got conjunctivitis at ballet camp when I was 16. So did a number of others...put your hand on the barre, sweat, wipe your face...you can imagine the contagion. They stuffed us all in the camp van and hauled us over to the clinic in Westerly, RI.

I hope you can find a little tranquillity in this time of war, upheaval and tragedy. Be well, Cousin!

commented May 28, 2022 by D Armistead G2G6 Mach 8 (83.0k points)

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Answer 1 · 2022-05-27T13:45:48+0000

Buenos días a todos from Eagle, Wisconsin! It is 7:30 am and 52F (11.1C) with an expected high of 68F (20C) and overcast skies. Brrrrrr! We have been in the 100s in Tucson, so these are winter temperatures for me!

My sister, Bonny, niece Elyse and her boyfriend Matt and I leave tomorrow evening from Chicago O’Hare to London. We will be flying by night to arrive in London on Sunday, May 29^th. No rest for the wicked. After leaving our luggage at the Mitre House Hotel, we will spend the day at the British Library, take station 9¾ to Hogwarts, and spend the evening at the Globe to see Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Other activities for the next few days in London will include Temple Church (one of my favorite places), Westminster, including tea at the restaurant with our good friend Lucas, and renewing my Readers Pass. I will meet my cousin, Sherry, in person for the first time. She lives in Kent, but we will be meeting in London ‘somewhere’ and discuss genealogy.

Following Trooping of Colour on Thursday, my niece and I will be going on a ‘guided’ Florence Nightingale tour while Bonny and Matt trek to Wembley. We leave bright and early on Friday morning via Chunnel to Paris and will stay there for 2 days. Bonny and family hosted a high school foreign exchange student from Eguisheim, France several years ago and now Pauline does tours in Paris. We will be staying with her and do walking tours of Sacre Coeur Cathedral, the Moulin Rouge, Shakespeare & Co. bookstore, Notre Dame cathedral, the Eiffel Tower (naturally), Arche de Triomphe (naturally) and the Champs Elysse (naturally). We leave on the 7^th or 8^th by train from Paris to Frankfurt. I will need to get Jelena Ecstadt’s gmail as I hope to meet with her in Frankfurt for a little while at least prior to changing trains as we head toward Rain am Lech in Bavaria.

We will be staying with a friend, Lori, from America who moved to Bavaria and now lives there with her husband and children. Lori and Bonny attended high school together and made several trips to Tucson in the 1980s when I was in graduate school. Both women turned 60 this year and we will be celebrating Lori’s 60^th on June 11^th…the main reason for this trip. While in Bavaria, we will tour several castles, including Nuenschwanstein (sp?), one of Ludwig’s several castles. I suppose it could be called the “White Dove of Bavaria” akin to our “White Dove of the Desert” for the San Xavier Mission in south Tucson. Mostly for those nearly two weeks in Germany, we will be chilling and enjoying coffee and kuchen on a daily basis. Bonny’s husband, Jack will be joining us in Germany on June 9^th and the three of us will return on the June 19^th.

I will be staying in Milwaukee through June 26^th as my grandson, Luke, graduates from high school on the 25^th. He has been looking into programs at the local technical college and he is applying for their program in cyber security, which I think is an excellent choice for him. His face is smucked to a computer on a daily basis as it is so he might as well get paid for his passion.

During that final week in June, I will have the opportunity to visit my brother, Lev and his family as well. We had a great time while he and Sue were in Tucson and they are fun to spend time with. It seems like yesterday that Lev, Sue and I worked on fixing our various homes together, built garages, fireplaces, hosted historic home tours for the local historical society when my ex-husband and I restored our 120-year-old fieldstone farm house in Hamilton, just outside of Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

As to genealogy, I am still working on the Blanchard family of Massachusetts. This would be David and Mary (Humphrey) Blanchard Jr. specifically. It seems never-ending as I have done biographies with inline sourcing for numerous of their children, including profiles that have managers, but have not gotten proper biographies for years. I’ve also connected several of the children’s husbands to their parents. I asked myself why the heck I was doing all the work on this family and finally check to see if there was a connection. Sure enough, they are cousins related via the Fiskes, who settled in Woburn and elsewhere in Massachusetts. It has been rewarding in itself to see this entire family come together with children and spouses all connected with full biographies, inline sources, sometimes photos, and sometimes discovering that they fought in the War of 1812. I only wish some of these military stickers were as easy as the American Revolutionary War sticker, though.

I do not know how frequently I will be able to join the chat over the next several weeks due to our overseas travel. I am taking my laptop; however, much of the travel between countries occurs on weekends. Please know that I will think of all of you…well, briefly, as we tour in London, Paris and several locations in Germany. Jelena, I will send you an email via our WikiTree message service so that you know how to connect with me via gmail. To all my WikiTree family, friends and colleagues have a great several weekends of chats throughout June. Pip, as always, thanks for wrangling the chats!

Answer 2 · 2022-05-27T13:54:55+0000

What a beautiful weekend we are expecting here in Colorado. We will fire up the smoker this afternoon and smoke up 250 pounds of pulled pork by mid afternoon Saturday. (It’s a church fundraiser.). But we will have a good turnout as we tend the fires all night long.

I also have a rental house in Denver that I listed yesterday. I already have a dozen requests to tour it since it is in the Denver University area. So hopefully I will have that all leased by the end of the weekend.

Obviously, genealogy will take a back seat but I will still get it progressed some. With the new location map for cemeteries, I have been taking some time to be sure that different cemeteries that I run across have the coordinates entered so it shows up. Many do not so it helps to get this added. I hope others will start doing the same as this is easy to add in the info box but the number that are missing are very large. I simply copy the coordinates from Find A Grave into the info box and it works great.

Answer 3 · 2022-05-27T14:14:51+0000

Good news for me! I found a medical/activity monitoring service that
attaches to my land line phone. My cell service does not kick in until about a quarter of a mile away from my house. This line will cover my activity up to about 500 yards from my house and, with a knee and bungled hip replacements limiting my outside activities, it will cover about 90% of my time. It does not involve a satelite. The rest of the time my cell phone will hopefully cover me in my car or I will be where there are people to aid me in case of a problem. That is what got me stirred up in the first place. If my hip had broken in my yard I would have died from exposure because no one would have seen or missed me in time. A
neighbor calls every morning but with her husband restricting her activities by care giving she wouldn't have been able to check on me. I am so relieved!!

answered May 27, 2022 by Beulah Cramer G2G6 Pilot (574k points)
edited May 27, 2022 by Beulah Cramer

I have both. I got a heavy duty one with four after my knee was bad but I continued to walk. It had a seat so I could rest. Four years later my hip broke and the hospital staff would not discharge me from rehab until I had a two wheeler. They insisted four could slide away and I might fall. I have my mother in law's solid four legged walker that I just lift, and prefer it above the wheels. I can stand up straighter but don't use it much because it won't collapse to go in the car. I have seen ads for the walker with arm rests up high and you stand up much straighter but haven't invested that much with the collection I have still working. Where and when we ever meet I suggest we just have a refreshing stroll and visit. We can't forget pictures for Pip!

commented May 28, 2022 by Beulah Cramer G2G6 Pilot (574k points)

I do have a foldable 2 wheeler I love for use with the car. They would not let me use my 4 wheeler while recovering from hip surgery. A physical therapist came to the house
the first month I was home and she gave me a super duper model of a brand name cane. It had originally had a flashlight but it was broken off. It had four pads on the bottom which I sorely missed when the plastic collar around the base of the handle met the flat pedestal part and it broke and would no longer twist and balance. I had to replace it with a three pad bottom and it does not balance by itself as good to just stand. Some organization will have a nice start on a collection for others when I pass away.

commented May 28, 2022 by Beulah Cramer G2G6 Pilot (574k points)
edited May 28, 2022 by Beulah Cramer

Answer 4 · 2022-05-27T14:37:13+0000

Good afternoon all ,BUT, too much information, "Goo Eyed", and as always thanks for hosting Pip, let me tell ya'll about my perpetual motion machine which is my olympic marathan runny nose during the summer.

I have a question of help from you all, , Born October 1949, in New Orleans, was in the Volunteers of America orphanage until December 1950, under my birth name given by my birth mother. In checking the 1950 census, she is there as single no children, I do not show up either under my birth name or my adopted name.

Any iddeas?

As a side note, through a first cousin once removed who doesn't match any of my maternal family, his cousin has agreed to a DNA test, she could at best be a sister , or at worse be a first cousin. Her father had two brothers, so if not her father, then one of them.

Enjoy the weekend, we here have a 4 day weekend starting bThursday to celebrate the Queen's 70 year rein, suits me.

Answer 5 · 2022-05-27T14:39:15+0000

Hi from southern Ontario,

Chez moi/at home: what's happening here? The weather has been warmer, my vegetables have grown a lot. My daughter in Ottawa finally got power back on Monday night, that's from when the power went out last Friday about 1pm, apparently the correct term for our storms last Friday is derecho, you can Google the term. It has been confirmed that a tornado touched down in Uxbridge, Ontario, about an hour north east of us. Some places may not have power restored for several days or in some cases even longer.

Our friends from Regina flew to Paris on Monday, they have been sending lots of photos. They will be visiting the home of his I think 6 times GGF who was born in Morlaix, France about 1683. Joseph Goguen the grandson of the 6xGGF came to Canada/Nouvelle France in 1753. His profile is managed by the Acadian Project, my friend is a direct descendant.

The Horticultural society plant sale is tomorrow, I'm hoping to get a little downtime this morning to make sure I have done everything needed and participate in the Weekend Chat.

Tomorrow, I have to be on site at 6.30am, and the rest of the day will be a blur. The weather forecast is perfect for tomorrow, mostly sunny, temps about 15 C at 7am going up to about 20 C by noon. Maybe I'll be awake enough tomorrow night to respond to any comments or answers. I hope to be asleep until noon Sunday.

Genealogy: I'm still updating profiles that have not been edited since November 2020, about 500 so far. My cemetery project is still on hold, only because I have too many things on my personal to do list.

Holiday planning: all seems to be in order, I am waiting for an up to date map of Ireland to be ready to pick up at Indigo books.

Reading: I'm about halfway through The German House by Annette Hess, it is fiction, but set in Frankfurt at the time of the Auschwitz Trials in 1963. It's the story of a court translator.

What else: I am incredibly upset about the events in Texas this week. I refrain from making any further comments because I find this situation and the many other similar events completely incomprehensible.

Answer 6 · 2022-05-27T14:52:41+0000

It is warm, 70's, here in Northeast Ohio and raining but it is going to dry out and warm up for the weekend. I survived the surgery but I am still a little out of it from the sedative they gave me. It totally knocks me out. As a result of the prep and now the after effects I did not do much genealogy and have no plans on doing any this weekend. As for the weekend Saturday night we will be watching our 2 great grand daughters, just for the evening but they will be back again for a few hours on Sunday. Also on Sunday I am assisting one of the local police departments by closing a road for a foot race that is scheduled. So with a busy weekend planned I probably will not do much on the computer.

Answer 7 · 2022-05-27T14:59:52+0000

Virtual Vacation! Let's go to Vancouver!

We went to Vancouver on March 29, 2009, the day of our flight was bright and sunny, we had the most marvelous views of the prairies and mountains from the plane.

I'm not sure which river this is, somewhere probably in Saskatchewan.

The Rockies from the plane.

While we were there, we visited the Capilano suspension bridge, the original bridge over the river was built over 130 years ago.

While at Capilano park, we did the Treetops Adventure which is a walk among the trees,110 feet up, seven suspension bridges are joined together and attached to eight 250 year old Douglas-firs in the West Coast rainforest. The view from the top is wonderful. There are no nails or bolts in the trees, the suspension bridges are hung from collars around each tree that adjust and can move in the wind.

We went up Grouse Mountain by cable car, there are lots of Grizzly bears in the area, but in early April they aren't awake yet. Grouse mountain is 1,250 metres (4,100 feet) high and only 15 minutes drive from downtown Vancouver.

In this picture you can see the city spread out below and many ships on the way into or out of Vancouver harbour.

We drove up the coast to Squamish along the scenic Sea to Sky highway. There are stunning views from every foot of the road. Squamish is set among old-growth forests, at the north end of Howe Sound which has multiple islands, and is surrounded by mountains.

This picture is part of Howe Sound and was taken through the windshield of the rental car.

This is done to stop rocks falling onto the highway.

There are numerous inlets with fascinating rocks and ancient trees.

A very old tree with the moss that grows in the wet climate.

I had a very interesting experience at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

We also visited the Museum of Anthropology on the UBC campus with its fabulous Northwest Coast First Nations art collection.

answered May 27, 2022 by M Ross G2G6 Pilot (757k points)

Okay you asked Pip. We were staying a rather expensive hotel in downtown Vancouver, my husband was speaking at a conference, so I had the day to myself, I walked up the road to the Art Gallery in pouring rain, wearing jeans and a not new raincoat with a hood, and a knapsack on my back so that other stuff had a better chance of staying dry. Vancouver is a university town.

I walk up to the ticket counter, and stated 1 adult ticket please.

The person behind the counter 'Oh deary, you can sit over in one of the chairs and wait for the rain to stop, you don't have to buy a ticket to stay dry'. I paid the then about $25 entrance with cash and spent about 3 hours looking at exhibits, the entire time with a security guide following about 10 feet behind.

I then decided to go into the gift shop and bought 3 prints, and consciously decided to pay for them with my Platinum Amex, as I was leaving the security guard went over the cashier and asked how or perhaps if I had paid for them.

And I assume was told how, on my way out I stopped at the ticket counter and thanked the person for offering me a place to stay dry, and also said "just because a person is wet doesn't mean ........ and that a security guard needs to follow them around for 3 hours, all it means is that its raining and it does that a lot in Vancouver.

I was annoyed with the security guard part not the offer of a place to stay dry. It was an introduction to the way some people get treated by other theoretically well meaning people. This experience really stuck in my head and has affected how I treat people I don't know.

commented May 27, 2022 by M Ross G2G6 Pilot (757k points)

Hi M...really cool photos, as always. I would love to have seen the First Nations collection!

Your security guard story reminds of a young woman who was interviewed on a television station here in the states years ago. She dressed up like a very elderly woman for several weeks (or months) and kept a very detailed diary of her experiences, which were predominantly very negative by men and women of many ages. She used the material for her doctoral dissertation and, I believe, much of it was published in book form. Her focus was on aging (of course). I don't recall if her doctorate was in aging. There was another study done on the way a person dresses when they are on trial. Men in business suits were more likely to be acquitted than men in jeans and jerseys or hoodies. This was particularly true for African American men! Even if they guy would be guilty, the better dressed were more likely to be acquitted.

These types of stories are indicative of the negative stereotypes that about just based on the way people dress. Crazy!

commented May 28, 2022 by Carol Baldwin G2G Astronaut (1.2m points)

Despite growing up in Vancouver and area, and having lived for seven years in North Vancouver (and that my favourite Chinese restaurant in the Lower Mainland is just a little way further up Cap Road), I've never actually gone to the Capilano Suspension Bridge. That's because of the admission fee. The Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge isn't as high, nor anywhere near as well-marketed, but you can't beat the price (free).

The outer harbour doesn't normally have that many freighters anchored while they're waiting to unload and reload, but things are pretty backed up this year after bad weather cut all the highways and rail lines beween Vancouver and the rest of the country.

If you went through that part of the Museum of Anthropology that included the devil masks from Sri Lanka, in one of my Anthropology classes (Museum Methods and Practices), we actually accessioned those pieces. The small metal sculpture of a human-like figure with back legs that are jointed like an animal rather than a human is one of those that I accessioned myself.

Yes, Vancouver is a university town. It also has a large population of homeless people (especially since people are more likely to be able to survive the winter outside in Vancouver than in most places in Canada), and also a large population who aren't actually homeless, but live in very inadequte housing, and even their ability to stay in those places isn't guaranteed. One of the denser pockets of homelessness and near-homelessness is only a couple of blocks from the Art Gallery, and shoplifting is a major issue for the stores along Granville and Robson. (I worked for several years as a security guard at the courthouse at the south end of the complex where the art gallery [which is the fomer courthouse] is now, so I got to witness the interface between the poor and homeless and the wealthy and powerful close up.) So, yes, you did get "profiled", but it's not just random paranoia. Your self-description of your outfit sounds very much like the Downtown East Side's version of haute couture.

commented May 29, 2022 by Greg Slade G2G6 Pilot (695k points)

That was my third visit to Vancouver. I am aware of the significant homeless problems, especially on the downtown east side.

I have worked with others on the set up of community gardens in some areas and have seen the benefits to the local homeless population. Originally with Sole Food Street Farm, Urban Orchard, I believe the original site no longer exists. Originally it had 500 fruit trees in large containers on the site of a previous gas station. Grown in containers so that the orchard could be moved if the site was redeveloped.

I was not concerned about the offer from the ticket seller, after I had paid for the ticket, I wondered about the perceived necessity to have a security guard follow me for 3 hours, my coat was wet only, not recently new that's all.

commented May 29, 2022 by M Ross G2G6 Pilot (757k points)

Answer 8 · 2022-05-27T15:58:09+0000

Hails and horns, Wikipeeps!

This week on the genealogy front, I took a deep dive into the Haverhill Thinker from 1939: https://allroadhaverhill.blogspot.com/2022/05/52-ancestors-week-21-yearbook.html

Lots of cautious optimism there, guys. They had no idea what the next eighty-three years would bring. No one knew. It's interesting to look at that time capsule!

And on the non genealogy front, no sooner did I start that blog I got a message about my high school's own 25th reunion. That's pretty cool isn't it?

It's nothing major. Just going to my old elementary school and basically having a meet and greet. Cool, huh? It's about time someone organized it because we have NEVER had a reunion. It happens this July and it should be fun. After all our theme was REM's "It's the End of the World As We know it"

Enjoy the chat, everyone! Thanks for hosting, Pip!

answered May 27, 2022 by Chris Ferraiolo G2G6 Pilot (783k points)

@ Pip: Glad you like the blog! We also have my grandmother Natalie's copy of "The Thinker". and my mom's book from Newburyport High.

I haven't checked to see who was a classmate of my grandmother's and was family. In fact, I didn't see many Italians. I have a feeling many of them went to Haverhill Trade School. Or one of the other schools in the area. But, I should look.

My mom's cousin, Nancy, is in my dad's yearbook. She was in his homeroom. Talk about a small world. Well, a small valley. Haha.

We never had a reunion and it was something that always puzzled my class. We just never had money for it, I guess. That's what people told me.

@Candyce: Thanks!

@Eileen: I'm probably related to one of my old friends/classmates because his line is definitely Quebecois and so is my mom's. We haven't found the connection. But, we will soon!

commented May 27, 2022 by Chris Ferraiolo G2G6 Pilot (783k points)

Answer 9 · 2022-05-27T16:40:50+0000

Holiday weekend! And Happy Birthday, Pip! Went down to Maryland earlier this week for a family funeral. It was a nice small service, and a few of us went to lunch afterwards. (During lunch, I convinced a cousin to do Y-DNA testing to get more info on our Jett line, which on paper goes back to early colonists of the Northern Neck of Virginia.) Other than that, I just hung out with my mom and brother. The rest of the week was filled with work Zoom meetings, errands, and my skating class. Coach has decided we should try to learn the first official ice dance test pattern. I can do it in my head, but that's about it. (In my head, I also have a beautiful sit spin and double axel.)

Genealogy: Still waiting to hear back from Philly archives about the Robertson estates. Meanwhile, I'm diving back into Griffiths; Mom had a new Griffith DNA match that has turned out to match us on a different segment than my other Griffiths. I'm hoping it'll provide some additional confirmation of this line, but we'll see. Digging into the shared matches now, but the connection is probably really far back so I'm building out their trees myself.

This weekend will be spent cleaning up in preparation for the plumbers, coming on Wednesday. They'll be working in the basement, bathroom, garage, and kitchen, so we have a lot to do just to get one silly pipe fixed.

Answer 10 · 2022-05-27T17:27:46+0000

Hello once again from Texas - and a beautiful day! We have had a cool front to pop through and the past few days have been really nice. Temps are on the rise and will be in the 90's for the rest of the weekend but - no thunderstorms and hail!!

Genealogy took a far back seat this past week. We left last Friday morning for the drive to south Louisiana for my sister-in-laws funeral on Saturday. The service was very nice and was in the same church where my husband, his brother and sister grew up; they were christened, had first communion and the sister was married there as was her daughter. We stayed until Monday and then made the long drive back. I think I am about recovered.

I did work on sourcing a few profiles as I sat comfortably in my chair and watched TV the past couple of nights. I have more planned for the weekend as we do not plan on traveling, shopping or anything else with the holiday crowds out and about.

I hope everyone enjoys the long weekend and let us all keep in mind what Memorial Day represents. Also, please remember the families of the children in Uvalde, Texas.

Answer 11 · 2022-05-27T17:58:31+0000

Hello Everyone , I been working on some profiles that are connecting to me , fixing existing ones and making new ones, in my Shockley and Walker lines, with other connections to those families they settled in Van Buren county, Tennessee, USA which is county next to where I live, after that I am going to help a relative, connect my late husband's Caldwell line , where his grandmother took some of her children to KY so going to try to connect some of his aunts and uncles, cousins etc, Marrow evening I am going to a Cookout to support the Quebeck/Walling community Center , Quebeck, White, TN so will get to see people I am either connected or related to one way or another, also been working on some of the 1950 census project some as well , reviewing names , How is everyone else?

Answer 12 · 2022-05-27T18:03:29+0000

Hi, Folks, and thank you, Pip, for hosting us. It's been a bit crazy, the past week. My dearly beloved hosted her book club, on Wednesday, which entailed frantic mowing and trimming activity, on my part, as well as food prep and horsing furniture around. Then, yesterday, the crew came from Sharon Springs to pick up all my antique farm equipment. They managed to make two trips, and got almost all the machinery, as well as two tractors. They have four tractors, and a few odds and ends left to go. Then I have to get a dumpster for my miscellaneous piles of scrap iron.

I did some work on my Lorish line, after finding a connection to my Eckel great grandfather's second wife, Nettie Pinkel. An interesting coincicence. I also received a 1989 article about 2nd great grand uncle Andrew Jackson Lorish through the Attica Historical Society's facebook page.

My reading has fallen off a bit, mostly rereadings for research.

Thank you all for the connections.

answered May 27, 2022 by Mark Weinheimer G2G Astronaut (1.2m points)

Beulah, when I farmed in Charlton, New York, back in the 70's, my landlady asked me to dig some horseradish for a special meal for her brother-in-law's birthday. I dug up a large limb, and she peeled it and ground it, which drove everybody out of the house. She made a pork roast, on a bed of sauerkraut, Nelson's favorite. I don't remember what the side dishes were, but there were apple pies for dessert. We all tried a bit of the fiery concoction, with our delicious pork and sauerkraut, using tiny bits of blindingly hot horseradish and homemade mustard. Nelson added tablespoons of it to his dish and expressed his delight at the treat. He was a WWI vet, of Danish heritage, who moved to the country, after the war, to avoid the noise of the city. He married his boss's daughter, and lived a long, productive, and contented life, as a farmer, while his wife managed a store and served as postmistress, in Elnora, NY. He was a beloved figure to me, as a young farmer, he was always interested in what I was doing, and always had a story to tell, as we walked the fields or inspected the machinery.

commented May 29, 2022 by Mark Weinheimer G2G Astronaut (1.2m points)

Answer 13 · 2022-05-27T18:38:35+0000

Happy Memorial Day weekend to my friends in the U. S. Happy weekend to all of my fellow chatterers far and wide.

Genealogy: I'm still busily adding my French line to our one family tree. What I thought might be a quick and short activity was just the opposite! There must be a million of us running around with a drop or two of familial blood running through our veins! I'm not so sure that that might be an overstatement.

Weather: It's been absolutely perfect this week - sunshine, breezes, low humidity, and just warm enough to satisfy the body. Next week seems to be a bit warmer and a bit more humid.

My daughter, son-in-law, and I have been battling spring colds this past week. We should have bought stock in Kleenex tissues! We all seem a bit better today, knock wood.

That's about it from this southwest corner of a northeast state.

Answer 14 · 2022-05-27T18:55:09+0000

As Gurney mentioned, we're in for a great week end weather wise here in Colorado. This after snow last week! Started my morning ritual of reading the paper out on the back patio ... then doing the puzzles (Cross word, Sudoku, Jumble).

Looks like we only lost one plant to those freezing temperatures ... whew! Most importantly the tomatoes and basil came through just fine ... Capresse can't be too far way ... yumm! I really need to learn to make Margherita Pizza ...

Think I'll make some New England clam chowder for dinner tonight. Love that too ... no wonder I'm a bit over weight!

Take care all.

Answer 15 · 2022-05-27T19:05:44+0000

I'm still going through some of the material I brought back from my road trip to Tulsa. I've been starting to learn about genetic genealogy recently. I haven't had much of a need for it until recently. I'm looking at what is probably a NPE in the family (one of potentially several). So I've been doing a lot of sleuthing this week. I've been building out various connecting trees that are in the family in Tennessee, in and around Monroe county, which also then connect into Oklahoma. Working on 41 separate trees and how they connect to each other. Got most of them connected.

Exciting changes on the home front coming up. I will likely be doing a lot less on WikiTree for the next 3-4 weeks. I'll go more into it once we're all done.

Answer 16 · 2022-05-27T19:07:18+0000

Hi there. First time contributing this the weekend chat. I see pop up every weekend since I joined and thought I'd finally join in on the phone.

My husband and I adopted a new cat (about 2 months), Alphie, and we already have one cat in the house (Tyri). yesterday was the first day we are letting the new cat roam free in the house. It's been a rough transition for Tyri, but we're hoping she'll adjust soon. I think they may just be those cats that don't get along but learn to co-exist.

I live in the pacific northwest and as per usual it's cloudy and drizzling rain. That's all this area knows how to do until July.

I'm planning a trip down to Texas in late June and I just decided I'm taking the train. It'll be a 4 day trek and I'm so excited! While I'm there, my mother and I have plans to clean and repair my GGG grandfather John Smith. A photo of his headstone is on his profile: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-245585. I've been doing TONS of research on how to do this properly and we know a person in the area who does this type of thing regularly who will be helping us. The stone is cut in half and covered in ants. That'll be happening at the end of June.

I've also been trying to piece every bit of information I have on my great grandfather Bill Smitherman: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smitherman-184.He has many mysteries about him, but I think the biggest one is when was he born! I think it's clear that even Bill himself didn't know when he was born.

And Happy Birthday Pip!

Answer 17 · 2022-05-27T19:37:34+0000

Hello From Fenton Michigan.

Hats off to Pip for hosting another episode my favorite Chat. I can hear the thunder starting to rumble around here. Good thing I have no place to go, at least that I' aware of. I've been spending more time here these last few days. It has become far to difficult to see any more needless carnage. I am glad my children survived school.

Enough negative. Tonight if the weather breaks I am planning to go to 'Fourth Friday Fires' at church for a few hours of bon fire, s'mores, games, fun ect. If the weather holds out on Monday I intend to visit the Military Cemetery in Holly, Mi to pay my respects. I'll let you all know how that goes next time.

answered May 27, 2022 by Marty Franke G2G6 Pilot (797k points)
edited May 27, 2022 by Marty Franke

Answer 18 · 2022-05-27T19:49:25+0000

Good evening from Germany,

my acute covid infection is over. That's good news. I'm still coughing a little bit, but I hope that it will go away anytime soon. I know it may take longer though. Oh well, I know why I didn't want to have that stuff, no matter if I am boostered or not. And fortunately mum didn't get the virus.

Personally, we have to plant our plants on the balcony. Because I was ill, mum also couldn't leave the flat, so mum had to move the plant shopping to this week. Tomorrow morning we want to do the planting.

Genealogically, I was successful in connecting little branches this whole month. Today I could connect a branch which was in my watchlist although they are not related to me. So when I connected it, I immediately deleted them from my watchlist. My watchlist is still far too big, but on the other hand I first want to exploit the sources I have and create as many profiles as possible, before I orphan the profiles.

Take care, stay safe and have a great weekend

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