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Good morning/evening/afternoon, wherever you are, and welcome to the Weekend Chat! And greetings from Cathey’s Creek Township where the weather has been very mild all week. We’ve had a few cool mornings, but the days are warm and comfortable. Not a drop of rain the entire week, but on some mornings, the dew is so heavy dripping off the trees in the forest that it sounds like rain.

On the Home Front: Speaking of the forest, she sounds like she’s coming apart, what with all the acorns falling. It’s an abundant crop this year, more than I have ever seen, and the deer, squirrels, chipmunks, etc., are loving it. We can stand on our back deck and watch the deer below us scrounging for the acorns. It’s lovely watching the forest life around us.

We are at the peak of the leaf-change at our elevation, and the surrounding mountains are ablaze with colors. I think this is the most beautiful we’ve seen since we moved here eight years ago. It’s a mountain palette of glorious oranges, yellows, and reds.

My latest visit to my surgeon went very well. He was extremely pleased with the outcome of the surgery and the progress I have made in therapy. I’ll see him one more time in five weeks. The one thing I am not allowed to do is to sleep where I might roll over to the left.I am still on the couch so that said ersatz bed will keep me in place. I am beginning to hate the couch.

Great news from church: My wife and I decided that our congregation needed an office administrator, and we had the perfect person for that position, a friend who is going through a divorce and needs a job now. We brought this up with our pastor who got excited about the prospect of having someone at the church from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. who can also do a lot of stuff that is split up among several volunteers.

This will be wonderful for my wife and I, too, as both of us are presently handling nearly all the general paperwork. The friend agreed to take the position, and we will train her on our stuff. She will more than likely take over for our aging treasurer, too, who is ready to give up that position.

On the Genealogy Front: On this date in 1997, my wife’s beloved and only remaining sibling, Mary Talbot Patterson, suffered a catastrophic stroke. She lingered at the hospital for three days, dying on 30 October.

Mary received a bachelor of degree in Elementary Education from the University of the Americas in Mexico City, Mexico. She received a master’s degree in educational administration and a doctorate in Administration and Curriculum Development from the University of Alabama. She was a superior teacher for many years before moving into an administrative position. Mary was a wonderful and vibrant person, and her death left a hole in both our lives, but especially for my wife.

I remember Mary’s lively and sometimes irreverent wit and the classy way in which she carried herself. She could not have children of her own, and so adopted a baby with emotional needs. She loved our own daughters and was a second mom to them. Indeed, she loved all children.

Mary would have been 77 last October 8^th. We give flowers to our church near the anniversary of her birth each year.

Here’s to remembering all those whom we have loved and lost.

Enjoy the Chat!

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Wow. Great page for Mary and great job keeping her spirit alive. Keep up the good work, man. She sounded like she was awesome.

Meanwhile we have some leaf change here of course. But, one good rainstorm took all the leaves from one of the trees out front like it always does. It happens every year.

So, you basically live in a Disney movie with all those critters around, huh? I'm expecting a song accompanying all those wildlife. ;) We get the same animals. But, not so much deer any more. We do get wild turkeys, though.

Glad the arm is doing better. You'll be pitching for the Carolina Mudcaps in no time. =D

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We have wild turkeys, too, Chris. So much fun watching all the critters, Bambi, Thumper, and the gang!

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Oh, Pip, what a beautiful profile for Mary Talbot Patterson. She was a beautiful child, woman, and spirit! It's something for me to realize she was only one year younger than I and died so young! Even though belatedly, my condolences to you and your wife. It is something to lose a parent to death, it is really something to lose a sibling. I will be placing  flowers at the graves of family members of my friends/colleagues in Mexico on Thursday (Dia de Muertos) and will include some for your Mary. My mum's 100th birthday will be on October 29th. I will be remembering her, too. Your 'loved and lost' holds a great deal of meaning.

On the upside, I am thrilled to hear of your progress following surgery. I am sure you hate the couch; however, keep in mind it is supporting the healing process. And how great of you and your wife to find a means of income for your friend going through a divorce! It also provides meaning for her, as well as as a means of support!. It is also great to know that it will give you and your wife some much needed time from all the work that you do, although my guess is you will find yet more tasks. Oh! this extra time could be spent in Tucson! Isn't that a good idea?

Pip, I am sure you are involved in some of the WikiTree Day activities as is Cousin Chris. I will be thinking of all of you (along with all the Bingo I will be missing!) as I do not return from Mexico until late Saturday. Please give my regards to the entire Wiki-gang, including the England Team! Hugs to you and to your wife!

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Well, if Timon and Pumbaa show up you know you're in the wrong part of the world or there was a massive breakout at the zoo.

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Extra time in Tucson? I'll take it!

Thanks for your kind words about Mary. My wife was touched that you'll be placing flowers for her, more than you know.

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Another interesting thing! My post to

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1642693/celebrate-your-ancestors-with-a-connection-to-october

With pics of my dad and grandfather will be on tomorrow's Roundup livecast, my dad was born on 1 Oct 1927, my grandfather was born on 1 October 1897.

He got a son for his 30th birthday!

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Please tell Mrs. Pip that we're praying for her and the rest of the family.

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Sounds like a great week!

Sorry about not being able to lay on your left.  That would be tough.   I'd be mad at the couch too.

The weather is beautiful...here in Michigan too.  Still gives me a chance to drag the patio furniture in.  Ha.

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Cousin Pip, Mary sounds like an amazing person. May her memory be a blessing.

I'm glad your friend will be able to step up to the plate and help with the church's administrative details. Sounds like a win-win.

Couch..."sleep" (ha)...I remember it well. 4 weeks following my rotator cuff repair. The knee replacement was a cakewalk by comparison.  Ah, but it's all for the best. Glad your healing is coming along nicely.

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As always, thanks for the chat Pip!

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This how names get multiple spellings and odd variations!

While reading Ken Follett's new book 'The armor of light' after a couple were married, in the late 1790s  the new wife entered their marriage in the family bible, the husband could not write.

She asked him 'How do you spell your name'? He said 'I don't know I have never seen it written down'

She says " if I write it down wrong you won't know" he says 'I won't care either"

What was written in family bible was Jarj Boks, what his name actually is Jarge Box,

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reading, righting n rithmatic; if the first is lacking, the next two are a real struggle. Poor George. His accent was so heavy his wife didn't know his name.

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My sympathies. Being a side-sleeper myself I get buggy at night if I can't lay on my side. If I end up on my back I end up waking up. So I feel ya.

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So glad the news on the arm is going so well.  Our leaves are all off and I'm waiting for a big wind to blow them off the lawn and up onto the hill.  That saves hours off raking, which I cannot do any more.  Last year my daughter and two granddaughters inherited the job.  I'm trying to lay in a winter's worth of canned soups, dry goods, etc. while the weather is still nice.  After almost three decades of spending winters in Florida, and with my bad leg, I will do as little driving as possible on snowy and icy roads  from December to March.

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Beulah, we don't rake either, mainly because we don't have a yard, but they do pile up on our driveway. I use a blower for that. At our previous residence,; I used to just mow over them.

We're also stocking up! We do not get nearly the snow and ice you do, but when it does come, we are stuck on a hill that cannot be driven. It's just too steep!

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At sometime I will have to get the snow tires on my car, further north, that is quite a way north, 12 hours drive north about 25 cm (10 Inches) of snow is forecast.

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Hi from somewhere in Pennsylvania 270 miles west of WikiTree HQs in New York! The cell phone won't let me add a full answer for some reason,  but will let me reply to one! Arghhhhh 

So the trip has been great! We left at 2am central time and will arrive at my son's home by 5pm Eastern time.  Gas is anywhere from $3.20 to $3.89, depending on your license plate. If you are from Illinois, they change the price on the pump and the digital sign price changes until you pull out!

The fall colors are great! Dodging semi Truck tire debris has been successful, not mention the 40 dead deer carcass. You would think they would be an endangered species by now with all the run ins with truckers!  More later when I can get on a real computer!

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Next parody to the tune of "On the Road Again?"

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Hi from southern Ontario,

Chez moi/at home: what's been happening here? Weather is warm, trees are bright red, orange and bright yellow. We haven’t needed to turn the furnace on yet, and still have windows open. I picked all the remaining tomatoes and brought them inside to ripen, then they will go in the freezer and in a few weeks, I will make sauce. I bought 3 large butternut squash at the farmer’s market; they are chopped up and are also in the freezer, they will be made into soup. 

WikiTree and family history: I started to work through my watchlist with the oldest edited profiles from 2020, adding sources and adding to many bare bones biographies for about 20 profiles. One of the profiles for Cecilia Gibson, Robbie’s 3 x great aunt on his mother’s side after some research turns out to have married a 2 x Grt uncle on his mother’s side. 

I added a few people to the Alton cemetery project and managed to connect them through a mother in law of another person. 

I'm probably not going to get much done over the next week, too much Annual General Meeting stuff to get done for the Hort Society. 

What else: We went shopping for new slippers at the nearest LL Bean store, there are 7 stores in Ontario. They didn’t have what we wanted, so we went to the nearest book store where I bought the newest Ken Follett book ‘The Armor of Light’ 737 pages and the newest Wilbur Smith book ‘Testament’ 448 pages. 

The slippers were ordered online and will arrive on Halloween.  LL Bean stores in Maine were closed yesterday. 

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I just hate it getting dark at 5:30 p.m.

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I just hate it being dark at 4.40pm!

When I was a kid in England it was dark at 3.45 when we finished school and dark at 8am when I got on the bus to school.

It's a long way north.

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Yep, when the sun goes down, the day is shot (at least the outside part of it).

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M, do you remember the R. L. Stevenson poem?

"In winter I get up at night /And dress by yellow candlelight;

In summer, quite the other way,/I have to go bed by day..."

Growing up near the Tropic of Cancer, I hadn't a clue what he meant! I thought that either he was a very naughty child, or he just had really weird parents who operated on a peculiar schedule...

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Changes in latitude, changes in attitude....

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For sure, K! Had to move to Boston before it made sense.  ;P

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M,  I have been to Oakville Ontario to visit my cousin Ellen Kerr McEvoy.  She was a lot of fun.  There is Kerr street named for her brother as I remember.  Nice town and met lots of nice family there. small world and always fun to meet family who become close friends too.

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Were they descendants of Robert Kerr?

The Oakville Historical Society has this on their website.

It is believed that Kerr Street was named, around 1850, for Mr. Robert W. Kerr, who had been commissioned by William Chisholm to carry out the official plan for the new town of Oakville.

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@D, Yes I do remember that quote, we had to learn lots of his poems at school!

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Charles Cordiner Kerr named for his father who remained in Scotland.    See.  Kerr-2097 for photo of sign in Oakville

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Hails and horns, Wikipeeps!

I hope everyone had a great week! Thanks for hosting as always, Pip. Here's hoping the arm continues healing!

On the genealogy front, I have a blog about how I basically took matters into my own hands to find someone in the tree. Some people don't dig deep enough, it seems: https://allroadhaverhill.blogspot.com/2023/10/52-ancestors-week-43-dig-little-deeper.html

Fortunately, we have a better crew here and in hindsight I probably should have asked in THIS forum inside of over on that other site. Sigh.

But, enough about that! Tomorrow I'll be recording my third video for WikiTree Day. I already took part in one for the Ambassadors and another one that's Italy Project related. That one involves ladies' surnames and how they keep their maiden names after marriage. This next one is a general overview of how to read documents in Italy and then what to find once they come to America and other countries. Should be fun!

I'm also reaching 500 people in the San Pietro category. It shouldn't be hard to find more people to add since I have an extensive Google Doc. The question is "Who do I add?"

I know what the answer is. "ALL OF THEM CHRIS!!" I can hear you now. Sigh....Well, we do want to have every human who has ever lived on this site, right? That might take some time. =D

On the non genealogy front, I don't have much to report other than the fact that we finally have a mostly completed road now. It took most of the summer but at least the road is finally built. They just need to put the lines in and fill in where they cut the driveway.

We also got our tickets to see my brother and his fam in Virginia. We'll be heading down for Thanksgiving and that should be fun as well. We always have a great time there!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

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Nice. Good luck with your search, K! =D

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Very cool, K! Your New World roots go way back, as do mine (that doesn't always make the research easy sailing, though, as I'm finding out...to be continued...)

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Ciao Cousin Chris, wow, quite the story! "Approach with caution" seems to be the watchword, and I'm sure you were most gracious to the researchers, no matter how mistaken their info.

Even in our own ranks, there can be well-meant misinformation. A fellow WikiTreer found what purported to be a record for one of my Georgia cousins living with his family in the 1855 MA census. (They had pretty similar names but were clearly not a match. Georgians moving to New England on the eve of the Civil War...unlikely at best, and they were farmers, not professionals of any sort.)

I kept my birth name for professional reasons and because I'm an ornery feminist (yeah, I know, my father's name...)

Student: So why are you not Mrs. Burger?

Me: For the same reason he's not Mr. Armistead. We are not each other's property.

Student: Oh...I see.

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@ D  I always assumed he was closer to Hardin due to some of Dan'l Boone kin ending up in Jackson County, Mo--- now I know, or at least assume, I was probably wrong.

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@ D: Approach with caution applies to basically everywhere on the Internet. I am gracious to a select few. But, some people turned out to be jerks and the experience left a bad taste in my mouth. I do agree that there is some well-meant misinformation here from time to time. Thankfully, we can take those issues to this forum and hash it out.

Similar names are always going to lead to confusion no matter where someone is born. I've encountered a dozen or so ladies named "Caterina Butruce" so far. It's wild. Here's hoping you settled the issue with that Wikitreer!

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@ D Draper I'm not sure how Wm Hubbard ties to Hubbard Taylor, but I'm sure he does thru marriage. But,

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The image got cut off: The Underground Railroad Museum Near Cleveland With A Story To Tell

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@Chris, they are very good at what they do, meant well and were only trying to be helpful. I just thought the scenario unlikely, since at that time few ordinary people were that widely traveled.

I do have a 2x ggrandfather who apparently left York County, Maine, to work in a shoe factory in Lynn, MA and died there. (Hopefully not in the factory; I think it was pneumonia and am not sure whether his wife was still living.)

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@D: Hmm...Traveling from Maine to Lynn is a hike. There's a good hour between the two depending where in York country he lived. It'd make sense if it was Kittery. But, that's interesting.

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His wife is buried in North Berwick. But this was 1905. I do have a Jaquith ancestor who farmed here and there in s. NH in their lifetime, but still. Must dig deeper...

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¡Buenos días a todos from the Old Pueblo! It is 7:00 am and 60F (15.6C) with an expected high of 80F (26.7) with sunny skies in Tucson. We are finally seeing some cooler weather.

 

I have had a busy week focused on renewed interest in some very early work in altered states, near death experiences (NDEs), meditation, Buddhism, mindfulness, and quantum healing. All of this was brought on by various presentations during last week’s Healing Beyond Borders (HBB) conference.

 

Years ago (mid 1960s) my first career was as a registered electroencephalographic (EEG) technologist. I worked for several years doing EEGs on adults and children to help determine seizure disorder types, stroke, and brain tumor locations. In the mid-1970s, I was working at a large metropolitan hospital near the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. There was an agreement between the hospital and the university to support learning for various reasons/interests. A psychologist came to the lab to learn about EEGs and the various aspects of EEG activity. Don was working with a psychologist at the University of Connecticut who was studying NDEs, a very new and controversial topic at that time. There was talk of doing EEGs on persons who had NDEs during recall of their experiences to see if there were specific changes in the EEG activity.

 

I became even more interested in NDEs when I worked as a hospice nurse, having seen patients having ‘conversations’ with loved ones who had had already died. I had such an interaction with my maternal grandmother when she was in the hospice unit at which I worked. The topic of NDEs came up during the HBB conference and I have decided to submit a proposal to do a presentation next year on this topic – an historical overview, experiences of terminally patients who spoke with deceased loves ones prior to their own deaths, finding meaning in these experiences, and what nurses/caregivers might do to find personal meaning/insight into these experiences when they work with dying patients.

 

Earlier this week, I had to drive to Tempe and took a bit of time at my favorite independent bookstore, Changing Hands. I found some great old books that reminded me of the experiences I had in my early career over fifty years ago. I still have first edition copies of Kenneth Ring’s books, who did some of the earliest of studies on NDEs and was a founder of the International Association of Near Death Studies (IANDS). A purchase, though, was Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes your Mind, Brain and Body by Daniel Goleman, PhD and Richard (Richie) Davidson, PhD. Goleman did very early research on meditation, and Richie is the University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher who studied brain imaging changes of Buddhist monks, including His Holiness The Dalai Lama as well as a very secular group of nuns in Wisconsin who pray for peace, health, and healing to see what part of the brain ‘lights up’ during these experiences (hint: the same part of the brain ‘lights up’ whether praying or meditating). Richie is a co-author on a homeopathic constitutional type paper that we published a few years ago. Richie and one of my favorite professors (Al Kaszniak, PhD, taught clinical neuropsychology, now Sensei (teacher) of Zen Buddhims) during my doctoral program, have also published papers on meditation. So, now my brain is “lighting up” as I work on this proposal that includes all the preceding topics.

 

I leave next Wednesday for Mexico and am so happy to be with ‘the family of my heart.’ I will be there for día de los Muertos (day of the dead) and might get my face painted like a skull and ‘join the parade.’ I will pig out on pan de muerto (day of the dead bread), which is only available this time of year. It is delicious! Kind of like the consistency of challah bread, but with a bit of anise flavor and sugar sprinkled on the top.

 

As to genealogy, I am still working on early Massachusetts cousins as I take breaks from the early Buckinghamshire Baldwins. Some of the pre-1500 Baldwins are a real mess, and I will likely call on Michael Cayley for help when I return from Mexico as I pursue work on these Baldwins. One of these Baldwins is listed as married to a woman who was married to different man. This Baldwin was her heir (not a husband or son, but an heir). There was a court record that makes clear Isabel (Unknown) was married to John Blakewell and John Baldwin was the heir. The court record was between the two Johns as Isabel had died. The court found John Baldwin, the heir, to be the recipient of the property. I can source this, but clearing up this crap-tangle will require assistance, and I think Michael will provide very reasoned advice, in addition to helping me stay sane. Why did I take on PM for all these Bucks Baldwins? Oh…I know…for my own NDE!

 

Pip, as ever, thank you for leading the Weekend Chat. I wish all my WikiTree friends and family a great FOURTH AND LAST weekend of October 2023. I will miss a fair amount of the WikiTree Birthday Bash, but hope to be home by Saturday evening to enjoy some of the activities!

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Carol, I recently read an article about brain activity of people who died and were resuscitated. Fascinating information on how the brain is still working even without oxygen. I wish I could remember the article for you.

Enjoy your Día de lost Muertos! My wife vividly remembers the activities surrounding that day back when she lived in Mexico City.

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Pip! do you rember if the article was newspaper or book? Kenneth Ring, who originally studied NDEs in Connecticut now lives in California. He is as old and retired as am I, but still writes about NDEs. Might it be him?

I am sure that your wife would remeber Dia de los Muertos given her time spent in Mexico City!

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Carol, it was a science article in my news feed. I'll see if I can find it for you.

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@Cousin Carol, wow. This boggles the mind. I am not a medical professional or a scientist of any sort, but it resonates.

This time of year, as the veil between the worlds thins, I feel closer to family members who have passed, remembering long-forgotten events, conversations, songs they used to sing. My grandmother had the Sight and it scared me sometimes...as a kid I was very glad I didn't inherit the gift! Whatever the scientific/psychological basis, this is a very powerful tool.

I'm envious! El DÍa de los Muertos is such a sensible celebration, to my mind...enjoy your time in México. Some friends of mine, now sadly divorced (though I'm sure it was for the best), had a mixed Mexican-German-Finnish ofrenda, including a picture of her 2x ggrandpa who was killed at the battle of Spotsylvania Court House. A wonderful custom that crosses cultures.

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@Cousin D, there are more than a few family members who think I am 'out there', but they seem to call on me when they've had un/usual experiences and need to tell their stories. 

I love the word 'resonates' and your description of the veil thinning between worlds is beautiful and brilliant. Samhain/ Halloween is my favorite holiday, which should come as no surprise after what I wrote in my chat today. My daughter also has had dreams, out of the body experiences (OOBEs) and such since she was a little girl. I am glad that we can share these experiences. I did not know as much about these experiences back then as I do now so am glad I did not discount her telling me of her experiences. 

I love El dia de los Muertos, especially when I can join my colleagues in Mexico. When I lived in Tempe (2004-2015), I lived down the street from the Guadalupe Cemetery, a cemetery solely for Pasqua Yaqui who lived in the town of Guadalupe very near my home. They celebrated Day of the Dead every November 2nd. I would go to the cemetery and care for a grave of a little girl who died at age 2 years back in 1906. Apparently, her family members had all died. I took velos (candles with various 'santos' on them), orange mums, colorful necklaces that I picked up in New Orleans (everything relates), would clean the plot then decorate. In the evening a priest would come to say Mass (I'm more Buddhist than anything else; however, they all pray to the same Great Spirit). It was awesome to hear the Mass in Spanish, Latin and Yaqui! Not three masses, three languages during one Mass! Afterwards, the men would play guitar, some songes soulful and compelling, others we danced to. And the fry bread topped off the evening. For a while, I did volunteer work at the clinic in the town of Guadalupe, and really learned to appreciate gifts differing. I even taught a basi Healing Touch class to the assistants at the clinic. I found it interesting that they never questioned 'energy' or 'balancing the energy field' as would the non-Hispanic White nursing students I taught at ASU! 'Energy' is in the Yaqui/Mexican dictionary.

Anyway, I will add velos for you, my mum and family, as well as Pip's sister-in-law who died young, and all my Wiki-Tree family across the globe. You take care, Cousin D. You all will be with me on November 2nd in spirit (and energy)!

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When I was inHigh School I was in a very bad accident and had a NDE. It is something that changed my entire outlook on the meaning of this life .  I saw and talked with both friends and family who had crossed over. This helped me immensely when my son was dying. I knew there was a big gathering of family and friends who would help him with the transition. I came to the conclusion this is school and death is graduation.    He was going to an ancestor party.

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@Laura, that's beautiful, thank you. May your son's memory be a blessing, and I'm sure he had plenty of help in the transition. I can only hope that there will be kind guardians to help me when I take that step on the Great Wheel (not any time soon - I have too much I want to do here - but it doesn't hold the terror it once did. Blessed be.

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Thank you, Cousin. The velo will be most appreciated!

The concept of thinning of the veil is widely accepted in Pagan communities.  On Samhain eve I generally honor the Guardians and leave out an offering of wine for my family who have passed to the other side, especially Grandma Daisy, who always supported my dance and theatre career, and could see those who have passed. There are many paths to the Great Mystery.

Bright blessings!

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Hi Laura, your experience having an NDE is very powerful. What you describe is very consistent with what others experienced. Although it can seem scary, it helps to know you are not alone in these types of experiences. I had an NDE when I was in nursing school and have witness hospice patients 'talking' with others (I saw no one) who had already transitioned. It is a way of helping us 'transition' when it is our time. There is an organization called the International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS), if you or others are interested (https://iands.org/). They collect stories of persons with NDEs. Some members are researchers and have done studies with children who report talking with Jesus, or Yahweh, or the Buddha, whichever belief system they and they family practice.

Several weeks ago, Vincent Price was one of the persons who was part of a group of stars for our weekely who are we related to (sorry, I forget what it's properly called). It turned out that Vincent Price is a 6th cousin. I mentioned two stories, one about when I attended a one-man play in which Vincent Price portrayed Oscar Wilde (outstanding performance) and the other was when my daughter was watching Sesame Street and Vincent Price was dressed as a scary character and the muppets (e.g. Kermit the Frog with vampire teeth and a cape) talked about being scared. At the end, Vincent said "not to be scared." My daughter, after some 49 years, still says, "not to be scared." I share her and Vincent's message with you, "not to be scared" of things for which we may have not explanation (yet).

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Hi D! I will be dancing during the thinning of the veil on the evening of Dia de los Muertos while I am in Mexico lighting velos for you, Pip's sister (in-law) and many others. I wish I had your talent for theatre and dance! My dancing ability is clumbsy at best; nevertheless, it is dancing, which we all need, along with music, song, theatre. They lift the body, mind, heart and spirit! Hugs!

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My favorite quote from Dune Trilogy is fear is the mind killer so it not something I give into.  By the way Vincent Price’s father worked with my candy making ancestors who descended from glass and crystal makers.

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Hi Laura, I recall your family connection to Vincent Price's family business. I read his Wikipedia page and they mention the candy company and how that money made them wealthy. It's one reason why Vincent Price could get is bachelor's from elite Yale!

Answer 5

Very early, last Wednesday morning, I was visiting a WikiTree 1770's relative on the east coast of the United States, when a shadow dropped past the lace curtains, of my office window, amidst a noise sounding like the the wind ripping off newly installed roof panels on our sundeck.  Scurrying back across North America, I went outside, to get enough morning light, and found the top half of a tall cottonwood tree, from the neighbor's farmyard, had landed across the far end of our lawn between the fence and a tall cedar hedge, having been snapped off by strong outflow winds from the Arctic Front in central British Columbia........resulting in a huge picnic, of leaves and branches, for the goats we used to have.

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K, according to my own calculations, at about the same time mentioned, I thought you might notice......and it didn't take long for you to respond.     When the tree came down ( I was on WikiTree) and had also sidetracked to The Battle of Lone Jack......ever notice, how, when something comes to your attention you keep crossing paths again?  PS  Long ago, when working on major construction projects in British Columbia, I turned the clock off......then I could work 24 hours a day / 7 days a week less what I didn't have to do......now I am the same / life's an adventure.

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Carpe Diem my friend, or is it Crappie for Dinner?

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Had to look it up!   And all this time I didn't know what I was doing!  

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Get 'R Done, works for me.

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Next time you need a quick distraction The Civil War in Pleasant Hill Historical Marker

Battle of the Ravines marks one of Quantrill's only defeats. Cole Younger plundered the town for food and ammunition with no known civilian casualties. Gen Halleck wrote to McClellan and stated," Lane and Jennison's conduct in the area did more for the enemy, as far as recruitment, than 20,000 of his own troops would have accomplished."

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The answer to my question......before I could assemble the correct wording, to ask the question, about how to learn more about the history of this area and the conflicts......thankyou!

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I've taken the LJHS international.

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LJHS......Lone Jack High School?......La Jolla High School?

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Lone Jack Hysterical Society

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Got it!   Now onward in the pursuit of knowledge.  

Answer 6

Well, here I am, still alive for some reason.

I think we are finally going to be getting into Autumn weather. A cold front is moving in today and temps are supposed to start falling later this morning. Freeze warning Saturday and Sunday night. O well...

I haven't been doing a lot on Wikitree this month. A few more sources to do for one of those cute owls.

I'll be cooking all day tomorrow and Sunday. Got some nifty dishes to cook up for this week's dinners. Doing a tuna casserole, mushroom chicken with the trimmings and maybe even a beef stew. Gotta remember to make a cornbread, too.

And on we go...

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Still alive and glad to hear it, Luther!

Beef stew and cornbread. Can't beat that for cooler weather. Got a recipe for your stew? I'd like to change things up a bit with ours.

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Hi Luther! After complaining about the heat, we can now all share stories about the cold and frigid temperatures for a few months! I would love some cornbread, please...

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Glad you're alive and kickin', Luther!

P.S. Can I come to your house for dinner? (Heckuva commute!) Sadly, we have had to cut back on our red meat consumption - T for his heart, me for my cranky gallbladder. Maybe we could make it with turkey instead...

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Put cumin in stew it is wonderful

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One of my 7 herbs and spices in my wing rub,  shhhhhh it's a secret.

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Thanks for the tip Laura. I may try the Cumin instead of Chili Powder this time.

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i WOULD ALSO THINK ABOUT SMOKED SWEET PAPRIKA IT IS DELIGHTFUL IN ANY bbq SEASONING AND IN CHILI

Answer 7

Virtual Vacation! 

When we were in England in June 2022, we stayed in one of my favourite places, Ludlow in Shropshire. There is a marvellous very old church in Ludlow. We didn’t get much chance to thoroughly explore the church or take many photos because of a very over zealous volunteer guide who spent 45 minutes talking about the stained glass in the windows, apparently in that time period, it usually was glass that was painted, not glass that was coloured during manufacturing. 

So several of these photos are from Wikipedia. 

St Laurence's is a Church of England parish church and is an active place of worship. One of the main reasons for visiting the church was to attempt to find any mention of Johannes Bridgman, my 10th great-grandfather. Johannes was buried in September 1677 at Church Stretton which is about 15 miles from Ludlow. He is described on the burial record as a gentleman. 

This is the south porch.

Members of the Bridgeman family have been in Ludlow since about 1600, Sir John Bridgeman about 1568/69 – 1638 (WT ID Bridgeman-534) a Chief Justice of The Marches in the 17th century is buried in St Laurence's church.

Parish registers start in 1558. I doubt that a connection can be established between Sir John and Johannes, the parish registers don’t have enough information about where people were born, just where they were baptised

After its initial Norman construction in the 11th Century AD, the church was expanded and rebuilt in 1199 to accommodate Ludlow's growing population. During the late Middle Ages Ludlow became a wealthy wool town, to suit this increasing prosperity St Laurence's underwent several further additions. The major works occurred between 1433 and 1471 with a re-building of the nave, tower and chancel. 

The tower, built about 1455, in the place of an earlier tower which had fallen some years previously, is 135 feet high, and was vaulted about 1500. It was thoroughly repaired and strengthened in 1890 at a cost of £8,000, and contains a fine peal of eight bells. 

Prince Arthur (the eldest son of Henry VII.) brought his bride Catharine of Aragon to Ludlow castle as his wife, and Arthur died there a few months afterwards, his burial was in St Laurence Church. 

This is part of the ceiling.

Some memorials on the walls.

The monument to Mary Eure née Dawnay, 1557-1612, was erected by her husband, Ralph Eure, 3rd Baron Eure, Lord President of the Marches from 1607 until his death in 1617, when he was buried next to his wife. WT Dawnay-2

The central great West window was made for the renovation of the church in the 1860's.  This window has stained glass images of the Lords of the Marches. Including Sir John Bridgeman about 1568/69 – 1638 who is buried in the church and mentioned above.

This is the baptismal font, it is of Norman origin and is over 1000 years old.

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Hi M, I absolutely LOVE this particular VV! I really, really, really love touring these 11th to 15th century churches! Believe it or no, I sometimes wonder how different England might have been if Arthur had lived to be king!? The photos are so exquisite, I can almost experience the smell and touch of being in the building. How cool for you to walk in your Bridgeman ancestor's shoes. Thank you so much!

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Oh, m! How I love the beauty of old churches. Thanks so much for sharing these photos.

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Thanks to whoever picked this as best answer, however we don't do best answer on the Weekend Chat.

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Beautiful pics, thanks M! Making me homesick...wait! Did I say that right? Anyway, I must get back to the UK...shooting for 2025, when hopefully I can hike a bit of the South West Coast Path and see off the Little Ships of Dunkirk.

Baroness Eure's monument is cool. Reminds me of one I saw in Roghadal, Isle of Harris (whose church,  incidentally, was a location set for an episode of "Call the Midwife."). She looks so peaceful.

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The best part of Baroness Eure's monument is what it says on the arched space behind her.

Here lyeth expecting a joyful resurrection the body of Dame Mary Eure, late wife to the right ho; Ralphe Lord Eure Baron of Malton, Lord president of the Principalities and Marches of Wales and Luietenant of the same and daughter of s’ir John Dawney of Sessly in the county of Yorke. She departed this mortall lyfe the 19 day of March Anno Domini 1612

Atatis sua 55,

translated from the Latin means of 'his' old age 55, so now we know when she was born 1557!

Now if all of the people we research had that amount of information on their headstones.....

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Yes early stained glass used stains that were painted on. Antimony gave a yellow tint.   A lot of what was used was very toxic. Glass workers were often not long lived.   Adding color to clear glass was a tightly guarded secret. We donated 17 notebooks of formulas to Corning’s Rakow Library and sent same to archivist at Ste Louis Crystallerie in France.  These were from Walter line of Glassmo

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@Laura, WOW your knowledge of and information on glass tinting is really fabulous! It sounds like these painters went as mad as hatters (from the mercury used to strenghten felt for top hats). That's the only chemical I knew of until you mentioned antimony for yellow tint! It is remarkable how much knowledge WikiTree holds in its collective group! Thank you for this history!

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I descend from multiple master glass and crystal makers.  Walter Stenger’s Stanger spelling in USA.  Burgun. Schwoerer also spelled schwerer Andres Moder and others.   Halle worked for my family and they trained him in making glass

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M, if only! Lady Eure's family could obviously afford to memorialize her; such honors here in the States are generally reserved for presidents, governors, and other notables. We common folks are lucky to know names and dates sometimes.

The state of Georgia didn't require death certificates until the early 1900s (I think); birth records were usually a notation in the family Bible or some such. New England states were much better organized.

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D, English parish records for ordinary people start in 1538, though many/most of them have not survived. There are a lot more post 1600.

I am not very familiar with the records of many U.S, states.

I do know that many states did not require birth, marriage and death records until the late 1800s or as you say the early 1900s.

It makes me think that perhaps many American WT members are more interested in DNA testing because of the lack of records as opposed to WT members from other countries where BMD records were required from much earlier dates.

I have records for a large number of my English ancestors back to the 1700s, And for some branches back to the 1600s.

I have no family history in Canada as my family emigrated from England in 1966.

Answer 8

Top of the Morning to everyone. Overcast and cool waiting for Jack Frost to take care or some weeds. Every year, he takes out more weeds in a night than I do all year with my weed eater. Only complaint, he "leaves" all of the summer's shade scattered about the yard.

 Hopefully, we will have some good fishing yet this year. One of my go-to ponds may be off limits soon if Charlie's wife decides to sell. It has provided years of fun right across the road. That's the way it goes, life ain't fare, and the world is mean.

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"...life ain't fare, and the world is mean." Yes.

Only one frost here so far. I'm ready for several in a row to take care of busines.

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And here in the 'frozen north' we haven't had any frost yet and none forecast.

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The weather looks to cancel "Walk with the Spirits" tomorrow night. I might go sit in the parking lot just in case any of the "fallen" were looking forward to the company. Then again, they can stop by the museum, I'll be there all day.

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That would be an interesting tour!

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@ Pip   A far as life aint fair, I stole that from a Sturgill Simpson song. As far as the spirits, half would agree with my version of history while the other half would adamantly disagree. To them, I would say, I guess that's what Sturgill was trying to convey.

How is the painting going? I saw where Bob Ross' first painting sold for like $10 million. I hope to shout, that beats working off a ladder painting houses.

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Quote: All the summer shade scattered about the yard!  I like that!  You just might see a version of that in the "Book" 

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It's official, Walk with the Spirits is canceled. Will probably be "dead" at the museum today though. Maybe I will stroll through the cemetery and be the only one to keep them company this year. @ David- this year's shade is next year's worm food, and so goes the cycle.

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Had eight today. Not bad given the terrible weather. Actually pretty good as most were well read on the subject which allowed me to go off topic a little and add some extra flavor to the discussion. Touching on genealogy and how most were related to one another.

Answer 9

The weather in Denver is still wacky.  It has been in the 70's and 80's the past week.  Now the fronts are coming through and I saw my first flock of geese in the neighborhood pond yesterday. Tomorrow the first snow arrives with predictions of 4-8 inches depending upon which way this low goes.  So the weekend will be wild and trick or treaters will be cold.  Time for the hot chocolate with tootsie roll stir sticks.

On genealogy, I just got a family update on recents deaths so I am filling out trees for those people and the in law trees that are revealed.  (I leave people alone if they are still alive.). I am also continuing on my work with cemeteries but really more around getting categories set up and learning how to do foreign cemeteries.

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Snow already?!? I bet we won't get any until January, but then we are not nearly as high an elevation as you, Gurney.

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Scary weekend indeed. I hear Taylor Swift is coming to town with her boyfriend.

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We are hoping that Taylor can’t make and that is bad luck for the Chiefs

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How is the weather looking? Any "Swift" storm sightings?

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I hope she gets there before it's too late.

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Too late....

Answer 10

Hello from Interlaken

Autumn is arriving, the lower mountaintops are whitecapped since yesterday, I mean those mountains just over 2000m, on our other side, the 'real' Alps up to 4150m stay more or less white during the whole year, but the black spots are growing every year.

Being retired and just us 2 living in an apartment, not much happens at home. Mostly medical issues are involved. Not now. So more time for genealogical research! After rereading old emails I have this story:

In 2012 I got in contact with the husband of one of my 2nd cousins in Canada. The mail-exchange as far as I have it documented is from 17 January until 21 June 2012, the last mail he has sent. He died early September 2012, 57 years old. I only realised this much later as I found his name in Find a Grave.

My 2nd cousin was born in the Netherlands, shortly after her birth her parents left Holland on the SS Veendam on 14 November 1951 and arrived in Halifax, NS, Canada on 7 December 1951. They first settled in Kingston, Ontario for about half a year. They then moved on to Edmonton, Alberta.
In August 1970 my cousin married to Rainier van Delft (1945-2012). And he was my contact in Canada. When he was 6 his family emigrated also to Canada. In those years (early 1950's) Canada was the top destination for Dutch emigrants.
After a few mails he told me the story of a young jewish boy who came to live with his parents family in 1943 during the war. He was hided and just kept as the son of the young parents of Rainier. After the war the Jewish family which survived completely could take their son back.
The famillies stayed in contact, but this was finished after emigration. So Rainier asked me after 61 years of silence if I could find out what has happened with the boy he remembered from the wartime till his 6th year.
Well I could find the right person, well established in Amsterdam and Rainier was able to contact him, the reaction was absolutely positive. So they exchanged their family-histories, but they didn't manage (as far as I konw) to meet eachother because of the early death of Rainier.
In the meantime I researched a bit the ancestors of Rainier and found his relationship to my aunt Prijna van Tilburg, my mother's sister-in-law. He is her 3rd cousin once removed!
So Rainer was married with my 2nd cousin (father's side) and he was 3rd cousin once removed with my aunt (mother's side). What I still don't know is, if they met in Vancouver in school or church. Rainier went in a Christian School in Vancouver from 1951, and my aunt and uncle lived 1950-1954 also in Vancouver and had 3 schoolgoing daughters, especially my eldest niece Margriet Mullender (1945-2005) and they surely went also to a Christian School in Vancouver. The research never ends (happely)

What I like most in genealogy is the puzzling. The combination of facts, finding relationships that leads to a wider view on the family or village population and a lot of other aspects even those one does not expect.

Thank you Pip for managing and moderating the weekend-chats.

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Klaas, what a wonderful story about the Jewish boy and your cousin. How touching that they were able to reconnect.

You are right: the research never ends, and it is a happy situation to be in.

M daughter and son-in-law were in Interlaken and loved every minute of it. The pictures were fabulous.

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Klaas, family history research in small places can be fascinating, as many of the families intermarried for generations.

Looking at all the ways the families are connected looks like a bowl of spaghetti, you pull on one noodle and find out it's tangled up with several others.

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I've added a free space page for the Veendam, 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:SS_Veendam_(1922)

an image 

{{Image|file=SS_Veendam_1922.jpg
|caption=SS Veendam 1923 Color Postcard
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and a category

[[Category: SS Veendam (1922)]]

Answer 11

Howdy folks! Greetings from a very fall-like central Oklahoma! I like fall weather. 

Last Saturday was "The Mike" Cornhole Tourney that we raise funds for the fire department. My mom and both of my sisters came down from Illinois, and it was so much fun having them here. Attendance was down from last year, but the contributions were a bit higher than last year! My sister, Jeannie, and I won the tourney. It was a great weekend all around!

We also got to spend 4 days with the grandbaby! She is pulling herself up and standing, but will not crawl.  She is growing like a weed and will talk your leg off.  She did so well being around a bunch of people she didn't know, and she just smiled and smiled!

We actually have arctic air coming in this weekend, so Brook has me getting the outside plants ready to come inside. I also have to get the room we put the plants in ready. Just another end of summer thing we have to do.  

Pip, I'm glad your rehab is going well and thanks for being the host with the most!! I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Until next time.......

John

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You had a great week, John. Family and fun. Just wonderful!

We've already gotten our plants in (those that need to come in). Two are our Christmas Cactus, both of which are cutting from my late mom's large old one. A nice reminder of her when they bloom in winter.

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John, my nephew NIck, screamed almost every hour of every day until he walked on his own at 7 months.

We all decided he had spent his first 7 months screaming because he was so ticked off that he couldn't move around  

And after about 2 weeks he started running everywhere, now he is 35 and hasn't stopped running since.

Answer 12

Currently, it's 21˚ C and overcast in Fort Erie. Like Pip, we've been having unseasonably warm temperatures over the last few days. This is the sound of me complaining about that:

Tonight's predicted low is 15˚ C with a 60% chance of rain. I was hoping to get in one last pass at mowing the lawn this weekend, but I'm not sure that the grass is sufficiently dry after yesterday's rain, so it may have to wait for the next break in the clouds.

Yesterday afternoon, I took the light of my life and the delight of my eyes up to Niagara Falls to run some errands. I picked up some gear for my office (and the kitchen), and she picked up a bunch of stuff to put into shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. (She's coordinating shoebox collection for our church.)

She has also been desperately trying to deal with the crops, because Monday morning there was a frost warning for the Niagara Region. She's been bringing some plants (like the peppers) inside in hopes that they'll finish producing. (Sometimes, we have been picking peppers inside the house as late as January.) She is harvesting other plants (like the potatoes), because they're basically done anyway. The tricky part is what to do with the plants in-between. She decided to harvest the carrots, even though they weren't as far along as we had hoped. So she'd been dehyrating the greens for cooking, while I have taken advantage of the opportunity to feast on real baby carrots instead of the fake ones they sell in stores. (They are seriously tiny carrots, and they're so cute!)

As seems to be normal for me, I haven't had much genealogising time this week. (I have to confess that I envy professional genealogists, who get to do this and get paid for it. Or would getting paid take all the fun out of it?) But I did manage to make a little bit of progress on profiles for people with a Last Name At Birth of Hancock, Singleton, or McKeller. Specifically, I created some profiles for a few Hancocks and a Singleton, so that should improve the numbers on the percent of profiles added from ThePeerage.com and Wikipedia, at least a little bit. (The numbers are really low on those two surnames.) Also, people have really been pitching in and helping to connect Unconnected Nobel Laureates, so that has kept me hopping restocking the list.

I'm also trying to pay attention to my closer relatives. My CC7 number keeps creeping up by about a profile a week. I assume that's because somebody (or a bunch of somebodies) have been working on the fringes of my circles, because I haven't added any family in ages. (Thanks, cousin(s)!)

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I add a couple of new profiles everyday, trying to fill in someone's tree that appears in my anniversaries! It never occurred to me this was changing somebody's CC7

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Greg, the mowing is already done here. How do you still have grass. It's going to be around 27“F here Wednesday morning, so any hopes the grass had for a comeback are gone!

We did Operation Christmas Child for years, but took a break last year before of the church relocation. I need to check to see if anyone is handling the logistics this year.

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Actually, Pip, even though we had a frost warning last week, we didn't actually get below freezing until this week. On Tuesday, when I was out for one of my blood sugar-lowering walks, it was trying to rain and trying to snow at the same time, so when I got home, I brought in the peppers and alerted the light of my life and the delight of my eyes to what was going on. She rushed to bring in the rest of the crops, and picked all the remaining tomatoes because the plants weren't looking all that healthy anyway. Wednesday morning, there was snow on the ground, and the tomato plants were looking thoroughly dead. I did get a couple of parts of the lawn mowed last weekend (one side and part of the front), and I'd like to do the rest (if for no other reason than that the mower is a lot better at picking up the leaves than I am), but who knows when it will be dry and above freezing again?

Answer 13

Good morning, Friday morning, from Everett, Washington. At 6:30 a.m. I took the dog outside. The sun was not yet up. I was given a gift of stars. Venus in the east, Orion heading westward, with Canis Major at his heels. Old friends I can't remember seeing in I don't know how long. It was cold enough (near freezing) that I could see my breath. Yesterday was the first time this season that I scraped ice from the car windows.

I and the kids had a good time at the Bellingham ComicCon. I did all the driving. Daughter dressed as an Umbrella Corp. scientist from Resident Evil. She did not win a prize; the winner was a young gal as Miles Prower (aka Tails) from Sonic the Hedgehog, complete with mechanical and diagnostic tools, headpiece, and, of course, helicopter tails.   

I went with husband to his appointment with a new doctor, the first since his old doc retired. The new doc is from the U of Washington med school, as was a medical student who took the history. I was impressed, not only that the new doc can ask questions and type at the same time, but that the two of them were dedicated to get my husband's many coordinating specialists on the same page. Communication between medical providers is essential. Husband was recommended to take a higher dosage of metformin, and to reschedule an appointment with a cardiologist, needed because of that "minor" heart attack that he didn't even notice two years ago.

I was inspired to make an appointment to get my eyes checked, which will happen in December. The right eye seems to be weakening.

This morning I got down on the floor and pinned together the batting, backing and top for the quilt featuring St. Thomas Aquinas on the Spanish rice bags. This will be a Christmas present for my friend out in Quilcene.

On Saturday I lead the brick walls class at Sno-Isle Genealogical Society, but I'm told there are no definite sign-ups yet. Note to self: ask what's going on. It's also the Members and Friends Sale at the Mukilteo Lighthouse Gift Shop, and a chance to renew my family's membership in the Hist. Soc. Note to self: get down to the lighthouse Saturday afternoon.

Then, on Sunday at 4, I'm heading up to Stanwood for a talk on preserving historic cemeteries. I hope husband can come with me.

This is all I can think of; it's a lot that I actually manage to get done. There are times, however, when I'm just out of energy. Naps really help.

All of you take care and enjoy God's blessings.

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*Waves from Bellevue :)  Nice to see a local. You sure do get a lot done.  All my best thoughts to you and your husband for good health.  Thank you for mentioning that you were putting together a quilt, it brought back wonderful memories of watching my mother create her quilts.  Have a great week.

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Hi Margaret, Wow, you had a star-packed morning that preceded a very busy day!

I was stargazing tonight as I swept my garage apron. The moon is near full and, I could see the 'big dipper' and I think that Venus and Jupiter are still conjunct (or it is one whopper of a big star). I enjoy taking photos of the full moon as a backdrop to the saguaro cacti in our back alley and send the photos around to family in the Midwest.

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Hi Margaret, what a wonderful gift of stars! I live way out in the sticks and always have to look up when I get home on class nights. There are so many (when it's not cloudy) that sometimes it's hard to pick out familiar constellations.

The Comicon sounds like a blast...sorry your daughter didn't win though. Some of the con costumes are amazing! (I want to learn how to make wings that open...)

Congrats on getting the quilt put together. (But not being Catholic, I had to Google St. Thomas and the Spanish rice bags...thought it was one of his attributes! Now I get it!)

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Margaret, I wish I could find a way to bring the floor level up to hip level.  I now have to work on the kitchen table and it just is not enough.  I am turning in all of the twin size tops and bottoms for another person to quilt and will now just concentrate on lap robes for hospice.  They turned our guild donations down several  years ago but have now changed the desires.  These I hope I can handle with my bad leg.

Answer 14

On this day:

1275: The city of Amsterdam is mentioned for the first time in a document

1923: The American painter Roy Lichtenstein is born

1968: The Austrian/Swedish physicist Lise Meitner dies

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Hi Jelena, two for me from this triad today: 1) Roy Lichtenstein because the Milwaukee Art Museum has his 'Crying Girl' on exhibit (I am a Milwaukee native, but have lived in Arizona longer now than in Wisconsin); and 2) Lise Meitner because any time there is a notabel woman I will support her. Women have been second class citizens for far too long.

Hope you and your mum are doing well. Sending hugs!

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Hi Jelena, I'll take Amsterdam for $800! (True daily double) Always wanted to go there, see the cool architecture, and visit the museums.

When I was subbing at the local high school, I had hair down to my waist and wore long wrap skirts and tall lace-up boots...

Student: Ms. A, have you ever been to...Amsterdam? (giggle)

Me: Uh, no...have you? ...I'd love to see the Van Gogh museum and the Anne Frank house!

Students: (curses, foiled again...)

I have to look up Lise Meitner now!

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I will take Roy for $600. I was a sign painter and some of the pictures I painted in with the lettering looks sort of like his work!

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I have fond memories of Amsterdam, but mostly related to food. The "snack bar" in the Maritime Museum would qualify as at least a three-star restaurant in most places. Burgermeester completely toppled my previous favourite burger place out of consideration, and eating at FEBO is always fun, if not exactly fine dining.

And, when my flight home was cancelled due to a storm, the airline put me up in a hotel that I would never be able to afford on my own, and both the supper and breakfast were top-notch, too.

Answer 15

Good evening from Germany,

where it was rainy the whole week and I switched on the lamp in my room in the mornings on the highest possible lumen to get really awake.

This week, mum decided to clean the two store rooms we have. It's unbelievable how much stuff can be packed into two really small rooms. It felt as if we were moving out of the house....

Genealogy-wise, I worked a lot on the Polish Prussian categories, changing the locations to the German version where needed. Today I went into one of the migration maintenance categories and started to clean that category of the profiles in it. When it is empty, it will be deleted.

I started again to wear a mask when I go into stores. As of today there are more than 15k registered Covid19-cases in Germany. Considering it is much harder to get an official test now than it was let's say two years ago, that is a horrendous number.

Stay safe and have a great weekend

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Hi Jelena, I still wear masks when I go to the store or the farmer's market or anywhere there are groups of people. I learned that lesson all to well when I was diagnosed with Covid in mid-August. I was so sick and am thankful I had all my shots!

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Jelena, I'm wearing a mask in the store again too. Too many people have gotten reckless. The new booster vaccine is used up as soon as a new shipment comes in, and I'm in a dance show Nov. 19 and can't afford to get sick.

Hope you and your mum stay safe!

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I have pretty much always worn a mask in stores and crowded places. I did get Covid once from my son and I was only really sick for about 24 hrs but I don’t want it again.

Answer 16

Checking in from Bloomington Illinois, via New Jersey....I'm on holiday! A 12 hour drive that turned into 14! I'm pooped!

Genealogy: broke 2000 contributios for October and my cc7 has increased! Sweet!

The Book: I'm using a free space to outline chapter 1 in detail.  I'm segmenting each part of the outline with the 3 equal signs === burial scene===, === fire side coversations===  etc. This way I can move the segments around, to get them in perfect order, add more in, or delete a segment that bogs down the story's flow.  The story has little kids in the first chapter.  I'm visiting my son in New Jersey and watching everything my two grandchildren are doing saying and playing!  I have 11 grands, all different ages to develop character personalities. Sweet!

Enjoy the chat!  Thanks Pip for all you do; enjoyed your post!

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12 hours in one day? Did that only once ion my life, and only because I had to get somewhere. Don't think I'll ever be doing that again, or at least I hope not. That's brutal.

Answer 17

Thanks as always, Pip, for hosting the Chat!

Been a temperate week here in da U.P. - intermittent rain, mild temps in the 50s, leaves still on the trees, though not for long. Rain will soon turn them to a sodden mass.

I bet my husband that we would have snow for Halloween, and so far it looks like I may be right. My first winter here, 35 years ago, my then BF and I went out dressed as Oberon and Titania...and came down with really bad colds. Folks around here approve their kid's Halloween costume by whether they can wear snow pants under it.

At the dance studio we celebrate bring-a-friend week and encourage costumes. For ballet I'll probably just wear a fancy witch hat (most costumes being hard to dance in, though one year I dressed up as Martha Graham)...for tap, I can get away with the Fourth Doctor if I borrow T's Stetson. I made the scarf last year.

Genealogy: met a new cousin, Gail, who is related through the Fo(r)sters, Virginians on my mother's side. We are currently trying to untangle the records of Alexis Meador Forster, a VA senator who was somewhat instrumental in the Constitution, and his kin. Records are all over the map, but at least he's not "John Smith."

Then there's my cousin whose grandfather was mortally wounded at the battle of Jonesboro, and who, I found out, was married three times (in AZ/NM...records are sketchy!). Plus two of his wives were married before, one widowed with 2 kids. A tangled web for sure. I hope to do some digging tomorrow at the public WiFi after rehearsal. 

Y'all take care and stay warm...

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Hi D, my all time favorite Halloween costume was the year I went as Alice Cooper. I only lacked his height!

When I was married, we had some really great Halloween parties. This was back in the 1970s and 1980s. The best ever was the year two nurse friends, a married couple, came as the shark from Jaws and his wife as a scuba diver. Their big entry included the sound track when the shark was about to make its appearance in Jaws and Al pulled a naked Barbie doll in a swimming position on a coat hanger into its mouth. The shark was made of foam and spray painted, and it looked like a real shark (like the old "Candygram" skit from Saturday Night Live when it was really funny). The rest of the crowd was laughing so hard several made a beeline to the loo. I think a few might have tinkled their pants. It was the very best kind of laughter.

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LOL, Carol, I would pay to have seen that! You as Alice (I have the McFarlane action figure of him) and your friends with the shark act! ("Candygram...")

A friend who is a professional costume designer came to our art center party one year in an amazing fly costume she'd made. Said, "Sorry, I couldn't get a sitter, so I had to bring my maggots." One of her arms held 3 stuffed white tubes; another, a small jar labeled "Maggot Food. Offal Good."

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@D..."Offal Good"..."apun my word!' Yours is a great Halloween story as well. I might have an old photo of me as Alice and will see if I can find it. If so, I will figure out how to upload and post. It probably won't happen until next Halloween, though! Did you know that Alice lives in Phoenix?

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Yes! My husband lived there for a while, and met him!  Said he was very nice.

Would love to see the picture, whenever! !Feliz dia de los Muertos!

Answer 18

On this day:

1886: The Statue of Liberty is dedicated

1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis ends

1967: The American actor Julia Roberts is born. Happy Birthday!

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Hi Jelena, well...another two from the triad today: 1) of course the dedication of the Statue of Liberty (I have been up close and personal several times) and 2) the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I remeber that very well! We even studied how 'group think' played a role in the original negotiation and how JFK absented himself and added two other statesmen to the group to come up with the best solution that was not influence by the President of the USA being present. That brought about the end of the crisis!

And a birthday wish for Julia! Tomorrow (the 29th) would be my mum's 99th birthday. I am sure she will be having a Brandy Old-Fashioned Sweet with two olives in the spirit world!

Answer 19

25 degrees here (N Colorado) this AM with like an inch of snow on the ground.  It's still snowing a bit, more of a snow mist.  Suppose I'll be clearing off the sidewalk later today.

Granddaughter (12 years old) had a soccer game scheduled in Fort Collins today but that got canceled last night ... they'll stay in Laramie instead and enjoy the cold!

Been pluggin' along on WikiTree ... going back looking at old profiles I did and adding new sources and such.  Forgot all about the "Suggestion" file and worked on that last night ... had like 45 to do ... I should put a recurring note on my calendar to wake me up on Tuesdays.

Take care all and stay warm ...

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Hi Cousin Bob! 9th cousin down from the Kimbell family.  For me it went from our 10th?  Great grandfather Kimbell  eventually to Wilson to McGinness to Draper. My aunt and her husband had a creamery in Colorado Springs. I loved those visits to Colorado! Pearl (McGinness) and husband Leland Thurman.

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Interestingly enough, I have been working on some British Jewett’s lately as part of the RAWK event.

Answer 20

Greetings from Missouri where it is overcast and colder 48 brrrr. Anything under 80 is cold to me.

Well I now am alive disabled person. I don’t like thinking about myself that way but can’t risk falling and can’t walk without assistance so time to face reality.   Getting older is not for wimps!

Halloween is around the corner. I have candy but with THe rain prediction during the day and cooler night I will be staying inside to give out candy rather than sitting outside which I have done most years

I have my joke books and spooky stuff ready.   Grand kiddos are ready to go trick or treating. Ron has the 2 granddaughters at the Science Center today they have a Halloween event today and tomorrow. they saw something in the imax theater and are now doing other fun stuff like robotics and flight simulators.  Lots of hands on learning.  Good stuff.

Ron took grandson to Halloween party at the Magic House earlier this week. He had a great time and met 3 Vampires who he said were really nice.  The Magic House is an old Victorian Mansion turned into a science museum for kids 3 to around 12.  they had games and Halloween themed crafts.  

Hopefully everyone has a safe and fun Halloween.    Remember ghosts are our ancestors

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Hi Laura, I NEVER forget that ghosts are our ancestors, as well as beloved friends and co-workers. You have a great Halloween, while I have a great Samhain, Halloween, Dia de los Muertos! Hugs!

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Really nice Vampires! What's the world coming to?

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hE IS 4 GOING ON 5 NEXT WEEKEND.  tHE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD IS A BETTER PLACE THAN REALITY.

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That's why I'm a kid at heart!

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Laura, you and my wife! She is not happy unless it's 80. This Wednesday it is going to be in the 20s and she is already not happy.

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For me it is a side effect of medication