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The church had been inactive for several years and as a useful building.  It had been leaking and the snow weight dropped it.  There are at least 5 churches within a 10 mile radius so we can still attend services.  The village is not
big enough to support a congregation with a minister in today's costs.

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Beulah, a friend's father was a Lutheran pastor serving 3 small congregations before he retired. The Methodist circuit riders ain't got nothin' on us!

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The Methodist and a few Anglican circuit riders were almost the only people who performed marriages and baptisms in early Ontario.

A few of the original records still exist, most of the records are transcriptions that exist only in church records. And most of those records are only available through the websites of the various churches and they don't make it easy to access the information.

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My ggggrandfather was a circuit rider in our area and established many of the new churches.  He is credited with holding a huge revival that converted many people.  He may be spinning in his grave 1/4 mile away from the downed church.  I wonder if I check in early winter if there will be snow on his plot?
From the early days of my church days attendance, 1940s,
the church was usually open only in the summers with minister students and they had two churches in our area.
eventually we shared full time ministers during the summers only.  The son of one of them moved into our school district when we were in junior high.  He begged his father to stay in one place all through high school and his father agreed so we had full time a little longer in the fall.
Chuck wrote a composition  for English class describing his father's trip from one church to the other "over ice filled pot
holes at five miles an hour fighting with the steering wheel".
I remember the teacher using it as an example of writing with adjectives.  I have eliminated many with my quote.

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The roads are much better now.  Our deed from the late 1800 gives us right of way to cross a neighbors back yard
with our team and sleigh when the road is impassable.  I wonder if he would honor it if I was foolish enough to try and create the situation.  He has a huge fancy house and it on a road five miles away from me by road miles.  I doubt if he has any idea of his in his deed.  The only problem might be the end of the old horse and buggy road has been abandoned and our end is now just a hayfield access road.

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Beulah, I would love to make a recording of such a trip! But wouldn't getting in and out of the sleigh with your sore leg be a problem? To say nothing of navigating the hayfield...

If you could come up with the sleigh, I'm ornery enough that I'd be tempted to do it on principle. In period costume. And brandish a copy of the deed if anyone objected ;)

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Love the idea but only part I can easily provide is a tattered deed.  A 1920 pattern is available for your period costume if
I know you.

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In Calumet we have a number of abandoned churches left over from the mining heydays. Many people left after the 1913 strike and the later cessation of operations. Some buildings are repurposed for art centers, meeting spaces, etc., while others are just empty and falling down, or shored up as interested parties can afford to keep them going.

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OMG! Talk about throwing down the gauntlet...I haven't had time yet to redraft the patterns you already sent me...;)

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I don't think either one of us combined could could take this one on but it does pique the imagination for ideas.  I enjoy your bravery and if we were 60 years younger and it was 1923 I might consider it for Halloween trick or treating.

Answer 1

This Week Enjoy a NEW Parody!

I Chat for a Good Time

Sung to the tune of I'm Here For A Good Time by American Country Music legend George Strait!

• Written by George Strait, his son Bubba and Dean Dillon
• Released June 13, 2011, as the 92nd single of his career and it shot to #1 bringing the number to 59 of #1 hits!
• *George Straight and Dave Draper are cousins! 18th 1xR
  • His profile on WikiTree is private, but his father's profile is here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Strait-246
  • Parody by Dave Draper (George is 26 days older than Dave Draper, just saying!)

Here is the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl3lcTZN7fI

• Click on the link and the music should play, then come back here and try to sing along
  • or open the link in a new window

I Chat For A Good Time

• I can’t wait for Friday morn’
• I whine and moan for Weekend Chat ‘till it comes on
• Don’t think for a minute
• That I’m gonna sit around and watch! I’ll play along
• I believe it’s full of joy! And I have a blast!
• Friday morn I wake up knowing this could be my last
• I ain't here for a long time
• I chat for a good time
• So bring on the sunshine! Know well this is MY time
• Post me your good times!
• When I’m gone, carve in my stone: “He chatted all the time!”
• I ain't here for a long time
• I chat for a good time
• Wikipeeps are posting about what they like to do
• But I like to post just what I like
• I'll take the chance, dance the dance
• It might be wrong but then again it might be right
• There’s no way of knowing all the kind of things
• Wikipeeps will post up just about everything!
• I ain't here for a long time
• I chat for a good time
• So bring on the sunshine! Know well this is MY time
• Post me your good times!
• When I’m gone, carve in my stone: “He chatted all the time!”
• I ain't here for a long time
• I chat for a good time
• I ain't here for a long time
• I chat for a good time

More of Dave's Weekend Chat parodies  >>>>> HERE! 

*33 now! WOW

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I love this, David!!!

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I still hear "867-5309" When I hear "For a good time". Nice work, David!

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Another great parody! I don't know how you do this, but it is one of my favorite aspects of weekend chat.

Thanks for all you do to make WT awesome! Enjoy this Anniversary Weekend

Answer 2

Just like history, here we are again, repeating ourselves one more time. Top of the Morning to all, near and far and around the world. Thanks to our friends north of the boarder, we are enjoying milder weather this weekend. I guess they are waiting to share their arctic air and that is much appreciated.

 In the spirit of Halloween, I read some obits of people I knew growing up that I assumed have died. That reminded me that my memory might not be what it once was. Some obits seemed like new information but, after some reflection, they were simply reminders of things I have forgot, I mean, didn’t remember.  I also thought of those associated with those who have died, as I performed this little exercise. This morning I wake to the news of one I thought of, “I wonder if he is still alive?, died last Friday. Last Friday was my wife’s birthday which she chooses to ignore. I wonder if I will remember a year from now, that association. I suppose that’s living proof that things don’t stay the same.

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The only thing that remains the same is that everything changes! (I forget who said that..bahahahaah)   Thanks for sharing cousin (15th, and thanks for reminding me last week)

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K, if I read an obit of someone I new, I rarely find out something I didn't know. It's the older ones where I find some interesting things I can add to a bio.

Just so you know, we've been ignoring birthdays for years, except I DO take my wife out for hers.

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Normally, when I hear a service or read an obit, I just assume I knew them better or they are talking about someone else.

@ David -Change is the only constant yet, the more things change, the more they stay the same. In search of a better mouse trap, we often overlook how efficient an old blacksnake is at his job.

Answer 3

Hi from southern Ontario,

Chez moi/at home: what's been happening here? I am tired! And my brain is on strike! The Horticultural Society Annual General Meeting is on 14 November and its always time consuming and tiring to get all the required paperwork, annual reports including finance, organised in time. 

This year just to make everything more complicated we have to revise about 10 parts of our Constitution and Bylaws to comply with some new Ontario Legislation that governs all non-profit organisations in the province. This required reading all 87 pages of the new Act, deciding which parts apply to our non-profit community group. Then rereading our Constitution and Bylaws and deciding which particular sections, subsections and articles need amending. Writing the new parts, presenting the information to the membership by sections, subsections and articles, explaining what the docs previously said, what it will say and what if any real impact it will have on the operation of the society. and sending all of the above information to the membership before the meeting so that they are informed in the required time frame before 14 November. 

It makes sourcing unknowns with no information other than first names and a date guesstimate seem like child’s play! 

Then because I am a glutton for punishment (does that sound odd or kinky?) I volunteered to lead a workshop at the Horticultural Society December meeting all about growing amaryllis bulbs, what to do, what not to do, how to get them to grow and rebloom for future years. I ordered the bulbs from a local wholesaler- yes, I have a business license-picked them up yesterday afternoon, and now have 54 amaryllis bulbs in boxes in my garage, hoping they will stay cool enough less than 10 C not to start growing before December 12, but not get too cold below 5 C which will abort flower development. 

WikiTree and family history: Now the easy part! WikiTreeing isn’t time sensitive, well yes, it is very concerned with dates, but no one will get upset if I don’t have everything that needs editing done in the next 11 days. 

I was able to complete 5 merges that I proposed 30 days ago, all in the same family, and then propose 2 more merges for 2 duplicates of a daughter in the same family. They the daughters are Mary Elizabeth (Bessie) Smith Dods and her doubles Mary E Smith and Bessie Smith. 

Other than the merges I have been working on short biography suggestions because its not too difficult for my tired brain. 

What else: I’m almost finished reading Ken Follett’s ‘The Armor of Light’ on page 648 of 736, it has been fascinating especially because the last part of the book is about the battle of Waterloo in 1815, Robbie’s 4 x GGF fought at the Battle of Waterloo. We have his sword hanging on our living room wall. 

We had an odd looking creature wander through the back yard just as it was getting too dark to decide what it was. Bigger and longer than a racoon, mostly brown/dark grey, definitely not a skunk, not a possum, small enough to fit through the hole under the fence that the rabbits have made. If I had to guess I would say a juvenile badger but they are very rare around here and it would have to live in the local greenbelt and get through or under several fences to be seen in my backyard.

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Great post M!  How neat to have a historic sword hanging on the wall!  That is awsome!

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M, you dealing with Ontario's laws governing non-profits sounds like our HOA dealing with North Carolina laws governing those. We just revised our agreement to come in line with the state, and there was a hullabloo in the neighborhood about it.

That sword... I would just die to hold it just one time. What a treasure Robbie has there!

Critters: I thought I heard a bear out back while I was standing on the deck in the dark. I listened for a good 10-15 minutes before deciding it was a deer. Probably correct as I saw a young buck in the same area this morning.

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I like to see a picture of the sword. That's pretty neat!

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I second Eileen's motion. All in favor....

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Here is the sword of John A Peacock and Robbie's hand!

https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Peacock-3531

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M. - I just finished re-visiting the Ken Follett - Kingsbridge Series - 4 books of about 1,000 each. Now I'm #50 on library waitlist for The Armor of Light. Of course I could just buy it as you did! They are all good history reads.

I also had a French ancestor in Napoleon's navy. His ship was captured by the British and he spent the war in Dartmoor prison.

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That is some sword, M. Cavalry?

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What a fascinating story about your French ancestor, Eloine! Is there more to it?

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Yes Pip, a cavalry sword, a 1796 Light cavalry sabre, though he served as a Serjeant in the 2nd battalion of the 95th Regiment of Foot, so perhaps he picked it up after whoever it belonged to could no longer use it then used it during the battle and then brought it home.

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Now that's a sword! I'm wondering if Napoleon used this weapon as well.

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From a brief search it seems they had similar swords/sabres  and that they often used a shorter, straighter sword. 

Many of the swords have a more elaborate protective basket, that is curved metal around the hilt or handle of the sword that it was hoped would prevent the users hand from being chopped off by his opponent. 

Though it seems like the weapons mostly used by the infantry on both sides were various types of rifles and carbines. And many cannons. 

And just because I always want more details, I found out that John Peacock's 95th Regiment of Foot used:  Unlike most other infantry regiments, the 95th was armed with the Baker rifle, a more accurate and longer range weapon than the smooth bore Brown Bess musket. Riflemen were usually employed in advance of the infantry, in more widely dispersed ‘skirmish lines’ and were trained to act independently. 

So the sword wasn't originally his, but he did bring it home with him.

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M, non-profit paperwork...ugh. Despite being just able to balance my checkbook and file my taxes, I've had to pinch-hit for treasurers of two local groups. Think I'd rather untangle all of WikiTree's existing John Smiths...

The amaryllis bulbs though? Sounds lovely!

Was the critter perhaps a fisher or pine marten?

Great sword. Thanks for posting!

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The critter-pine martens don't live around here, we're too warm for them, not enough trees and almost are the trees around here are hardwoods.

And it left a human size pile of scat by my back fence!

Answer 4

Greetings from Rochester, Minnesota USA!

Current Temperature: 42°F (6°C)

Genealogy: I have time for it again! I'll be participating in a few things during the Wikitree Day and Symposium. 

Nursing School: On hiatus till August 2024. 

Clinical Work: I start my new position as a CNA on Monday with Mayo Clinic's Charter House. This will be a good experience. 

Health: Received both COVID and flu shots for the year. In mental health outpatient treatment and it's going very well. I'm on Cymbalta and it's helping with my mood and nerve pain. I'll have my Vitamin D levels checked soon. Weight is under control. 

Anniversaries: Six years ago, I left the Pacific Northwest to come to the land of many lakes (more than 10,000 of course). I had a culture shock after seeing the snow fall at MSP when I landed in 2017. 

Also, it's the feast day of St. Martin de Porres. This cooperative brother of the Order of Preachers influenced me to go into healthcare and hospitality. 

Answers To The Host: I have no burial stories, Pip. I basically told my half siblings where my mother wanted to be buried. They didn't like the place but that's where she wanted it. Family feuds are exhausting. Aren't they?

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Eileen, my younger brother told me and my wife that he wants to be buried over my dad's in Charlotte where we grew up. I hope he tells his wife as she wants to be buried with her family da good piece away.

I hope you enjoy your new job at the Mayo Charter House!

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Quote: Family feuds are exhausting. Aren't they?

 My wife's brother is going through a divorce! We love them both, but we are so caught in the middle!

Answer 5

Hails and horns, Wikipeeps!

WikiTree Day is here and the Italy Project is ready to go with two videos! I recorded the last one with Sandy and Frank a few days ago and it will go live on Sunday. I'll be sure to post the videos here so stay tuned! Frank and I did a video where we explore Italian records and how to read them and how to read the docs stateside. 

I did a blog about wine. Italians and wine go well together. I'll just put the link here: https://allroadhaverhill.blogspot.com/2023/11/52-ancestors-week-44-spirits.html

Just remember if an Italian offers you wine, YOU TAKE IT! No exceptions. Take the wine or else you risk offending the host.

In other news, I was contacted by a guy who descends from Antonio Fruci. He wanted my help figuring some stuff out and I gave him some info and a pdf explaining a lot of stuff.

On the non genealogy front, I helped my parents bring some stuff home from the boat. On the way home we passed Haverhill city hall. I so wanted them to drop me off. But, there was a few problems. I didn't have my list of questions with me and it was kinda late for them to go digging into the archives. Ah well. Next time.

I hope everyone has a great weekend! Thanks for hosting, Pip!!

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Sto assumendo un farmaco che non interagisce bene con l'alcol.

Mio padre aveva problemi ai reni e mi avvertì di non bere alcolici. L'eccessivo alcolismo lo ha ucciso.

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=( That's so sad about your dad, Eileen. Don't worry. We'll get ya covered. And yea booze and meds don't mix. So sorry.

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Here's the first Italy Project video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aeRRJ6eLFs

The next one is coming soon!

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Here's the Ambassadors Project video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N34vjjouNf8&list=PLEqK4ICkQWXTcHb2eaLFDq-T2z-mCMuUW

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And here's the Italy Project vid! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGvGCZbrVRc

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@K, as beer goes, I'm a stout/porter kind of gal. Sounds yummy.

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Cousin Chris, I would *never* risk turning down wine from an Italian, lol.

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Chris, why was San Pietro not on the map during the Italy Project presentation?  

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@ D: Yeah. You'd just would have to have a good reason. A very good reason.

@Pip: Well, we didn't have time to Google Earth it and Gesualdo but since you asked....

San Pietro a Maida.

Gesualdo.

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Hmm...like allergies or a medical condition? Thank the gods neither of those applies, as yet!

Answer 6

Checking in from Bloomington Illinois where the corn and bean fields are harvested, and the frost looks like snow until mid-morning!

Vacation:  Made a quick trip to New Jersey last week (13 hour drive each way)

We got the "Money Shot" of my pride and joy!  Meet my granddaughter!

The Book:  My opening chapter starts out with a little girl!  This granddaughter will be the model for my opening character, the hero of my story!  This little one has given me tons of information to draw on (how little ones frolic about) I just have to set her back about 200 years!

I have one other granddaughter, staying with us temporarily!  She is a teenager! She will be the model of my book hero at that coming of age part of the book! She is going to be sick of me asking her questions!

This week is the 159th anniversary of my 2nd grandfather's escape from Iowa to Nebraska being chased by bounty hunters bent on killing the whole family for hiding runaway slaves on their property as he was a station master on the UGRR.   You know the bone chilling cold most of us in the USA have had this last week!  Imagine taking a family on a 200 mile trip in 1864 to a new home in the middle of no where Nebraska!  How they survived is amazing!  I start writing the book this week!

WikiTree contributions: I shot well past 2000 in October doing my little WikiGames take off!  I don't seem to have anybody on my watchlist, so I use "Anniversaries" to find profiles to update, source, and improve!  This month I already have made 325 contributions!

Well, that's it for now!  Thanks Pip for hosting the WC for so many years!  Thank all of you for the WT LOVE!

 

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Hey, David your watchlist is a list of all the profiles you have created and/or that you are currently the profile manager for.

Some examples Thomas Earl Draper, Fred Rex Draper, Virginia Mary Robbins, Cassie Maxine McGinness and many of their ancestors.

You can find your watchlist from your profile, click on My WikiTree almost at the bottom of the drop down you will see Watchlist.

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Well there it is!  I can't believe I have looked at that menu for 2+ years and didn't see it! Oh my, it is full of stuff!

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One of the other things you can see under the my WikiTree drop down is Suggestions.

Click on that and you will see any profiles you manage that have problems, such as mother died before child was born, father died more than 9 months before the child's birth,  children born less than 9 months apart and a whole lot of other issues.

That's just the beginning of problems that can exist with profiles a person manages.

Check it out, it is very informative and will help you create better profiles.

If you would like more detailed information about the profiles you manage go to your profile and under categories add Profile Completeness, it provides details about information that is missing from the profiles you manage.

The suggestions list is updated once a week usually on a Tuesday, sometimes on Wednesday.

Checking your suggestions will keep you busy!

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You have a real cutie there.

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Cousin David, she is adorable.

Congrats on the book. Are you doing it for NaNoWriMo? I'd love to read it someday!

Answer 7

Is Weekend Chat like a CB radio where you just call out a handle to see who is listening? How 'bout you Jack? Jack the Bear? are you out there.

I done a little diggin and came up with a couple local legends I grew up with and thought you might appreciate. I think I can tie them together in a way that will pique your interest, if no one else. First, does this ring any bells? *Wild Child's Custom Shop circa 1960's

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Nice!  I used to pin stripe those creations back in the day!

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Okay, maybe a couple people will find this of interest. More to follow when the Bear wakes from his evening slumber.

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Yeah I'm here, K......that's what my friend, Roger Weisenborn, called me when I drove my '65 V8 Cornbinder shortbox back in '73......he used to put the tailgate down to go even faster.

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Are you familiar with Ray Farhner's work?

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I had to look up Ray and found his custom vehicles and that he married Betty Phillips and settled in Raytown......his work has good eye appeal.

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Don't ask me why but, as I was thinking of this week's lesson, something beckoned me to tie history to automotive, so this is what I came up with. Check your sources! It seems Ray was very creative. It seems as though his most iconic creations, Ray Farhner's Boothill Express had a billing as creative as his masterpiece. He advertised that the 100-year-old coach did in fact carry Bob Younger to his grave in the famed Boothill Cemetery in Tombstone Az. Only a couple problems; the first is, Bob died in in Sep 1889, by that time Boot Hill had been closed to new inhabitants. The next concern would be, Bob is said to be buried in the Historic Lee's Summit Cemetery next to his brother Cole. Find a Grave indicates there is a stone however, details of interment are unknown. My guess is, he was given the same consideration as "Bloody Bill Anderson", probably buried somewhere near Northfield in an unmarked grave that was stomped flat immediately following his burial and was only identifiable by the sight of bare dirt and the smell of urine. Unlike Bill, I doubt if he was beheaded by his enemies first. Another Bob factoid, after  Ewing's Order #11, Bob refused his middle name (Ewing) and went by Owen. Owen being a family name associated with his Aunt's husband's family and mother of the Dalton Gang. (Younger-233)

Most people who can attest to my claims are dead. In the mid to late sixties, I sat at the wheel of the Boothill Express in Ray's shop while/as the car was being built. My uncle was a hotrodder and frequently visited and helped Ray in days of old. I was about 10 and those "old" guys were in their thirties, maybe pushing 40. I have sources! I even had a photo that didn't survive.

Next week we will look at Thomas Ewing and his brother-in-law.

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I was studying General Order #11 (1863) when the tree came down in our yard last week.  

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That's a focal issue at the LJHS and local history here in the "Burnt District". The Younger's were descendants of the Fristoe's, a very prominent family from the early days of Jackson County. Younger married a Fristoe and their son, a Union man, was robbed and murdered by Union forces from Kansas at the start of the Civil War. Cole, an 18 year old, fought for preservation of family and friends he called neighbors. I forgot to mention, Find a Grave states Bob served in the Confederate Army before he joined Jesse, Frank and Cole. Bob was 12 years old at the end of the war. Bob endured constant Union harassment and full effect of Order #11 when he was 9 or 10. Check your sources! I heard one of the volunteers at the museum tell someone that the Dalton's were part of the Northfield robbery in 1876. I guess they were guilty by association since they were cousins, Emmett would have been 5 years old. I can't believe their mom let Cole babysit that day.

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Next weeks history lesson; Families that Play Together, Stay Together, Sometimes.

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Looking forward to the next lesson......yesterday I conversed with my son-in-law and wife about the events that took place......over time I am memorizing how all the people are connected.

Answer 8

Virtual Visit!

When we were in British Columbia in August 2023, we visited the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre in New Denver. It was designated a Canadian National Historic Site in 2007.

The museum is open from May to September. The site consists of five buildings, of which three are original shacks built to house the interned. Many artifacts such as stoves and furnishings are preserved, in the museum as are some personal effects of the people displaced.

I have chosen not to include any of the photos of the interiors of the ‘shacks’ or any of the photos available on various websites of the internees who lived in the camp. I have included this photo of part of the museum from the website for the Memorial Centre as an example of the items that were brought to the camp by the internees plus the many family photographs from before, during and after their internment.

This picture is from Wikipedia and shows the walkway between the Buddhist Temple on the left and one of the buildings where the internees lived on the right, this building now includes the museum.

It is on a large piece of land that was used to grow vegetables until the internment camp was built during the Second World War. The site is surrounded by a tall, wooden fence with two gates at the front to indicate to visitors that they are about to enter a special place. 

These are the walls of 2 of the original cabins/shacks where the internees lived. 

 

 It also has the modest community hall that also served as a bathhouse and is still used as a Buddhist temple. 

It also includes many period artifacts and interpretive displays as well as the Heiwa Teien Peace Garden, designed by the renowned Japanese Canadian gardener, Tomomichi (Roy) Sumi. 

Of the many internment camps in the interior of BC during WW II, the New Denver camp, known as “The Orchard” internment camp, was the only one not bulldozed immediately after the war. 

It included a tuberculosis sanatorium that housed many of their elders and a community where two cultures had learned to co-exist, even to the extent of sharing Legion meetings, a large number of Japanese families stayed on in New Denver after the war. Some continued to live in their cedar cabins as late as 1985.

I was familiar with the history of the treatment of people of Japanese origin in Canada during WW2, but visiting this Memorial Centre was an eye opener. It was also the reason I called this post Virtual Visit not Vacation. 

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Looking at your pictures are one of the best parts of my Fridays! Thanks M!

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M, there is an internment museum I'd like to visit someday in California, the Manzanar National Historic Site. I was one of ten in the US used for that purpose.

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M, In 1954 I entered grade 4 on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia and have fond memories of going to school, playing and working with the members of 4 prominent Japanese Canadian families.......your photos explain some of the history they must have lived through.

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There is lots more information on Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre website, plus many other places, the Canadian National Historic Sites website.

Many many pics, I just didn't feel right using any of them.

Answer 9

Greetings from Brightlingsea, Essex, England.

I seem to keep missing out on weekly chat. I seem to be having a busy life. There is much going on at present. Am hoping to move in 2024 - to my Dad's house  and there are a few things that need doing there before I move in. Try and gat as much done while you are not living there at the same time. Some damp issues being attended to, along with new windows in the kitchen and whatever else we find needs looking at. Certainly it will need decoration as well and some new carpets.

The house has been in the family since 1923 when it was purchased by my grandparents. My mother was born in the house she lived there till she married. My parents bough it after the the death of my Grandmother I will be the next generation to live there. Have plenty to keep me busy.....

More next time.....

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If only the walls of the house could talk…

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Ever since I started hosting the Chat, Chris, You have always  been busy!

Answer 10

Howdy folks! Greetings from central Oklahoma USA! The weather has been typical fall-like. We were in the 90s two weeks ago, then 40s/20s, now 60s/50s. The freeze killed off the garden so I pulled everything and mulched it with my push mower. I did pick enough jalapenos to can 3 quart jars before the freeze, so I got that going for me. Which is nice. A guy Brook works with gave us two blackberry bushes that he raised in big tubs, and it's time to find a place out back to plant them. I hope we end up with a big thicket of them!

The other night, Brook just happened to mention that she was hungry for chicken salad. At our house that only means one thing: smoked chicken salad. I drug out one of the smokers, spatchcocked a chicken, seasoned it up, and started a fire. Five hours later I had a nice batch of my somewhat regionally famous smoked chicken salad, and it was mighty tasty if I do say so myself!

Halloween around our house is usually a quiet affair. We live in the old part of town, so nobody comes around here Trick or Treating, and I have to say, I'm not mad about it.  This year, the grandgirl, Harper, and the others showed up and totally made our Halloween! She was dressed up like a peach with the pit on the front of her outfit. Cuteness overload!

This weekend is the last Bedlam game between the hated Oklahoma Sooners and my Oklahoma State Cowboys since OU decided to go to another conference. I'll probably make a pot of my award winning Hellfire Chili and head over to my buddy, Jim's, sit on his patio by the fire and, hopefully, cheer my Pokes on to victory. Hopefully. 

Genealogy wise it's winter and that means I'm going to start working on my lines again. My goals this year is to get my Howe line connected to the big tree, and make some good progress with my Bowlin (Bolin, Bolling, etc) lines. We are going to my cousin's in Southern Illinois for Thanksgiving, and he has file cabinets of family tree info, including the Bowlins, so I'm looking forward to that. Other than that, its been Greeting and Ranger duty. 

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

Until next time.....

John

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Southern Illinois? Let me know when you are coming through town, I'll make sure the museum is open.

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John,
We don't get any trick-or-treaters here at our house either. This year a couple up the road got dressed up and came knocking at the door, saying they were reversing the Halloween tradition.
They were bringing the treats to us!

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No trick or treaters this year at the apartment complex. It snowed in Rochester, Minnesota. Too cold.

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We had 55 trick and treaters, down from 80+ last year when we were worried the treats would run out .

This year there are leftovers for us to eat!

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It was miserably cold on Halloween. We only had about 60 this year most years we have between 100 and 200. My husband sat in the garage with heaters and gave out candy. Many came to sit and get warm.  I stayed inside as I don’t do cold well

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Hey K!

We are going to watch the Cubs play the Royals in KC next July. We'll have to swing through Lone Jack and meet up!

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Candyce that is a great idea!

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Well Eileen, it is Minnesota. 

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That can be a blessing and a curse! 

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Laura

When I was a kid in Illinois, my buddies and I never missed Trick or Treating no matter the weather. Those were the days!

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We only have 2 (older, year-round) kids out where we live, and they are pretty far-flung, so probably attend parties. But some of my students and I dressed up for classes last week. (I was the Fourth Doctor.)

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Yeah you just put a costume over coat.   Today’s kiddos are not as hardy.  They are over scheduled over protected and scared of a world that seems broken and angry.  We would fill our pillow cases go home dump the goodies out and move to the next subdivision. It was a different time and a more innocent time.  You knew all your neighbors and everyone helped each other.

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Tom Baker and Matt Smith are my favorite doctor who actors.  We all need a sonic screwdriver. Hey are we time lords with our focus on ancestors?

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@Laura, we could be! My hair is kinda like Tom's...when it's not going Phyllis Diller (I badly need a haircut).

It's between Baker and Tennant for me. I didn't like Matt Smith at first, but he tends to grow on you..

Where is that sonic screwdriver, anyway?

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https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_screwdriver

Answer 11

Hello, there in the Chat. This news comes to you from Everett, Washington. It rained hard yesterday morning but the wind blew the storm away and now it's partly sunny.

All Saints, All Souls, and then, today, our 33rd wedding anniversary. I remember how anxious we all were in 2020. This year we can relax and enjoy a bit. I think back to the day I was married and recall years of strengthening our family, the losses of loved ones, the financial struggles at times, and my husband's recent health problems. Marriage is a good estate.

I was a bit late for the chat as I was working on some Texas Rangers profiles for the Sports Notables.

I have taken more time with the mess of fabric upstairs, and woke up full of more ideas than I have time to tackle today. Daughter and I will visit her grandparents' graves in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park here in Everett. We will go shopping to get some coffee ground. Then it's out to dinner! And First Friday Mass at 6:30.

Blessings to you all.

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I went to First Friday Mass at a Catholic chapel at Mayo Clinic. The Mass was for health care workers. It is known as the White Mass. It was glorious and we had a dinner afterwards!

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Been married for 47 years. Best thing I ever did. I call my sweetie man. The Saint. He is a good man and my best friend.   We’ve been together for over 50 years gosh I am old!

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It's a good thing you like history--- you and Ron have a lot of it!!

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Good history is like beautiful song.

We have an entire concert.  K you’ve met my sainted husband. We actually went to the same pediatrician as children. Don’t know if weever met then. I met him in Sept of 1972 in a biology class for non majors in a huge classroom theater with a teacher who tried to explain atomic theory by drawing references to cork all. We got engaged in April of 1973 and married Sept of 1976. So lots of history. First child Jan 1978 second child November 1981.  First grandchild August 2012. She is brilliant.

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You hit the Jackpot. I've been looking for a fishing buddy that is as affable as Ron. I'd be fishing all the time, and mad when I wasn't.

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He doesn’t fish. His hobby is doing things with his grandchildren. He is happiest when he can do something that brings joy to the little ones. He takes our oldest granddaughter on dinner and a movie date yes he has seen Barbie. He takes youngest granddaughter to Grant’s Farm because she loves to feed the goats and our grandson to the Science Center and Aquarium. The kiddos love their Grandpa days. Other than that we love going on a quest. The quest is we have to go somewhere and do something with in one day of home we have never done before. Mo state parks are filled with gems.  Now we are starting to take grandkids with us. Exploring is fun.

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Hi,
Over the past three months, my mom's health became fragile and has declined dramatically. She's now on oxygen and needs constant care. Thus far, I've been Mom's primary caregiver, as I have described here before. One of my brothers, who lives on West Coast (we're in Massachusetts) has bought a house and moved Mom to it; he is determined to keep her out of any nursing home.
I haven't had much time or energy to sign on to Wikitree, and probably won't until I see you on the other side of this situation.

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Wishing you the best in your trying times.

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I'm sending you lots of hugs, Anonymous. In our family, I am the one with declining health. My daughter, with whom I reside, would love to keep me here, but there is no way, and no $$$, to do construction that would make it safe for me to stay here. So, I'm moving to a senior apartment with amenities sometime soon. I understand your heartache.

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Candyce, Best wishes to you!
I was frequently staying with Mom at her place- first at the condo, then in the senior efficiencies. Her place in the senior low income housing was compact but it was warm for her, wheelchair accessible, and close to everything, while my brother's new place is none of those. So far, I have my doubts about the wisdom of this move.
I hope your new place works improves your quality of life. I live in senior housing myself. The neighborhood has just about everything within a block or two and the accessibility factor gives me peace of mind. You can set the thermostat to comfortable without worrying about the budget. Since you will be living in your own place, the medical establishment will be more quick and more generous with home care services when needed because they aren't allowed to assume a relative will be on hand to help out.
Again, best wishes to you!

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Prayers and thoughts are with you and your mom.

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(((Hugs))) to you. This is indeed a very difficult time. My brother and his wife have been looking after my mom’s care for several years. She was in the hospital or a long term care facility for months.

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Prayers for all caregivers. Even under best circumstances not an easy labor of love. Being a disabled senior I realize how blessed I am to have a fabulous support group of family and friends.  Also not only is my doctor mentally brilliant but he is also a very kind man. He told me I was smart enough to figure out how to get around the obstacles life has thrown at me. It is both a learning and teaching opportunity. How true that is.  My great aunt who lived to one. Week before her 100th birthday. Used to say. god doesn’t want me and the devil is afraid of me. She was a character to say the least. Getting old is not for wimps but you can choose to do it with some pinache.  Hugs to all.

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Best wishes, A, to you, your mom, and all caregivers and recipients. Aging is not for the fainthearted, but it sure beats the alternative.

Answer 13

Happy 15th Anniversary/Birthday to WikiTree! The party has been awesome so far with much more to enjoy this weekend.

Our county just completed our Bicentennial. I am tired from three long weekends and then this past weekend I attended a SAR service at a local cemetery for two of our Revolutionary War Soldiers, Robert Rankin and Alexander McCullar. I thought that segued perfectly with the Bicentennial as we wouldn't enjoy a Bicentennial without our RW soldiers who led the way into the new territory as it opened up after the Chickasaw seceded their land.

I was also present, representing the Historical Society, as we opened our cornerstone with the time capsule from 1891. I was proud to participate in that process. 

Hope everyone enjoys the WT Party this weekend!

 

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It must have been awesome to see what was in that time capsule!

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Margaret, when I saw the link to Rankin above I thought I might get lucky that he was connected to my Rankins from what is now Gaston County, North Carolina. Nope, not as far as I can tell. Hope you find some time for yourself after all the busyness of the past several weekends!

Answer 14

On this day:

1534: The Act of Supremacy marks the start of the English Reformation

1930: The Ethiopian King Haile Selassie is crowned

1954: The French painter Henri Matisse dies

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I read up on Henri Matisse last Friday night, Definitely out of my area of expertise. What a fascinating life. I was surprised to see that he remained in France during the war.,

Answer 15

Servus from Bavaria,

where it's colder than in Hesse, but I took my leggings for this weekend, so I'm gonna survive that. We will be this weekend with the couple who we organized the Serbian birth registration for so they could marry. Tomorrow they will be married for three months. They planned a day long trip tomorrow with several nice sights to see, so the OTD might come only in the late afternoons or evenings this weekend.

Genealogy-wise: Did you see in the Browser Extension the new buttons in the categories? You can now click on one button and get filtered only the unconnected profiles in the category. Or the profiles that don't have parents. I LOVE that feature, it will help me a lot for my 52Connections (sorry 52Ancestor) posts. Now I don't have to click anymore on every profile to see if it's connected or not. It saves so much time.

Beside that, I worked a lot in the Polish Prussian categories and corrected the location names. Those are mostly easy and fast contributions to get, nice when your head is too tired to think. And I worked a bit on the profiles from my surnamesake's hometown and realized that there are only 57 Eckstädt-profiles that are still unconnected. I hadn't realized there are only that few Eckstädts unconnected. Sounds like I can throw out of my watchlist a bunch of profiles once I categorized them.

That's it for now, have a nice weekend!

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I hadn't seen the new buttons, Jelena, but I am certainly going to use them! I bet I'll find unconnected in the area where I grew up (my maternal side) and also where I live now (my paternal side). Do you think you';ll be able to connect all those Eckstädt's?

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I surely hope to be able to connect those Eckstädts, that there will be some day a profile that is able to connect them. I don't care if it's a really remote connection. Some of the connected Eckstädts go from my ancestor's home town to Australia to America, then more specific to Texas before they come to me. Most of these connections are more than 50° away from me currently, but I don't care. They are aconnected.

Answer 16

This week I gave two presentations at the Kansas State Library Association annual conference. One on documenting the pandemic, and the other called, "Help! There is a Genealogist at the Reference Desk" for reference librarians who are not genealogists. I could tell who were genealogists themselves, for they would be nodding their heads!

Colder weather has arrived in South Kansas. I have done the last mow and the leaves will begin falling soon. It is always sad when the trees lose their leaves and they look so dead until Spring. I try to leave the leaves and other garden debris, for I have heard that it helps the critters. (and I don't like raking)

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Michelle that is such a funny name for the presentation for reference librarians! I work at a library too, but am in IT. I have been working in the refrence desk though.

When you write about Kansas, I think of the trip I did there with a fourth cousin from Kansas in 2018. We visited several cousins, among them a third cousin of my grandmother, who lived in Wichita.

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Maria,

I used to do a program on researching house histories and it was called, "Knock, Knock. Who's There: Uncovering the History of Your House." This came about when I noticed that many tracing their house histories are trying to find out who the ghost is. I haven't presented this one in many years.

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My first house was built by my great grandfather as a wedding gift for his sister. ghosts were ancestors and welcomed to share our space. Between my Alaskan Malamutes and the ghosts my kids couldn’t get away with anything.

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Michelle, most of our leaves have dropped, and all our mountains will look dead for six months. Rather a sad look. At our previous home down the road a bit, I just mowed over the leaves. Here, I only blow them off the driveway as we have no yard.

Answer 17

Hujambo Wikitreers wenzangu na karibu kwenye ziara yangu kupitia lugha mbalimbali zinazotumiwa katika maeneo 15 ya Ziara ya Kimataifa ya Mataifa. Wiki hii ninaandika kwa Kiswahili ambacho ni mojawapo ya lugha kuu nchini Kenya. Kiingereza ni lugha nyingine.

Natumai kila mtu anatazama Kongamano la Wikitree na kuchukua vidokezo vyema na kujifunza mambo mapya. Binafsi nilitazama "Google Tools for Genealogy" ya Thomas MacEntee mapema asubuhi yangu. Ilikuwa ni taarifa sana.

Kwenye mbele yangu ya Wikitree nina orodha yangu ya kutazama chini hadi 5440 kwa hivyo inashuka polepole. Kategoria ya kibinafsi ninayoshughulikia iko chini hadi 116 na tani ya kurasa zimefunguliwa tayari kufanyia kazi.

Binti yangu anafanya onyesho lake la dansi la mwisho wa mwaka huku kundi zima likitokana na muziki wa "Waovu". Na mama yangu atakuwa chini hapa kuiona kwa mara ya kwanza baada ya miaka. Kwa hivyo kuna mengi ya kutarajia wikendi ijayo.
Inafurahisha unapoandika kwa lugha nyingine jinsi sehemu zingine zinavyotambulika kwa urahisi lakini sehemu zingine hazitambuliki.

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Darren, you are a language connoisseur and I get to learn new languages through your post!

Answer 18

Hi all!

On the genealogy front, RAWKing finished yesterday & as I am tied to my RAWKED lady, my CC7 rose as hers rose. Here is the breakdown of the month for both of us: 

Rhonda Hill; CC7 on 10/2 = 1,032, Rhonda Hill; CC7 on 10/27 = 2,669, Rhonda Hill; CC7 on 11/2 = 2,669

Brunson-1754; CC7 on 10/3 = 1,477, Brunson-1754; CC7 on 10/24 = 1,945, Brunson-1754; CC7 on 11/2 = 1,973

Here is my connection to Rhonda Hill: 18° - 19th Cx1R. This was all done by busting brickwalls for her. 

I'm also almost done with my 1st PIP Voyage Profile & have chosen an interesting person for my next Profile. Still trying to figure out the logistics of getting my list of tables for the 95th Bomber Group from where it is to where it needs to be; at least I have now figured out how to open the file!

Pip, I told you I was going to buy your Uncle Bud's book "Profile of a Successful Entrepreneur" & read it. It's a VERY good book with lots of good information on how to be a successful Entrepreneur; had to spend 2 years in my Master's class to learn how to spell that! LOL! And as I graduated with Honors to get my Master's in Entrepreneurship, I think I might know a good thing when I see it.

Another sign to watch for the cold, hard winter is the actions of the animals; they get very weird when weird things happen. I'm seeing huge herds of deer gathering in populated areas around me. An example of weird animal/events is a couple of gerbils that an ex-boyfriend had. They were Teeth & Wheels; Teeth ate everything in site & Wheels would run maniacally on the exercise wheel. I was in Basic Training back in 1988 when that major earthquake hit CA & about 18 before it hit, Teeth started getting aggressive & Wheels ran on the exercise wheel so hard, he ran the thing off it's hinges! My ex went to work that morning with the gerbils acting weird & by the time he got home, he only had 1 gerbil left because Teeth ate Wheels!!!

Don't know yet what I might try to do for my next personal project, but I think I have learned my lesson & decided I'm not going to say anything about it beforehand to keep people from doing it their way for me & kicking me out of my own personal project. I'll let everybody know what it is after it's done to keep it from being taken away from me, again.

Here it is 4 months after I started WikiTree to literally save my life & my sanity & 4 months off my meds because there is no money; the 10,719 contributions & the 1,973 CC7 is a little more understandable when you realize that I have been contributing that much to SHUT MY BRAIN UP!!! Same with all the different badges for Thons; 1,461, Games; 1st & 3rd & RAWKing Rhonda from 1,032 to 2,669; it doesn't help in shutting up the brain, but it mostly keeps me from wanting to kill someone.

Feasgar math, oidhche mhath, madainn mhath, latha math. Ge bith càite a bheil thu san t-saoghal, thoir an aire!

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Here's the latest chapter of my daughter's on-going saga of trying to survive in a toxic work environment. Seems that she isn't allowed to defend herself verbally when she is physically assaulted by a customer, but the sister of the manager can defend herself verbally when a customer verbally attacks her. So my daughter got fired today for defending herself, while the sister of the manager gets to keep her job. Tight just got a LOT tighter.

Now we don't have to worry about my daughter making $1.00 too much to qualify for food stamps, but we still don't qualify because now my working age daughter isn't working, so we don't qualify.

I had a chance to work on an AI project with a year commitment. $42.00/hr, at home work on the computer. I can't apply for that because it needs a resume` & my resume` is on an external hard drive that can't be accessed anymore; along with my business plan. Seems I can't win for losing. 

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Pat if your daughter was fired she probably qualifies for unemployment. Worth checking out

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That's crazy, Pat, getting fired for defending oneself while another gets to do that. But that is the way of the workplace when relatives are employed. I have seen this before. It is a sad state of affairs.

Looks like you came through for Rhonda Rawking (and helping yourself out at the same time). Kudos to you!

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Yep. It was a toxic work environment she has been fighting for months. This isn't the 1st altercation she's had at work. The 1st involved TWO of her managers, a father/daughter that tag-teamed her & drove her into a corner threatening to punch her in the face. The father called her a heffer & white trash. The GM, who did fire them, reluctantly because now they have cameras with sound & informed my daughter that she was just using her disability as a crutch; she's autistic, ADD & is on the Aspbergers spectrum scale, but she's just faking, according to the GM. 

Took THREE incidences to HR & they are "still investigating" the 1st 1 that happened 3 months ago. Someone suggested unemployment, but we aren't sure she qualifies. She had to have made a certain amount of money & we aren't sure she hit the mark. 

I will also say that this isn't the 1st time she was fired for her disability or the 1st time she was just fired.  She used to work at Frontier Bag & she was fired for not doing her job; she was getting a drink of water & it was less than 2 minutes away from her station. She got fired while another guy that was sleeping ON his machine got to keep his.

We have fought this type of treatment since she started school. People either love her or hate her with no middle ground. Her 3rd grade girl scout troop sisters created a club & the only rule of the club was that you can't talk to Victoria. 

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"Her 3rd grade girl scout troop sisters created a club & the only rule of the club was that you can't talk to Victoria. " This absolutely breaks my heart, Pat.

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Pat I live in Mo autism qualifies for disability resources. Go to disability.Mo.gov. Select employment resources and then autism to see resources available. If you live in a different state you might see if they have something similar.

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Pat, Does your daughter have a peer mentor through your local Center for Independent Living? They are trained to guide you through solving all sorts of problems and to help connect you to resources. Here's a link to CILs through Autism Speaks. It awful what she has been going through! CILs are communities of people living with all sorts of disabilities. At various times, I have connected with two of the CILs in Massachusetts. The movement started in California and spread across the U.S. and into other countries. Think of the staff of Centers for Independent Living as self-advocacy coaches. As individuals, we self-advocate in housing and jobs. As communities we've done big advocacy like changing laws and systems (in Boston, we got the transit system to be more accessible).

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Pennie-22, thank you so much for the information you gave. I've reached out to see what I could qualify for and what I can get help with. I will keep you updated once I have more information. This has been more helpful than years past so I'm really grateful. Thank you again.

Victoria (Brunson-1770)

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Reed-28962, I want to also thank you for the help you've provided. I've reached out to the people from the link you gave as well. I'm waiting to hear back from them too. I will keep you informed of what's going on as well. Thank you again for the help.

Victoria (Brunson-1770)

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you are most welcome.  I sincerely hope you find the helpyou need.

Answer 19

Pip - This is reply to my comment on M. Ross msg. and your question.

My French ancestor Capt. Jean-Baptiste Danglade (Danglade-8) was captain on the privateer ship Iena with a letter of Marque. His ship was captured by the British and he spent the Nepoleonic war in Dartmoor prison. Story attached to his profile

I've researched him for many years and I'm continuing to develop his story. I found the actual documents of his capture in the Admiraity records of British Archives at Kew and I'm still searching for his records in France.

And to my surprise - I've found much more about his father-in-law, also a privateer and prisoner in Seven Years War 1756-1763 - Dominique Lissabe (Lissabe-2)  Great stories!

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Well done Eloine!

Those  Admiralty records can be difficult to search.

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Danglade record from Three Decks: https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_crewman&id=26526 .

From the French Corsairs site: http://www.jjsalein.com/bdcorsair/agcors.php3

Not a lot in either entry.

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M.- Your sword touched off a lot of comments. What a great heirloom. And I love all your "vacation" photos each week.

During Covid lockdown when Archives were opened around the world [only good thing to come out of covid] I found the references to the ship captures in the Admilalty Records in UK. They are not digitized records so it took me six months to get copies. But it was worth the wait. Just to be able to read the depositions and know what really happened - outstanding!

I got 6pp for Jean-Baptiste Danglade - his ship was burnt at sea and he was sent to Dartmoor prison. Napoleon's War.

And 36pp for his father-in-law Dominique Lissabe - he sailed his ship to Plymouth under guard but he had burnt his logbooks before capture. That was the 7 years war 1756-1763. He was sent to Brampton, Cumbria, a parole town.

There is so much good info out there that is not online.

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Mark - Thanks for links. And I have seen both of them. I need to send them new data that I have - when i get around to it. See my reply to M. Ross.

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These ARE great stories, Eloine! I hope your research continues to be successful.

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https://naval-encyclopedia.com/ww1/france/iena-1898.php?amp=1. Info on ship

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Laura - Thanks for the link. I had not seen that. My ancestor's ship "Iena" was almost 100 years before that one. They reused a lot of ship names.

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Odd I queried for Napoleon Iena and that is what came up..

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Text says: "Iéna (Jena–Auerstedt), named after a Napoleonic Victory in Germany"

Thanks for looking.

Answer 20

On this day:

1737: The Teatro di San Carlo, the world's oldest opera house, is opened

1847: The German composer Felix Mendelssohn dies

1966: The river Arno floods Florence

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Though Mendelssohn;'s music was familiar to me (he's one of my favorites, along with JS Bach), I was not familiar with his life. Yesterday I probably spent an hour following links in his bio. Thanks, Professor!