Good Morning, my fellow WikChatterers!
My daughter and new son-in-law are in Australia for their honeymoon and have sent some wonderful photos. They aren’t commenting much since they are determined to stay off of their phones, but we do get a photo or two each day. They are having such a wonderful time, and we are so glad for all their unique experiences (scuba diving with reef sharks on the Great Barrier Reef, feeding kangaroos, Mothra-sized fruit bats in Sidney that can carry people off…).
On the genealogy front 1: I have been working on Gulval, Cornwall parish records for families living in the late 1500s and early 1600s. Nearly every family that I’ve added to WikiTree had one child to die in infancy and the named the next child of the same gender with the same name. There was even one family that had this occur twice. It is very hard to make the connections to later families due to the use of the same names over and over again among cousins born about the same time. It’s like detective work adding these families, and I’m loving it!
On the genealogy front 2: I have been working on one of my sons-in-law’s lines in Puerto Rico and with the help from some great WikiTreers have found amazing information (thanks, Steven for the 1910 census; thanks, Frank for links to sources). One piece I found helped to settle the uncertainty of an ancestor: Spain or Italy? It was Spain, but very near the French border in the Pyrenees. Also interesting was that the spelling of the name was throwing me. The family has, in only the last two generations spelled it Calcorzi, but it was Carcolse for all the generations before!
On the homefront: Nothing, just WikiTreeing, even with the warm weather!
A gentle reminder for all Chat participants: If you want the person to whom you are responding to see your comment, be sure to click on the reply button after their post or comment, the one with their name on it! Otherwise, the automatic email will be sent to another person who may have no idea what you are talking about. I get loads of these emails when actually the response was for someone else. (This happens frequently on G2G, also.)
I hope all of you are well, in all sorts of ways… you and the ones you love. So many WiiTreers are struggling with personal or family issues, health and otherwise, and it is the special character of our community to look out for each other. We do have a great community, don’t we?
Blessings on alayall (Southern for all of you all)!
