MySmallWorldof4
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That would be King Charles I. My two younger kids are currently learning about early American history and we are currently studying that time period now. Amazing you were able to trace that far.
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ajrwdwgirl
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Brad and I went to the Arboretum today. The fall colors were gorgeous! I thought you might like some pictures.
ajrwdwgirl
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A few more from the Arboretum:
MySmallWorldof4
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Such pretty colors. Don’t you wish the colors would always be like that? They always fo such a cool pumpkin tree. Thanks for posting. Glad you had a great day!
MySmallWorldof4
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Was that a fungus on that tree?
ajrwdwgirl
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And just a few more:
The empty flower bed isn’t empty, it has already been planted with tulip bulbs! About 38,000 are planted at the Arb every year.
The. Lunch at one of our favorite places a Hazy IPA for me. We shared cheese curds and I got a corned beef sandwich with onion rings.
The empty flower bed isn’t empty, it has already been planted with tulip bulbs! About 38,000 are planted at the Arb every year.
The. Lunch at one of our favorite places a Hazy IPA for me. We shared cheese curds and I got a corned beef sandwich with onion rings.
ajrwdwgirl
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the colors are pretty. I don’t know if I would want them like that all the time but maybe for a little longer than they normally last. And yes that was a fungus on the tree, it looked pretty rad.
93boomer
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Such a nice fall place! Thanks for sharing!
Songbird76
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Well my mom's was pretty easy because her entire family was within essentially a 20 mile radius in Illinois and they were all really close, so she just called all the aunts and uncles who were still living and they pieced it together. There was one issue because there were sisters who married brothers or something, so they had the same last name and my mom thought there was only one family and was completely mixed up as to the children, because one person said the children were this and that and the next, and someone else had the children as blah, blah and blah. Mom passed and I took over doing the genealogy and I got access to Census records, and discovered that it was two separate families and one relative had remembered the one set of children and the other remembered the other.
My dad's was more difficult because he was by far the youngest and everyone had already passed except my dad and his sister, so it was only my dad's memory for the most part. Though he loved history, and he did have quite a bit of info, he had some of the names wrong, which made it difficult to search, because I was looking for a John, where I should have been looking for a Jeremiah. And I hit a brick wall with my g-g grandmother, because my dad said Letitia, but that was her middle name. There were a few blips, but once I found the great great grandparents, more fell into place because I found another cousin who had done most of the research back to the revolutionary war, so I got a lot of that info from her. I really find it fascinating. I was only 25 when I started doing the research, and I guess most people don't start until much later when they don't have anyone to ask anymore. But I'd love to get back further than my g-g-g-g grandfather....and I'd love to find out his wife's first name.
Songbird76
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Oh no!! I thought he was doing so much better! What happened? How is Brian taking it? How are YOU taking it? Will Brian's family be a support system for each other, or will this be like your grandmother's passing?
Cesar R M
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some of these pictures are wallpaper worthy.
Songbird76
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Yes, I remember you mentioning that. And I looked it up, that would have been King Charles I. I wish I could figure out when my line actually came to America. We were obviously already established there prior to the Revolutionary war, but for how long? And who was the ancestor who came over and why? I did find some really interesting things in my dad's line. My great grandmother was apparently a member of some religious cult-like sect that did not believe in "modern" medicine/doctors, which is really interesting also because she seemed to be a woman of rather loose morals for that time. She had 2 children by 2 different fathers, and I can't find any evidence that she was ever actually married to my great grandfather...my grandfather was in any case born after his parents had split and my great grandfather didn't even know he existed until he was an adult. His mother dumped him with her parents who raised him until he was about 5 while she was off who knows where. Then she got together with this other guy....not sure if they were married or not, but she came back and picked up the kids and headed west. My grandfather was very angry because he had loved his grandparents very much and theirs was the only home he knew. To be ripped from them and taken far away, and then his older half-sister caught some disease and they refused to get medical treatment because it was against their religious beliefs. So he watched her die and was very bitter about the turn his life had taken for the worse when his mother re-entered his life. He ran away as soon as he was old enough to make it on his own, and it seems he was pretty young when he did. He did odd jobs wherever he could find them, and he was working in a coal mine in colorado I think, when the government started offering homesteads in Wyoming. One of his co-workers at the mine encouraged him to get out of the unhealthy mining business while he was still young and had his health, so he went and staked a claim. And that's how the family ended up in Wyoming....all because his mother appears to have been...what's the word...troubled?
And all that when his father's family seemed extremely principled. His father was a lawyer, his grandfather a secretary of state who kind of made history in refusing to break the rules in favor of his party affiliation, and who also served as a minister, was a captain in the Union army during the civil war, and built the churches where he ministered. It's all very intriguing. I'm wondering how it was that my great grandparents even came together when it seems they had such differing characters. Opposites attract, I guess.
MinnieM123
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Sorry to hear this unexpected update on his condition. Hugs.
Songbird76
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It's gorgeous with the fall colors! What kind of flower was that with the pink edges? I love it!!!
MinnieM123
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Wow!
What a gorgeous place. I wish there was something like that around here. Thanks for the beautiful pictures -- they're especially appreciated in 2020, when so many other things are not so pleasant.
MinnieM123
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@ajrwdwgirl , just curious -- is hubs back to having services (with congregation) inside his church, or are the services being filmed only, so that people can watch from home? Churches have been open here for some months with controlled headcounts (per the state's rules), and limited spacing & face masks for people. Yet, I'm still watching on TV only, at this point.
FutureCEO
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I have a booklet that my grandmother made tracing her family back to Sao Miguel, Azores (Portugal). It starts her with parents being born in 1890 and coming here sometime before 1912.
My cousin had someone trace my grandfather's family coming from Quebec during 1850 -1870 period and from France (to Quebec) in the late 1600's.
My other set of grandparents, no idea other than Italy and Germany.
ajrwdwgirl
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thanks, the flower is some sort of rose. They have a lot of different types of roses in their rose gardens.
Wow!
I’m glad you enjoyed those pictures.
ajrwdwgirl
Premium Member
last week church open up for in person but with a lot of safety procedures in place. However the cases have been on the rise here so after church last week the council met and decided to shut down in person activities again for a couple weeks. On 20 people showed up for in person church, but the Facebook watches were still high, so that helped their decision. So it is back to the parking lot service this week and a live stream on Facebook.
After the decision to shut down again Brad got a lot of calls and emails thanking him and the council for being safe.
Wallpaper in homes done right really accent the home. Wallpaper in bathrooms are not my thing. It just seems an odd place to put it.