We went out to Anthony’s, which has a panoramic view of Spokane Falls, right in the heart of town: a white water river with a short but turbulent falls, and a walkway across the water—we didn’t take it this evening, but the water hitting the rock to which the bridge is attached makes the bridge ‘sing’ and quiver underfoot in waves as it comes down. And when it’s like this, you get soaked in mist, which boils up constantly.
Dinner was good, company was excellent: I got ambushed by the clam chowder, which apparently uses onions, but being at home and in reach of serious meds, I got rid of the effects after a few hours. [My feet swelled so I felt like my skin would burst, and then that abated. I’ll have aches and pains today and for a few days after, but I’ll live. It’s such an annoying allergy—the allergy docs won’t even call it an allergy: it’s a ‘food sensitivity.’ —Well, I’d rather have a stuffy nose than my feet hurting when I walk!
But it turns out they’ve done a lot of genealogy and I was able to use my computer to find a little bit on a missing ancestor, which was fun for me and gratifying for them. I love doing that sort of thing.
Spring is here in Green Country, Oklahoma. I know this because I broke out the Allegra for the season. The Dogwoods are having a very good year with a lot of blooms waving on their delicate branches. The winds are horrendous, as is the fire danger; there’s a complete ban on all outdoor cooking. The fires were extremely close to the Zoo, up on the NE part of town, and were stopped short of one of our prettiest nature preserves in the hills near the zoo.
Oh, so glad they got that one stopped!
I know what it’s like once the winds get going.
One recommendation: our little Oreck room air purifiers, the horizontal model, have gotten us through Christmas ornament mold and into spring and cedar bloom without an allergy attack or sinus infection. I’m really convinced on these guys so far. We got them at Costco. And if they get us through our own summer fire season without meds I’m really going to be promoting them!
Thanks, I’m fine inside the house. I still get allergy shots monthly for everything that floats in the air, year-round, as well as kitties. I’m going to leave you a genealogy note over there when I get my links set up.
Well, I tried to get on the genealogy site through your link, but I’m now locked in limbo: they know me—but won’t tell me who I am so I can log on. Sigh. I’ve got a query in for them to straighten this out.
Sigh … they’ve been updating their indexing servers the last few weeks and occasionally they reject stuff. I usually wait a few hours and try again. More and more people are using the site so they’re running into volume constraints.
Tried to upload a Dorset Burial Register; told me they need to update the software; then went belly-up. I’ll try later tonight or just leave it till tomorrow.
What genealogy site do you guys use? I tried ancestry.com for a while, but never got past the ancesters I already knew about – just back to my great-grandfather. Then I decided it was too expensive considering I wasn’t getting anywhere. The problem I ran into is that most of my family came over during the potato famine, had very common names, and I don’t have enough info to idenfity them. Anyone have any suggestions?
Ancestry (which shares records with other such sites) is currently coming up with Irish parish records—it’s slow going, but this will mean a lot to people hitting the wall at the borders of Ireland. Now if they would just get some from Scotland, that would be nice, too. Jane’s a MacPhail on the distaff side, but we can’t get any farther than ‘probably Lanarkshire.’
For Scotland the big databases are on http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ another site entirely. Did Jane look on Cyndi’s List for links (http://www.cyndislist.com) or GenUKI at http://www.genuki.org.uk ?
That just might be enough to get me to rejoin Ancestry. Thanks for the info.
You might start with FamilySearch, it’s free at http://www.familysearch.org . You won’t find living people on any of the genealogy sites these days; they’re very aware of privacy problems. Go over to CJ’s Genealogy page at http://new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org/?page_id=72 and you’ll meet all of the genies that are CJ’s fans.
To be continued on the other page.
cool, thanks!
If anyone has a local chapter of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, i.e., the Mormons, they have extensive genealogical records as part of their beliefs. Usually they are happy to help with that type of research, and they may have info not readily available elsewhere.
Have you tried the Ellis Island site? They have tons of ship manifests online.
No, I haven’t tried them. Thanks for the suggestion. While I was on ancsstry.com I checked some ship manifests, but with the common names, and not knowing what year or what port of origin I was looking for, they weren’t a whole lot of help. The biggest problem is my family has done a really poor job of preserving our history, so I don’t have much to go on.