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Stumped on meanings of initials and symbols on tombstones, strange initials in obituaries or abbreviations found in public records? Need a perpetual calendar or birthdate calculator? I especially like the one titled "Keyboard Shortcuts". Find these tools and more at: http://www.genealogybuff.com/research.htm

We really didn't get as much rain as I expected... there was 3.2 inches in the rain guage... that was in 24 hours... My yard looked like a river but it is all gone now. I don't know what to expect from this next one though, it sounds like a rough bugger!!! I just keep moving moveable objects inside so they won't blow around if there is any wind. Thanks for asking, I appreciate it... I come here just about every day but don't post too much.

Thats a great feeling isn't it Buttercup? I've walked on the same ground that my great great great grandparents walked on and you just have the feeling that they're there with you! Am I hooked on genealogy or what? People who are not looking for their ancestors don't know what they're missing... it doesn't have to be full time, just jump in gradually and before you know it you're hooked!!! I just got a message from a very distant cousin today... now I'm waiting for her to reply to my reply!

Oh Me... I guess I should have explained what I was doing! This was to show you what questions were asked on each of the census forms. There was not a url... I "was" planning to put all of them from 1790 through 1930 when the latest was released but nobody showed any interest so I just quit.. Its a lot easier to look at a census on the computer and have, in your hand, a typed copy of the questions that were asked. Maybe I should have put them all under one heading??? Whatchathink?

FUNNY FOOD STORY (from The Daily Recipe newsletter) A lady named Linda went to Arkansas last week to visit her in-laws, and while there, went to a store. She parked next to a car with a woman sitting in it, her eyes closed and hands behind her head, apparently sleeping. When Linda came out a while later, she again saw the woman, her hands still behind her head but with her eyes open. The woman looked very strange, so Linda tapped on the window and said, "Are you okay?" The woman answered, "I've been shot in the head, and I am holding my brains in." Linda didn't know what to do, so she ran into the store, where store workers called the paramedics. They had to break into the car because the door was locked. When they got in, they found that the woman had bread dough on the back of her head and in her hands. A Pillsbury biscuit cannister had exploded, apparently from the heat in the car, making a loud explosion like that of a gunshot, and hit her in the head. When she reached back to find what it was, she felt the dough and thought it was her brains. She passed out from fright at first, then attempted to hold her brains in.

Hello Alie... welcome to MrsSurvival... Here's what I found on your Patterson ancestors... Go to this website and after it opens click Ctrl+F and type in patterson... This site relates to your family but still does not answer your question... you may already have this... http://members.aol.com/Rictobin/source3.html I also found this site http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~t...hera/pafn04.htm When this site opens do a Ctrl+Find and again type in patterson and it should take you to the paragraphs that would interest you... This site also does not answer your question! On the Census 1870>Dist. #3>Paris>Lamar County>Texas Series: M593 Roll: 1594 Page: 324 Line: 13 You have Laura B. Patterson age 3 It looks like Thomas age 3 to me but does say she is Female. Maybe my old eyes are not seeing too well... I wish I could have helped you, but some days are like that... Good luck in your search...

This is the fourth federal census taken for the United States. A few parts are missing, but it is largely intact. Use tax lists when available. Fence post tallies are used in each category except Head of Household. No other names given. Questions Asked: 1. Name of head of household 2. Address 3. Free white males: under 10 10 and under 16 16 - 18 16 and under 26 26 and under 45 45 and over 4. Free white females, including head of family under 10 10 and under 16 16 and under 26 26 and under 45 45 and over 5. All other free persons, except Indians not taxed 6. Foreigners not Naturalized 7. Engaged in agriculture? 8. Engaged in commerce? 9. Engaged in manufacturing? 10. Free colored persons 11. Slaves

This is the third federal census taken for the United States. A few parts are missing, but it is largely intact. Use tax lists when available. Fence post tallies are used in each category except Head of Household. No other names given. Questions Asked: 1. Name of head of household 2. Address 3. Free white males: 3 and under 10 10 and under 16 16 and under 26 26 and under 45 45 and over 4. Free white females, including head of family under 10 10 and under 16 16 and under 26 26 and under 45 45 and over 5. All other free persons, except Indians not taxed 6. Slaves

This is the second federal census taken for the United States. A few parts are missing, but it is largely intact. Use tax lists when available. Fence post tallies are used in each category except Head of Household. No other names given. Questions Asked: 1. Name of head of household 2. Address 3. Free white males: 3 and under 10 10 and under 16 16 and under 26 26 and under 45 45 and over 4. Free white females, including head of family under 10 10 and under 16 16 and under 26 26 and under 45 45 and over 5. All other free persons, except Indians not taxed 6. Slaves

This is the FIRST federal census of the United States. States included in this census were: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia. Questions Asked: 1. Name of head of household 2. Address 3. Free white males of 16 years and up, including head of family 4. Free white males under 16 5. Free white females, including head of family 6. All other free persons 7. Slaves The only name given is for Head of Household. All others enumerated are listed with fencepost tally marks. Much of the 1790 Census was destroyed by the British during the War of 1812, but a few parts remain.

Here is a resource with maps of Ireland. Note that there is even a Cholera map which shows where there were breakouts of this illness. FYI: "During the great Potato Famine of the 1840s, millions of Irish left their homes. Many went to Canada, but left within a few years to settle in the United States. Most of the current Irish-Canadian communities were established before the famine. About 13% of the Canadian population is of Irish descent." Source: Ireland to Canada- http://www.settlement.org/cp/english/ireland/iretocan.html

This graphic is animated. You can watch the boundary lines of the U.S. change right before your eyes. Simple, yet educational. I wish it would change just a little slower though so that we could really SEE the changes. http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/48states.gif

Sorry girls... I should have warned you to have your box of tissues handy!!! It affected me the same way... but, wasn't it so sweet!!!

I didn't really know where to put this and, after thinking about it for awhile, this forum seemed the most appropriate... right now! Before I was a Mom - I slept as late as I wanted and never worried about how late I got into bed. I brushed my hair and my teeth everyday. Before I was a Mom - I cleaned my house each day. I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby. I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous. I never thought about immunizations. Before I was a Mom - I had never been puked on. Pooped on. Spit on. Chewed on. Peed on. I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts. I slept all night. Before I was a Mom - I never held down a screaming child So that doctors could do tests. Or give shots. I never looked into teary eyes and cried. I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin. I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep. Before I was a Mom - I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put it down. I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt. I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much. I never knew that I could love someone so much. I never knew I would love being a Mom. Before I was a Mom - I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body. I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby. I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child. I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy. Before I was a Mom - I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay. I had never known the warmth, The joy, The love, The heartache, The wonderment or the satisfaction of being a Mom. I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much before I was a Mom. And before I was a Grandma, I didn't know that all those "Mom" feelings more than doubled when you see that little bundle being held by 'your' baby...

The Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR, has always been a wonderful organization to get involved with. Any woman 18 years or older - regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background - who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution, is eligible for membership. DAR also offers a free Patriot Look-up service on-line at http://dar.org/default.cfm . Just send the basic information on the ancestor you believe that might have served in the Revolutionary War and volunteers will check the DAR records and let you know if your ancestor is listed. I also have the DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition and will be happy to do lookups... The next step is to find a DAR chapter in your area and start putting your documentation for each generation together -- the DAR has instructions which tell you which sources are acceptable and which are not. If there isn't a chapter in your area you can join as a member at large.

CAVEMAN, YOU GET OUTTA THERE!!! You rascal you, Mare probably won't let you come to the slumber party! You'd better be good now...

Thanks Cat... Anybody who has done much genealogy knows that those poems are so true! I have several pictures of little girls too! And I don't know who they are! Isn't it a shame that our parents didn't write names and dates on them. This is a good example of what we should do as soon as we get those pictures back from the shop! And then there are my Joseph, Samuel and George ancestors... they loved each other so much that they named their sons after each other... such a confusing mess for us, their descendants...

Put a metal roof on my house about a month ago... I'm with you Buttercup, I love to hear the rain on it. Of course they left the old roof on and that provides better insulation, so I don't hear it like you would a tin roof!!! I also like the fact that it lasts so much longer than shingles... It is gray and I think it makes the house look so much neater... They're coming next week to put up new shutters...

Gosh! I've never heard of steam cleaning mattresses... doesn't it take a long time for them to dry? Do you move them outside for this or leave them on the bed? Where do you sleep while they're drying? Full of questions!! Where do you get the machine for this?

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Dawn... these are the Stossmeister's that I found in the United States in the Census: 1870: Alolp - age 40 Emilie - age 15 Theodore - age 55 1900: Adolph - age 70 Albert - age 42 August - age 38 Fred - age 41 Kate - age 41 Margaret - age 75 William - age 33 1910: Adolph F. - age 39 Fred - age 48 Mary C. - age 42 Robert - age 56 William - age 42 1920: Adloph - age 48 Auguste - age 54 Mary C. - age 55 Ottilie - age 58 Ruth E. - age 21 Could any of these be yours? The only Robert Stossmeister that I found was in 1910 in Newport, Campbell County Kentucky. He was boarding with Elizabeth and --- Morgan and their three children. He was male, white, 56 yrs. old, single, born Ohio, German, speaks English, works in machine shop, can read and write. Could this have been the father of the Robert that you found in the 1930 census? The other names on that census page sounded German as well. Let me know if you'd like to know something about any of the others.

GRANDMA'S APRON The principle use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, but along with that, it served many other useful functions. It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears. As a holder for removing hot pans from the oven; From the chicken-coop the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven. When company came those old aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids; and as a holder for removing hot pans from the oven. Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove. Chips and kindling-wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron. From the garden it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled it carried out the hulls. In the fall it was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees. In cold weather grandma wrapped it around her arms for warmth. When unexpected company drove up the road, it was amazing just how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds. When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out on the porch and waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields for dinner. It will be a long time before anyone invents something that will replace the beloved old-time apron that served so many purposes. Author unknown

Oh Homey!!! I'm so glad to see that you have been bitten by the bug... Isn't it fun? If you need any help looking up 'stuff' let us know and we'll try our best to help you. I have subscriptions to the census if you need any lookups... Keep searching and have a great time while you're at it...

My bathroom is ceramic and a toothbrush and glass holder was built into the wall just to the left of the sink, so that's where I keep my toothbrush...even though the handle of the toothbrush doesn't always fit properly. BUT, I make sure that the commode lid is "always" closed!!!

Isn't it nice going to the mailbox and getting something that you were looking forward to? Got a card yesterday from Jan [Peacefulhome] and another today from Lois... thank you both so much...