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Be very careful what you can in that water bath canner Buttercup!! I've just this week finished canning the last of the green beans... I ended up with 90 quarts. Pulled the rascals up so I wouldn't have to pick any more... but, the bugs were beginning to attack them anyway. The tomatoes are all getting ripe at the same time so I will now give the best of those to the neighbors and freeze the rest. My freezer is almost full... and it makes me feel sooooooooooo good!!!

I've never heard of 'rubbing alcohol' being called Surgical Spirit... is this something new? I have several bottles and it is called Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol... Course, I live in the South and we're kinda s-l-o-w sometimes!

Dormant Swiss Bank Accounts--Possibly Owned by Holocaust Victims http://www.dormantaccounts.ch/lists.html

Figuring Birth Dates using the 8870 formula... Sometimes you’ll find a tombstone inscription with a death date and the years, months and days of the persons’ age. Example: Suppose the person died May 6, 1889, at the age of 71 years, 7 months, 9 days. The following formula will give you the birth date... 1. Write the year, month, day as: 18890506 2. Subtract the age at death: - 710709 3. This gives the figure: 18179797 4. Now subtract your 8870 (above) - 8870 5. The result is a birth date of: 18170927 The first 4 numbers would be the year, the next 2 would be the month, the next two would be the day... Year 1817, 9th month (Sept.), 27th day or 27 Sep 1817. I can't get the numbers to line up right!!

I couldn't make it without Google!!! Here's a place to learn all the possibilities that Google offers for Genealogists! http://searchforancestors.com/google/searcher.html

Here's one that I have Darlene... Hope you like it! Zucchini Bread 3 eggs 2 cups sugar 1 cup oil 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons soda 2 cups grated zucchini 3 1/2 cups flour 1/2 cup chopped nuts Mix ingredients in above order . Grease pan/s pour in batter and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 10 minutes.

While operating a convenience store we used to sell dill pickles, pigs feet, hot sausages, pickled eggs and other things that were sealed in glass gallon jars... so, naturally, I brought a lot of them home. I use them to store flour, rice, grits, corn meal, sugar, etc. in and I have really been pleased with them. After putting this 'stuff' in a jar, adding a couple of Bay leaves, putting lid on after I've made a small hole in the center, put a tab on, I take my trusty "Pump N Seal" and pump the air out and the little tab seals it until I need something from that jar. This has worked really well for me but my children think I'm crazy!!!

This is a great site for those of us who have to do most of our repairs etc. ourselves! The instructions are very clear... even I can understand most of them! Thanks Hill...

I would be afraid to try canning meat in that size jar Snowmom. Maybe you could can tomatoes in them or use them as canisters on your kitchen counter...or in a cabinet for storage of grits, flour, even spaghetti, macaroni or some colorful item. Wouldn't that be pretty? This doesn't answer your canning question though, does it? I looked everywhere and didn't find anything about canning in 1/2 gallon jars. I believe that Ball Blue Book would have some recipes if they considered it safe to can in this size jars.... ~just my thoughts

I like the way Wes Patterson has his site set up... Someday I'll learn to make a webpage for my ancestors...

Hi Buttercup, It would really help if you could give us a date or an 'about' date! Here's what I found: 1860 Census: Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee 1860 Series: M653 Roll: 1264 Page: 516 Dwelling 855 Family 855: James M. Patterson, age 31, Physician, born Tennessee Sophronia Patterson, age 23 a n d... 1910 Census 6th District, Maury County, Tennessee Series: T624 Roll: 1512 Page: 197 Dwelling: 125 Family: 126 James Patterson, age 26, born Tennessee, farmer Nettie Patterson, age either 21 or 23 Could either of these be yours? I hope so...

If you have found that you have Quaker ancestors, you are fortunate. They were very committed to their record keeping. Records of many Monthly Meetings, Quarterly Meetings and Yearly Meetings have been abstracted over the years by many noted genealogists and historians. Your first Quaker reference books should always be the "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy" by William Wade Hinshaw or Willard Heiss's Abstracts from the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana. These volumes are available at most Genealogy libraries and LDS Family History Centers. There are several volumes and they have recently been reprinted and made available through various Genealogical book vendors. Quaker records are sometimes difficult to interpret unless you are familiar with some frequently used abbreviations, such as: altm = at liberty to marry apd = attending places of diversion apd = appointed, appealed apt = appointed att = attached to, attended For more info, check: http://home.att.net/~Pendroy/qkrterms.html

The first two links are to pages that are informative and very well done. The third link is a great find, if any of your ancestors happened to belong to a Primitive Baptist Church. Not all states are online, but the ones that are have a lot of detailed information. Protestant Denominations Established in Colonial America: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7...or/protest.html Religious Groups in America, 1800 - 2000: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7...r/religion.html Index to Primitive Baptist Church and Family History Research: http://www.carthage.lib.il.us/community/ch...mbap/Index.html

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Golly! My favorite is C H O C O L A T E... I buy it by the gallon from WalMart and keep it in the freezer in the back room... that way I get some exercise when I go to get my bowl full every night! BUT, right now I'm out of it and I'm trying to resist the urge to go and buy some more cause I sure do need to lose some weight...

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meaning than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP" It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we waken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends, we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special. And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP. To be knowledgeable of the proper uses of UP, look UP the word in the dictionary. In a desk size dictionary it takes UP almost a fourth of the page and definitions add UP to about thirty. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it doesn't rain for awhile,things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so I'll shut UP.....

Hello Red!!! It's a little scary when you post that first message isn't it? It gets better... believe me! I know you'll enjoy being here and meeting all the wonderful people who make up the MrsSurvival family... If you have any questions, just ask, and there will be somebody there to answer you. Come on over to "The Family Tree" forum and let's talk ancestors!!! Again...welcome...

Andersonville .. On February 27, 1864, the first Union prisoners arrived at a new Confederate camp located near the tiny village of Andersonville, Georgia. Officially named Camp Sumter, the prison grounds were 16.5 acres surrounded by a fifteen foot high stockade. Within its walls, a fresh water stream flowed through the middle, to be used as a latrine as well as for drinking water. Originally designed for 10,000 men, the first arrivals at the camp found life tolerable. Supplies were meager, but sufficient to sustain life. However, by July the camp's population swelled to 33,000, spawning starvation, disease, and death - to such a degree that Andersonville was described as "this hell on earth."

Thanks to the National Parks Service, if your ancestor or someone related to him was held prisoner at Andersonville Prison in Georgia during the Civil War, you can do a lookup at the following website: http://www.montezuma-ga.org/chamber/plookup.htm

I'm sure we’ve all heard of the prison camp at Andersonville, GA. But, how many of us know about the prison camp at Elmira, NY. Elmira "Hellmira" Prison Almost 25 percent of the 12,123 Confederate soldiers who entered the 40 acre prisoner of war camp at Elmira, N. Y. died. This death rate was more than double the average death rate in other Northern prison camps, and only 2 percent less than the death rare at infamous Southern prison at Andersonville, Ga. The deaths at Elmira were caused by diseases brought on by terrible living conditions and starvation, conditions deliberately caused by the vindictive U. S. commissary-general of prisons, Col. William Hoffman. The conditions were inexcusable; the North had more than enough food and materials for its armies, population, and prisoners. A stockade was built around an unused Union army training camp to create Elmira "Hellmira" Prison in June 1864. The prison contained 35 barracks and was intended to house as many as 5,000 prisoners. On July 6 the first 400 arrived, and by the end of the month there were more than 4,400 prisoners, with more on the way. By the end of August almost 10,000 men were confined there, many of them sleeping in the open in tattered clothes and without blankets. On August 18, in retaliation for the conditions in Southern prison camps, Colonel Hoffman ordered that rations for the prisoners be reduced to bread and water. The over crowded conditions ensured that any disease introduced to the malnourished population would spread rapidly. Without meat and vegetables, the prisoners quickly succumbed to scurvy, with 1, 870 cased reported by September 11. The scurvy was followed by an epidemic of diarrhea then pneumonia and smallpox. By the end of the year, 1,264 prisoners had died, and survivors had nicknamed the prison "Hellmira". The winter was bitterly cold, but when Southern families sent clothes for the prisoners, Hoffman would allow only items that were gray to be distributed. Clothes in other color were burned while the sons and husbands for whom they were intended literally froze to death. By the end of the war, 2,973 Elmira prisoners had died. Before resigning to avoid court martial for his criminal treatment of sick prisoners, the chief surgeon at Elmira was overheard to boast that he had killed more Rebs than any Union soldier. The Elmira Article was written by Stephen T. Foster

1. I don't do windows because ... I love birds and don't want one to run into a clean window and get hurt. 2. I don't wax floors because ... I am terrified a guest will slip, hurt themselves, I'll feel terrible and they may sue me. 3. I don't mind the dust bunnies because ... they are very good company, I have named most of them, and they agree with everything I say. 4. I don't disturb cobwebs because ... I want every creature to have a home of their own and somebody loves spiders. 5. I don't Spring Clean because ... I love all the seasons and don't want the others to get jealous. 6. I don't plant a garden because ... I don't want to get in God's way, he is an excellent designer. 7. I don't put things away because ... might never be able to find them again. 8. I don't do gourmet meals when I entertain because... I don't want my guests to stress out over what to make when they invite me over for dinner. 9. I don't iron because ... I choose to believe them when they say "Permanent Press." 10. I don't stress much on anything because ... "A Type" personalities die young and I want to stick around and become a wrinkled up crusty ol' person!!!!

Thanks for the welcome everybody! I'll do all that I can to make your search for ancestors as pleasant as possible... If you need any help finding someone please let me know and I'll try to help... I wish more people at MrsS would get involved in genealogy... it's such an exciting hobby at times!!! Especially when you find that long lost grandfather in a census somewhere...

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