tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21992615358821274052024-03-13T13:00:47.201-07:00Aquila's Orchard ~ The BlogGenealogy, Family Historyaquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-81075259392519335742019-09-02T09:40:00.000-07:002019-09-02T19:48:14.229-07:00Wrapping up the Cullins<br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Is a
genealogy ever finished, well no – there is always more to discover. I’ve had
the feeling, though at this point in my life it is good to do some
‘wrapping-up’ of the family lines. It wasn’t difficult to decide which line was
first as these people (in a ‘6<sup>th</sup> Sense’ way) have tugged at me and
called to me for years. And, in a more down to earth way – be it an email from
a distant cousin, or a little tidbit in an old faded newspaper the Cullins have
been persistent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It hasn’t
been an easy journey. It has been 64 years since I first learned of my Great
Grandmother Hannah Cullins Shaffer. No one talked about her after she died of
cancer at the age of 55 in 1921. My grandfather wouldn’t mention his mother. My
grandmother tried to get him to open up but he stayed as closed as a threatened
clam – which makes one think that there were unhappy memories. Grandma hinted
at that, but I can only speculate. Then Hannah’s mother, Amanda Cordray
Cullins, I was told came from a tragic family living under a dark cloud, including
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dorcas Cullins, Hannah's sister</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Cullins
and Cordray families were from Ohio, but Amanda was a puzzle. I was pretty sure
Amanda came from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskingum_County,_Ohio" target="_blank">Muskingum County</a>, which was her husband’s birthplace, but to
which Cordray family did she belong? She fell through the cracks of the 1850
census where she should have been named. She wasn’t yet married to William C.
Cullins and she wasn’t listed with any Cordray family. She was about 16 and my
guess is that she hired out to another farm as a mother’s helper and wasn’t
counted with them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To move on
with the line I had two possibilities – either Amanda was the daughter of
George Washington Cordray or his brother Andrew. At first I thought it was
George and put that option on my tree, however that was a mistake and
misleading to others who might have copied my work as I still had no proof that
Amanda was George’s daughter. I kept looking and years down the road I found
that ‘one little thing’ that confirmed her father to be Andrew and not George. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That one little
thing? It was one of those little gossipy news items in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayette_County,_Iowa" target="_blank">Fayette County, Iowa</a>newspaper that told us that ‘Amanda Cullins had a visit from her sister
Charlotte.’ It was Andrew who had a daughter named Charlotte. For a time
Charlotte and her family lived in Fayette County but they’d moved on to South
Dakota. Mystery solved. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William C Cullins, Hannah's father</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hannah’s
Cullins family goes back to a Revolutionary War Soldier, John Cullins b 1705, originally
from Ireland and with whom our families’ members can join the <a href="https://www.dar.org/" target="_blank">DAR</a> or <a href="https://www.sar.org/" target="_blank">SAR</a> if
they wish. This is an established DAR line. Recently ancestry.com has added
‘Thrulines’ to our trees that show our DNA matches for each person back to our
5<sup>th</sup> great grandfathers. That would be to Edward Cullins b 1727, the
son of the Revolutionary John. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m very
near to compiling and printing this information for my family with the help of
ancestry.com’s ‘Life Story’ feature that adds significant events that occurred
during their lifetimes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Where from
here with the Cullins? Last week I found the feature on ancestry’s DNA pages
that helps me color code cousin groups. Wow, the group for Cullins, Cordray and
a couple other allied families has 93 cousins of varying degrees. Those are
just the ones with public trees who share information. There are so many more
with private trees, or who have disconnected their trees, or haven’t built
their trees yet. What to do with that cousins group?! I’m thinking about
contacting the 93 to see if they would like to have a cousin’s Facebook page
for sharing, friendship, and family reunions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As for my
Cullins family I have a choice, I can develop each allied family, as I have for
the Cullins – filling out our information on our Muskingum County Ohio lines –
or, I can pick a different family entirely. The thing is I recently fell into
another Cullins rabbit hole when I received an email about their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Delaware" target="_blank">Delaware roots</a>. Delaware? What! </span><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com0Muskingum County, OH, USA39.9478393 -81.95348150000000939.5583788 -82.598928500000014 40.3372998 -81.3080345tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-73130313923868180982018-05-29T06:59:00.000-07:002019-09-02T19:42:28.466-07:00Genealogy Place Names - G<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">G is for . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Gael, Brittany, France</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaël">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaël</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Ralph de Gael II, Lord de Montfort 1040-1095 (my 25</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><sup>th</sup>
Great Grandfather) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In 1066 the French invaded England, moved in and took over
ruling the country. Ralph de Gael was a child of one of those families. In
England the </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">Breton barony of Gaël is not one place but the
40 parishes that he inherited as a grant from the Crown. “He held large estates
in Norfolk, as well as property in Suffolk, Essex, Hertford, and possibly other
counties.” – Wikipedia. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">This man had an extraordinary
life as a witness to and participant in important historical events. If you
follow the links on this article about him in Wikipedia you will see – The Battle
of Hastings; Riding with Conan II; Being with William the Conqueror; Going on
the first Crusade; Fighting Vikings.<br />
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</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_de_Gael"><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_de_Gael</span></span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Wiki article states that
both he and his wife died on the route to Palestine on the Crusade.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The ancestry.com page for him says
Cambridgeshire, England – which is probably where their monuments were placed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">“G” is for . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b>Gylen Castle, Kerrera Island, Lorn, Scotland</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gylen_Castle">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gylen_Castle</a></span><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerrera"><span style="color: blue;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerrera</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mary de Ergadia MacDougall, Countess of Strathearn 1234-1303
( She is my 19<sup>th</sup> Great
Grandmother and also related to my husband.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Clan MacDougall's very attractive tartan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><a href="https://www.geni.com/people/Mary-Maire-Queen-of-Isle-of-Man/6000000000701219915"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.geni.com/people/Mary-Maire-Queen-of-Isle-of-Man/6000000000701219915</span></a>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span>aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com0Kerrera, Oban PA34 4SX, UK56.3833333 -5.566666700000041637.315051799999992 -46.875260700000041 75.4516148 35.741927299999958tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-42415400971279380712018-03-22T18:38:00.003-07:002018-05-28T18:19:45.701-07:00Genealogy Place Names - F<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">F is for . . . F<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">é</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">camp</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">A note to my family: This works
out rather neatly. Our ancestor from F</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">é</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">camp leads
to my mother. Our ancestor from Fyndern leads to my father.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>One is royal the other comes from a line of
knights and ladies and then Quakers.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>One is from France and the beaches of Normandy, and the other from a tiny place in
Derbyshire, England.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Click on the links
for more detail.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Don’t be dismayed by different spellings
– they abound and are further confused by the use of Latin. Until the majority
of people could read spelling remained very fluid</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">Once again, this is a blog of mostly links like the one
immediately below that has photos, maps, and a fascinating history on the
origin of F</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">é</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">camp. Be sure to
follow the links.</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9camp" target="_blank">Fécamp, Seine Inferieure, Normandy, France</a><u><span style="color: #000120; font-family: "cambria";"><br /></span></u></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Antoine_Pinchon" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" title="Robert Antoine Pinchon"><span style="color: blue;">Robert Antoine Pinchon</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Le port de Fécamp</i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">,
oil on canvas, Wikipedia</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">George Fyndern<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>1470-1540 is my 16<sup>th</sup> great
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</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">This family comes down through
our Quaker lines to my father’s family.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">Findern/Fyndern is a small
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">The village of Fyndern and our
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">I hope you’ve enjoyed our visit
to a couple of small villages in France and England. The lands of our
forefathers.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A challenge to my blog
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">The last place name of ‘E’s is in Iceland. This is serendipitous as recently some of our family filled their days with wonder on a vacation to Iceland. There weren’t enough days on their vacation to travel to northern Iceland – so let’s take a look. (See blue area on map.)</span><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com1Iceland64.963051 -19.02083500000003457.997918999999996 -39.675132000000033 71.92818299999999 1.633461999999966tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-88868906124227342002018-02-27T18:55:00.000-08:002018-05-28T18:39:52.428-07:00Genealogy Place Names - D<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: large; margin: 0px;"><b>“D” is for . . .</b></span><br />
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any time and especially when they are having a fund raiser!) – these
alphabetical reports to my family on the locations of our ancestors are best
described in words, maps, and pictures using this great resource. These alphabetical reports are a bit skeletal and need to be fleshed out by following the links provided. I am learning a lot about the lands of our forefather and mothers
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">Dacre, Cumberland, England</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"> (this small village is now in the Lake District National Park)</span><br />
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Open this link to see a very interesting history of Dacre.<br />
<a href="http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5066"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5066</span></a>
This link let’s you easily see where Dacre is located. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;">The ancestor: Sir Randolph de Dacre 1240-1286 – this is my 20<sup>th</sup>
great grandfather and when the line reaches America it is one of our strong,
Quaker lines. </span></div>
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This link shows that our ancestor, Sir Randolph, was the Sheriff of Cumberland
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She<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"> is my 26<sup>th</sup> great grandmother and this is our first look at Wales. If you look at her
husband’s family you will see the early Tewdwr (or Tudor) that eventually
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Here is a link to the county in Wales. This county wasn’t created until the
1200s but it shows a map and location. The place names would have been
there in the 900s. It says she was born in Llechwed Ucha, Dyfed,
Caernarvonshire, Wales. Each county is divided into ‘hundreds’ (or 100 acres).
Llechwed Ucha would be one of these Hundreds, Dyfed is the village (or castle with village).
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father, Gwyn ap Rhytherich, Lord of Dyvet (Dyfed). In the Welch naming
tradition ‘ap Rhytherch’ would mean that he is the son of Rhytherch. His
daughter’s name is “Gwenllian verch” the word verch indicates 'daughter'. This line, like the
de Dacre family, comes down through our Quakers and to my father. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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history of ‘Dyfed’ this is an interesting article of the ‘whoa variety’
of historical (or fictional) tales about Irish settling in this region of Wales. </span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9isi"><span style="color: blue;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9isi</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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This article talks of Viking invasion at the time our ancestors were living
there. In the article you’ll see a lot of difficult names – Welch is a
very different language. The article mentions <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadell_ap_Rhodri" title="Cadell ap Rhodri"><span style="background: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">Cadell ap Rhodri</span></span></a>. He is my 29<sup>th</sup>
GG. But, whereas, Gwyn and Gwenllian and Randolph are from my father’s
family. Cadell and his kin are from my mother’s family. It happens that their
families are in the same areas over and over – no wonder they were attracted to
each other and married. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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report on the letter “C” of place names in our family starts with a mistake.
Although mistakes that are found on ancestry.com are frustrating it
demonstrates why I consider the website and it’s wonderful tree a worksheet in
progress and not a family tree cast in stone. I started off with Cadbury – a
great name with a sweet connotation – all those wonderful Cadbury Easter eggs.
Then, as you will see, I find that someone has placed a wrong child in a family
and it is not our line at all! And, to top that off Cadbury eggs come from
London, not Cadbury!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>If you are an
Anglophile you will enjoy these Wikipedia articles of this area rich in
history. The article on Wynebald de Ballon (not our family) is a good example
of an early Norman Lord.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is part 2 of
this alphabetic report that holds a treasure – a truly great man. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">Be sure to
read part 2 about Ebergard “Evrard’ di Friuli I and the fabulous wine making area that was part of his domain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">(Yes,
those wonderful Cadbury eggs come from England and were founded by John
Cadbury, but they are headquartered in London.)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">How
romantic – Cadbury Castle and the area seem to be Camelot! (Control – click on
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1812909190"></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynebald_de_Ballon">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynebald_de_Ballon</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><u><span style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_of_Dyrham#Wynebald_de_Ballon" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_of_Dyrham#Wynebald_de_Ballon</a></span></u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Cadbury">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Cadbury</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">Mabilia
de Ballon<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>1125-1156<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">The
Normans (French) were conquerors of England in and around 1066 a great deal of
English land was granted by William the Conqueror to the Norman lords. Wynebald
de Ballon was one of those lords.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He
took over North Cadbury Manor in Somerset between 1086 and 1092. It apparently
was his primary residence although he had multiple land holdings. The manor
then passed to his daughter Mabilia’s husband, Henry de Newmarch. Certainly in
a perfect world she would have inherited her father’s estates but by English
law she could not. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">It
is with this alphabetic exercise and Mabilia of Cadbury that I’ve uncovered a
mistake in the family tree. Someone placed a cuckoo in her nest – a child that
was clearly not hers and he was our ancestor.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>I’ve had to disconnect our family from this Cadbury family – they are
not our great grandparents. We did have many who were Norman lords, so I will
keep Cadbury here as an example of the Normans who represent a great deal of
our family in France. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">Above is a later version of the birthplace of the Wynebald
de Ballon and his brothers.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This is
Donjon de Ballon, know as the Gateway to Maine </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">12 miles north of </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Mans" title="Le Mans"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Le Mans</span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;">, capital of the ancient
province of Maine. (The modern region of </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pays-de-la-Loire" title="Pays-de-la-Loire"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Pays-de-la-Loire</span></a> in France. ) The
area was conquered by William, Duke of Normandy (William the Conqueror) in 1066
before his invasion of England. The de Ballon brothers must have joined William
at this time but it is not known if they fought in the Battle of Hastings. [The
Battle of Hastings was a huge turning point for France and England, so check it
out on Wikipedia!]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;"><b>Cysoing,
Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysoing"><span style="color: blue;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysoing</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><br />
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Ebergard “Evrard’ di Friuli I, ‘Saint’ Margrave of Friuli<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>820-866</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">Our
32<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">nd</span></sup> (34, 35) Great Grandfather - Can you imagine – we have a
‘Saint’ as an ancestor. Well, we have several. This is one I’d like to travel
back in time to meet. He is also called ‘Margrave’ which most often meant
Military Governor.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><br />
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This is a famous wine making area. See below:<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friuli-Venezia_Giulia_wine"><span style="color: blue;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friuli-Venezia_Giulia_wine</span></a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">This
is the link to follow to learn about the life of Eberhard and his connection to
Cysoing. <u>This was one of the great men of his time and for the ages</u>. If you read
only one article in this post – read the article on the Find A Grave
site. It is excellent. </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=119345175"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=119345175</span></a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">A
link to Eberhard’s wife – a Princess.</span><br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisela,_daughter_of_Louis_the_Pious"><span style="color: blue;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisela,_daughter_of_Louis_the_Pious</span></a></span></div>
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– Chateau de l’Abbaye – photo by Musette Thierry<br />Once again a big thank you for the wonderful information from Wikipedia. Please support them financially as you can.<br />Also, a special thank you to Find A Grave, now owned by ancestry.com, for the great entry for <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Ebergard “Evrard’ di I</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com059830 Cysoing, France50.567671999999988 3.215868000000000450.48697949999999 3.0545065000000005 50.648364499999985 3.3772295000000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-18785272474084112832018-02-22T05:53:00.004-08:002019-01-20T11:16:20.712-08:00Genealogy Place Names - B<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In my last blog post ‘Genealogy Place Names – 'A' I introduced a project for my family that looks at the places where our ancestor’s lived. Where they lived is important as it helped shape who they were. I started with Aachen, a German city that contains Charlemagne’s glorious cathedral. Aachen was the primary residence of Charlemagne, and we are Charlemagne’s children. By now he has millions of descendants and we stand among them – which means that area of hot springs and easy access to Belgium and The Netherlands is part of our bones. Each alphabetic report draws from the first and last place names of that letter. The second place for ‘A’ is Ayrshire, Scotland.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now in this post we will look at the ‘B’s.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>These are random picks on my part and what came up was Babenberg Castle and the area that became Bamberg, Germany. Then at the end of the ‘B’s I found that city with the ever shifting name: Byzantium, Turkey – or, if you will, “Istanbul, not Constantinople”.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A word about multiple generations.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Heinrich Franconia, Margrave of Austrasia is listed as my 30<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> great grandfather. That’s ridiculously far back. He, no doubt, has millions (literally) of descendants.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Are we special because this is our dear 30<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> great grandpapa? Well, we have to take all of this with a grain of salt. Our ancestor chart blooms exponentially to a point, but cousins marry and that pyramid shaped chart turns into a diamond. I get it, but I’m not very good at explaining it. Here is a link to an article that will keep us humble.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br />
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2015/may/24/business-genetic-ancestry-charlemagne-adam-rutherford"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">https://www.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2015/may/24/business-genetic-ancestry-charlemagne-adam-rutherford</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">From now through to the letter Z I’ll post the alphabet<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>reports I’ve done for my family. I hope my blog readers will find these places interesting and will be inspired to study up on their ancestors’ homes.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F2rF0P-Nm1I/Wo7JPwyjGmI/AAAAAAAArLU/XAKOz0IW7WkWI_rK7YJRtlRECggfuJDJgCLcBGAs/s1600/bamburgh%2BCastle%2Bonce%2BBadenberg%2BEngineering%2BTimelies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="380" height="197" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F2rF0P-Nm1I/Wo7JPwyjGmI/AAAAAAAArLU/XAKOz0IW7WkWI_rK7YJRtlRECggfuJDJgCLcBGAs/s320/bamburgh%2BCastle%2Bonce%2BBadenberg%2BEngineering%2BTimelies.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Badenberg Castle</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">B is for Badenburg and Byzantium</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Badenburg Castle, Holzkirchen, Bavaria, Germany</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Heinrich ‘Henry’ Franconia, Margrave of Austrasia</b><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>abt 820 – 886 AD</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">30<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> Great Grandfather – (my mother's line)</span><br />
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Keep in mind that although this was the Badenburg dynasty the city and castle eventually became Bamberg, Germany </span></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;">Henry of Franconia</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Henry</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">(died 886), possibly a son or grandson of Count<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppo_of_Grapfeld" title="Poppo of Grapfeld"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Poppo of Grapfeld</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">, was one of the first<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babenbergs" title="Babenbergs"><span style="color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;">Babenbergs</span></a>, was the most important<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Frankish" title="East Frankish"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">East Frankish</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">general during the reign of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_the_Fat" title="Charles the Fat"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Charles the Fat</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">. He was variously titled<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Saxony" title="Duke of Saxony"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Count or Margrave of Saxony</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">and<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Franconia" title="Duke of Franconia"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Duke of Franconia</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">.</span></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Henry was the ancestral lord of a castle, Babenberg, on the<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Main" title="River Main"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">River Main</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">, around which the later city of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamberg" title="Bamberg"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Bamberg</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">was built. He enjoyed the favor of Charles the Fat and was his right-hand man in Germany during his reign. He led a surprise strike on a force of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Vikings</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">prior to the<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Asselt" title="Siege of Asselt"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Siege of Asselt</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">, but it was unsuccessful. When, in 885, Charles summoned<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh,_Duke_of_Alsace" title="Hugh, Duke of Alsace"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Hugh, Duke of Alsace</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">, and<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrid,_Duke_of_Frisia" title="Godfrid, Duke of Frisia"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Godfrey, Duke of Frisia</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">, to a court at<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobith" title="Lobith"><span style="color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;">Lobith</span></a>, it was Henry who arrested them and had Godfrey executed and Hugh imprisoned on Charles' orders.</span></span><br />
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</span> <span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">In 884, when Charles succeeded to the throne of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Francia" title="West Francia"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">West Francia</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">, he sent Henry there to lead the<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Neustria" title="March of Neustria"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">March of Neustria</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">against the<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Vikings</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">. In 886, he was sent to aid the<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Paris_(885-886)" title="Siege of Paris (885-886)"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">besieged of Paris</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">. He did not stay long but returned later that year with Charles. However, Henry died in a skirmish with the<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Vikings</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">while en route.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> Euphrosyne of Kiev</b> 1130-1186<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(related to me; my husband, Jim; and my step-father – making us all cousins) </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">She is my 24<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> great grandmother - (my mother's line)</span><span style="font-family: "times";"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Byzantium is how it came up on the place report but that isn’t exactly accurate. By the time Euphrosyne came along it was called Constantinople, and of course it is now Istanbul.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Whoa, this is exciting stuff – see below.</span></div>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantium"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantium</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrosyne_of_Kiev"><span style="color: blue;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrosyne_of_Kiev</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>really exciting stuff!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">From Wikipedia”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Euphrosyne of Kiev</span></b><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">(also<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><i>Euphrosine of Novgorod</i>;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrosyne_of_Kiev#cite_note-1"><sup><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 8.5pt; margin: 0px;">[1]</span></sup></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">c. 1130 – c. 1193) was<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_consort" title="Queen consort"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Queen consort</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary_in_the_Middle_Ages" title="Kingdom of Hungary in the Middle Ages"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Hungary</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Euphrosyne was the first daughter of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prince" title="Grand Prince"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Grand Prince</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mstislav_I_of_Kiev" title="Mstislav I of Kiev"><span style="color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;">Mstislav I of Kiev</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and his second wife, Ljubava Saviditsch. In 1146, at the age of 16, Euphrosyne married<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9za_II_of_Hungary" title="Géza II of Hungary"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">King Géza II of Hungary</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">During her husband's reign Euphrosyne did not intervene in the politics of the kingdom, but after his death on May 31, 1162, her influence strengthened over their son, King<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_III_of_Hungary" title="Stephen III of Hungary"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Stephen III</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">. The young king had to struggle against his uncles<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislaus_II_of_Hungary" title="Ladislaus II of Hungary"><span style="color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;">Ladislaus</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_IV_of_Hungary" title="Stephen IV of Hungary"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Stephen</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">to save his throne, and Euphrosyne took an active part in the struggles. She persuaded King<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislaus_II,_Duke_of_Bohemia" title="Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia"><span style="color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;">Vladislaus II of Bohemia</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>to give military assistance to her son against the invasion of the Emperor<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_I_Komnenos" title="Manuel I Komnenos"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Manuel I Komnenos</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Euphrosyne's favorite son was the youngest, Duke<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9za,_son_of_G%C3%A9za_II_of_Hungary" title="Géza, son of Géza II of Hungary"><span style="color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;">Géza of Hungary</span></a>. When King<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_III_of_Hungary" title="Stephen III of Hungary"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Stephen III</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">died on March 4, 1172, she was planning to ensure his succession against her older son,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_III_of_Hungary" title="Béla III of Hungary"><span style="color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;">Béla</span></a>, who had been living in the court of the Emperor<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_I_Komnenos" title="Manuel I Komnenos"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Manuel I Komnenos</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">. However,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_III_of_Hungary" title="Béla III of Hungary"><span style="color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;">Béla</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>came back, and he was crowned on January 13, 1173, although the<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop" title="Archbishop"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Archbishop</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Lukács of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esztergom" title="Esztergom"><span style="color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;">Esztergom</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>denied his coronation. Shortly after, King<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_III_of_Hungary" title="Béla III of Hungary"><span style="color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;">Béla III</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest" title="Arrest"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">arrested</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">his brother, which increased the tension between Euphrosyne and her son. Duke<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9za,_son_of_G%C3%A9za_II_of_Hungary" title="Géza, son of Géza II of Hungary"><span style="color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;">Géza</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>soon managed to escape, probably with Euphrosyne's help, but in 1177 he was again arrested.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">In 1186, Euphrosyne tried to release her younger son again, but she failed. King<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_III_of_Hungary" title="Béla III of Hungary"><span style="color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;">Béla III</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>ordered the arrest of Euphrosyne and kept her confined in the fortress of Barancs (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_language" title="Serbian language"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Serbian</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brani%C4%8Devo_District" title="Braničevo District"><span style="color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;">Braničevo</span></a>). Shortly after, Euphrosyne was set free, but she was obliged to leave the kingdom for<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Constantinople</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">. From Constantinople she moved to<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Jerusalem</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">where she lived as a<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nun" title="Nun"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">nun</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">in the<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convent" title="Convent"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">convent</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">of the<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Hospitaller" title="Knights Hospitaller"><span style="color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;">Hospitallers</span></a> [That’s the Knights Templar, right?], and then in the<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilian_monk" title="Basilian monk"><span style="color: #0b0080; margin: 0px;">Basilian</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery" title="Monastery"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">monastery</span></a><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">of Saint Sabbas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pictured here: Euphrosyne's Grandfather <span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">Valdimir II Monomakh of Keiv<span style="margin: 0px;"> - isn't he a good looking fellow.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com0Bamberg, Germany49.8988135 10.90276360000007149.8169665 10.741402100000071 49.980660500000006 11.064125100000071tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-19196235200211621982017-07-15T09:27:00.000-07:002018-03-17T15:01:55.488-07:00Genealogy Place Names - A<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Silly me I thought it would be a good idea to create
a ‘Place Usage Report’ in Family Tree Maker. I didn’t limit the report to
direct line ancestors and what I ended up with was 4,434 pages of places mentioned
in that huge tree. What to do with that massive document? Since the report is
alphabetical I decided to go at it one letter at a time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">I want to share information with my family on, not
only, our ancestors but the places where they lived – feeling that those places
helped to shape their lives. With hundreds of choices among the ‘As’ how do I
choose? I decided to keep it simple. I picked the town (or place – it could be
a castle, county, etc.) that came first in the ‘As’ with a direct line
ancestor. Then I picked the last place with an ‘A’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">This is how that turned out (my first random choice landed a big fish!): <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>Aachen</b>, North Rhine, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
(AKA – <span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Aix-la-Chapelle</span>)
and dear Grandpapa Charlemagne. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen_Cathedral" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;" title="w:Aachen Cathedral"><span style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); color: windowtext;">Aachen Cathedral</span></a><span style="background: rgb(248 , 249 , 250); font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> with </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatine_Chapel,_Aachen" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;" title="w:Palatine Chapel, Aachen"><span style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); color: windowtext;">Palatine Chapel</span></a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">According to Wikipedia – “<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Charlemagne spent most winters in Aachen between 792 and his
death in 814.” This makes me want to
stop there on my next trip to Europe – the last time I was in Germany was when
I was 4, so I’d say it’s about time for another visit.</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Ayrshire,
Scotland</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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Montgomery 1436-1461</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">John and Margaret lived in Ayrshire in different
centuries – but one represents my mother’s family the other represents my
father’s family; which means my parents' ancestors lived in the same small county centuries before they met and married. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">John Beatty arrived in New York in 1691 and almost
immediately married Susannah Asfordby, who had arrived with her parents from
England in 1674 at the age of five. He just as quickly became a prominent
resident of Ulster County, New York and the village of Marbletown. Some sources
say he was born in Ireland and others say Ayrshire, Scotland. I somehow hear
him with a Scottish brogue. These days it is a ferry boat ride from Ayrshire to
Northern Ireland so he may have lived in Aryshire and disembarked for America
from Ireland. Hm, I may need a trip to Ayrshire to get to the bottom of this
puzzle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Lady Margaret Montgomery had 18 hints awaiting and
her father 23 on the ancestry.com tree. More questions than answers here but then that is part of the
hunt. Right? I can already see the value
in the exercise. I’m learning more than my children, no doubt! I wonder what ‘B’
has in store? Please check out this link to Ayrshire:</span></div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen_Cathedral" title="w:Aachen Cathedral"><span style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">Aachen Cathedral</span></a><span style="background: #F8F9FA;"> with </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatine_Chapel,_Aachen" title="w:Palatine Chapel, Aachen"><span style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">Palatine Chapel</span></a>, <span style="background: #EAEEED; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas via Wikipedia
Commons<br />
</span><span style="background: #F8F9FA;">Eglinton castle ruins, Eglinton Country
Park, Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland. A view from the old stables/offices
side</span>. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rosser1954" title="wikipedia:User:Rosser1954"><span style="background: #F8F9FA; color: windowtext;">Rosser1954</span></a><span style="background: #F8F9FA;"> at </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" title="wikipedia:"><span style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">English Wikipedia</span></a><span style="background: #eaeeed; color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com0Aachen, Germany50.7753455 6.083886799999959350.4539225 5.4384397999999594 51.0967685 6.7293337999999592tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-34128948056718591122017-04-03T09:16:00.000-07:002018-02-17T21:43:04.408-08:00Nature or Nurture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lTlCGosUDDI/WOJwtaMH65I/AAAAAAAAThk/wOmSKcUQDTIOaU_tri3SZmlfkVe21-v2ACLcB/s1600/01gellert-hapag%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lTlCGosUDDI/WOJwtaMH65I/AAAAAAAAThk/wOmSKcUQDTIOaU_tri3SZmlfkVe21-v2ACLcB/s320/01gellert-hapag%255B1%255D.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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A ship like the <a href="http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=gelle" target="_blank">Gellert</a> with interiors showing 1st, 2nd, and steerage accommodations. The Gellert is the ship taken to America from <a href="https://www.hafen-hamburg.de/en/history" target="_blank">Hamburg, Germany</a> by the Timmerman family 30 Oct 1888.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(Photos courtesy of http://www.norwayheritage.com/)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I’ve been playing with the idea of blogging about what I
remember and how I feel; or more specifically, moving beyond the cold facts to a
blend of subjective and objective genealogy. It will be my memories of the
family added to the more objective facts presented on ancestry.com. This
genealogy website gives us encouragement in offering a ‘Lifestory’ feature that
gives a head-start in bringing our ancestors to life on the page. This
Lifestory can be edited, rearranged, and enhanced by personal memories and I've mostly ignored it. Now I hope to put this wonderful feature to use. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A caveat – my ancestry.com tree is far from perfect. It is a
worksheet, a fluid work in progress. Where I’ve done the field work I’m pretty
certain it is correct. I’m a big fan of ancestry.com and other genealogical
websites and all the documentation they have available – but computerized
mistakes have a way of spreading like weeds and becoming part of the
genealogical landscape. I’m open to suggestions, corrections, and ideas and in
the end I have to go where my gut leads. Will my ramblings be of interest to
blog readers or genealogist? That remains . . . as they say. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Yesterday I started with a look at my ex-husband’s family.
They are, obviously, not related to me but they are related to three of my
children.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Since they are my ex’s family
deep emotions are stirred while looking at their tree. It is a large eastern
Nebraska family. My children’s great grandfather was an immigrant from Holstein,
Germany. He arrived with his parents at age 10 in 1888. Their great grandmother
was also from Germany and was born at sea – arriving with her family in 1882.
Just think of her mother – leaving her home to travel to a foreign land at the
end of her pregnancy and delivering that baby while on the ocean! These
families didn’t stop on the east coast, they made their way to Nebraska where
there were German speaking farming communities and social clubs that helped
them feel at home. These families worked hard to learn English and fit into the American culture, but they were welcomed here in their native tongue. When I went to college in Nebraska I found there was still a
fondness for polka – although two world wars had pretty much killed the
German language in America. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But wait, my ex-husband’s maternal family is not only NOT related
to me! They are genetically not related to him and therefore not related to my
children. He was adopted. Do I spend time pursuing a step or adopted family? I knew these
people, most not well, but others who have affected my ex, my self, and my
children by their love and life experience. Their very existence and life
stories were woven into the fabric of our lives. Blended families are a
frequent fact these days and how much time you may wish to spend on researching
their roots really depends on what significance they hold in your lives.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As I come back to my genealogy and start with fresh eyes, I
can see that my mother-in-law and her family touched my life beginning at age
18 and my life would never be the same. God’s little elves, weaving together
the strands of my life at a mad speed, picked up those threads before I could
take a breath and the Timmerman, Able, and Steinhauer families were a part of
my life’s tapestry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Tell me, please. Do you research step and adopted families
as part of your line? </span></div>
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aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com0Sarpy County, Nebraska41.0744042 -96.19513240.6914637 -96.840579 41.457344699999993 -95.549685tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-85775602870237307712017-04-02T06:31:00.001-07:002018-02-18T16:39:01.502-08:00Graves in Ontario, Canada<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Woodland Cemetery - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(photo courtesy of findagrave.com by Miriam McDonald)</span></div>
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2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">I’m home
from a Florida vacation with fresh eyes, renewed ambition, and the genealogy
bug is nibbling at me. The bug is easily fed by opening my large ancestry.com file
to just about anywhere and I’ll find hints in the form of leaves flying in the
virtual wind. This time I was given an email nudge from a fellow researcher. I
don’t know her other than she is a kindred spirit who belongs, as do I, to
ancestry.com and findagrave.com. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">In this
case Rosemary was snapping photos of tombstones in cemeteries in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario" target="_blank">Ontario</a>. (When
will I ever get to Ontario? Probably never. What a boon the Internet is to genealogists.)
As well as adding her photos to the database at ‘<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/" target="_blank">Find a Grave’</a> she did a search
for these particular ancestors on <a href="http://ancestry.com/">ancestry.com</a> and notified me of the photos
she’d posted. How wonderful that she went the extra mile. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">The odd
thing is that I couldn’t find those ancestors on my rather mammoth tree. As of
this morning there are 44,228 entries. Subsequently, I wrote back to Rosemary
to thank her for contacting me but that I couldn’t find those Canadians in my
family. She wrote back immediately saying that these ancestors were on ‘Rachel’s
Tree.’ Mystery solved. Over the years I’ve put together family trees for
various friends and loved ones and there they sit on my account
with little or no attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">These
Canadians of long ago on my friend Rachel’s tree are not my family. The
question to myself is – do I spend my time on them or ignore the information and
go directly to my tree? <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>What is the most
productive and most satisfying use of my time? (As we get older that is a
question we ponder more and more. I had, after all, just turned my Outlander
calendar to April 2017 – what time I have left, whether it be less than 1 year or more than 25, is slipping quickly away.) I
opted for Rachel’s tree which seems rich with Scottish Protestants who
immigrated to Canada in the early part of the 19<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> century. How
exciting. I can see those woolen garbed Scots with their heavy brogue immigrating
to the cold north – a climate to which they were not unaccustomed. What adventurous
souls. Were they excited? Scared? In awe of what they dared to do? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; margin: 0px;">Rachel,
whose tree I hadn’t looked at in eons, had lots of green leaves flying. I dwelt among them with the new information, mostly recent cemetery
photos, for a couple of hours doing updates. Later that day as I was walking
Beatrice, my <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coton_de_Tulear" target="_blank">Coton de Tulear</a> whose dog ancestors hale from <span id="goog_345685850"></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar" target="_blank">Madagascar<span id="goog_345685851"></span></a>, we
stopped at Rachel’s for a chat. In her eighties, with no known living
relatives, Rachel was delighted and most surprised to hear that a stranger had
contacted me about her ancestors long buried in Canadian ground. Soon she’ll
come over to take a look at her enriched tree. Was it a good use of my and
Rosemary’s time. Absolutely. </span></div>
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aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com0Hamilton, ON, Canada43.2557206 -79.87110239999998442.515658099999996 -81.16199589999998 43.9957831 -78.580208899999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-9560192823585054892015-11-11T07:15:00.000-08:002016-09-21T07:10:51.830-07:00Saluting Our Veterans ~ Saluting the Fallen<br />
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<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_rosecrans_cemetery.jpg" target="_blank">Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery</a>, </div>
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with the aircraft carrier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Midway_(CV-41)" target="_blank" title="USS Midway (CV-41)">USS <i>Midway</i> (CV-41)</a> in the background.</div>
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(Where Jim's grandparents are buried.)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If you Google a timeline of war, you will clearly see that human beings are warlike creatures, who are constantly in conflict with each other somewhere in the world. Peace is a rare and treasured state that is all too easily cast aside if we feel wronged or threatened. I’m sure you’ll agree that although this is the case, the constant striving to learn, to change, to break that violent cycle and move into a state of balance and peace, where differences can be worked out by non-violent means, is the ideal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Looking back, though, we are trailed by death and destruction in every era. Even our generations of peace-loving and conscientious objecting Quakers couldn’t avoid getting caught up in the American Revolution and Civil War as the fighting swirled around them. Not willing to take up arms against their fellow man they provided food, supplies, shelter, abolitionist zeal, and medical aid to those who did. Like our Quaker ancestors our most recent generations have chosen not to join the military.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are peaceful and more interested in the arts than the art of war ‘and I say’ (to quote the Beatles) ‘give peace a chance’ – Good For Them! – It is with these younger generations that we as a human race can begin to break that terrible cycle of war. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Still, humans are aggressive, war-like creatures and no peace is kept without vigilance and for that we are forever grateful for a strong, well-equipped defense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking back on American conflicts we had brave men in most of them from King Phillip’s War to Vietnam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, along with them countless women and children were left behind to run the farm and keep the home-fires burning. I’ve drawn up a sampling of veterans from our family history to salute. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Family, I hope you will take a moment on this Veterans Day to thank each of them for the time they served – the men and their wives and children. . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ron, Capt. USAF<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lyle B Shaffer Jr, 1 Lt US Army <br />
Lloyd E Disney, Radioman RM3 <br />
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Lyle B Shaffer Sr – Wagoneer, Hospital Corp (Grandfather)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">David Shaffer - Union – E.I. Ohio (2<sup>nd</sup> GG)<br />
William C Cullins – Union, Hospital Corp. (2 GG)<br />
Lorenzo Archer – Union, McKeag’s Battalion, PA, Infantry (2 GG) <br />
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William Beer – Union, I 1 PA Cavalry & H & I 2 PA Cavalry (Ron – Great Grandfather)<br />
Charles T Neuhard – Union, D 177 PA Infantry (Ron – 2<sup>nd</sup> Great Grandfather) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">James Hoyt DeLoach – Confederate, D Georgia 61<sup>st</sup> Infantry, 2<sup>nd</sup> Lt. (Mike – Great Grandfather) <br />
David Daniel DeLoach – Confederate, Company K, Georgia 47th Infantry Regiment, Private (Mike – Great Grandfather)<br />
Moses J. McElveen – Confederate, Co. D, 5<sup>th</sup> Reg. Georgia Cavalry, Private (Mike – 2<sup>nd</sup> GG)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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John Cullins – Russell’s Battalion, Ohio Militia, Private (4<sup>th</sup> GG)<br />
Job Meredith – 2<sup>nd</sup> Regiment (Evans) Virginia Militia, Private (5<sup>th</sup> GG)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Matthew Wing – 1<sup>st</sup> Claiborne’s Regiment, Militia, Mississippi Territory (6<sup>th</sup> GG) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">James Draper – 3<sup>rd</sup> Regiment, South Carolina, Private (6<sup>th</sup> GG)<br />
George Beatty -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pennsylvania, Adjutant (5<sup>th</sup> GG)<br />
Ebenezer Wheeler – 1<sup>st</sup> Regiment, Massachusetts, Private (5 GG)<br />
William Jay – Pennsylvania, (7<sup>th</sup> GG)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">King Phillip’s War <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Just in case you thought New England tribes were peaceful (ala Thanksgiving).]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our ancestor’s paid for their land with their blood in New England, New York, Georgia, the Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The natives didn’t go peacefully. Atrocities were committed on both sides. This bloody history was scrubbed from our history books and a much milder version presented to us as elementary school children. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<em><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><u>“</u></span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The war [King Phillip’s] was the single greatest calamity to occur in seventeenth century </span></span></em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans" target="_blank" title="Puritans"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: blue;"><em>Puritan</em></span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><em> New England and is considered by many to be the deadliest war in the history of European settlement in North America in proportion to the population. In the space of little more than a year, twelve of the region's towns were destroyed and many more damaged, the colony's economy was all but ruined, and its population was decimated . . . More than half of New England's towns were attacked by Native American warriors. King Philip's War began the development of a greater </em></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European-American" target="_blank" title="European-American"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: blue;"><em>European-American</em></span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><em> identity. The colonists' trials, without significant English government support, gave them a group identity separate and distinct from that of subjects of the king.”</em> - Wikipedia<sup> </sup><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We have many more veterans than those listed above, it is just a sampling. We are left with a deep appreciation for them . . .and the awareness that we are the end result of generations of survivors. These are the men who returned from war to father children and create more generations. And it leaves us with a deep sadness for the thousands upon thousands of bodies left behind, snuffed out, and ended – never to contribute to future generations. To them we owe reverence and respect, sorrow and regret. What would the world be if all the rows of tombstones in all the National Cemeteries were blank? What changes might have been made if Obediah Smith or John Jones had lived? We’ll never know – but we salute you – we survivors. We hope we can do better with our present and our future. Peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com1United States40.114371747835733 -105.3515696525573714.592337247835733 -146.66016365255737 65.636406247835737 -64.042975652557374tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-73394616751696396592015-10-06T08:09:00.000-07:002016-09-21T08:46:36.480-07:00On Joining the DAR<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Why join the DAR? I suppose there are portions of the
population that haven’t a clue what I’m talking about and need this explained,
but the vast majority have at least heard that ‘DAR’ stands for Daughters of
the American Revolution, an organization first established in Washington D.C.
in 1890 by women celebrating their revolutionary roots. These women stepped up to form their own club
after being rejected and excluded from membership in the SAR, or Sons of the
American Revolution. Now, doesn’t that sound familiar? The DAR has gone on to surpass
the SAR in width and depth, in service, fame, and controversy. Both celebrate
the American Revolution and our genealogical roots to the founding of our
country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">There are articles about the DAR on their website at </span><a href="http://www.dar.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">www.dar.org</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> and various other informational
sites, such as wikipedia.com and encyclopedia.com. I won’t repeat the
information here other than to say it is a service, social, and genealogical
organization that came to me with confusingly mixed reviews. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m at the beginning of my approach to
membership and will chronicle the journey for others who might like to follow. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">My personal involvement with the group has a little history.
I started doing genealogy with my paternal grandmother when I was 11 years old.
She was proud of her family and we spent summers putting together photo albums
and talking about the old folks. She grew up in small town Iowa where 100% of
the population was white, most of them were farmers or in farm related
businesses and anyone who was anybody belonged to a local church, the Masons or
Elks or other service group if you were a man; and with a Mason husband you
belonged to the Eastern Star. This was her world. It was a world of helping
neighbors build or harvest or quilt. It was a world of patriotism and honoring
the flag (which you brought in from the rain or snow, and which you never let
touch the ground). It was not an era without problems. There aren’t any of
those. But it was a kinder, gentler world where there were no locks on doors
and neighbors helped neighbors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I grew up in the city with roots in the Baptist, Democrat,
union beliefs of my mother’s family. But, oh did I love my Methodist,
Republican, Masonic and Eastern Star grandparents of Northeastern Iowa. I loved
the world of small town politics (my grandfather ran for office), ice cream socials,
feeding harvest crews, family reunions, and social evenings of bridge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I must have been a teen when my grandmother handed me a
small book containing the genealogy of the Rowland’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(her maiden name). With it, she proudly
announced that I should be able to join the DAR – something I hadn’t thought
about previously. Why she didn’t join is a mystery. She was college educated
and a teacher with the skills to pursue a membership, but that quest she
bequeathed to me. A child of divorce, maybe she thought it would tie me closer
to my father’s family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But then, in my Democratic soul I heard of Eleanor Roosevelt’s
resignation from the DAR over their racial attitudes and the shunning of the
opera singer, Marian Anderson, and I put membership out of mind as being
impossible. My roots run deep on both sides of the family with abolitionists,
underground railroaders, and followers of John Brown. How could I be a member
of such an organization? It may be why my grandmother didn't join, and she passed to me with the hope that attitudes would change within the DAR.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Of course, the group, spurred by Eleanor and the times has
changed and they welcome women of color as long as they have roots
in the Revolution; and they have promotional photos sprinkled with faces of various hues.
Still, I’m not much of a joiner and membership hasn’t been a priority. Now,
at 71, I’m looking to please my grandmother, who I imagine as watching over me
and my long genealogical journey; and to open the way for my daughters and
granddaughters to be DAR and my son and grandsons to be SAR if they choose. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">After a lifetime of research and building the family tree I
find I have many choices from the revolutionary soldiers in the family. Prior
to 2012 I’d hoped to join with a line on my mother’s side so that she could
also join. Time got away from me, my mother left us, and I still haven’t joined.
Now I’m considering a membership based on the Cullins family – really an odd
choice as they are not my mother’s family nor are they my paternal grandmother’s
family, but instead are my paternal grandfather’s family. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I was amazed at my family’s involvement in the establishment
of Ohio after the Northwest Territory opened for development. The Cullins
family was one of those pioneering families that moved into the wilderness,
coming up from Virginia or what became West Virginia. And, my joining the DAR
through this line rests on the fact that John Cullins (listed with the DAR as Cullens) was the first family
member I found that had already been established in the DAR genealogy databank. Someone else has laid the groundwork and what I need to do is
prove our family connection and <span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal;">voilà</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN"> </span></b>I can be a member – or, at least I hope so.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This then, is the beginning of my membership journey. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been a mixed bag so far. About 4 or 5
years ago I enthusiastically contacted, via email, a woman in my area (north
costal San Diego County) about help in the application process. She was
designated as a contact person, but I never heard from her. I let it drop. Then
at the beginning of September 2015 I tried once again – pulling a contact off the
Internet for the state-level organization. I heard back immediately from the
membership chair for the state of California and I thought I was on my way. She
promised that I would hear from a local member who could help me with the
application. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the end of
September I still hadn’t heard from that local person. This time, instead of
letting it drop I wrote that helpful woman at the state level once again. There
is a chapter in the city where I live and she tracked them down immediately. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I have now heard from a local person, who has invited me to
a meeting at the country club. Figures – I'm afraid I’ll be a poor donkey in the
midst of a herd of well-heeled elephants – but this is Oceanside and not San Diego, so we’ll
see. The DAR is a genealogical, social and service organization but I can't help but see it in political terms. I wonder if there'll be any other Bernie Sanders supporters in the group?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I want to meet with someone and finish my initial
application before venturing into a meeting. We’ll see how this goes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ancestry.com sends emails with new hints for our trees. These hints could be for any one of the 38,059 people, although they generally are hints for direct-line ancestors, which narrows the pool significantly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, that is a lot of people. I decided to pick one random hint, do an updated search, and write up a little article for the blog. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the Billesby family that was picked out the virtual straw hat. I knew nothing about them but when I looked them up – guess what! – they lead right on down to Hannah Cullins .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">is Sandy’s 13th great grandmother</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="display: none; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Your 13th great gran</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/63228687/person/44101123352" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Jane Langton * (1515 - 1559)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">daughter of Cicely Billesby *<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">son of William Asfordby *<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/63228687/person/44101114990" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Rebecca Jane Beatty * (1762 - 1843)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As you can see the first Billesby (Billsby, Bilsby) in our family was Cicely born in 1475. Once she married we lost that name, of course, but the DNA flows on down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, what of Cicely’s family? It seems that the family of Cicely’s husband, Alexander Langton and the Asfordby family were close, intermarrying neighbors in or around the village of Billesby (now Bilsby, yes it is still there!), Lincolnshire, England. Cicely’s second husband was John Asfordby. </span><br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">Here is what I’ve gathered from perusing the online information given for the Billesby family. They were likely not Angles or Saxons, or Norman French . . . most likely, they were settlers who came with the marauding Vikings of Norway. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you haven’t seen the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vikings </i>series on the History Channel I recommend it, especially to my family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are your ancestors, colorfully portrayed. (Another of our lines leads back to Ragnar.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve watched the first season, but there are two more. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, look at this article about the Norman Invasion of England <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England#Tostig.27s_raids_and_the_Norwegian_invasion" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England#Tostig.27s_raids_and_the_Norwegian_invasion</span></a><u> </u>especially the section called </span></span><span class="mw-headline"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Tostig's raids and the Norwegian invasion</span></i></span><span class="mw-headline"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="mw-headline"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The su</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">ggestion that Bilsby (Billesby) was probably named for a Norse goddess, Bil, is another clue that our ancestors were Norwegian settlers. They, of course, didn’t have a 10 minute drive in from the coast, but a few days of trekking would have brought them to the ideal spot for a settlement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe they were there a while before the Norman Invasion of 1066. After the invasion when the Normans were in power they would have granted the Billesby family the land they had already claimed, no doubt, in thanks for aiding in the conquest of England. By the time the Doomsday book recorded Billesby it was a settlement of 18 households.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was, eventually a castellated and moated house (replaced by the Bilsby House mansion built in 1740 on the same sight). The other dwellings would have been wattle and daub with thatched roofs. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">Our family name comes from that first settlement and most likely was of that first land holding Billesby family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is Cicely Billesby’s family tree:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/63228687/person/44282192231" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Eudo de Billesby * (1286 - )</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">son of Richard Billesby *<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">son of John Billesby Bilesby *<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">son of Thomas Billesby *<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com2Bilsby, Alford, Lincolnshire LN13, UK53.264974 0.2057690000000320716.244304 -82.411418499999968 90 82.822956500000032tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-77721241190828079782014-01-30T16:40:00.001-08:002016-09-20T17:37:42.444-07:00Ichabod and ADGD[There's a song at the bottom!]<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Okay, here’s the deal. . . I have this disease called ADGD. The above picture was posted on Facebook by one of my genealogy wielding 3<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>rd</sup> cousins, whom I love dearly. It’s meant to be funny (I’d love to give credit for the picture, but I don’t know where she got it). It is in no way meant to poke fun at those with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder" target="_blank">ADD or ADHD</a>. Still I think most genealogists will agree that they have a problem with ADGD, which if you are trying to accomplish anything, can be a very real problem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">At Christmas I <s>promi</s> told my family to expect an “Ohio family-of-the-month” until the workbook I sent them was complete. That would mean I’d need to send one family’s information in January, right? Today is January 30. Yikes! It is a given that January is a very busy month for me in other ways but you’d think I’d be able to finish the Cullins family in short order as it is the one I’d already started. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Not done.</b> Of course, there’s plenty of time . . . two days. I have two whole days to work on this. Aren’t I lucky there are 31 days in this month? I have many non-gen things to do but that is beside the point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Or, it could be that I pulled myself back to the Cullins only to find I’ve somehow gotten wrapped up in the fascinating Vassal family (Yum, pot roast with veggies!), landing in the 1600s. Well, who could resist. You probably haven’t heard of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vassall" target="_blank"> Uncle William</a> who, in my opinion, was one of the most significant men to set foot on our soil. For me he has risen to the ranks of Abe and MLK and FDR. So, you can understand why I was pulled away from the good ol’ Cullins. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">I’m switching everything over to a new tree. I try to do some of that every day -- it’s a distraction. In December I found my cousin Stephanie’s daughter on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. There’s so much to catch-up on with her (Hm, chocolate cake!). Oh, but she's not a Cullins. And so it goes . . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">I’m really rock ‘n rollin’ with Facebook. Yesterday I added as friends cousin Patty and her daughter on my father’s side (hamburgers hot off the grill!) and the son of my cousin Susie on my mother’s side (the chips – got to love those Lays). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">So you can see each circumstance is a delightful bowl of food passing by Ichabod’s nose. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Old Ic definitely has ADGD. There is no end to the work you can do on your family history. It is absolutely endless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still there is a great feeling of satisfaction when you complete a project, which is why every month I’ll work to overcome ADGD!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com1Southern California32.970572979827509 -117.1501579345348331.266523979827507 -119.73194493453484 34.674621979827506 -114.56837093453483tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-59854226146674940732014-01-20T16:02:00.000-08:002018-02-18T17:06:10.957-08:00Saddling Up the Horse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">It says there have been 34 visitors to my blog so far today and that is amazing as nothing has posted in almost a month. Like everyone I was busy with the holidays. January is an odd one. Welcoming it as a fresh start I try to sort through any files from the previous year both paper and digital to be ready for taxes, have a clean and orderly desk with room in it (!), and a tidy computer with fresh files for the New Year. That is the ideal anyway. I try to have a life in addition to all that but do hope by the end of the month I’ll be ready to rock 2014. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">After Christmas<em> Our Ohio Pioneers</em> and the stacks of books had been sent off to family. My copy was still in pieces and there was a very messy guest/assembly room to reclaim. The door was closed on the mess. As of this morning it is accomplished. The book is on the shelf and the room looks great. Guests are welcome once more. So, what’s next? <br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">The book, or rather workbook, is a work in progress. The introduction promised that more information on each of our families would be added every month. "Welcome to the family of the month club!" reminiscent of the fruit of the month, wine of the month, etc. This month it's time to finish the Cullins family of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskingum_County,_Ohio" target="_blank">Muskingum County, Ohio</a>. What fascinating stuff! I’ve run into references to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon" target="_blank">Melungeons</a>, a mixed-race group of mysterious origin from Appalachia, mention of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia" target="_blank">Jamestown</a>, and even <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/08/AR2007050801310.html" target="_blank">John Smith and Pocahontas</a>. Good grief, maybe there were vampires back there as well! (Okay, just kidding. If you haven't followed the <em>Twilight </em>series that comment makes no sense at all.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Are any of these related to my family? I don’t know yet, but what interesting possibilities they present. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There's still a lot of work to be done. Of all the Ohio pioneer families we had this Cullins family is most like the one depicted in Conrad Richter’s <a href="http://underthegables.blogspot.com/2011/03/awakening-land-trilogy-by-conrad.html" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Awakening Land</i> Trilogy</a>. They entered Ohio very early and carved out a homestead in the wilderness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">So folks, that’s where I’m at. Just saddling up the horse for a ride through the year. (No, not a literal horse, that beauty at the top of the page isn't mine. I snapped a photo of him while working on <a href="http://sandyhikes.blogspot.com/2009/10/have-you-been-to-daley-ranch-this-is.html" target="_blank">Sandy Hikes San Diego</a>, at the lovely and rugged <a href="http://daleyranch.org/" target="_blank">Daley Ranch</a> near <a href="http://www.escondido.org/" target="_blank">Escondido, CA</a>. Two riders were ready to go up one of the many trails best accessed on horseback. Looking further into these Ohio families will be an interesting journey, and it brings up the desire, once again, to travel to Ohio. Today the <a href="http://trekohio.com/" target="_blank">TrekOhio </a>website posted on Facebook a fabulous winter hike. Check it out! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<br />aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com5Southern California33.093380900000014 -117.2380485595348331.389331900000013 -119.81983555953484 34.797429900000012 -114.65626155953483tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-7662880264368059392013-12-26T11:03:00.000-08:002018-02-18T17:12:56.918-08:00Wrapping It Up<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">For decades, since I first read them, I had an idea. That idea was to share <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awakening_Land_trilogy" target="_blank"><em>The Awakening Land</em></a> trilogy with my family; and to develop a family history library of literature that was reminiscent of our family experience. The Luckett family is a fictional composite but their experiences, culture, and life represent our many families who moved into Ohio in the early days, shortly after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territory" target="_blank">Northwest Territory</a> was divided. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">For Christmas of 2012 the family library idea kicked off, not with the early 19<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup> century, but with <span style="color: #221801;"><a href="http://elizabethchadwick.com/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Chadwick’s</a> two historical novels: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marshal,_1st_Earl_of_Pembroke" target="_blank">The Greatest Knight</a></i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Scarlet Lion. </i>Unlike <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Richter" target="_blank">Conrad Richter’s</a> Ohio trilogy these weren’t fictional characters but fictionalized accounts of real people on our family tree – Sir William Marshall and his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_de_Clare,_4th_Countess_of_Pembroke" target="_blank">Lady Isabel deClare</a> who lived in the 12<sup>th</sup> and early 13<sup>th</sup> centuries. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These five books, plus the two genealogies I’ve put together make a seven volume start to that family history library for my children and grandchildren. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #221801; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">The 2013 experience also included blog posts that documented my Internet journey into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio" target="_blank">Ohio</a>. This is how the blog post started back on <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Here we are the day after Christmas. That is 54 blog posts and close to 40 books into the mail to the family – including my own self-published workbook. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">As in any huge project, there were changes from the initial idea. I realized that sending all four books at Christmas would be overwhelming to readers busily involved with the holidays and the toys they’d just unwrapped. They needed more time to read and digest the books. The trilogy, individually published as The Trees, The Fields, and The Town, to my dismay had slipped out of publication and pulled from library shelves. It seems I was just in the nick of time. Our libraries are less and less repositories for literature of the ages and more and more shelf space for current best sellers. I had to scour the country via Amazon, <a href="http://abebooks.com/" target="_blank">Abebooks</a>, and other sources to find all the copies I needed – each part of the story becoming more and more expensive. In fact, I’m sure my searching for so many of these hard to find books pushed up the price in the used book market. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">By October I had all the copies of The Trees I needed. It was the easiest to find as it, at one time, was read in mid-western schools as part of the curriculum. Since they were early Christmas presents, they were wrapped in pretty paper and tied up with ribbon and off they went to their various homes. The Fields, more scarce in the marketplace, was wrapped and ready to send before Thanksgiving. The Town, for which Richter received the <a href="http://www.pulitzer.org/" target="_blank">Pulitzer Prize</a>, was the most costly. It is available in more recent publication but expensive and difficult to find in its original version. I’d heard that the story was compromised somewhat by being edited for a modern audience. I didn’t read multiple versions to test this out, but bought the older versions if I could come up with the asking price. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">With The Town wrapped and ready to go in December that meant I had the daunting task of finishing, editing, printing, and packaging my Ohio book. After doing the Ohio and 18 county histories and designing and setting up the framework for the actual genealogy I realized it was humanly impossible to include all of the family information. The best I could do was add the information I’d gathered on the Cullins family – that pioneering group I was working when I started the Ohio project. So, the book morphed from a complete and bound book to a workbook-in-progress placed in a ring-binder. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Finishing up that huge project was one of the most intense, difficult, and rewarding I’ve attempted. I was happy with the result and hope that it will be, at least eventually, loved and appreciated by each family that received it. In the end it was exactly as it should be – a work in progress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the months of 2014 I will be adding the pioneer families to each of the counties and sending them on to be added to their ring-binders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short order, the smaller ring-binder will have to be replaced with a larger version. You know those gifts people send – the wine of the month, the fruit of the month. This will be the family of the month!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">During the year, in addition to these books and the blog, I read <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hooven_Santmyer" target="_blank">Helen Hooven Santmyer’s</a> (1895-1986) <em>Ohio Town</em>, her autobiographical memoir of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenia,_Ohio" target="_blank">Xenia, Ohio</a>. Although we had no family in Xenia it is representative of the development and growth of Ohio towns and is an amazing read that incorporates the memories of her grandmother, mother, and her generations. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope one day to make it there!<o:p></o:p></span></span>aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-32359254157108428782013-11-23T09:35:00.003-08:002018-02-18T17:19:47.353-08:00November 22, 1963<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I perched on edge of the seat pouring over my notes – a left-hander
in a right handed desk. I’d done okay in high school speech but this was a class
of nearly 100<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sophomore wanna-a-be
speech pathology and education majors – and I didn’t ‘wanna be’ there, or a
teacher, or a speech therapist. I was a foreigner among homies in
Lincoln, Nebraska. Three months earlier I married my Freshman-year sweetheart
and gave up my political science major and dreams of Foreign Service. I couldn’t
expect my husband to follow me around the world. No, instead I’d follow him
into ‘the wild blue yonder’ as an Air Force wife. Crazy, right? I have no excuse
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It was November 22 to be precise. The young professor
who, on another day, purposely embarrassed me in front of this class for
mispronouncing a word (My pioneering Iowa family hadn’t picked up the fine
distinction between ‘jist’ and ‘just.’ ) was looking over her list of speakers
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A girl wrenched open
the door and 100 heads swiveled toward her as she yelled -- “The President’s been shot!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was not something that happened in the
United States, at least, not in modern times, so the 200 eyes blinked in
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“No, it’s true. This
isn’t an Oklahoma joke.” were her exact words. It was football season and our
annual rivalry with Oklahoma U was super-charged by the bonfire rally on the night
before. Go Huskers! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">If it wasn’t an Oklahoma joke then it must be true.
President Kennedy was shot! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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whispered and wondered if he lived or died, it was obvious that Fräulein professor was<strong> </strong>an irritated-at-the-interruption
Republican. Believe it or not President Kennedy was not universally popular,
his reelection was not a shoo-in. I was stunned. My folks were citizens of
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We heard the classrooms around us being dismissed and
then thundering through the halls and down the steps, leaving us in a building as quiet
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could almost hear the turret of a Nazi tank turn as her finger found a name and
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aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com4Lincoln, NE, USA40.806862 -96.68167900000003140.6145425 -97.004402500000026 40.999181500000006 -96.358955500000036tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-22648394708539808852013-11-11T17:34:00.001-08:002018-02-18T17:24:57.746-08:00Thoughts on Veterans Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Considering that we have a large number of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers" target="_blank">Quaker ancestors </a>who, because of their religious conviction, did not practice war (although they were often on the front lines with the <a href="http://www.redcross.org/" target="_blank">Red Cross</a> or participated in other ways), we have a large number of veterans who served well and proudly and made sacrifices so that we could live under this government in this land happily and well. America has been good to all of our families who immigrated here between 1600 and 1850. And, through their sacrifices they have made this our land. I believe we have been represented in every war from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War" target="_blank">French and Indian</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" target="_blank">Vietnam</a>. So far our younger generations emulate their Quaker forebears in not joining the military or practicing war in <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/persian-gulf-war" target="_blank">Iraq</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–present)" target="_blank">Afghanistan</a>. Regardless, we owe a great deal to those who keep us safe.<br />
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A word about those who also serve. My first husband was an <a href="http://www.af.mil/" target="_blank">Air Force</a> officer. It follows that I was an Air Force wife. Not only did he serve at various domestic stations – he was in Vietnam. The Vietnam War had a huge impact on my life and, as things flow on down, on the children. My mother’s life was turned upside down by WWII. Consider my grandparent’s worry and anguish when Pearl Harbor was bombed – their son was station there. Consider the worry of my widowed grandmother when her only child’s ship was sunk in a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Cobra" target="_blank"> typhoon</a>. The cost of war is also carried by the loved ones of military personnel. Simply put, our lives would have been different if they hadn’t been in the military. Military spouses and other family members also serve and we salute you! <br />
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My brother attended West Point and served in the <a href="http://www.army.mil/" target="_blank">Army</a>. During <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/648813/World-War-II" target="_blank">WWII</a> my father was an Army officer who served in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Theater_of_Operations_United_States_Army" target="_blank">European theater</a>. Uncle Wayne was a <a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/download/ww2-6.pdf" target="_blank">Navy pilot</a>. My mother worked at the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_Army_Ammunition_Plant" target="_blank"> Iowa Army Ammunition Plant</a> – a dangerous job building and packing shells. My step-mother was an Army nurse. My step-father was in the Navy floating in a life raft in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean_theatre_of_World_War_II" target="_blank">Pacific</a> (as well as other war-time duties). My paternal grandfather held the lowly rank of <a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gregkrenzelok/veterinary%20corp%20in%20ww1/wagonerduties.html" target="_blank">wagoner</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" target="_blank">WWI</a> (he was a farm boy who could handle a team of horses.) but his job all over bloody<a href="http://www.historvius.com/ww1-battlefields-in-france/fr97" target="_blank"> France</a> was as a wagoner/corpsman – he had a wagon and therefore he picked up the dead and wounded as well as trying to help those dying of disease.<br />
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My mother’s brother Weldon signed up for the Navy at 17 and made a career of it. He survived <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor" target="_blank">Pearl Harbor</a> and was on duty during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War" target="_blank">Korean War</a>. We have ancestors aplenty who served in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" target="_blank">Civil War</a> almost exclusively in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Army" target="_blank">Union Army</a>. We had family in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812" target="_blank">War of 1812</a>, the <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/intro.html" target="_blank">Spanish American War</a>, and many who participated in the <a href="http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/" target="_blank">Revolution</a> mostly on the American side. Some of our German ancestors fought for the British but were welcomed to stay here after the war. <br />
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With all those and many more I’m sure there are some fascinating or horrifying tales to tell. Of course we have stories – we are the survivors. All those wasted lives . . . all those who died are not telling stories; and since they were mostly young – have no descendants to carry on. The world was forever altered because they left before their time. So, as we salute those who protect and serve let’s all look to the day when, like the Quakers, we can practice war no more. In the meantime, we are thankful for our military forces.<br />
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God Bless our Veterans and their families.<br />
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Follow this link for more awesome Veterans Day posters:<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/gallery.asp" target="_blank">http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/gallery.asp</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It happens every year. I love <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn" target="_blank">autumn</a>, I’m going full-speed ahead, sailing before the wind, and then the wind dies and I’m dead in the water. All those things I have to do, all those things I was working busily and happily on are still there. I should be sailing at 30 knots because I gained an hour. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9HKGgV59m8w/Un5jlNxcSqI/AAAAAAAAGsw/bQ1u94CH6PM/s1600/priceclock+cu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9HKGgV59m8w/Un5jlNxcSqI/AAAAAAAAGsw/bQ1u94CH6PM/s1600/priceclock+cu.jpg" width="175" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Wait a minute! It feels like I lost two. I’m slightly out of whack and still trying to get all those things on my list done but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" target="_blank">Daylight Savings Time</a> has disappeared! I don’t know why the spring forward doesn’t bother me; but the change that falls back doesn’t make any sense – can’t we just adopt Daylight time as permanent? It gets dark way too early and my <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Internal+clock" target="_blank">internal clock</a> doesn’t make the shift easily. Of course, Beatrice doesn’t know anything about man tinkering with time so she still on doggie Daylight Savings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully I'll adjust and the wind will kick up soon as I have a ton of things to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Don’t you? We’re in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_and_holiday_season" target="_blank">holiday season</a>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been working on the book but in a scattered way. It is being accomplished a bit at a time. Glitch – I didn’t print, or have pages printed in order so there was no way to machine collate. I have been building the 10 books by hand. I’m looking at it as meditative time in which (and here’s the good part) I’m not sitting in a chair. The pages are spread in piles on a queen-sized bed and I’m moving around and around it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it’s not cardio but at least I’m moving. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m at the confusing part. Which charts do I want to include and where? Still they are near complete. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The biggest part of the last week or two has been working on<u><span style="color: #000120;"> ancestry.com</span></u> to complete all the family information I want to include (and this is just for one county) – the details for each person, such as relationship – “this is your 6<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> great grandfather.” Or making sure I have all the dates. Are all the children listed with the family? You think you have it all until you go back and. . .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s always work to be done and it can be repetitive and a bit tedious. Still, there is a nice feeling when the record is as complete as you can get it. Is it accurate? I did the very best I could with the time and information available. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Overall, the book is shaping up nicely. Here’s the rub. Only a small portion of it will be ‘somewhat’ complete before it is time to send it off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not humanly possible to complete it by Christmas. My book is turning into a workbook – an outline to be filled in over time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, I’m happy with that. Ohio is there in all its glory and the counties set up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m concentrating on one family in Muskingum County and will spend the first several months of 2014 adding the rest of the families. It gives me time to make the record as complete as possible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It’s the weekend and gloriously beautiful. Time to get out in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_County,_California" target="_blank">San Diego</a> sunshine!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photo: Price Center UCSD; flag & sun - Sandra Barber</span> aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com2San Diego, CA, USA32.7153292 -117.1572550999999931.8613702 -118.44814859999998 33.5692882 -115.86636159999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-47991776891573052382013-10-25T08:46:00.001-07:002016-09-20T09:50:54.444-07:00Ellipsis . . . <br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yrE_6fyAsE4/UmqMsDDN2oI/AAAAAAAAGco/ZAubziFLyo0/s1600/rails_tguide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yrE_6fyAsE4/UmqMsDDN2oI/AAAAAAAAGco/ZAubziFLyo0/s1600/rails_tguide.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">What’s next . . .? It was August 2012 when I launched this
blog with a family history focus. After 20 posts – a mixed-bag of stuff – and one
year later in August 2013, with the post “18 or 5 to 2” the blog rolled into a
new purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
was my venture into exploring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio" target="_blank">Ohio</a> - the Christmas book project (and by the way a new diet and healthier lifestyle). It was like riding the rails - rolling through a foreign, and yet American, land. I was an Internet hobo
tumbling off the train into 19 counties to see what they had to offer that
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">If you go back to look at “18 or 5 to 2” scoot to the bottom
and ramp up <a href="http://www.chicagotheband.com/" target="_blank">Chicago</a> singing “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25_or_6_to_4" target="_blank">25 or 6 to 4</a>” – music to
read by. Having looked at the counties (I’d say fair sampling) in 22 posts it
was time to hitch a ride on a small plane </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"> and take an over-view of Ohio itself.
Since I was the visitor it seemed best to let Ohioans speak, and the next 13
posts feature Ohio as shown to us by the creative folks on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/" target="_blank">YouTube</a> who live in
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I loved the YouTubes so much I wish I could keep
going with them . . . but it is off purpose. The 20 pages (19 counties, plus
Ohio) have been designed, written, printed and collated for the book and it’s time to move
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">You know what is wonderful about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_phases_of_a_big_project" target="_blank">big projects</a>? You don’t
have to know it all at the beginning. You have an idea, you get started . . .
and what to do is revealed as you go. I’m a late-bloomer.
It took me a long time to learn this. I wonder how many great things I’ve
not accomplished because when the idea came it seemed too overwhelming. I didn’t have a clue “how to do
that.” I’d be stymied or discouraged. The truth is, though, that
you don’t need to know how to do it all at once, you only need to take the
first step. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Embrace that big idea and know you can . . . then start taking baby steps and
the way opens up. We’re not alone. God, or the Universe, or the higher power
(whatever your view on this) provides and all you need is to be open and receive
those nudges, Ah Ha moments and quiet inspirations that move your mountain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So, what’s next for me is all about family . . . part one of
‘the Christmas project’ has been mailed . . . part two goes out in November . .
. and part three in December. As in all genealogy – it won’t be finished, but
we’ll reach a new beginning . . . </span><br />
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aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com0California, USA33.163319531613425 -117.1811095381393726.445147031613423 -127.50825803813936 39.881492031613426 -106.85396103813937tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-79492144253506398582013-10-19T15:44:00.001-07:002018-02-18T17:41:53.455-08:00Amherst - Quintessential Ohio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It’s Saturday. There's a demonstration show this weekend and the next at t<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">he </span><em><a href="http://www.agsem.com/" target="_blank">Antique Gas and Steam Museum</a></em> down the road. If I can make good progress on the Ohio genealogy book this coming week maybe I’ll switch blogs and dig out my camera to experience and share those noisy behemoths. I’ve lived here a long time and have never been to this unique museum. The weather is so beautiful – shame on me for sitting at the computer! Time to rev-up my old blog - <a href="http://sandyhikes.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://sandyhikes.blogspot.com/</a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I’m wrapping up the third segment of Aquila’s Orchard – or to carry the metaphor -- that’s three acres of trees in the form of blogs posts. That isn’t too far-fetched. Each post in a blog is like a living organism. It acquires edits and comments and photos and songs. It can move people and be read around the world. What an amazing time to be living. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The first ‘acre’ of Aquila’s Orchard demonstrated the purpose of the blog – which is family history. The break-ground posts were a mixed bag but it is obvious that they were steering me toward Ohio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have three early posts concerning my Robb family, who lived in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadiz,_Ohio" target="_blank">Cadiz, Ohio</a>. That first section ended with the random choice of <a href="http://aquilasorchard.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-museprompted-me-to-write-about.html" target="_blank">Sir William de Tancarville</a> who lived from 1070-1129. He had a relationship with the Marshall family from my last year's Christmas project. I knew I could be endlessly random and needed a purpose for this Christmas. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">That second acre was started in June with entry “Ohio Pioneers” – I’d found my focus. And, that acre is chock-full of Ohio counties. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acre number three is nearly filled with the best of Ohio YouTubes – they have been great fun. I’ve saved these two for last as they are up-beat and seem quintessentially Ohio – small towns and gatherings of good, fun loving, artistic, and sometimes reverent people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The residents of the small <a href="http://amherstohio.org/" target="_blank">City of Amherst</a>, not far from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Erie" target="_blank">Lake Erie</a> and <a href="http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/CityofCleveland/Home/Visitors" target="_blank">Cleveland</a> got together to do what they called a “lip dub video” to promote their lovely town. A good portion of the town's residents skips, dances, and lip-syncs their way through the streets to a couple of oldies but goodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The video is a bit long in order to</span> include everyone who wanted to be a part this great community project and well worth the few minutes to watch it. The love, enthusiasm and joy in celebrating their hometown touches me and moves me. I watch the credits, backed up by Elvis, while mopping up tears and blowing my nose. They made me smile and want to visit Amherst – The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandstone" target="_blank">Sandstone</a> Center of the World.</span></div>
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Amherst Ohio Lib Dub<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The second video is one of several that points out the good and bad of Ohio. The side bar on the right includes the depressing "The 10 Worst Cities in Ohio Explained." Say it isn't so Ohio!</span><br />
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Top 10 Facts About Ohio<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Top 10 Facts About Ohio, Nick Uhas, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QicVbTTz9nI</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Amherst Ohio Lib Dub, Main Street Amherst, YouTube, </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IslkfUQa3Ic"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IslkfUQa3Ic</span></a><br />
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"English Carols" by <span class="fn" id="creator"><bdi><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikiphoros_Lytras" title="en:Nikiphoros Lytras"><span style="color: black;">Nikiphoros Lytras</span></a></bdi></span><span style="color: black;"> (1832–1904), Wikipedia</span></span>aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com4Amherst, OH, USA41.3978217 -82.22237740000002841.350180200000004 -82.303058400000026 41.4454632 -82.141696400000029tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-83836958221155196232013-10-18T07:31:00.001-07:002016-09-20T00:57:06.578-07:00Lovin' Ohio from the outside in. . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">If you are new to the blog here’s a brief summary – it is a genealogy blog currently focused on our Ohio pioneers. I'm an outsider. <a href="http://consumer.discoverohio.com/#" target="_blank">Ohio</a> was pretty much a blank slate for me, as I grew up in <a href="http://www.traveliowa.com/" target="_blank">Iowa</a> and live in <a href="http://www.visitcalifornia.com/" target="_blank">California</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">What an adventure! Ohio is a beautiful land filled with creative, talented Americans who love their country, their villages and cities, their townships and counties – and most of all their state. When they leave it they pine for it, when they are home they cheer for it. The last eleven posts have featured YouTube videos of Ohioans showing off and singing about their state – with honesty – both the good and the bad. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only Ohioans sing about the place. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here are two Ohio songs that rock from <a href="http://www.australia.com/" target="_blank">Australia</a> and <a href="http://www.traveltex.com/" target="_blank">Texas</a>! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">If you haven't heard of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KINGSWOODmusic" target="_blank">Kingswood</a> from Australia you will. They are heading our way. Love the way they rock. That lead singer - whoa! he's fabulous! </span></div>
Kingswood - "Ohio"<br />
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Probably everyone in the world heard this next song before I did. It's great fun. <br />
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Ohio (Come Back to Texas) - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_for_Soup" target="_blank">Bowling for Soup</a>, with video by Amy Taylor<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ohio by Kingswood, YouTube by Cascket1, </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CXyYyXMQcA"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CXyYyXMQcA</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ohio (Come Back to Texas), YouTube, Bowling For Soup, video by Amy Taylor, </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45DFVyriVI0"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45DFVyriVI0</span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When I sorted the list of Ohio videos and grouped them into loose categories the first two in this post belonged together – they are a fit. They are both murder songs, both folk songs, both sad and melancholy. Both of them are set on the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banks_of_the_Ohio" target="_blank">Banks of the Ohio</a>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now for their differences. . . <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It is doubtful that they would have the same audience. The first is an old folk ballad that has been done by every performer imaginable. It probably appeals to an older more traditional crowd. After seeing a myriad of videos of this song I've decided that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Pride" target="_blank">Charlie Pride</a> did it best for me. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The second song will probably appeal to a younger audience with eclectic tastes. It hasn't been recorded by a zillion performers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is modern and edgy and echoes the older song, bringing the murder folk ballad up to date, without being a copy. It may be that when ‘Banks’ was first sung it was thought of as shocking, weird, and quirky. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<em>Banks of the Ohio</em> by Charlie Pride, 1968<br />
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<em>Cursing the Ohio</em> by Matt King, 2009<br />
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This last video is one I almost didn't include as the two above make a nice set. Yet, this one fits in with its melancholy. Like the other two it is very Ohio. It is young and wistful and homesick. The song is dedicated to those who have lost their jobs and had to move away from their beloved state to pursue their dreams. This reminds me so much of the songs my beloved wrote and sang so sweetly with his guitar, and it has a graphic element he would've liked. . .it leaves an ache. . .<br />
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<em>Ohio</em>, by Jeff Davidson and Friends, 2013<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>Banks of the Ohio</em>, </span><a class="g-hovercard yt-uix-sessionlink yt-user-name " data-name="watch" data-sessionlink="feature=watch&ei=jvFfUuenFIHxkgL35ICIAw" data-ytid="UCn5cDWbP_1oZRNOMq6yUzZw" dir="ltr" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Tsukikage726?feature=watch"><span style="color: black; font-size: xx-small;">Tsukikage726</span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">, YouTube, Apr 2011, by Charlie Pride (1968)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>Ohio</em> - Original Song, Jeff Davidson, YouTube, May 2013, by Jeff Davidson and Friends.</span>aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com1North America38.700830690894421 -84.48915425000001332.493909690894419 -94.81630275 44.907751690894422 -74.16200575000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-80055866462801695812013-10-15T08:57:00.001-07:002018-02-18T20:59:10.120-08:00Snippets of Snow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I grew up in <a href="http://www.traveliowa.com/" target="_blank">Iowa</a>. And, in Iowa, like <a href="http://www.ohio.gov/" target="_blank">Ohio</a>, we know snow, we know deep-drifting snow, we know blowing snow, we know dry powder, and wet snow. In Iowa we know slush and brown, dirty snow, and pristine fields of white. We know sledding and ice skating on a frozen pond, and trees bowed down with icicles. We know snow-ball fights, snow angels and building a snowman. We even know about gliding while cuddled with a loved one in a horse drawn sleigh. <br />
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Snow can't be left out of an homage to Ohio, right? It is still there every winter for the people who didn’t leave. There are plenty of snow videos on the Internet. Most are amateur and long but they are fun if you watch part of it - a snippet. I viewed a lot of them and I’m posting a few of the best here.</div>
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I definitely recommend watching all of the video by GoBucks812 in the fan tribute to the Ohio State band. I love the finish! The others I’ll put links to so that you can watch snippets of them. There are a couple by rail fans – huge rumbling trains in snow are cool and I’m sure those die-hard rail fans are downright cold. The last one is snow tubing. The front section of the video shows quite an expensive piece of equipment preparing the snow lanes for tubing. After you take a look at that you may want to scoot forward and watch the actual tubing. That looks like great fun! Ohioans – the snow will be coming soon and I hope you enjoy the white stuff and make lovely videos without freezing your fingers, toes, and noses off!<br />
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aquilagoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14889564635066610965noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2199261535882127405.post-6320046016744728582013-10-14T10:13:00.002-07:002018-02-18T21:00:05.728-08:00Kent State Crosby Stills Nash and Young<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">If you were less than nine years old in 1970, or not yet on planet earth you can’t know the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" target="_blank">Vietnam era</a> in your gut or reverberating through your body and soul in memory. You can know facts and figures, you can approximate but you cannot come near. The division in this country over the war was palpable and painful – like a broken heart beating out of rhythm in the same body.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"></span> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Out of that brokenness, in the heart of America, came a terrible tragedy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today’s children raised on violent entertainment and inured by mad killers with guns cannot know this ingenuous time when the unthinkable happened when young people on a college campus protesting the war, as it was being protested all over the land, were fired on by other young people from the <a href="http://www.ong.ohio.gov/" target="_blank">Ohio National Guard</a>. The tragedy was on both sides, that sick feeling of horror -- that ‘not in America’ that ‘not in Ohio’ -- and moved us together toward an end of the war. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">For those of you that don’t know, the ‘<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings" target="_blank">Kent State Shootigns’</a> took place at<a href="http://www.kent.edu/" target="_blank"> Kent State University</a> in <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/07/portage-county-ohio-fracking-waste-disposal-capital-midwest" target="_blank">Portage County</a> in northeastern Ohio in the small <a href="http://www.kentohio.org/" target="_blank">city of Kent</a>. Kent is not far from <a href="http://www.akronohio.gov/" target="_blank">Akron</a>, and in easy driving distance is <a href="http://www.conservancyforcvnp.org/" target="_blank">Cuyahoga Valley National Forest</a> and <a href="http://www2.ohiodnr.gov/" target="_blank">West Branch State Park</a> – a lovely college town with much to recommend it and this one tragic event that marks this spot on the map forever and gives us the determination – never again.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">For the past few days I’ve woken up with this song playing in my head, reminding me that it is time to post Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young’s unforgettable song about this horrible moment in Ohio’s history. </span><br />
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Here is another great Vietnam era song from Buffalo Springfield in 1967, a prophetic precursor to the song above. <br />
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