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Post by hummingbirdstones on Dec 30, 2021 9:31:09 GMT -5
You and Vince are probably related in some way. His 5th great-grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War. His grandfather came from Germany in 1709. Vince is an SAR member. Awesome!!! My Colonial roots are almost all Scots Irish and English. I did the DNA thing with Ancestry and it is exactly on the nose with my research. No mysteries. I jumped for joy when I got the results because it backed up decades of research.
My German side came over right after the Civil War. He was a Reverend who sent over to minister to the German population in the Plain States. My grandfather married into very old Colonial families- the Griffins and Colemans. (My father's mother's side.) My grandmother died young and we never knew much about her. I was asking questions at Rootsweb and got in touch with some long lost family who sent me books - huge books- written about the families. I was so blessed! Vince has Scottish and Irish in his background, too. Went to school with some Colemans and Colemans had property next to his family's land. Too funny.
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Post by rockjunquie on Dec 30, 2021 10:05:13 GMT -5
For records searches, I think the LDS church database is one of the largest anywhere.
It includes the records of anyone's family who has joined the church, since that is one of the requirements. A relative from one branch of our family back east joined the LDS many years ago, and had to do all that research. Another more distant relative wrote a book after retiring from the USAF.
Unfortunately, I have found too much bad information on their site. I don't even go there anymore. Ancestry has most of LDS actual records. I avoid family trees for anything except for hints. I can't even begin to tell you the errors of trees.
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Post by rockjunquie on Dec 30, 2021 10:08:03 GMT -5
Awesome!!! My Colonial roots are almost all Scots Irish and English. I did the DNA thing with Ancestry and it is exactly on the nose with my research. No mysteries. I jumped for joy when I got the results because it backed up decades of research.
My German side came over right after the Civil War. He was a Reverend who sent over to minister to the German population in the Plain States. My grandfather married into very old Colonial families- the Griffins and Colemans. (My father's mother's side.) My grandmother died young and we never knew much about her. I was asking questions at Rootsweb and got in touch with some long lost family who sent me books - huge books- written about the families. I was so blessed! Vince has Scottish and Irish in his background, too. Went to school with some Colemans and Colemans had property next to his family's land. Too funny. My ancestors were Scots Irish. They were unassimilated Scots living in Ireland who were driven to America. Whole different animal. The Scots Irish are a proud group. They would bristle at being called Irish. Most of them settled in Appalachia and the Mid Atlantic states, but a pocket full settled in Maine where my people are from.
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Post by holajonathan on Dec 30, 2021 20:38:03 GMT -5
Good topic, realrockhoundWhat kind of piano music do you play? My top 10 (non-rock) hobbies / interests, in no particular order: 1. Being a slave to my cats 2. Playing the violin and mandolin 3. Vegetable gardening / making compost / propagating and planting trees 4. Finding excuses to digging holes or move dirt around with my little tractor / backhoe 5. Playing with chainsaws and cutting down trees 6. Splitting firewood with an axe 7. Burning wood for heat / wood stove design / modifying wood stoves 8. Reading, especially novels in Spanish 9. Roasting coffee 10. Drinking way too much coffee
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LazerFlash
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Post by LazerFlash on Dec 31, 2021 0:00:43 GMT -5
My sister is in to our family genealogy. I told her when she got to Jesus on the family tree to stop. LOL Good one!
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LazerFlash
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Post by LazerFlash on Dec 31, 2021 0:11:07 GMT -5
That's pretty cool actually. At one point we had our family tree back to when the forefathers landed here. Story goes 4 french brothers on the run from French authorities made their way to the New Americas. When they landed, they changed their last name from Cartier to Carter and went their separate ways. Also, pretty cool!
It's rumored we are related to June Carter Cash. It might almost be worth having a professional genealogist look into it. It's not all that expensive to start a search. Even though 'Carter' is a fairly common surname, if the person is good and ha access the the best resources, they should be able to tell pretty quickly if it's more than just a possibility.
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LazerFlash
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Post by LazerFlash on Dec 31, 2021 0:56:23 GMT -5
This is excellent advice to give Elizabeth, Rockoonz !
Many folks in Ancestry simply copy and include whatever looks good to make their trees bigger without truly digging into things.
Of course, even the best simply make mistakes. Not to go into details, but a semi-professional genealogist who has been at it for decades and has shared a tremendous amount of knowledge and techniques with me, inadvertently published a family tree with a person in the wrong generation.
And, then there was the time early in my researching, that I had to finally admit that for many months, what I thought was a major branch of my family tree wasn't just my grandmother telling the census takers different things every 10 years, (which she was fully capable of doing). The virtual chainsaw finally came out when I realized that no matter how good she was at telling tales, she couldn't possibly have figured out a way to have her sister left out of 3 Federal censuses in a row - including one where my grandmother hadn't even been born, yet.
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Post by Son Of Beach on Dec 31, 2021 8:43:05 GMT -5
A few years ago I used to work with these little ceramic tiles. I had a program that would pixelate a photo you uploaded and then based on the colors of the tiles you were using (I had to take photos of each individual tile color), it would kick out a pixelated after "photo". I made a couple of framed projects including this Calvin and Hobbes and I made a giant 4x4 storm trooper helmet, I think it had over 10,000 tiles to complete it.
I was getting better but the tile plates are only so big and I had to section each piece together to complete the image, you can see where the grout lines are way too thick. I really enjoyed putting it together, kind of like hand crafting a puzzle that you made. Somewhere along the way I just quit doing it, I think my CPU died all together, threw all my tiles together, and made some coasters covered with epoxy that I gave away. Sorry for the potato photos, best I could scrounge up from the archives..... I also really enjoy reading, a passion that I had as a kid that has slowly come back to me the last few years. I tend to splurge in the spring and buy a bunch of books at once. I hope to one day have a little private library for my family and friends. Other than that, I used to run 1/2 marathons and was training for fulls before my knee took a dive, womp. Hike, Kayak, long walks on the beach
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Post by realrockhound on Dec 31, 2021 18:44:08 GMT -5
Good topic, realrockhoundWhat kind of piano music do you play? My top 10 (non-rock) hobbies / interests, in no particular order: 1. Being a slave to my cats 2. Playing the violin and mandolin 3. Vegetable gardening / making compost / propagating and planting trees 4. Finding excuses to digging holes or move dirt around with my little tractor / backhoe 5. Playing with chainsaws and cutting down trees 6. Splitting firewood with an axe 7. Burning wood for heat / wood stove design / modifying wood stoves 8. Reading, especially novels in Spanish 9. Roasting coffee 10. Drinking way too much coffee Started learning classical. Now I can pretty much play whatever. I’m not an amazing pianist by any means, but I can play non the less.
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Post by holajonathan on Dec 31, 2021 19:28:28 GMT -5
A few years ago I used to work with these little ceramic tiles. I had a program that would pixelate a photo you uploaded and then based on the colors of the tiles you were using (I had to take photos of each individual tile color), it would kick out a pixelated after "photo". I made a couple of framed projects including this Calvin and Hobbes and I made a giant 4x4 storm trooper helmet, I think it had over 10,000 tiles to complete it.
I was getting better but the tile plates are only so big and I had to section each piece together to complete the image, you can see where the grout lines are way too thick. I really enjoyed putting it together, kind of like hand crafting a puzzle that you made. Somewhere along the way I just quit doing it, I think my CPU died all together, threw all my tiles together, and made some coasters covered with epoxy that I gave away. Sorry for the potato photos, best I could scrounge up from the archives..... I also really enjoy reading, a passion that I had as a kid that has slowly come back to me the last few years. I tend to splurge in the spring and buy a bunch of books at once. I hope to one day have a little private library for my family and friends. Other than that, I used to run 1/2 marathons and was training for fulls before my knee took a dive, womp. Hike, Kayak, long walks on the beach I see some nice light reading material there, like The Leviathan (Hobbes). It's practically a bedtime story. All I remember from that book (beyond the general arguments) is that man's "state of nature" (no government / organized society) is "poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
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Post by perkins17 on Dec 31, 2021 19:55:56 GMT -5
Other than rocks... That's a tough one! 😂 I like hiking, reading, biking, messing around with instruments, and sports. Rocks are DEFINITELY my top hobby though, besides sleeping! 😏
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Post by Son Of Beach on Dec 31, 2021 20:16:37 GMT -5
holajonathan It would work as a makeshift pillow lol. That one has been holding the shelf down for a couple years. I decided it was not the book I needed at the moment. I think I could dig in these days.
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Post by holajonathan on Jan 1, 2022 1:38:36 GMT -5
holajonathan It would work as a makeshift pillow lol. That one has been holding the shelf down for a couple years. I decided it was not the book I needed at the moment. I think I could dig in these days. I didn't read the book, just some selections in college almost two decades ago. If you're interested in political philosophy, it's a classic!
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Post by Mel on Jan 1, 2022 13:29:22 GMT -5
So many things I *want* to do, but only so much time! Rock stuff, soap making, reading, board games (though not so much since Covid). Built a foundry in the summer but haven't done any metal casting yet. Time with my kids, but that's not so much a hobby as a full time job. Time outdoors rock hunting is my favorite thing to do but since it's been -40C with the wind for the last couple weeks....that's on hold for a few months
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Post by lordsorril on Jan 1, 2022 14:53:33 GMT -5
Aside from snakes, stones, and reptiles in general, I keep iris gardens...I am up 2000+ main plants of 150+ varieties, expecting ~6000 blooms in 2022. When I pick flowers to give to friends/family: it is epic. Some day I will combine my iris flower gardening hobby with my snake photography and make a photo series 'Snakes and Irises'...but, I haven't figured out a photography style I find acceptable with a wide variety of variabilities (shading/angle/color/background)...
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aGates
spending too much on rocks
Building a silver studio
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Post by aGates on Jan 3, 2022 16:31:04 GMT -5
Why not start a new one? Every time someone digs up an old thread a comment gets posted about digging up old dusty threads 🤣 Anyway I love building stuff, most of my lapidary equipment I built or fixed to work again. Long distance motorcycling - too bad there's not more room for rocks! I absolutely love turkey hunting. Nothing like stalking thunder chickens in the spring 👍 realrockhound what other hobbies do you enjoy? I enjoy restoring old cars. However it’s not a strong passion as it’s not necessarily cheap. I do enjoy rock climbing, playing piano, and snowboarding. I have other things I do, however… I would call these, along with the rockhounding, my main hobbies. I fly fish a do a lil bird hunting here and there. But those are activities I share more with my father. im a fly tyer flybfisher and wrestler/ youth wrestling coach.
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Post by Son Of Beach on Apr 9, 2022 14:52:47 GMT -5
Two years ago i discovered for myself paddle boarding. Other than that i have "normal" hobbies - watch movies on my couch and sleeping. What do you do with those binoculars?
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quartz
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Post by quartz on Apr 10, 2022 22:57:51 GMT -5
Something I enjoy other than rocks when the weather is bad. Post drill from an old farm selling out.
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 13, 2022 15:11:04 GMT -5
Besides Lapidary, I enjoy working with wood, collecting music, playing musical instruments, getting a Mandolin this summer, have a guitar, violin, Indian flute and many Harmonicas... Enjoy gardening vegetables and flowers.. Dab a bit in photography and videos...
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rockfrog
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Post by rockfrog on Apr 14, 2022 9:29:40 GMT -5
Cool thread, loving the pictures of everyone's creations I read a little, did pen and ink art for a while, love completing puzzles... But my main hobby (besides rocks) is crocheting. Mostly make little animals and such. closer pictures of the guinea pig from the last picture A whale I made for a friend A lobster
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