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Re: Ancestry.com


Thu 1/7/2021 10:56 PM
Beth,

Thanks for the kind words. But even more, thank you for all you do and have done.
I will keep in touch as I continue with the DNA and other projects. Mostly, I am not doing additional data entry on the tree. It is an endless task, anyway.  Someday, technology will be able to do it more efficiently.
I will send you an updated Flash drive when the eBook gets published. I’m still targeting May 3rd.  I only need one drive returned. And that only if you still have the stuff to send me. I believe my favorite gravesite photographer specializes in flowers?
John, IV
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Re: Genealogy Blog for MyCousins Family Tree Contributors

Mon 1/11/2021 11:58 AM
Becky,
You lovely lady, you are not a bother. That is a word I reserve for myself.  Lol.
It is my pleasure to resend credentials for the MyCousins family tree.  And please don’t worry, I will resend them anytime.
This Facebook stuff was frustrating.  They suspended my account and reactivated it two days later—both actions without explanation.  I plan to drop them, but I hope to have other communication methods before I do so.  You and I have email addresses to keep in touch with, so we are OK. The WeMe blog is a temporary solution for communicating to the MyCousins contributors as a group.  Eventually, I will have a privately hosted blog on a MyCousins.org website along with the eBook.
So, yes, I am working hard.  I have lots to do to get ready for publishing the MyCousins eBook, for which Beth Gamache is my co-author.
I also want to send you a copy of the Flash drive when the eBook gets published. It will have all the source documents, photos, etc. That reminds me, I will need a snail mail address for sending that.  It will be a gift for you to keep. Ideally, you will you the drive to collect your own family memorabilia. Please, and thank you. 🙂
Let me know if you have not got the replacement credentials for the family tree. Ancestry.com sends them, and I can never tell for sure that they get sent. 🙂
Warmest regards,
John, IV
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Re: Genealogy Blog for MyCousins Family Tree Contributors

Mon 1/11/2021 1:15 PM

John,

It’s definitely an undertaking. I truly appreciate all which you and Auntie Beth are doing.

I hope that my nieces and nephews (and now great niece & nephew!) will appreciate all that is being done sometime in the future.

My project, as of late, has been finishing up scanning pictures that I took from my grandparents and trying to label them as best as I can.  My grandmother was not good at all about labeling the back of the pictures.  A lot of pictures I couldn’t even peel off the sticky photo pages!  I will also be downloading all our family pictures to flash drives for my siblings.  Unfortunately, out of us 4 I definitely am the most interested and care about carrying on the family legacy, etc.

Sometimes I am way too over-sentimental and keep too much stuff.  It’s been hard for me since moving to downsize all the stuff I brought with me.  Seriously, do I need to keep that paper copy of my junior high yearbook?

My husband wants to clean out the rest of the ‘garage’ this week with the remaining boxes.  That will be extremely tough because it’s many of our antiques we’ve gotten from family members we don’t have the storage for.  It’s tough because the antique business is so oversaturated, and not enough market for them. If it weren’t for people before us saving stuff like this, we would never have the museums and such.

Much looking forward to delving into what the 2 of you are creating!

All the best -becky

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Re: Genealogy Blog for MyCousins Family Tree Contributors

Mon 1/11/2021 1:46 PM
Becky,
I share your pain.
The garage above is just the tip of our iceberg. Pam has a huge warehouse that costs us over $200 a month. Ouch.  We have three of everything, and if we need something, often, it requires a purchase as we can’t find one of the three we own.
I love my wife!
My goal is to get rid of the warehouse even if the garage takes a hit.  Lol.
My advice is to take pictures of everything and write down its history. 

Otherwise, my story is that everything deserves a good home where it will get used and appreciated. I would give 99% of it away if Pam let me. That is my story, and I’ve preached it for decades without much success. I’ve also made empty “threats” to dispose of things when she is away on trips. Pam and Michelle take trips to Disney in Orlando without me.  I prefer to take care of our two puppies rather than walk 20,000 steps a day. Lol. I have a theory that she won’t know what is gone. There is just so, so much stuff.

Yes, it is hard! There are family things that it’s tough to admit no one wants: Family China, a collection of Toby mugs, Village houses, furniture, etc.

Warmest regards,

John, IV

P.S. I like Christmas ornaments, so I am partially responsible for the hoarding. 🙂

P.P.S. I get results only when I threaten to call the fire department. Lol.

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Gravestone Photos

Tue, Jan 12, 2021, at 3:50 PM
Lisbon Historical Society <lisbonhistsoc@gmail.com> wrote:
Beth,
Here is John Elcik and his wife….

Took photos of all the old unreadable gravestones at St Cyrils…..and then cleaned them up in my program and this  one surely had the death dates. Will try to clean up in the Spring…. – Earl Williams
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Gravesite Photo

Jan 13, 2021, at 5:41 PM
Beth,
That was a tough one for sure… it bothered me for a while … I hate to be beaten!!

I went to the Catholic Church in Lewiston to get the map. They said all cemetery maps are at the St Peters Cemetery office.  Good to know… (We will see.)
If you hadn’t given me the death dates, they probably would never be found…That was about all that was readable…
I always had a hard time taking pictures there as the sun is in the wrong place… It is shining only on one side of the stones, so the other side of the stone gets moldy…
 This cemetery is the only one I know of that the stones face South to North. The Cemetery rule is that your feet face the rising sun (East) and the sunsets behind your head (West)… Didn’t know that, huh????
I did put them in Find A Grave and put obits and linked everyone … The problem arose when the two last generations used their middle name Paul as their first name. Also, even the oldest names all were John P.  (Genealogy nightmare)
Take care………… And stay safe…
Earl Williams, Lisbon Historical Society