Norms Bait and Tackle

Marilyne · April 27, 2025, 11:56:47 PM

Hi Bubble, it sounds like Mary Page's daughter will help her forward the picture. It will probably come to you or Patricia.

so_P_bubble · April 28, 2025, 03:03:12 AM

Thanks Marilyne.
I edited your previous post to remove the emails - for security reasons: emails are visible to members only in our profile.

CallieOK · April 28, 2025, 11:06:37 AM

Good idea! I don't think very many posters realize that ANYONE IN THE WORLD CAN READ POSTS! YOU ONLY HAVE TO REGISTER SO YOU CAN POST! (Yes, I "shouted" by using all capital letters!!!!!)

That's the reason I do not use my last name nor exactly where I live.

Marilyne · April 28, 2025, 11:45:44 AM

Thanks Bubble. I thought our Member list at the top of every page, was public, and available to anyone looking in? Thanks for letting me know.

Ciaobella · April 29, 2025, 03:10:44 PM

MaryPage, how nice of your daughter Becky to fly in to take care of you. You both must be enjoying looking back through the photo albums. Hope you are feeling better soon.

Speaking of photo albums, I have so many I have put together over the 54 yrs. my hubby and I have been married. Then of course digital picture taking came along so I saved my pics from the camera to CDs, and now I am using USB drives. I post a lot on Facebook so the kids and grandkids can see them and also save whichever ones they want. Years ago, I bought a 1-ton gigabyte external drive to transfer all my digital pictures to for safe keeping and one day I went to pull the pics up and lo and behold they would not upload. Same thing just happened recently with a USB stick I placed pictures on. What a huge disappointment it was when I got the message it could not load. I hope to take it into a computer shop and see if they can retrieve my pictures. Nothing beats a good ole physical photo album.

Bubble, thank you for shouting out the fact everything we post here can be seen by anyone who registers here.

Denver · May 01, 2025, 11:45:25 AM

🌷🌹 HAPPY MAY DAY 🌹🌷

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Wishing you ALL a wonderful day.

Marilyne · May 02, 2025, 12:17:10 PM

Good Morning to everyone. Seems like a long time since I posted, but just feels that way, because I've been sidetracked with a reaction to my second shingles vaccination. Today is Day #3, and I think I'm finally getting back to normal. In spite of these few days of misery, from the shot, it's far far better than a case of shingles at our age! I put off getting the vaccine, thinking I was protected because I had a mild case of shingles about 20 years ago. Not so! You have to get the vaccine, or you're vulnerable.

Ciaobella, I can relate to your comments on the old photo albums from the past, as compared to the new digital pictures of today. My mother put together old black and white "snapshot" albums, starting when she was a teen in the 1920's. She went to work right after high school, and the first thing she purchased for herself, was a good camera. It took beautiful pictures, and I still have all the albums that the put together starting in the 1930's, and up until she passed away in 1975. I tried to follow her example, but I was never as well organized, and unfortunately I have boxes of photos that were never named or dated.

Our older daughter is active in Ancestry.com, so she is interested in the past, and the people, and is doing a good job of following her grandmother's example.

patricia19 · May 02, 2025, 03:11:56 PM

Marilyne, I also had signed up for ancestry.com a number of years ago and received a shock. The Irish ancestry my entire maternal side of the family held dear and close to their hearts was only eleven percent!

The family is mainly Northern European which includes Scotland, Belgian, Luxembourg, Northern Germany and the Netherlands. Out of that, we're basically from the Netherlands and then Belgian. The minute Irish portion is probably lessened in later generations. I'm grateful she didn't live to hear about that.

My paternal side is mainly Scottish and Welsh, with a little English, twelve percent, thrown in. The Scottish clan was a Black Watch clan, which at the time were law enforcers. I have a kilt from a relative, sent when I was five. It's black with green and a thin green line at the base. If I'm remembering correctly.

I still get emails from them about further refining my percentages and more traits, and other teasers to bring me back in. So, far, I've held out, but one of my cousins is also in Ancestry, his mother was my mother's sister.

My maternal cousin, Ann, had sent a CD of family photos going back to derrugotypes. Times when whole families lined up looking very solemn and a touch angry for prosperity. She also matched up many grave photos and this CD included those past generations from pre-civil war to my generation. Unfortunately, no one has gone further. But, I'm beyond grateful that she compiled, produced, and mailed them out to those who wished a copy.

I'm also glad you mentioned your second shingles shot, but sorry for your bad reaction; as I had forgotten that my second one is due this month. Not only that, but I had my shingles in the same arm as my RSV shot, and while I had a reaction with some bruising and area inflammation, it went away in about eight days.

Marilyne · May 02, 2025, 07:46:36 PM

Patricia, similar situation here with the Irish ancestry. My father celebrated his Irish heritage, but my DNA share of the Irish was only about 5%. My mother thought she was mostly of Dutch descent, but my share of The Netherlands was also low. My DNA showed over 75% England and Northwestern Europe, which included Scotland at the time I did the test. Ancestry has changed and updated everything, so I'm sure lots of those numbers look different now? I haven't looked in a long time, but will now figure out how to get back in so I have the latest information. That's great that you get updates from your cousin about the constantly evolving changes. Too bad we'll never know the DNA of our parents.

I got my first Shingles vaccination in January, so it's been three full months. We have a six month window to get our second shot. I don't know what the odds are in getting an adverse reaction? My husband and son, got no reaction whatsoever. Our two daughters and daughter-in-law, all got definite reactions.

patricia19 · May 02, 2025, 08:12:14 PM

Marilyne, our parents' DNA is shown and ours is a deviative of theirs. They even showed what parts of my DNA came from what parent. My second shot is due this month, and I'll probably do that on the sixth.

I had four shots on March first, so, it's time to get the second one.

Marilyne · Reply #24160 - Re: Norms Bait and Tackle

Hoping to see a bigger presence in S&F today? Seems like the messages are few and far between over the entire message board this past week? Maybe some of you can join Patricia and me, in talking about t. hings we learned about our families, after joining Ancestry. Lots of interesting facts and surprises when you join! I heard from relatives that I never knew existed! DNA is an amazing science!

Patricia, what I meant to say yesterday about my parents, is that it would be wonderful to be able to click on their Ancestry profiles. My brother too.
If you had four shots on March 1, and didn't have a reaction, then I doubt very much if you will get one this time. That was brave of you to get so many at once.

patricia19 · Reply #24161 - Re: Norms Bait and Tackle

I did have a reaction for eight weeks. A raised bump, warm to the touch, and bruising on my arm.

I did all the shots at once because I had been thinking and debating for some time and finally decided to simply go for it.

My Ancestry DNA showed the relatives who more closely matched my own. One was a cousin, one was his niece, and one was a young man given up for adoption at birth. I also learn that my 11% Irish disappeared because of more advances and more familial DNA from those regions. Yet, some of my family still retained some Irish DNA, although in diminished amounts. This has been huge in a family celebrating Irish roots and backgrounds.

BarbStAubrey · Reply #24162 - Re: Norms Bait and Tackle

Bad week - feeling punky till last night - started Ancestry a couple of years ago and then got wrapped up in moving but still belong - that is an annual fee I've not gotten full benefit from -

Still have boxes of photos to go through - pretty much know where my great grandparents came from - one part of Germany or the other mostly during the early 1800s except for my Mother's Dad's parents who came from Ireland during the famine. Did learn my Father's mother's (my grandmother) father married twice and I did not know that.

Not fun being German during WWII especially the early years - lots of memories that I'd just as soon forget including the FBI taking my Uncle for internment and my father had to get him out - he had served in the Navy during WWI, born here however it was his father that came from Germany - after that my father although 2nd generation registered to be on the safe side - I remember that day when the decision was made - lots of fear and lots of silence but then not sure if that was easy compared to other incidents.

Ok need to turn on the game - the Astros have not been playing as well so far this year - lots of new players and I still have not got them all straight but today a young pitcher Hunter Brown will be on the mound and he is wonderful to watch...

Marilyne · Reply #24163 - Re: Norms Bait and Tackle

Barb, sorry you had a bad week . . . along with me and a few others here in S&F. Spring is my favorite season, but the changeable weather and the pollen blowing around, is hard on us old folks. Every once in a while, a perfectly beautiful day appears, but is usually followed by one that's bleak and windy.

That's a shocking and sad story, about the way your family was treated during the WWII years! So much fear and suspicion at that time. I hope you or your siblings weren't treated poorly at school? Here in California, it was the Japanese families who were under suspicion and surveillance, until they were all rounded up and sent away to the internment camps for the duration. I was about eight years old, but remember well, when one of my school friends was suddenly gone! My mother tried to explain it to me, but it was a hard concept for a child to understand.

Patricia, my closest DNA matches, were mostly people I had never heard of. (Not counting my adult children and granddaughter.) The two with the highest DNA matches were from my Dad's side. I was contacted by quite a few people from both sides. Now that I'm thinking about it again, I'm going to look in later tonight, and maybe send a message to a couple of them that I haven 't heard from in a long time. One of them had a most interesting background story.

I'm still dragging around here, with no energy or appetite, but it's only been three days since my shot so I guess it's to be expected? Soon it will be Fall, we'll have to decide on another round of Covid vaccine, and all the others. It looks like a never-ending cycle?

MaryPage · Reply #24164 - Re: Norms Bait and Tackle

I have never, nor have any of my family on either side, so far as I know or can figure out, sent anywhere else then to Bibles &/or written out by hand or, recently printed out by computer for family dates & names. Mainly, we are Virginians, & we made up the FFV basically. Some of you may join me in that. All of that is starting with my father's side. My mother's kin were up-state New York & Canada, including indiginous from the Mohawk tribe of the Iroquois Nation. I am mighty proud of being A VIRGINIAN, & of all the rest of them, as well & all. /color]]{\b}

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