THE FAMILY TREE IS BEWILDERING ME

Still searching for my Irish ancestor’s from County Down, Ireland! Starting with Lindsay’s from Seapatrick, Drumnascamp, Lenaderg, Tullylish, Knocknamugkly, Laurencetown, Lisnafiffy,all around the Banbridge area.

I’m hunting down Edmund Hamilton Lindsay born 1888-1953, Jean, or Jane Isabel Clugston, Aaron Lindsay, married to Sarah Jane Austin in Banbridge (not positive of the date, but around the mid 1800’s.

Samuel Lindsay, married to Julia Hanlon who came from Meath, Ireland and also his father James Lindsay who was a tea merchant. His wife was Susan?

Children: Maggie, Jennie, James

 

I don’t have the expensive programs to search these people, so spend many hours on the free Library edition, and as the sign above say’s it’s confusing, bewildering, perplexing, and I’m normally lost in even figuring out how to use the site in the proper way, and searching for Northern Ireland, is even more so!!

Yesterday, Tom and I were downtown and driving down through the main section, I could see the mountains and the water, with the fog, just moving up toward the mountain peaks, as I looked down the side streets and was telling Tom what a beautiful picture it would make, so when we got to Stanley Park, he pulled in for me to take some pictures.

Here’s a few to share with you.

How Vancouver!! Mountains, water and Totem Poles

My goodness, those clouds sure are moving fast!!!

 This is looking toward the North Shore.

 

GOING, GOING….GONE!!!

These Olympic Winter Game rings are on a barge between Vancouver and the North Shore. They are lit up at night and look very pretty. There is talk of a large cruise ship docking nearby for extra room for I believe visitors and for people competing during the games.

 

 

 

Looking toward the Lion’s Gate Bridge and on the far shore, beyond the bridge is where we live.

It sure looks like a dismal dark day, about to rain…and it did!! That’s what it does best here lately!

Where did all the people go that, only a month ago, was full of strollers enjoying the scenery? A little cold looking eh?

Damn birds, keep wanting to get into my pictures!!!

Heading home now, and out of Stanley Park. Description for this is below. 

That was yesterday! Today, we switched our TV, and computer and phone service provider. They came to install this morning, so we now have for a month, every channel available, then we pick our packages. So, what are we watching? Our same show’s we always watch!! However, we thought we’d be saving money from our old program by about $35.00, but they didn’t tell us, that High Density wasn’t included, which we had on the old service. So after a phone call, we add $15.00 a month for HD! They never tell the whole story, just ramble the pitch to us, sounds great, so we nod yes, and now Tom’s favourite TV program from our old provider, isn’t available anymore!!!

Lot’s to watch now, so bring on the popcorn!!

MY LIFE TO DATE

 

 

My big question today is a very familiar one to everyone. WHERE DOES TIME GO????

We've all heard it said. As kids, adults talked about how fast the years were flying by. For us, an hour was an eternity. Now, at the ripe old age of 65, I wonder myself, how does the day begin early, and I crawl out of bed, and I turn around and it’s time to crawl back in again!

All the things I had planned to do, is sitting undone, waiting as it did yesterday! Today, I thought I’m going to accomplish many things, and I look around, and the big box the printer came in, that I was to tear apart and take to the garbage, still sits in the middle of the floor, and now, I’m wondering…I know I filled the washing machine, but did I turn it on? Hold on, I’ll go look and get right back to you!! BRB.

Well, whatta ya know….I did turn it on, and now it’s in the dryer! But I found the cup of tea, I had made for myself,  still sitting in the kitchen, forgotten and not drunk! Oh dear!!

I have no desire to move mountains, construct monuments, or leave behind in my wake material evidence of my existence. But in the final recollection, if the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart... then in living - I have made my mark. -- Thomas L. Odem, Jr.

I think the above is my new motto!! I did take some morning pictures from the balcony I can show you though.

This is the morning fog, looking across the water to Vancouver.

It was a lovely sight with the fog, before the morning sun, (YES SUN, FINALLY) began to burn the fog away.

HEY!

  How do you like these babe’s?

Isabelle, Tom’s sister, gave me this wonderful folk art of these little gals. I’ve always loved them and she knew it, and was going to throw them away, but kindly thought of me, and now they are mine and I love them!!! I need to add some little new feather’s to their hair and some sequins as well, but I think they are so cute. Now, I’m wondering where I’ll put them!

Next blog, I’ll get back to more into the Ancestry finds I’ve made. I been fortunate to have been invited to join a ancestor site, so I better get at it, before I’m kicked off for not even mentioning it!!…Well…I just did!!

I FEEL PUSHED and BEAUTIFUL POETRY

I feel pushed and rushed…why??? I’m retired!! I’m suppose to be relaxed and have all the time in the world!

I can’t even tell you what I feel rushed and pushed about, except to think this is just part of becoming older, having nothing structured in my life, other then the usual, of beginning the day, making the bed, making breakfast, and the everyday normal stuff we do in a day.

 We do the usual visit to the Library a couple times a week, mostly because it’s a nice destination to walk to, enjoy a coffee, read the papers, pick out another load of books to take home, and most likely haul them back again a few days later. Some unread!! I like to have another book handy in case the book I started is a bummer.

Which brings me to the old saying.. “You can’t judge a book by it’s cover!”

What’s consuming my mind lately is this genealogy I’ve got myself knee deep into.

With one click of my computer key, and even after given a choice, I accidently clicked delete and my whole ancestor program with ALL the information was deleted in a blink!! Nope…not backed up!! A lesson learned!! Some information I still have, some I don’t, so have to begin again. I have about 1/3 restored. I also have taken on my Mother’s side of the family tree, but hadn’t started to input information into the ancestry program, thank goodness. But I think the whole “hobby” is beginning to drain me!

Tom said, I need to leave it all alone for awhile and let my taxed brain rest awhile, but it all becomes very addicting and exciting when you come across information or pictures of ancestor’s from long ago and then with that new information, it leads to more hunting and  trying to turn into a bloodhound and track back as far as I can. It’s addicting and so very interesting!!

So, with doing this and wanting to do nothing else but..everything else gets put off, and I suppose that’s why I feel pushed…in my own head!!

Oh the perils of Linda!!!

Right now, at this very moment, we are having something that rarely happens here and that is a lightening storm!

I do miss the Ontario big boomers and lightening, and these one’s here are like  kiddies stuff compared to back home. Just as dangerous, but still nothing like those big boomers that would rock your house and send pets scurrying under a couch or bed. But, we sure have Ontario beat on the amount of rain here! We’ve begun thinking building an ark may not be a bad idea!!

So, to be on the safe side, I still better get off here. I may get a jolt, sitting beside the window on the computer.

I have this wonderful friend, that I met on the computer who was kind enough to help me find some genealogy that I was hunting for. She writes the most fantastic poetry, and she has sent me some of her work, and I can’t believe she can’t find someone to publish her poetry. So, I’ve asked if I could put some on here and to my delight, she said yes!

So, from time to time, I’ll add another poem. I hope you enjoy this one, as I did.

 

A Walk In The Woods

We were only Tiny Tots, it seems

When we learned about the Flowers

And the ones we should never pick

And which ones could be ours

We knew the Trillium was protected

And you had to leave them there

The Government would "Prosecute"....

If ever you would dare

To touch one Purple petal

Or press a White one in a book

They grew for everyone to wonder at

So - we could only look

As their blossoms were so delicate

They took a long, long time

To open for the World to see

So, picking was a "Crime".

They were the "Emblem of Ontario"

And protected by the law

It was a Special Treat to see one

And, we must treat that find, with awe

But Buttercups and Daises

Mother Nature grew for us

We could pick those if we wanted to

As, their seeds were numerous

And Jack "The Preacher", in his pulpit

Was not for us to share

Just look and tip-toe right on by

And leave the "Gentleman, at prayer

But, Columbines and Dandelions

Would grow again real quick

So if we really wanted some

They were okay to pick

But leave the Orchids in the ditch

Don't touch their pretty flowers

They liked their damp and humid home

And did not want to come to ours

Our Mother knew about the toad-stools

Which ones you could not eat

And which ones were really mushrooms

And on toast would be a treat

The Lilies in the Pond were there

Just to look upon in Wonder

Don't go too close - You'll scare the Frogs

And they'll disappear down under

Sometimes, she'd let us bring home

A milk-weed gone to seed

Or a bunch of Pussy-Willows

If we showed a real need

But most flowers of the Forest

We left them where they grew

So they'd be there when we returned

And that was good - We Knew...!

Written By

Barbara Ruth Neish

Bermuda

September 6, 1995

 

How about some nice comments on Barbara’s poetry!

IT’S RAINING, IT’S POURING

I can tell you that I’m not one of these brave souls walking in the rain! The weather here has been raining HARD for a few day now and the wind nearly knocks you off your feet and that takes a mighty strong wind to knock ME off my feet!!

We did venture out this morning though and to our favourite haunt..The Library!!! The have a Ancestry.com that you can use for free, and I had some heavy hunting thanks to another wonderful person named Erin, who has helped me beyond belief in finding ancestor’s, I never thought I’d find, but she is a pro at this and found so much for me! Thank you Erin!!

Last night while working on my “Family Tree Heritage” edition, and filling in some of my Guttin side of the family, and watching TV at the same time, I was trying to repair a mistake I had made awhile ago, which was throwing the whole tree out, when I clicked on the wrong thing, and POOF, it was all gone…the whole dang program! All that work!!!  I had been thinking about 5 minutes earlier, to do a back-up on the program, but it slipped my mind! I have bits and pieces back in now, but not nearly what was there before!! I can be such a dolt!

Through Erin who helped me, I found out that my second cousin, Ian Lindsay who lives near Craigavon in Northern Ireland is also out searching for our family, but he didn’t leave where I could reach him. He was looking for my grandmother, Rachel Lindsay’s mother, Isabella Jane Armstrong, from Seapatrick, Co. Down, Ireland and so am I! She died a few short years after 1899. I met Ian and Wanda Lindsay about 1980 along with his brother William who lives in Portadown, Ireland.

Has anyone ever tried to find a phone number in the UK?? IMPOSSIBLE on the Internet!!!

So, Ian or William, send me a note or sign the guestbook with email address, please!!

Well, folks, that’s it for now. Tom is feeling stronger and better everyday and trying very hard to do more all the time.

Good weather for ducks!

REMEMBRANCE DAY 09 TO GENEALOGY

These are some picture I put into a collage from yesterdays Remembrance Day Service. It was a beautiful, but nippy day, but for once without rain!  I’m not sure, but hopefully once I publish this, you will be able to click  on the small pictures to enlarge them.

Below is Today, Nov. 13/09

The snow on the mountain is here to stay I think. What a beautiful sight. We look at this out our dining room patio door. Can’t get a better view!!

 Last night we had pelting down rain and very high winds. I still don’t have the umbrella and cushions put away from the summer furniture on the deck, but did go out to check if things hadn’t blown away. Just a few flower pots and baskets and the odd thing blown down but not over the deck! The weather really has turned cold and I bought myself a new warm hat for walking, that actually fits my small head and paid for it, tore off the tag and wore it home, I was so cold!

 I had a chuckle at this dog yesterday after people left the service. The road hadn’t been open to traffic yet, but this dog seemed to love having the road all to himself for probably the first time ever. His owner kept calling him and the dog would stand up, and  plunk  himself right back down again. I went over to pet him, and was so sorry I did! What a beautiful and friendly but very stinky animal. It took much soap and scrubbing to get the smell off my hands when I got home.

As most of you likely know, I’ve been into searching for both sides of our family tree, and have mentioned it several times on here, and you will be reading more of it for awhile. I’ve found it is a great tool to find family history, and the other day, I came across a blog site for ancestry with great information on the whole site, that is extremely helpful. I want to mention this site on here, because I’ve been fortunate to be added to theirs. This is the letter I received and their site. It has scads of other information on it as well, so go have a visit! Tomorrow, I’ll have lot’s of queries out there, looking for family!

Hello!

You’ve got a great genealogy blog and I’ve added it to the blog list at GeneaBloggers. 

In addition, I’ve  made sure your blog is listed in our search engine (http://www.geneabloggers.com/search-geneablogger-member-blogs/) so that it may be searched along with over 700 other genealogy blogs.

Finally, I will also highlight your blog in my weekly This Week’s New Genealogy Blogs post on Saturday, November 14, 2009.

Is there anything you need from us in terms of tech assistance or other advice?  Check out the GeneaBloggers Welcome Wagon for lots of info: http://www.geneabloggers.com/about/.  And if you need technical help, I run a tech blog for bloggers: http://fbbootcamp.blogspot.com

Cheers!

Thomas MacEntee

Update on Tom: Stitches have been removed and the pain now is surgery pain and to be expected, and not that agonizing pain that had him throwing up. My poor husband has had one horrible year and is looking forward to the end of 2009! This wonderful man bought me a box of my favourite chocolate’s today!! How wonderful is that….even if I sure don’t need them!!

Better days ahead!!!