One PM, just arrived home–from lunch in the CARE dining room–and I must document (for my “journal” [lol]) I’ve been approached about “save a tree.” It seems one of the CARE residents is unhappy with the tree in her front yard so a new tree will be delivered tomorrow. The Maintenance Supervisor asked if I want it “before I throw it on the burn pile.” Naturally I agreed to take the tree (one-and-one-half years young) and give it “tender loving care.” (I should have my head examined?!)
I’m a “plain” person; I’m not into cosmetics, etc., etc. “The tree” does not look attractive because it is disfigured from recent wind storms. I had assured the CARE resident that it would outgrow the problem “with tender loving care.” Apparently TLC has fallen to me?! (One more project!!)
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Pat on the shoulder; postscript: 10:30 AM, July 26th, and the Supervisor has been a “no-show.” (Yesterday, he said “Don’t do anything until I look at the site.”) It was a good idea (pat on the back) but too late (and too hot) to make plans to dig a hole.
Three Quarters & Counting 
Here are the comments I posted on records for two individuals in Ancestry.com. I know it isn’t important to the reader but I hasten to say “this is my journal.”
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Sometimes I have to walk away (figuratively speaking) from Ancestry. It is so addictive; I can’t tear myself away. Then I find a “problem” and I can’t “walk away” until I’ve resolved the situation. Honestly, it is relaxing to move to preparation of a blog.
I’m thinking about contents for an article titled “Those ‘Frantz’ Women.” While documenting on my Ancestry family tree, I find a Frantz female on every branch. I would believe I’d finished with Dresher (for example) and there would be a Frantz wife. Likewise: Arnold, Brubaker, Crist, Myers, Neff (most recent family surnames).
True: Many of these families are documented in Frantz Families–Kith & Kin. While “working in Ancestry,” I have the Frantz Families–Kith & Kin website open and I move back and forth with details.
The thought for another article “Paying It Forward.” Dozens of “cousins” provided information in the 1980’s and 1990’s for the book I edited and later published (1996). All but one of my cousins have gone to their heavenly reward. I feel compelled to advance their research, their generous gift (to me), into the twenty-first century. Fact: The sources in Frantz Families–Kith & Kin came from original research. The actual details from the families! (Likewise, all the “source” information is documented in the books [three volumes, 3180 pages].) Sadly, I find “armchair researchers” are not invested in sources, and accuracy.
Would it be egotistical for me to say my Heavenly Father ordained me for this task of documenting His children of faith–the Old German Baptist Brethren? I felt an anointing in the 1980’s and 1990’s. It was nothing short of a miracle to publish, in 1996, when I knew nothing of my ancestry in 1987. The information fell like manna from Heaven; it was a joy to open large manila envelopes and enter the details into my computer. (Material I have been scanning and posting on Digitized Library of Family History.) Then (as now) I felt driven to publish before I dropped dead. Mr. Dore M. Frantz researched in the 1930’s and 1940’s but his material gathered dust after he died. There is no question in my mind, God my Heavenly Father opened doors and led me to Dore’s research. His research could not be duplicated in the 1980’s and 1990’s (or 2017); he had first-hand information, he tramped the cemeteries and documented tombstones.
Six weeks ago, I published a blog message titled Torn Between Two Worlds. Today I confirm that I am one of “those ‘Frantz’ women” leaving an indelible mark in family history. Please keep me in your prayers because my energy is low and the heat and humidity (in southeast Texas) is high!!