Honestly, I can’t believe I’ve added so many individuals to my Ancestry database. “Time flies when we’re having fun.” I’m blessed with a forest of family and I’m eager to document them before my clock stops ticking.
The two computers pull me to their keyboard–like a strong magnet. One hundred more individuals added to my database in less than twenty-four hours. Almost the entire day devoted to one man and his extended family.
So-o-o-o-o many things to do and I haven’t enough hands!! My “peers,” my “cousins” are rapidly passing to their Heavenly reward. Every week I receive obituaries (via email from a “cousin”). I can’t keep up with documentation. I’m the “self-appointed” historian focused on accurate, thorough “sources.” I cringe every time I compare my information with that of other Ancestry Member Family Trees.
“They” copy one another’s errors!! (Why don’t they use the “search” feature?) Before I go to my Heavenly reward, I want to accurately knit the Old German Baptist Brethren families into a beautiful tapestry. My eyesight is waning; lack of sleep leaves me tired. So-o-o-o-o many things to do and I haven’t enough hands!!
“No, I’m not superstitious but it brings back bad memories.”Twenty-three months ago (Friday, Oct 13, 2017), the Escapees CARE Center served a meal that was horrible!! Without exception, all the residents complained; one lady put her tray on the Facility Director’s desk with the note “Unfit for human consumption.” The unsatisfactory meal prompted me to collect names on a sheet of paper registering our dissatisfaction. The results of my action are documented (at length) on the website I titled Escapees Don’t CARE Center.
Thanks to Advil PM: Solid eight-plus hours of sleep!! My eyes were open at 6:50 but I wasn’t functioning until the first sip of coffee at 8:15. I traded the bed for my recliner and “listened” to the Today Show. My “Morning Boost” is gourmet coffee and blog preparation!!
Forty-two days since I did grocery shopping. My cupboards were bare!!!! First: Donations were emptied from the rear of KIA–at two local thrift shops. Second: Empty nursery garden plastic containers recycled at Lowe’s. Third: Plastic bags recycled in a specified container at the market. Home again, after groceries were put away, I continued “downsizing” by moving scrap metal to a neighbor’s yard. (She takes to “salvage.”) “Inch by inch it’s a cinch.”
I’m a “storyteller” with articles published in Mennonite Family History. A story begs to be written about this family. Find this information as one of several “comments” attached to the record of Owen Homer Cripe. Observation: Owen’s mother died nine months after he was born. Where was he during the time between her death (1890) and his documented residency, in 1900, in “Old Folks & Orphan Home”?? The 1900 Federal Census for Carbon County, Wyoming, lists the father, David E. Cripe, and three siblings. The 1900 Federal Census for Carroll County, Indiana, lists an older brother as “inmate” in “Poor Asylum.” That brother, Levi, died in the same institution in 1904. The 1900 Federal Census for Allen County, Indiana, lists another older brother as “inmate” at “Indiana School for Feeble-Minded Youth.” (Actually, I had to do a Google search because the death record listed I.S.F.M.Y.) That brother, Joseph, died in the same institution in 1901. The 1900, 1910, 1920, & 1930 Federal Census for Allen County, Indiana, lists a sister, Minnie, as an “inmate” at “Indiana School for Feeble-Minded Youth.” She died there in 1954. ~~~ There’s more to this family than public records reveal?! Truthfully, I have been emotionally distraught as I searched for records and documented this family.
I’m still in my pajamas; no breakfast; no lunch!! Definitely, time to walk away from two computers simultaneously working with this family. The data is up-to-the-minute as complete as humanly possible.
Three Quarters & Counting 