When I started to update my information regarding Anthony Johnson Showalter (1858-1924), I never dreamed I’d be documenting information for twenty hours (and counting). There were numerous errors I needed to correct with his ancestry plus numerous errors with my documentation back to his family. “Showalter” is my mother’s maiden name and I began my research (about 1987) with the Showalter family. That family was so well documented I started looking for my maiden name “Frantz.” No information available so I appointed myself the Frantz family researcher and historian. Consequently, my Showalter information lacked all the valuable information available on Ancestry.com. It’s 1:30 PM as I start typing this message and I’ve been “at it”(research) since 4:30 AM. Yesterday, I spent the entire day on the A.J.S. update. He is my fourth-cousin-three-times-removed.

I don’t limit my searches to Ancestry; I searched the Internet for additional information. I found interesting articles and I share them with the reader.

Anthony Johnson Showalter Find A Grave information

Berean Bible Heritage Church History

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

Hymns and Music

Free sheet music

Hymnanary

Hymntime

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms was written by one of my “cousins.” A thoughtful, considerate cousin (who shares my passion for family history) sent me the information and I rush to share it with my readers. That is one of my favorite old hymns!!

Truth be told: When I launched the search for my exact cousin connection to the author I found that I have some errors in my documentation (on Ancestry). So I’m off to climb another tree. (“The thoughtful, considerate cousin” has an enormous Showalter Family Tree.)

“Sheets” of rain were running off the roof. Seriously, a solid wall of water! Add lightning and thunder and that’s the explanation for a poor night’s sleep. I have several items that may be full of water–items that should have been “under cover.” I just didn’t get “a round tuit.” Procrastination? I think not. There are just so many things I need to do and I spend too much time with Ancestry and computers. OK, I admit to “procrastination.” I should have brought the space heater into my new trailer home. When it’s cold outdoors, I’m cold indoors. I don’t want to elevate the temperature and heat the whole trailer (using propane). Earlier this morning, I was wrapped in my Slanket, in my comfortable chair, watching Today. ~~ At this moment (8:25), it is forty-three degrees outdoors and sixty-five degrees indoors; the indoor-outdoor thermometer says ninety-nine percent rain.

Three quarters, one nickel, and four pennies. (Sound familiar?) For now, “the old lady” is comfortable on “the old laptop.” This will be another nasty-weather day so convenient to spend time on computers.

Honestly, the plan is to approach the transfer of data with caution. “Haste makes waste.”

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Honestly, because I couldn’t upload pictures from the Canon camera to the old laptop computer, I took fewer pictures. This brings me (and you) up-to-date. Click each picture to enlarge for better viewing. The caption on the last picture is misleading. It was the first picture I edited when I finally had access to my pictures on Picasa.

Some of my favorite recent picture enlarged so “the old lady” doesn’t have to click and enlarge them. I’m overdue for cataract surgery.

Back to frustration regarding “Where are my pictures?”  I took a picture of the wrong cable to connect two monitors to one computer and it required an hour for me to locate the picture on my new computer. Recently, I contacted the Walmart computer(s) provider and they sent a “spliter” (received this morning). Another gross error on their part?! ~~  THE WRONG CABLE. ~~ FYI: I’m starting a little notebook with “how-to” instructions about navigating Windows-10.

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Postscript at 2:00 PM: From Amazon, I just ordered the proper cable and the book.

I have my pictures but I haven’t discovered how to access this blog on my new computer. I’m juggling three computers to publish this blog and this picture. Well, I was juggling but thirty minutes later I was able to continue this blog on my new computer and access the picture on Picasa. Forty-five minutes later and I can publish!!