Reciprocate: I want people to “reciprocate.” I share family history and I want them to share family history. I won’t sully my message with the brief reply to my request for Brubaker information. But I’ll share my reply: Clifford, you missed my point. I’m a fanatic about “sources” that prove identity, marriage, death, etc. I don’t speculate. I have 984 “Brubaker” in my tree; 17 “Donald Brubaker” and 7 “Donald E. Brubaker.” An obituary with the name of a son named “Donald” doesn’t prove (to me) that Donald Eugene Brubaker is the son. Do you have any supporting information?? ~~ Sincere THANKS for your reply. ~~ Lorraine

Roller-coaster emotions.

I am so-o-o-o-o cold!! I’m in my pajamas, wearing a winter robe, and socks inside warm slippers. I am reluctant to turn on the heater because I don’t want to be guilty of air-conditioning on one day and heater the next day. (December 2018 picture of Lorraine in Christmas gift winter robe and slippers.)

I am guilty of procrastination: I failed to put a new battery in the sensor for the indoor-outdoor thermometer.

The indoor-outdoor sensor was removed from a branch in deep shade of a large tree. OMG, it was swarming with ants and I was their victim!! Can you see the ants on the sensor? Even after the visible ants were sprayed… others crawled out of the closed area. I wondered if the ants caused the sensor to stop functioning.

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New batteries installed and the sensor hung in a different tree. Half an hour later, verification that outdoor temperature documented indoors.

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Two things accomplished: Washed the dishes and new batteries in the sensor. My “labor” is lacking!! I have good intentions. (The mind is willing but the body is old and tired.)

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A couple of days later, and I see an error. Did you catch it? “…rain pouring off the roof.”  Truthfully, I proof my material several times before I “publish.” Now I wonder how many errors escape my attention.

Yesterday was “happy” and “glorious”!! Like a magnet, I was drawn back to Ancestry.com. I successfully documented an obituary in warp speed. I started a second obituary and became engrossed. When I looked at the clock, it was one-thirty in the morning!! I went to bed and did not awaken until nine-thirty and I’m here (at 9:40) to confess my insane behavior after enjoying some “good tasting” food!!!

That second obituary was for Donald E. Brubaker. I was thrilled!! Perhaps I would get the answer to the questions I asked many months ago. Regrettably, it is not the “Donald” I wrote about in two earlier blog messages: Mystery Man and rekaburb crazy?!.

I had eighteen men named Donald Brubaker in my Ancestry database–and seven with the middle initial “E.” This Donald does not match any of them!! I regret to tell you how many errors I found as I compared this new “Donald” with “Donald E. Brubaker” in other Member Family Trees. Personally, I “weigh the evidence” before I save information to my tree. In the obituary, his wife’s name is Sherrie and they have been married for thirty-eight years. I found the marriage—in 1982 (thirty-eight years)—and could safely add that record. ~~~~ Just a little explanation of my hours “glued to the computer” trying to correctly document a man other than my “Mystery Man.”

I just got home (9:30) after shopping for groceries. A neighbor did the driving… and it was at his invitation.

I immediately prepared something that “tastes good.”

P.S. Then, I rode the “three-wheeler” for exercise!!

A dear friend contributed to my patriotic wardrobe. The mask is a wonderful cover for an ugly old face! My face has aged terribly in 2020!!