back in the 1700s, an Irish Family got off a boat in Crown Colony Conn. Then slowly moved west and North, to where Delaware County, New York area is now...around 1790, Abner Newman's son bought Government Land out in the Ohio Territory and moved his family by boat and wagons ( along with 3 other Families)...landing in Marietta, OH. about 1792.

Settled on 1000 acres in what is now Logan County, Ohio about 1796.

About 1818, a son was born (one of many...and a few Daughters) Name: Harrison Newman...
Around 1822, a circuit rider for a Mr. Wesley, a Methodist Minister...arrived. The Newman Friends establish one of the first Methodist Churches IN Logan County, at Mount Olive Chapel...in a log cabin on the Newman Homestead...(back then, you went armed..and on the lookout for the local Shawnee)...

later, Harrison also had a few sons and daughters...one of whom was named Perry Newman. Perry enlisted in the Union Army about 1864...was mustered back out in 1865. He also got married, and raised a few Brats...3 sons...one of whom was Grandpa Lew...

near as I can figure, my son is the 7th generation of that Irish Family....come a long way from the Coal Mines in Ireland.

My Grandfather and Grandma brought my Dad to America as a 2 year old from Germany. How they got to South Dakota I don't know, but they got there because there was free land...the key word to my Grandpa being free. He worked in Berlin as a brick maker and he had muscles in places that I don't have places....he was a farmer...kind of, but a huge drinker and when he drank he got into fights....as a big guy he was a force to be reckoned with. He was always kind to me, my Dad, and his wife though...
I was in South Dakota last year about this time and I was introduced to a fellow that was 98 years old and remembered them....not sure I was glad to hear all this.

 

54 RAINY degrees outside, and..outside the North window..

Pea sized hail...we having a gulley-washer at the moment..south window?

Little balls of ice, everywhere.. not a good day to go get a supply of Lumber....

 

My Great Grandpa, Carl William Smith ( Mother´s side), died before I was born. I only heard a few stories about him. He did his stint in The War to end All Wars, when cousins went to Europe to kill cousins, came back and didnt do much of note afterward. He was a carpenter, worked off-n-on for a local contractor; but didnt do much carpentering, as I guess the War messed him up some. So when my Great Grandma needed something done around the house, she would hire the local contractor, and the contractor would put my Great Grandpa on the job - at his own house! The way my Great Grandma told that story was funny, except she wasnt trying to be funny.
So anyway, everyone in Hopewell knew my Great Grandfather, as he was someone "you should know" before the War. Fast forward some years, and every afternoon he would make his way to the local saloon, which was about a block from his house on Main Street, maybe a 3 minute walk, just past the graveyard and the small church where George Washington camped for a night on his retreat from defeat in Brooklyn. Great Grandpa never walked though, always drove whatever car he had. He would sit at the bar until just about supper time, and then drive home - stinkin drunk. It was common knowledge in town that at this general time of the day No One should park on that one-block section of the street! because Mr. Smith would be, at some point, meandering down the road and belligerent of the highway code.
My Great Grandma, Granny Smith, as I knew her, was a nurse. And during the war, she was nanny for the slew of children whose mother´s had to work because their husbands were over-seas. She nursed many a baby in her rocking chair - and I have that rocking chair here, and dont ever let anyone sit in it!!! My Grandmother, Agnes Smith, was also a nurse; and during the second War to end All Wars, she did the same as her mother and looked after children. Many babies were nursed in this chair, and I treasure it most of all the things I have.

 

I don't have any famous descendants related to the founding of this country. I did a genealogy search a few years back through Ancestry.com. I did the DNA testing for a very specific reason. It provided me in less than 14 days what I had been searching for over 50 years for so it worked. I would caution people about DNA testing however - 1) be prepared for the results and future findings, 2) make sure your family is prepared for the results and doesn't have anything to hide.

Yes. Genetic genealogy does not respect family secrets!
Recently I was chasing down a group called a dna cluster in my dna match list only to discover that my great uncle, who was a confirmed batchelor his entire life had a child no one knew about.
I have a whole new group of 2nd cousins now.

Also, just now researching another person who may be my 1st cousin that no one ever knew about.
Mom thinks, that of her brothers, it may be her oldest brother’s kid.
His grandson recently tested and soon we will know for sure, (or not).

 

Lumber Run has been completed...24 bft of Ash, and 8 bft of Spalted Maple...$25...Most of the 1x6 Ash had to be cut, to fit in the Chevy Equinox

One of the Maple 1 x6 did fit...the other one lost about 2' (which also went into the Chevy)
Maple is 3/4...the Ash is still a bit rough at 7/8" thick...

I am now tired and sore from loading the Chevy, AND then un-loading the stack into the house..

Letting it sit there a few days, to get used to the house. I'm bushed....

 

How is that 🕷 bite doing Bandit?
We have a lot of black widows, but I have never been bitten by one. Usually see them in the corner of the garage or out in the shed. They usually run and hide and aren't a problem. We have some brown recluses around, luckily I have never run into one. Their bites are nasty!

 

Bite still looks ugly, about the size of a silver dollar.....and itchy....Urgent Care treated it, have some big green horse pills to take...If no improvement over the next 2 days...back to the ER, again...

 

 

Thanks for the stories on the Genealogy Guys, they are always interesting. Years ago my father traced the family name back to 1500 Scottland, very interesting. After he passed my brother transfered the records into a web site. Following his passing the domain was up for sale. I still have all of the hard copies of the research and photos, (4 boxes worth, to be passed on to my Son).

 

How is that 🕷 bite doing Bandit?
We have a lot of black widows, but I have never been bitten by one. Usually see them in the corner of the garage or out in the shed. They usually run and hide and aren't a problem. We have some brown recluses around, luckily I have never run into one. Their bites are nasty!

sounds like a brown recluse,my MIL got bitten by one once,took some medical treatment to heal it.

 

My bride has about 60,000 names on Ancestry. She has researched grandkids' other sides of the family. She has gotten lots of contacts over the years. One of her cousins, uncles, aunts, and cousins will not admit are family. One of my second cousins contacted her. The cousin said I am the only blood relative she has ever met last fall when she came to visit. She said she will meet her father or an uncle this year. You have to be careful on Ancestry. When a person is listed as his own grandfather it is suspicious. My wife verifies everything she found on Ancestry with two sources the way she researched before the internet. One thing she found is the headstone info on a hilltop private gravesite on a farm in Ohio. Her research told her it had to be in one of 3 sites in that area. It was my family connection to the Mayflower. When she put it on Ancestry it became very popular.

We were in Missouri visiting her family. One of the cousins told her directions to visit great-grandpa’s grave site. He added there are 13 Snelson boys in unmarked graves from the Civil War on that hilltop with grandpa.

One of my great-aunts did the paperwork to join the Daughters of the Revolution. She did not join and the paperwork was lost. The info was in a family bible. A great uncle moved to Nebraska, had a house fire that burned the family bible, then returned to Iowa. There were so many courthouse fires in early America most records have been destroyed. Too many are lost in family bibles too.

 

Lumber Run...The Photos...

Start at the bottom...these are all 1 x 6s...

With a stop at the 4' mark...8 pc of 1 x 6 Ash...the rest are between 5' and 6' long..
Grain detail: Ash..

Camera kept trying to turn things a reddish colour...the Ash is still skip-planed rough..the Maple has been planed to 3/4" thickness...had to cut one of the boards a bit..

Again, the camera wanted things a bit redder than they are...

This is a bit closer to what they look like....these are about 7/8" thick...
Before all the cutting to fit in my car's trunk, there were 8 boards...@$3 a board...about 32 bft total...for $25...

Letting these sit a few days, while I figure out what to build with them...I looked through all of the boards, and only found one of these...

One lousy knot, in all of that Lumber? I think I can work around that..

 

Lumber Run...The Photos...
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Start at the bottom...these are all 1 x 6s...
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With a stop at the 4' mark...8 pc of 1 x 6 Ash...the rest are between 5' and 6' long..
Grain detail: Ash..
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Camera kept trying to turn things a reddish colour...the Ash is still skip-planed rough..the Maple has been planed to 3/4" thickness...had to cut one of the boards a bit..
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Again, the camera wanted things a bit redder than they are...
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This is a bit closer to what they look like....these are about 7/8" thick...
Before all the cutting to fit in my car's trunk, there were 8 boards...@$3 a board...about 32 bft total...for $25...

Letting these sit a few days, while I figure out what to build with them...I looked through all of the boards, and only found one of these...
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One lousy knot, in all of that Lumber? I think I can work around that..

all that for 25 bucks,damn !!!!!!😣

 

Nice little lumber run Bandit, and a great price to boot.

 

My bride has about 60,000 names on Ancestry. She has researched grandkids' other sides of the family. She has gotten lots of contacts over the years. One of her cousins, uncles, aunts, and cousins will not admit are family. One of my second cousins contacted her. The cousin said I am the only blood relative she has ever met last fall when she came to visit. She said she will meet her father or an uncle this year. You have to be careful on Ancestry. When a person is listed as his own grandfather it is suspicious. My wife verifies everything she found on Ancestry with two sources the way she researched before the internet. One thing she found is the headstone info on a hilltop private gravesite on a farm in Ohio. Her research told her it had to be in one of 3 sites in that area. It was my family connection to the Mayflower. When she put it on Ancestry it became very popular.

We were in Missouri visiting her family. One of the cousins told her directions to visit great-grandpa’s grave site. He added there are 13 Snelson boys in unmarked graves from the Civil War on that hilltop with grandpa.

One of my great-aunts did the paperwork to join the Daughters of the Revolution. She did not join and the paperwork was lost. The info was in a family bible. A great uncle moved to Nebraska, had a house fire that burned the family bible, then returned to Iowa. There were so many courthouse fires in early America most records have been destroyed. Too many are lost in family bibles too.

So, a cool thing with AncestryDNA is you can validate your family tree with science.
The DNA don’t lie.

if your cousin’s dna and your dna triangulate to a common ancestor, you can pretty much guarantee the paper trail is correct.
If the dna trail doesn’t follow the paper trail, there is literal trouble in Denmark. (If you are from Denmark that is)

I’ve grown up with the mystery of my 2x great grandfather’s unknown parents since I can remember. My Aunts and mother worked on it ever since I can remember.
In my early 30’s I thought I would give it a go, only to retrace the same old same old that they dealt with.

With dna, I went from zero new leads to 44,000 new leads. I am four years (and 11,000+ Of the 44,000 names cleared ) into it now and have cleared out tons of bad information that was throwing everyone off. I am nearing the end of that journey and still waiting for the day we solve the mystery.
In the mean time, I helped my brother in law find his biological parents and found my 2x great grandfather’s sister, found several new cousins, helped a coworker prove a family rumor that her grandmother had her father by the next door neighbor and I’m still making discoveries everyday. (Dang. I just realized I sound like a commercial)


it has been truly life changing for me.

 

it is amazing just how many Newmans there are....we have been very, very busy.....

 

 

DS251, It sounds like you have a lot of experience. I'm not sure how many contacts were DNA and how many were family tree discoveries. When my wife started she did not know the correct spelling of her grandparents' last name. She was inspired by Roots. She did a lot of research in the Mormon libraries, courthouses, and national archives back then. She eventually got us traced to William the Conqueror and beyond. Several lines into the 14 and 1500s in Europe. Some ancestors are disgusting due to their ruling over the working class. She just spent about a year converting the records to digital. There were 2 or 3 12 feet long shelves full of notebooks and a file cabinet stuff full. I had a cousin that did my paternal line before my wife started. That saved a lot of tme

 

all that for 25 bucks,damn !!!!!!😣

Sounds too good to be true

 

Morning all, cool here this am 60, light breeze. Glad I finished all the pressure washing of the patio area yesterday. Pressure washing is no fun at all. One of the "Joys" of home ownership and having a wife who is a clean freak. High today 74. Get the Parkas out.

Looks like Petey is due for a bit of a breeze, wish him well. We are going to get only a slight brush from Ian Gusts to 30-35 and rain later in the week. Should be no problem this far north as it looks like the new path is below us. That could change.

Lived in Tampa area for 30 years. The Weather Chanel guy had his storm coat on yesterday while giving his report from Tampa, bet he was sweating under it. No wind and temps were in the high 70s or low 80s with humidity. TV is so stupid at times.

Finishing up 10 more little trucks for the charity today. Have a small box to finish up as well, not for the charity. Picture of the box when I finish it, maybe.