Chat With Reyn

Have you tried searching in the Morman records? You can go to your local Morman church and search their micro-fiche records at no cost.

Once you find the proper document particulars, you can send away for the certificate.

Hey, no need to apologize! If you want to talk about it, I'm here to listen.

Medicine sure has gone a long way with the delivery of births, haven't they?

Hi JB! You're never too late here at Reyn's! :wink: Folks come and go all the time.

Coffee, tea, pop, beer?

Interesting story about your father. Are you interested in a bit of genealogy, too?

Ah, he's still got lots of good years left! I bet he's glad you found him!

Well, folks, it's time for me to say goobye until tomorrow. Have a good night all!

Good Morning Reyn!

Ah! I always have thought of you as 'wren' in my mind, lucky guess.

I wonder if the Mormons would have records of my family.

I never knew my grandfathers, but all my grandparents were born in Poland, but I never knew where and any background before that.

I tried looking them up on the ellis island website. I found what I think was one of my grandmothers, but when I had asked my mother the spelling of her mothers birth name, she wasn't sure, and so I didn't get an exact match.

Funny, along with the bird/wren theme.....no one could ever pronounce my birth name correctly the first time, and it's not even one of those long slavic names.
Both times I married I was glad it was with someone who had a rather common (or so I thought) last name.
With BOTH of those names, people STILL got the spelling wrong.

My last name is crane, so I always say....crane, like the bird. You wouldn't believe how many people will then say "oh, k..r..a..n..e"?
Otherwise I get stuff addressed as craine, kraine, crone all the time.

Turns out my birth surname was a bird too....it means 'finch'

Good morning, Chai!

If you're interested in doing family searches, here is a good place to start:
FamilySearch.org

That site is run by the Mormans. Also, depending on what your local Morman Church records have, that is also good. What they don't have, they'll order for you (at a nominal cost). You don't have to be a Mormon to access them. It's open to all.

Funny what you say about surnames. I can relate. Mine is 6 letters long, but many insist on pronouncing the 'g' softly, instead of the hard 'g' it really is. If it's not that, it's every other variation....haha!

If you need anymore genealogy advice, my wife knows lots.

Reyn, do you happen to know this duo? <smile>


1978
Rika Ruebsaat and John Bartlett

Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat are singers of traditional Canadian (especially B.C.) folk songs, and over the past ten years have been involved i every aspect of folk music today, from collecting and academic publishing in folklore to educational work in schools and to running folk song societies and folk music radio shows. Their songs are about real people and real life --traditional ballads and songs from the industrial revolution, Canadian lumber camps and American mining towns, shanties and modern political songs. Jon and Rika sing mostly unaccompanied, which encourages audiences to do just that, and Impromptu singing and shanty workshops happen almost anywhere when they are around.

Hi Letty! Nice to see you pop in here.


No, I'm sorry. I've never heard of them at all. I don't really keep up to date as to what's happening on the music scene though.

Reyn - I don't have much interest in doing geneology research but I have two sisters with the bug and between them we have extensive family records.

My mother's ancesters arrived in New England in the mid 1600s from Holland and Scotland. They were Puritans and settled in southern Vermont. Some branches of the family are still there.

My father's side came from England in 1724 and settled in Massachusettes. By the mid 1770s some of the family moved to New Brunswick to avoid the impending war against the King. Skipping to Canada to avoid war has a long history, it seems. My grandfather was one of five young children living in NB when his mother passed away. The five kids were sent to other relatives in NB and New England to be raised. The family was reunited at times while they were children but the five of them never saw each other again as adults. My father was an only child who never talked about his family. We didn't think there were any and although we had a very common last name, Palmer, we were unaware of the story of my grandfather and his siblings. It was only after my father passed away that my sister found a slip of paper with the names of our grandfather and the four other siblings and spent three years doing geneology searches and pulled all the links together.

We held a reunion in New Brunswick in Sept 2001. Over 100 people attended. It was the first time in almost 100 years that family from each of the five lines were in the same place at the same time.

After growing up thinking there were no relatives on my father's side, it was strange to trip over cousins everywhere you went. Turns out we were related to all those 'Palmers' afterall.

JB, wow! What an exciting and interesting story you tell! And to top it off with that big reunion must have been quite the experience.

Well, a 2nd cousin from Holland did most of the work on my tree. He researched it back to about mid-1600s, last time I checked with him. One of my big contributions was to suggest a strong possibility where 2 lines connected. It happened to be true, and now I have a lot of 5th cousins!

I'm not active in genealogy anymore, but it's a big hobby of my wife's. Her tree on her father's side is huge.

Feel free to pop in anytime and chat about anything! :wink:

Reyn
I never worked a job over one year before leaving it until I became a maintenance man. I've been on this job over 13 years now. Guess I will stay another three years or so and then do whatever a 66 year old guy does.

Edgar,

Your resume sounds like it would be very interesting. You certainly must have done lots of jobs.

I've always looked at my job as 'work', and not as a career.

Before I became a meter reader in 1974, I worked at McDonald's as a grill cook and opener in the previous 2 years. So, I figured I stepped up some. It sure payed a lot better.

My claim to fame while I worked for McD's was that I was the first person in BC to cook an Egg McMuffin when they were initially introduced in Canada way back then.

The line-up for autographs starts at the other end of the room....

Here's a topic for my visitors to ponder when they drop in for their next visit to Reyn's:

What current topic in the news interests you and feel passionate about?

I'll be the first one to answer. For me it's easy. Since I initially became acquaintened with the story about CFB Gagetown (in New Brunswick), in June 2005, being sprayed with various lethal chemicals, I've kept a close eye on this story.

I really feel for these people that have died and have been affected with horrible diseases as a result of their exposure. Not only soldiers, but civilians living in the area, too.

This story will continue to unfold as more details are revealed.

Hey Reyn, top of the morning to ya.

<gee, he seems friendly enough>

Hey, Dys, how the heck are ya? Coming in for a coffee?

No takers for my discussion 3 posts back?

My primary worry is the state of the USA's government. Even with a Democratic president and congress I would be distressed. We are in the grip of an evermore fascist state. The Republicans throw us in wholeheartedly, the laggard Democrats tag along. Neither side has the integrity to stand up to it. Excercise your free speach while you can. Don't know how long it can last.

Edgar, do you think it would be good to have a better viable 3rd choice for a political party?

Here in Canada, we have the Liberals, Conservatives, and the New Democratic Party.

The NDP have little chance to form government, but I feel they're an important part of the opposition. I've always voted for them.

So far, the only third party that had much of a chance in my lifetime, the candidate was as looney as they come.