My poor hubby had to work today, and at 5.30m this morning, it was sooo muggy outside. My usual daily doggie musical chairs began, and throughout the day as one wants in, one that's in will want out. Now that I have the walker, it IS easier, but the bad thing is that I am wearing away the bone in my knees more quickly, and that causes more pain. Sometimes, it seems, I just can't win for losing. With my health that is.
When hubby gets home we have some running around to do. I have 2 AVON deliveries, we have trash and recycles to take to the dump, meds to pick up at KMart, and a stop by the Post Office to mail my DNA sample back to Ancestry.com. I didn't want to do it and put it out in the mailbox because of the heat we've been having, I didn't know if it might mess it up, so needed to wait until we could go by the main Post Office, to drop it off in their nice air-conditioned inside mailbox.
I'm excited to see what it tells me; I've wanted to do it for a couple of years and find out where all the bits of my genetic make up come from. I'd love to find something exotic in there.
I've been doing some more researching this morning, it's amazing how many facts you MISS the first time around, or you see but your brain doesn't hold, because it's digesting other parts of what you've found. Today I noticed something from the 1911 census, that I had missed on all the other occasions that I'd worked on it. Well, in the beginning, I was obsessed with the address and finding out if it still existed, or if there were photographs of it, plus noticing which of the siblings of my grandfather were born by then, things like that. 2 years later, by the time my maternal grandfather was born, they had moved and were in the Columbia Buildings, which had spawned its own revelations.
Today, in browsing the census document again, I realised that my great-grandmother worked ... with 4 children in the home. This led to more delving, and the discovery that this would have been home work, she was a box-maker. In many of these industries that were done at home, older children helped with the tasks. That 2 of my great aunts were then 7 and 9, leads me to believe that they probably "helped" in their mother's tasks.
Something else I noticed was another tidbit, that showed the career progression of my great-grandfather. He is listed as a porter in the furnishing trade, yet in 1901 he had been listed as a piano fitter, and at his wedding in 1898 he was a carpenter.
Another thing that jumped out on me, on a document I have had for a couple of years now, was that he married my great-grandmother on 21st May 1898 ... and my great-granddaughter was born on 21st May 1996, 98 years later. Just one of those "oh neat" moments that I love finding.
An annoyance to me is that, as a child, my nan and I walked the streets close by the addresses that my grandfather's family had lived in, before and after he was born, yet didn't know, so I could have been exploring the places "for real" rather than by the computer and google. Added to which so many have now been demolished, although some of the surrounding areas have surviving buildings from the era, so I can get a feel for the neighbourhoods, as they were.
As with my maternal nan's side of my family, I can see where the work ethic that myself and my children have, and my grandchildren have, came from.
Yes, I'm addicted to this, LOL.
Have a fun Saturday, my friends and thanks for stopping by!
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