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Yes, I am lucky in that area. Also, my great-grandmother was born in the US, and I would not have known other than from one sheet of paper that was written by a great-uncle or something like that. On a single sheet of paper, he had scribbled 5 generations of information and there was one mention of the date of marriage for her parents and the mention "Concord, USA". Well, there are several cities called Concord in the US! I was doubly lucky that one town was fairly close to the Canadian border AND someone had compiled the registry for that parish AND there was a copy at the genealogical library in Montreal. The information was very limited: the name of the groom, the bride and the date. Nothing else. And the spelling was wrong too. Since they didn't list their parents, I had to rely on that one sheet of paper, which had that information (written quite small, you can imagine). But since their parents were from Quebec, the rest was easy. In those years, some families were moving to the US for work.

My pickleball trip was sooo much fun! Everyone was so kind and helpful with Judy. She told me she wasn't going the night before we were to leave. I had to call her best friend to talk her in to going. She said she would go but she wasn't playing pickleball. I said, "OK", but the first time we went to the courts, she jumped right in to play and played everyday. Everyone loved her instantly. She was cheerfully greeted everywhere and received numerous hugs. Her partner for the clinic was great and they won the silver medal at the end of the clinic. We went with a group of 10 and played games every afternoon and evening...so much fun! There was another group from Massachusetts and the loved joining us for games. We made wonderful friends! This layout is of one of our group who had a "Truth or Dare" . She chose "Dare" and was asked to smile as big and wide as she could and hold it for 2 minutes. We now know 2 minutes is too long and tortuous. Her cheeks were sore the next day.

Day 7...In addition to the two in the layout, their Father came to help...or check on them They were very thorough and did a great job. Another neighbor who owns a tractor plowed our driveway and, of course, the dog was a big help! I have wonderful neighbors!

@Michele Help each other. That's what we do!!😊

I have a Find My Font app that I won years ago. If you ever need help identifying a font, I'd be more than happy to help. I'll make a post in the FB group.

P52 Week Four What?! No Tea-Cup? Today is an Ace so that means a sugar bowl. This one is quite patina'd and has an art deco look. I think it is actually from that time period so I used Gill Sans Ultra Bold & U.B. condensed on the week/year portion. For the magnet I had to improvise. This weird little round deck of cards does not have Aces or 2s so I took a 3 and edited to be an Ace. I see that I made it a bit lopsided...just keepin' it real 🤣. I wasted about an hour looking for a font for the A the would look like the cards font, I gave up and settled with this one called "Baked Donuts" (Creative Fabrica). I don't actually use sugar in tea, maybe a wee bit of honey, but only sometimes and only with earl grey tea. I had a little freak out moment when I found out windows 10 doesn't come with Gill Sans(and family), I had to get it from my laptop and load it in. It's one of my favorite fonts.

Day 6...two of the children on our street came to shovel our sidewalk. They are 7 and 9. I'm pretty sure this was the first time they had shoveled snow. It was very much appreciated.

Here is my lesson 7: done with a Whispy's D'zines kit & cass-Template7-DIAMOND.png from Creation Cassel.

I'll try it again, as my first post disappeared. Mary, I love how you use the Cross Pattern in the layout... Sometimes, I find it difficult to use "busy" papers, but in this case, it's subtle but still very recognizable. For the Build A Kit Workshop- Pattern Papers, I intend to create more papers like this following Carole's tutorials... You gave me a great idea.

I am Canadian. The bottle opener is highly suitable. ☺️

Thank you, Corrie! Yes, it is a great memory. It is wonderful how many kind people there are in this world!

I thought I responded to your comment a couple of days ago, but it vanished! Trying again... My family tree is very lopsided. My mother's side is fairly comprehensive, but my dad's is empty, more or less. He was born in a region of Eastern Europe that changed borders and governments several times. Also there were wars and devastation that likely destroyed records. I can't go beyond his mother, and she was so secretive about all that. I have hired researchers in that part of the world, but they were not able to come up with anything valuable. I would love to set Gates's research team on this mystery, but I don't think even they would find much. Just the way it is, and I've accepted it.

I use to bake a lot and also cook. Now I seldom bake but do all the cooking. I have a very thin blade knife I got from my parents. It was a give away at a gas station if you purchased a certain amount of gas...lots of years ago. It is the last piece of that set. It is perfect for slicing cake and I guard it, making sure no one walks off with it. It rusts easily so I make sure to dry it immediately after washing it.

Bonnie I'm so happy for you that your trip turned out great due to the fact that Judy loved it too. A memory to cherish!

Week 4. I've started puzzling again. A little bit every day, sometimes I skip a day. The hardest part is now coming.

Almost the end of January. This is Lab 11 Mod 11. Requirements: cross pattern - the background paper; cutout edge - I made a strip which I am not showing in this layout, but I made the shape as a paint brush and used the Vector Shape script around a round colored paper in white; paper clip 3 - one of those thick ones that is hard to open - I used the Change to Target tool to make it a copper color. The font is Arial Black. I see that we are going to have the Built-A-Kit Workshop again. YAY!!

This is what I'm currently working on: Carole's Pencil Sketch2 script. Having a lot of fun! I did the four cats and then combined them with papers and embellishments from the ID-Circle of Life Kit. I have a total of 5 images; one for each cat and then the composite layout. All the backgrounds are from the kit. I also included a folded edge on the lower left sketch of Mommy in the composite. EDIT: Didn't care for the layout so I revised it a bit.

Lately, I've had so many small problems pop up when trying to "react" to a post, or in creating a post. I just tried to reply to Rene in my question about printer paper. I've typed it twice and clicked submit, and it disappears. It did the same recently when I tried to reply to someone else. It seems hit and miss. I so often have to refresh the page or logout and then log in again in order to do any commenting or reacting. Is it just me?

We have a Canon printer and we have it about 7 years now. We have always used the Canon inks, but not the paper. We live in a village and couldn't get that paper, only on-line and then you have to pay for the delivery as well unless you buy things over a certain amount of money. But I find other papers satisfactory as well.

Awesome! thank you.

I agree about ink as well. My last few printers have been Canon printers so I always buy their ink. The off brand alternatives always come up when I go on Amazon to order and are much cheaper but I stick with the Canon ink. Even going back to the laser printer I had in the late1990's (an HP LaserJet 6P), I only ever bought the HP laser cartridges. I saw so many problems with the HP laser printers at work when off brand cartridges were used that I never ever thought about going off brand.

Several years ago, this paper was recommended to me for cards and other craft projects. Amazon.com : Epson Premium Presentation Paper MATTE (8.5x11 Inches, Double-sided, 50 Sheets) (S041568),Bright White : Epson Double Sided Matte Paper : Office Products I've never done cards so I can't vouch for it. If you would be printing 4x6 photos, I would go with a paper made for the printer in a glossy format. Colors tend to be more vibrant on paper made by the printer manufacturer. I have a supply of 4x6 paper by various vendors and will use them but I find that the photos are sometimes dull looking since the paper is not made for the ink of my printer.

I don't know if I can help you, because of me being in Europe. I always try to find a glossy-matt paper. In essence that paper is matt so you can write on it, but it has some shine on the paper that let your photos/layouts look way better then on matt paper. I sometimes have difficulties in finding it when I have used up the ones I had. Good luck, a new printer deserves good paper!

What a creative idea to use a deck of cards with your teacups, so like you!!!! It will be a pleasure to see one each week and now you are set up it won't take much time to do a layout.

This is my Week Five: I bought this Phalaenopsis (Moth Orchid) from the supermarket in June, 2023, when it was in full bloom but had gone on sale for half price. The care instructions said to put three ice cubes on the pot, below the leaves, each week. I happened to have Miracle Grow orchid fertilizer from previous attempts so this time I made up a solution and froze it in ice cube trays. (I had resisted using ice in the past, thinking the orchids are tropical and would not appreciate ice.) Well, it flourished and now it is putting out its third set of blooming stems, still going strong after 7 months! It's the best result I've ever had trying to keep one of these plants alive. I've resisted attempting to repot it, fearful I would ruin the spell. Font is Showcard Gothic

Beautifully done Mary, you are an inspiration with the Labs. That clip looks real! I think I know them as "bulldog" clips and you are right, the bigger ones are hard to open.

And day 7.

And finally Day 6.

Count me in too. I love a party....there's always masks at a party isn't there?

this is my day 6 template

My husband has done a lot of research into his and mine family history, for almost 20 years he had his own website. But now it is almost impossible to find new data. In WWII a lot is destroyed and over the years a lot of books that in the old days were kept in the churches went missing as well. He got as far back as possible ( somewhere in 1600) and a branch of both our families came from Germany and France.

Being adopted I find all your ancestry stories to be fascinating. Thank you for sharing them so openly. Ann, I didn't even notice until I read your post about you putting the two halves together.

And Day 5.

Down to the wire with these, but here are Days 3 and 4.

My dad was not raised attending church. His mother was Catholic, his father never went to church and wouldn't allow the kids to attend the Catholic church. So all of the 13 kids that got married usually joined the religion/church their spouse attended. For dad, it was Methodist. For several others, it was the Catholic church. Grandma never forgot her upbringing and when she attended weddings of grandchildren that were in a Catholic church, she kneeled when it was appropriate to do so. The family is split pretty even between Catholic and Protestant. I told an uncle about what I found and he said that in the last couple of years when he converted to Catholicism from Church of Christ he had to know his baptismal date. So he checked with the church he attended the whole time he was married previously. He was also in his 20's. Mom and Dad had gotten married in Mom's church about 4 months before he joined.

My father had a "family Bible" with entries of our Dutch Terwilliger ancestors going back to the early 1600's also. They arrived in the New World by sailing up the Hudson River and disembarking in Kingston, Ulster County, New York. Across the river is New Paltz, where we found a set of paintings of the ship, the Gilded Otter, in an antiques shop, split on two wooden boards. My daughter Laurey has been pursuing our genealogy via Ancestry.com. I tried reuniting the two sides of the ship, though not super successful in my eyes, a few years ago, using PSP.

@Julie Yes the dog is a doodle, She's our sweet Lucy.

I am very lucky that my ancestry is mostly French and French catholic churches were very detailed for records. Most church records that have not been destroyed in fires for example, have been microfilmed or compiled. I have one branch that goes back 15 generations, and around the time Champlain came to North America, around 1608. And then, some books have also ancestry further in Europe.

The dog in the 3rd picture makes me smile each time I see this. A sweet-looking Doodle perhaps? Not what I would expect to see in an old wild west environment, but I like it anyway.

I started cooking out of necessity at a fairly young age. I am now pretty old and have a gazillion kitchen gadgets, but maybe my favorite and most used these days is my instant-read thermometer! After years of leaving food to cook 'just a little longer to be safe', I can now know when it's done to perfection! It would be my first kitchen accessory recommendation for any new cook!

Fifteen generations! Yikes. I can't go beyond my dad's mother. There are no records to be found in that part of Eastern Europe.