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They also make reclining and power models that aren't super ugly. We had a super ugly, super comfy one but it died quickly because of the bonded leather. This time we invested more money and went with real leather (no fabric because of dogs and the fabric just holds smell). Big news for me is I attended my first DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) meeting since my long lost bio brother passed near the beginning of 2019. Since there is so much about genealogy tied up in DAR meetings and that is how I found out about him, the two have been tied together for me. I'm glad that I attended.
And I've started getting into genealogy again. Through a DAR and Amazon friend, I found out that you can get a Pioneer certificate for some of the states and I found out that I am not the first member of my family to move across the US to WA state! Turns out my 3rd great-grandmother moved here in before 1889 when she was a widow!! She must be where I get my adventurous and independent spirit from!!
And I joined you guys for Zoom for the first time in a while and enjoyed it thoroughly!!
Then my Bucs won!! It's been a great year for Tampa Bay sports!! Made it to the World Series, won the Stanley Cup and now Super Bowl!!
Cold icy dogs spent the day in the snow! Dreaming of sunshine, vaccines, and the world resetting!
Charlotte wrote: "They also make reclining and power models that aren't super ugly. We had a super ugly, super comfy one but it died quickly because of the bonded leather. This time we invested more money and went w..."I have found one online at a local store that is not ugly at all but it is 88" and I would have to lose a bookcase to fit it in, which will NEVER happen in this house, it also is truly too long for me...I am only 5'2" and live alone. And no I can't just move the bookcase to a new location because there is no new location to be found. Most of my wall space is already covered with book cases.
I have a lot of books.
The one my friends had from Flexisteel is not terribly ugly either, but no store here carries it. I have the specs on it so possibly one of the stores can special order it.
@Charlotte - quality of materials makes a huge difference.
Geneology is fascinating. So is the DAR. I have been to the DAR headquarters in DC because they have a museum which does interesting exhibits, often revolving around needlework. There are also these period rooms you can tour, decorated by different states, and to tour them you end up wandering through the huge headquarters building. The hallways are lined with portraits of past presidents and members of DAR....almost exclusively white women. I forget who the sole black American woman whose portrait I saw ... someone prominant in 20th Century. One of these days I need to do some reasearch on the DAR itself.
My family only dates from 1830s (Irish) and 1850s (Germans). We are newbies. Or is that upstarts?
Theresa wrote: "Geneology is fascinating. So is the DAR. I have been to the DAR headquarters in DC because they have a museum which does interesting exhibits, often revolving around needlework. ..."The ladies in my chapter do a lot with needlework and quilting. They are quite amazing. One day I think it would be interesting to go to the National convention.
A while ago I was a member of UDC and we had a Black member which I thought was amazing.
Almost every line of my family has been here since almost the beginning. Most of my ancestors arrived in the mid-1600s. I've done a lot of research on my lines and have been working on getting the various clubs and certificates now. I did UDC first and then through the same line did DAR.
Apparently I could be a member of DAR because my mother's family, the Ransoms, goes back to before the American Revolution. But when my mother was young was the time the DAR refused to have Marian Anderson sing because she was black (she sang at the Lincoln Memorial instead) so my mother decided she didn't want anything to do with them. My husband did some genealogy a while ago. On my mother's side I am related to the Ochs family who founded the New York Times, and to another member of that family who put up the original money for it. That relative left a memoir and he was a bit of a 19th century Forrest Gump, meeting multiple presidents, the German Kaiser, etc. On my husband's side, his great-grandparents were society people back in England/Wales, with their weddings and funerals written up in the newspapers and a stained glass window dedicated to his great-grandmother, which is still in place in a church in Cardiff.
@Robin I was reading/listening to Dick Gregory's book The Most Defining Moments in Black History According to Dick Gregory and he literally just talked about the DAR and Marian Anderson as I walked back into my driveway this afternoon. He mentioned that half of the DAR quit including Eleanor Roosevelt when that happened. I was apprehensive about joining when I was in FL but the ladies here in WA are so, so sweet and welcoming to everyone.I agree... I'm so fascinated by Genealogy and I'm so happy to be able to feel like I can start digging back into it. I think I'm going to try to knock out some Pioneer certificates this year, although I'm struggling with finding balance since it takes away from my reading time.
Charlotte wrote: "@Robin I was reading/listening to Dick Gregory's book The Most Defining Moments in Black History According to Dick Gregory and he literally just talked about the DAR ..."I am pretty sure the black portrait I saw at DAR was Marion Anderson. Now I am very curious.
Here we go: https://www.dar.org/national-society/...Looks like fences were mended after 1939.
I had a client who was a member of DAR during her life, and she left a financial bequest to them in her will for which I was the administrator. I remember the formal thank you from DAR personally addressed I received.
Theresa wrote: "Here we go: https://www.dar.org/national-society/...Looks like fences were mended after 1939.
I had a client who was a member of DAR during her life, and she left a financial bequest..."
Interesting.
@ Karin-that first one was fun to listen to. Cannot imagine how those girls kept a straight face-LoL@Charlotte-fascinating history! I started my family genealogy years ago and never finished, I need to get on that. I watch Finding Your Roots, on PBS, all the time. There was an episode a few weeks ago when someone's history, through a single mother grandmother, also lead to Washington state! The theory was that women were migrating there in the late 1880's because they were being offered jobs that men normally would get.
@Joanne and @Charlotte - it was also increased marital opportunities that brought women in late 19th Century to Pacific Northwest. Don't underestimate one of the lingering impacts of the Civil War - loss of a generation of young men in the east. This is true after any long bloody war. Family trees will show many 'spinsters' during certain generations. I remember reading something once where in commenting on a family's numerous maiden aunts at the end of the 19th Century, author said that the Civil War left southern women in particular with few to no marital opportunities and it also affected the next generation....fewer children. You can see something similar in British families after WWI and WWII. Women still needed marriage for security if not social expectation. Legitimate work oportunities and ability to own property were still mostly unavailable.
@Theresa-yes, and yes all that you said spurred movement to the West.
I am always half-surprised that the DAR is real - coming from the UK, I only know of it from the Gilmore Girls, so sorry Charlotte, I'll be picturing you as Emily Gilmore from now on ;-)
I'm definitely not DAR - lol! Immigrant the whole way. Polish and Russian. And by Polish, I mean Galitzia, where Poland, Austria Hungary, and the Czech republic were all mixed together in a giant Jewish shtettel blob. I hear that for many of my tribe that descended from this area, or these mixes of areas, that our genetic ancestry is wholly uninteresting. And not worth the hundred plus bucks. My husband is the same as me, possibly down to specific villages for all we know.
Joanne wrote: "@Charlotte-fascinating history! I started my family genealogy years ago and never finished, I need to get on that. I watch Finding Your Roots, on PBS, all the time. There was an episode a few weeks ago when someone's history, through a single mother grandmother, also lead to Washington state..."I bet that had something to do with it! Original family researchers assumed she lived out her days in Georgia and was buried near her husband even though they didn't find a headstone. I love that I've found that's not the case. And I bet it was because she had more opportunity. The 1880 census has her and her 3 daughters running a farm in GA and she's 67! Then off she goes to the PNW with a couple of by great uncles to live out her years.
@ Theresa - I doubt she moved to the PNW for the whole husband thing... she was in her 70s by the time that she got here. :)
I have seen the spinster thing (I hate that word) happen a few times in my family tree with various great aunts. Although a couple were in the FL State Hospital and well... that's a whole other sad story of what they subjected women to in the past.
@Nikki - That's awesome! Although I'm quite a bit younger than her and fancy myself way more like Loralei which is why it took me so long to join because I pictured the same thing!
@Amy - The bit of research that I've done on my husband's line I wonder if he comes from similar. I know they arrived in the early 1900s from Czech and I think our last name of Shimko was originally Schimko or Schimkova. Also the research I've done is that they were Jewish although his family is not now. There hasn't been much said about his family history and I have to say it is so much easier and there is so much more to research about mine, that I haven't taken the time to dig into his as much.
Yes that Galitzia became the home of so many displaced Jews. I’m choosing Poland forFly the Skies Ancestral Bonus, with Tattooist of Auschwitz. I suppose 1000 New York City settings for my actual birth at Lenox Hill Hospital. But given that ancestries an option that feels like it makes sense.
Best day! My mom got her first vaccination shot!!! Yay!!
Charlotte wrote: "Best day! My mom got her first vaccination shot!!! Yay!!"That's great to hear, Charlotte!
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Here in the states we have a holiday 3 day weekend coming up called Presidents Day which honors Lincoln and Washington. In reality it is a great time to score some big purchases during the President Day Sales. I need a new sofa and this can't be put off any longer. The center section of springs in my current sofa collapsed. I kid you not. I did know that was going to happen, yet just kept putting off shopping for new sofa.
I am a huge procrastinator when it comes to shopping because unless it is for books, needlework supplies, or cute gift shops when on vacay in different places, I hate shopping.
I'm inclined to get a recliner sofa, pun intended. One of those power models with maximum adjustments. Ugly as sin but friends had a Flexisteel model in their condo when I stayed there a couple years ago and it was fabulous. As my friends said, they got past the ugly easy and went with total comfort.
Besides finding affordable furniture stores in Manhattan that are open and carry quality not dreck (I once bought a sofa at Classic Sofa - best I ever owned, lasted a long time, but even with decorator discount, cost a fortune), size is an issue. I need a slightly shorter sofa (80" max) to fit in the space between bookcases, also fit in the elevator, and fit through the apartment door. A loveseat is just a tad too short.
I also have to find and pay someone to haul out the old sofa to the curb, and check NYC trash rules on curbside pickup. So dang complicated.
*SIGH*
Wish me luck. Think I will close office early Friday and get the shopping over with.
Yes, I know how happy I will be with a new sofa when it gets here. I just loathe the process.