Sometimes you just get a little Tired

good luck with your annual check up appointment

I hope your appoinment will go well. You have a very good oncologist who is following you for many years. Think like you are going to see your old friend, soblood and scanare contributions to a lovely chat with   favorite doctor. 

hugs

I understand...then add we

I understand...then add we have lost some wonderful women it gets very depressing.  But as my Daddy would say you just have to soldier on.

Pixie Dust said:

DAY BY DAY

Glowmore, do not say that you do not think you can live another 12 yrs. I know that it is hard to think this way, but let us not think of the years we have, Lets just thank God everyday we get out of bed and touch our feet to the floor. Hugs, Pixie Dust

New oncologist

Of course you are nervous - changing an oncologist is a very big deal, especially if you have had a good one who carried for you. People who did not have cancer cannot understand how much does it mean to have a good doctor. Hopefully replacement is a good one too. 90 is a very good number le's hope and ty!!!

Sailing wind said:

GlowMore you have many more

GlowMore you have many more years to go. Enjoy them . Start a new hobby. Is ther something you always wanted to do but didn't get to it?  I jut started drawing. Alway very good at it just never got to it . Started taking cheap senior course at the local college to get me going. 

 

Can't see where I can go read

Can't see where I can go read old post and find out more about you all. 

GlowMore said:

Better Today/Tonight

Thanks for the encouragement girls...........feeling better tonight..... had my Annual Diagnostic MM today and all was ok for another year per the Radiologist.    It's always a relief .......now will see my new Oncologist the first week in Sept and see how that goes........I think I'm due for a PET but would rather not get any more of those scans...sometimes the scans themselves can give you trouble and I've had too many already.  But not complaining.....I am grateful ....and I have found something that is super interesting to do the past few weeks...have started on some Family Tree Work on Ancestry.com and it keeps your mind super busy and off of your worries.      Fear is a terrible thing... I wish we could all get rid of it......you are all very brave women.......  I am honored to be among you.

Family Tree Research

GlowMore, so good to hear you're feeling better and have found something useful and challenging to wrap your mind around. I have so enjoyed my genealogy work and the family stories and photos I've found along the way.

Besides using ancestry.com, be sure and check out the free website www.findagrave.com. It's a collection of cemetery memorials, all contributed by volunteers. Anyone can look at the entries, but to add material you need to register your email address with them in case someone needs to contact you. Every cemetery can have it's own home page, with a photo of the cemetery, a map of how to get there, and an index of the memorials for the people who are buried there. Once there have been over 100 people entered into the cemetery the index becomes searchable by surname. Each person's memorial page has a text area where you can write about their life, add the obit, etc., add personal photos, a photo of the tombstone, create links between the memorial pages of spouses and between spouses and their kids. There's an icon to request a volunteer to take a tombstone photo if you live across country and can't get out and take one yourself. Those links are what makes this site such a gem for family researchers. Often if you find a cemetery where a family member is buried, you can then use the feature of "search for all Olson's buried in this cemetery, or in this county, or in this state" and find a whole bunch of other related Olson's.

Be sure and use the link to frequently asked questions and read through how to use it, there are rules they want the volunteers to follow. Anyone can add a memorial for anyone whether you're related to them or not. Some volunteers enter memorials every day from the obit section of the newspaper. Some use the names from cemetery indexes prepared by local genealogy societies, some go and photograph entire cemeteries and then add the memorial pages and the photos at the same time.

I got started by agreeing to be a volunteer photographer for people requesting tombstone photos. If someone requests a photo within 50 miles of my house I get an email, as do all the other volunteers in the area, and if I decide to go take it I can put a 2 week reserve on the request to alert other volunteers not to waste their time driving there because I'm going to attempt to find the stone. If I don't find it or for some reason don't get out there, the reserve just expires on its own. Then I started taking photos of small cemeteries as long as I'd made the drive there. And then I kind of went nuts and started systematically photographing each section of a local cemetery until I had taken photos of all the stones I could find or dig up until I'd taken over 18,000 people! It was a 4 year project of taking photos, and I still have about 5000 people to add to **** from that cemetery. But the hard physical work is done, and is making a wonderful activity that I can now do from my recliner.

I took the photos as family groups, head stone, mom, dad, and whoever was in that plot, and as I enter each grouping into **** I try to create the relationship links. Sometimes it's obvious because the stone says Mother and Father, etc. Often it's not, as you get inlaws mixed in with the children. That's when I'll open up a second screen and go to Ancestry and check out the Public Trees and see if anyone has that family in their tree, and if they do I can often update the info on the memorial page, like add a middle name, or expand the dates of birth and death if they look accurate (I live right on the border of 2 states and have learned not to trust where people think their loved ones died. Just because the person lived in MN doesn't mean they died there because the hospital in our area is on the ND side of the river), and just because the Social Security Death Index says their last residence was a certain place, that doesn't mean that's where they died. So I also have windows open to the online ND Death Index and the MN Death Certificates Index and before I enter anyone as having died in either state I make sure they actually did. If I do find a Public Tree that contains the family I send the tree owner a message which I copy and paste that says "Robert Olson is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Fargo, ND and you can see a photo of his tombstone at -------, you have my permission to use the photo in your ancestry tree if you want". Often their tree is missing the death date, and now that they have it they can research for death certificates, an obit, etc. and I get many grateful responses.

If I don't find the people from the cemetery plot in a Public Tree I'll go to ancestry.com and search the census records closest to the date of their death and see if I can find them in either Fargo or Moorhead to see what I can learn about the family relationships. It takes time, but is very rewarding.

If you know where some of your family is buried from the home page there is a search feature where you can either search by the person's name, or by a cemetery. I'd recommend starting with the cemetery, and then searching or browsing by the surname. Since names get entered from indexes, sometimes first names are only their initials and you won't find them if you search for the entire name to begin with. The person who enters a memorial is considered the manager of that memorial and is the only person who can make changes to the name, dates, or text portion of the page, anyone can add a photo. **** has rules about asking for a transfer of management if you're related, and if the manager is not related and you are and you've requested a transfer, they are supposed to do so. You can also send in an edit request and just tell them what needs to be added or changed and the changes can be made without actually doing a transfer of managment. In my **** bio I've included a note that I'm not related to the majority of memorials I've entered and would be willing to transfer ownership regardless if they're a direct line descendent.

You have found a fun and rewarding hobby, hope you discover lots of fun stuff through those green shaking leaves at ancestry.com