{"id":1637,"date":"2010-12-19T23:11:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T03:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2010-12-19T23:11:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T03:11:41","slug":"sunday-night-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/12\/19\/sunday-night-family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night &#8211; family tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We left Endicott about 7:30 this morning. On the way out of Gabe an Marcia&#8217;s house I snapped a grabbed a picture of some of the relatives that Marcia and my rother-in-law Steve have tracked down in the course of their explorations of the family tree. Meet Sara Ann Quick and her husband Lewis Snyder..\u00a0 Here are their pictures from 1892. Sar Ann was born in this country of dutch parents. Lewis was (I beleive0 born here too, of German parents. Lewis was badly injured in the civil war.. bt I don&#8217;t know the details. All that I do know is that they lived near Kingston NY.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217; scool seeing these guys.. I&#8217;m hoping to get a simple geneology site up unde rthis web stie. Watch this space<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1910\/dec1910001.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1910\/dec1910002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1910\/dec1910003.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On theway out of Endicott, we stopped at our favorite Deli, Roma&#8217;s and picked up soem Pizza for breakfast.. then began the long 6 hour drive home&#8230;\u00a0 With both Max and Gabe now driving.. we had 4 drivers to split the ride.. but Diane and I did the whole trip in two long runs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1910\/dec1910008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Onecurious interlude.. We stopped at a rest area in the addarondacks and I found this sign in English and Yiddish over one of the water fountains. (Yiddish is the language of Hassidic and other very devout jews in all parts of the world. it&#8217;s\u00a0 sort of like German but written in Hebrew script.\u00a0\u00a0 The yiddish for this is a long list of things you shouldn&#8217;t be doing ith this water.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1910\/dec1910009.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>as in no washing of the hands !\u00a0 I wonder what was going on that required such a sign ?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1910\/dec1910010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We got back to VT about 2.. in time to stop by Puriton&#8217;s up the road from us and pick out another form of family tree.. this years Christmas tree !\u00a0 Half the town was there, it seemed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1910\/dec1910012.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a bit of searching we found our tree..\u00a0\u00a0 Max, Gabe, and I\u00a0 took turns with the saw..<\/p>\n<p>After a <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1910\/dec1910018.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1910\/dec1910020.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1910\/dec1910021.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As always, we bring Sam into our circle.. we left a samstone on the stump of the tree..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1910\/dec1910023.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a thin and tall tree.. perfect for our house. .. We think we&#8217;re dressing it as a zombie this year.. not sure.. watch this week ..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1910\/dec1910028.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec1910\/dec1910031.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK.. that&#8217;s it for today.. Oh.. Max shared this cool film he made of a night on the oat.. Fun with steel wool. I really like this clip !<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=16595043&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>OK folks. more tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/16595043\">Sparx<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/maxwellcohn\">Maxwell Cohn<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left Endicott about 7:30 this morning. On the way out of Gabe an Marcia&#8217;s house I snapped a grabbed a picture of some of the relatives that Marcia and my rother-in-law Steve have tracked down in the course of their explorations of the family tree. Meet Sara Ann Quick and her husband Lewis Snyder..\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/12\/19\/sunday-night-family-tree\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday night &#8211; family tree<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}