Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

vivatifosi

GDB2222 wrote: »

First Fleeter - never heard that term. It's a bit like being on the Mayflower, but to Australia.

As I've mentioned before, I've been helping an American friend of mine with their family tree in terms of tracing their early relatives who left the UK.

There are different societies that Americans can join based on how long their families have been in the country. The most distinguished of these is the Mayflower Society. However later arrivals could also join the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.

There is however another group that predates the Mayflower. The Jamestowne Society is for people descended from the earliest settlers in Virginia. Now this colony was established before the Mayflower. My friend's family arrived four years after the Mayflower. There was an earlier colony at Roanoke, the mystery behind which is well worth reading about.

Jamestowne imo is interesting in terms of its place in the American psyche. It is a much more powerful narrative when building a state as the land of the free, to focus on freedom from religious persecution. If the focus reverted to the earlier establishment of Jamestiwne, then the narrative would be one of commerce, rather than religious freedom. Plus there would be the thorny issue of slavery more front and centre. You can see why the Mayflower becomes the focus, even though English ships had been crossing to America for a good forty years prior to that, and Spanish ships, even earlier. The longest continually inhabited town in the USA wasn't even Jamestown. It is Saint Augustine, in Florida, settled by the Spanish. Again, that doesn't fit the narrative either.

Pyxis

Thanks for that Vivatifosi. That was interesting.

silvercar

Just testing something.

Pyxis

silvercar wrote: »

Just testing something.

Has it worked?

silvercar

Pyxis wrote: »

Has it worked?

Yes. The sharp eyed should be able to spot it.

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

Yes. The sharp eyed should be able to spot it.

Oh, wasn't there supposed to be whatever you were testing showing up after the statement that you were testing it?
:rotfl:

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

Just testing something.

I'm lost, can someone guide me to the right answer?

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Lydia

This is in my tree.

She was my GGG-grandmother.

She's on somebody else's tree online too.
http://www.gritquoy.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I320&tree=ROSE
1794-1869 - although that tree says 1798 so I need to triple check what I've got/from where.

PasturesNew

Today, for me, Chrome on XP is behaving bizarrely and it's not good.

Say I have 3 tabs open - and I want to flit between them. Each time I have to wait for the whole lot to reload from scratch again. Not handy if you're copying/pasting stuff, or generally flitting from tab to tab.

I just loaded my family tree on there. I wanted to click on the grandparent of the "starting person when this tree is loaded". Usually, having clicked, it stays there - now, each time I change tabs and go back, it takes me back to the beginning point and I have to click on that person again.

So this is causing me varying degrees of annoyance across every website I am visiting.

Is it me? Is it the Internet? Is it my PC? Or Chrome? Or what?
I hope it fixes itself by magic soon.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

I'm lost, can someone guide me to the right answer?

I'm sure someone will volunteer to do so!


PS Congratulations silvercar!