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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Brickwalls in my wikitree.com family tree (auto updated)

 None of the buttons or inputs at the top of this work FYI!

Brick Walls
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Find Brick Wall Ancestors



Out of 2046 possible ancestors in 10 generations, 323 (15.79%) have WikiTree profiles.
0/323 (0%) are duplicates due to pedigree collapse.
104 ancestors are missing at least one parent:
NameBirth DateBirth Place
1Thurmond-4241834-00-00South Carolina, United States
2O'Neal-24051829-00-00
3Pope-86111825-00-00Henry, Georgia, United States
4Dixon-136121821-06-15Habersham, Georgia, United States
5O'Brien-76251817-06-05
6Pasley-2921814-00-00South Carolina, United States
7Wilson-784991811-00-00South Carolina, United States
8Colbert-14561804-00-00
9Bussey-4631802-06-29Jasper, Pickens, Georgia, USA
10Graggs-31801-03-02Troup County, GA
11Copeland-19981799-12-22North Carolina, United States
12McCrary-10331795-00-00Georgia
13Matthews-46691791-05-15North Carolina, USA
14Ward-46581791-00-00Stewart, Tennessee, United States
15Brown-1191321785-00-00Mecklenburg County, Virginia, USA
16Unknown-2967961772-00-00Richland, South Carolina
17Cherry-28281765-00-00
18Costello-2211745-00-00Pittsylvania, Virginia
19Beard-6321740-00-00Germany, Austria
20Bolling-791734-06-30Henrico County Courthouse, Henrico, Virginia
21Unknown-2097491731-00-00Virginia
22Leverett-541730-00-00Essex Co., VA
23Powers-27691725-00-00Greenwich, Massachusetts
24Humphries-9271720-06-02Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina
25Drash-11718-00-00Germany
26Wills-1651716-00-00Hesse-Cassel, Germany
27Turner-235661714-12-11Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay
28Bell-253971714-00-00North Carolina
29Felsinger-31713-00-00Büdingen, Hesse, Germany
30Carpenter-34381711-04-11Bietigheim, Ludwigsburg, Württemberg, Germany
31Seitz-781711-03-10Büdingen, Hesse, Germany
32Davis-538261710-00-00
33Carlisle-17841710-00-00Edgecombe County, North Carolina
34Wagner-14591700-00-00Rhinepfalz, Germ
35Madden-9321700-00-00Frederick, Virginia
36Smith-1862251699-01-10Christ Church Parish, Virginia
37Unknown-3449641690-00-00Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay
38Griffin-31941690-00-00Wales, Yorkshire, England
39Kercher-1291689-00-00
40Felsinger-11687-00-00Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire
41Wright-503101685-00-00Leicester, England
42Dibble-5511684-05-15Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
43Unknown-3401431684-00-00Oberöfflingen, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
44Dantzer-11683-09-14Niederemmel, Piesport, Rhineland, Preussen
45Jones-186701682-00-00New London, Connecticut
46Goode-26001680-00-00Leicestershire, England
47Koch-6361677-00-00
48Kerker-91675-00-00Germany
49Unknown-3997231673-00-00Newark, Connecticut
50Koch-6351673-00-00
51Clerk-1661673-00-00Norfolk, England
52Meredith-1691672-00-00Goosnargh, Lancashire, England
53Unknown-2496061668-03-20Deutschland
54Von Der Schellingberg-11668-00-00Lambsheim, Palatinate
55Zwicker-1651665-00-00Buchenbronn, Germany
56Christler-371664-00-00Breslau, Silesia Suchy, Brandenburg, Germany
57Crow-23771663-03-06Catfield, Norfolk, England
58Cookman-191663-00-00Germany
59Ofener-11663-00-00Arbach, Rheinland, Germany
60Kegel-71660-00-00Germany
61Dietrich-2571660-00-00Homberg, Hessen, Germany
62Alsop-821660-00-00Caroline, Virginia
63Siegfried-91657-00-00Alsace, Germany
64Brandstatter-31655-00-00Hundsholtz, near Goppingen, Germany
65Talbot-40371654-00-00Lancaster, Lancashire, England
66Martin-179891651-00-00New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
67Rolle-111650-07-11Isle of Wight, Virginia
68Bohli-21650-00-00Germany
69Crooker-1561650-00-00Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts
70Unknown-3032451645-00-00Isle of Wight, Virginia
71Warren-14561644-01-30Bristol, England
72Kegel-81644-00-00Germany
73Emons-61640-00-00Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
74Unknown-3436851640-00-00
75Thomas-59451640-00-00Henrico, Virginia
76Pulliam-121640-00-00Henrico County, Virginia
77Patterson-5821640-00-00Colony of Virginia
78Purcell-1181640-00-00Isle of Wight, Virginia
79Shirley-22361640-00-00
80Baker-21931638-00-00Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
81Clark-20311637-00-00
82Alsop-851635-00-00
83Gilpin-2131635-00-00England
84Dellinger-1401634-00-00Germany
85Taylor-370811630-00-00Scotland
86Osgood-2561629-00-00Wiltshire, England
87Snatt-11627-00-00
88Watson-831624-09-19England
89Look-301622-00-00Scotland
90Hill-5671618-00-00England
91Truitt-3131617-00-00Kent, England
92Unknown-1655891607-00-00Landford, Wiltshire, England
93Sherman-1391599-00-00Dedham, Colchester, Essex, England
94Doty-421599-00-00England
95Cottle-1161594-05-19Siston, Gloucestershire, England
96Helme-531590-00-00Goosnargh, Lancashire, England
97Unknown-181241588-00-00England
98Standish-1121584-00-00Ellanbane, Lancashire, England
99Ogg-6740000-00-00
100Bohli-10000-00-00
101Winslow-20820000-00-00
102Buker-1930000-00-00
103Ray-2630000-00-00
104Salisbury-1330000-00-00

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Gimp - The Poor Man's Photoshop



Original photo with crazy horizon line framing that gives the impression that boat is surfing down the face of a Tsunami or something. 





Gimp'd version with three corners that had to be airbrushed by yours truly. It wasn't as hard as I had imagined it would be either. I was able to keep a couple of the boats in the distant background as well.


 

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

List of wikitree profiles you have added.

 Here is how to create a list of all the profiles you hold on wikitree. They list in the order you added them BTW.

Sample profile holder URL - opens a new window

Hint: Copy the link conten above and replace the "Cagle-6222" (the profile-id) part with your own profile-id or someone else's profile-id  to see results. Note that the Cagle-6222 doesn't exists so it will yield?

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Standard Clamptite Tool Homebrew Upgrade

 Make your bottom of the line clamptite tool (Link here) as functional as the one that costs more than twice (Link here) as much for practically free! Of course I won't argue with anyone that has the money to pay for that much nicer premium model tool. I just don't think it is forty dollars nicer is all!

 

BEFORE 

Materials: Some scrap handrail dowel rod ( About 1-1/2" diameter piece about three inches long).

Tools required:

  • Backsaw, 5/16" drill bit to make the central hole.
  • Xacto knife.
  •  Standard Clamptite Tool CLT05.
  •  Optional ... Drill press (makes drilling more accurate than hand drill).

Steps:

  • Drill  5/16" hole in center of your dowel deep enough to accommodate the  fully tightened exposed length of the clamptite tools central screw.
  • Cut a 3/16" slot across the open end that you drilled into to accomodate the wing nut's "wings". This will need to be about 1/2" deep measured from the end of the dowel.
  • Use your Exacto knife to clearance the opening of the hole at the end so that the tapped part of the wing nut can go more fully into your new handle.
  • Now for strength you can use your clamptite tool to reinforce the business end of the handle to resist splitting when you are really tightening something very tight as I needed to recently. I resorted to using pliers on the wing nut which of course was quite awkward and burred up both the nut and the threads of my clamptite tool. This is how I got the idea for making this project.

Finished Handle?


After 

Extra Credit?

I may drill across the grain on the opposite end for an appropriately sized t-handle dowel rod on the other end and put another clamptite clamp on that end to resist splitting. If I wind up doing that I will probably cover the whole handle with gorilla tape or something so those wire tips won't be able to bite me when I use the handle. I will put photos on here if I wind up doing any of that.


Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Restarting crashed cairo-dock processes with gksu script

 From time to time it becomes necessary to restart cairo-dock process on my lxde desktop (lubuntu 16.04). Here is how I created a shell script driven desktop shortcut to accomplish that. 

$ cat restartDock.sh 

#/bin/sh

killall cairo-dock 2> /tmp/tim1
killall cairo-dock-launcher-API-daemon 2> /tmp/tim2

gksu -u tim -S "bash -c 'cairo-dock -c 2>&1 | tee  /tmp/cairodoc.log '" &


12/19/2020 The other day I discovered this is inadequate and does not work in some circumstances. I did not document it when it occurred so it will have to wait until the next occurrence in order to put up a revision to address the deficiency. Sorry.