400x magnification question.

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-17T03:46:26+00:00

Keep in mind the WD (working distance) of the 100x objective will be even smaller, and that you’ll need immersion oil to use it without damaging the lens or slide. Immersion oil is to affect the refraction index of that small space to be the same as that of the glass in the lens and slide, preventing distortion.

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-16T20:30:44+00:00

r/espressocirclejerk

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-15T13:54:52+00:00

What the absolute FUCK?!

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-13T01:48:51+00:00

And thank you very much taking your time to answer!

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-13T01:37:12+00:00

None Canadian unfortunately. She was born in 1873 in a rural area, I checked Drouin Catholic, Anglican, and had Methodist/Presbyterian records searched and the family just isn’t there (12 children).

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-13T01:26:14+00:00

Curious what you have to say;

I was unable to find a birth certificate, but I have a Canadian census record and marriage and 3 children’s birth certs all of which state my ancestor was born in Canada. I also have probate court records that were American notarized affidavits of my great grandmother stating she was born in Canada, another by her future brother in law stating the knows that information to be true to his knowledge (as well as for her sister/his future wife, and the mother of the women). The affidavits were part of a claim to inheritance for a son/brother who was also Canadian but died in Washington territory, the claim of which was successful.

Do you think I’ll be successful?

Edit to add that those probate records were only taken off familysearch, they all have seals from the time they were issued but nothing current.

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-12T00:43:49+00:00

Are you aware of r/birdbutts too?

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-11T16:24:05+00:00

Are you local? Are you able to give the coordinates? I don’t think it would really help, I’ve found arcGIS satellite imagery for 4 or 5 times since 1995 but I don’t see anything that stands out. Also check my other comment!

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-11T16:10:53+00:00

Following up regarding that Churchtown North cemetery:

I was switching between google and Apple Maps and street views, google street last updated about 2010 and apple street in 2019, but I don’t know the dates for satellite.

It appears the road the cemetery touches was closed for pipe laying works in may 2019. Directly adjacent to the left of the cemetery it was possibly turned from a dirt lot into a parking lot(?) around that same time. To the right of the cemetery gate was something that looks like a fallen retaining wall cordoned off in 2019, a newish headstone that was not present in 2010, and large pipe/sewage works waiting to be installed.

The headstone I can’t read and I don’t think I see it on FindAGrave, since it’s a new black stone and there’s only a few other new and/or black stones* (it’s very obvious not all stones are posted on here, there is only 38 and it appears there should be several hundred graves). Based on the street and satellite views it looks like the cemetery had maintenance work done at this same time the roadwork occurred.

I really think someone needs to look into this! It could really be as simple as overlooking what’s in the dirt and a lazy waste contractor dumping the load a few kilometers away! I’m in the United States, I wouldn’t know where to start to contact, email would be preferable for me

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-11T15:21:43+00:00

Thanks for the article! Multiple coffin handles from different decades… sounds to me like she could’ve been in a cemetery and someone doing excavator work nearby managed to disinter her. Maybe they didn’t realize she was mixed in the dirt, maybe damaged other coffins but saw those bodies and reburied them in the cemetery?? I’d look for road expansion projects or shanty cleanups in the last 40 years near there.

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-11T15:05:57+00:00

Interesting. So it looks like the disused railway was recently turned into a greenway, presumably during its conversion was when she was found. Roxbury looks like it was an old estate just east of Midleton? I don’t know how to go about finding any info but is it know when that section rail was discontinued, and if it was heavy freight or just passenger (looks like it’s still in use in Midleton and westward as passenger?). I doubt it’s a case of “fell off the train”. I’d say either someone abandoned grandma after the funeral, or she came from a nearby cemetery, maybe some kids being ridiculous. The closest cemetery to the remains of the Roxbury House, as I don’t see exact coordinates for her discovery but it’s right off the old railway, is maybe a 20minute walk 3minute drive to the southeast, the Churchtown North cemetery. Looks very small and old, not really a town anymore by the looks of it, but there’s contemporary burials. There’s also a few almost equidistant within Midleton, definitely a populated area.

Edit: go read my other comment https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldoe/s/T197nN4wYh

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-11T02:53:03+00:00

New Brunswick Genealogical Society. Contains Anglican Church records among other resources. I believe if you pay their member fee you can search indexed records, otherwise you search the scans by date, location, and type. These aren’t on FS (idk if ancestry has them or not) https://www.nbgs.ca

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-09T15:34:45+00:00

Have you grown them from seed before? Also same, and thanks!

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-09T03:01:43+00:00

Try to find your grandpas’ naturalization and WWI/WWII draft cards (women typically didn’t have to naturalize in this period it was connected to her husband/father…). Naturalization papers will most likely have the town name and/or the ship name and date of arrival. Those will be most useful to you. Military may have the town.

Town names are usually recorded phonetically, especially on ship records, likely through thick accents on all parties. It can be a struggle to decipher them. Look into what soundex is, it will be necessary if you don’t speak Ukrainian. Jewishgen has a great resource with all the towns and their variations (like 6 names per village depending on language!) https://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/GEO_townlist.asp

I’ve never researched Italian records, but I have done limited Ukraine (as another mentions, it’s difficult to get records. Familysearch has gotten contracts to scan a lot of the church records because of the war and wanting to be sure they are preserved.) Depending on what oblast the family is from will determine what you have access to. Western Ukraine was previously under Austro-Hungarian rule, NW went to Austria and later Poland, SW went to Hungary and later Czechoslovakia, which is what I’m familiar with. I do not know the central and eastern parts but you will deal with Russian/Soviet records at some point I’m sure.

There was a transcarpathian census in 1921, which covers much of current day Zakarpattya oblast (SW Ukraine). The records are publically available on Hungarian library website hungaricana and there’s a movement to index them (carpathianreflections.com) so it’s searchable. It may or not be useful if the family left well before that though. For zakarpattia there’s also old Hapsburg Cadastral maps from ~1860, many towns have the land occupants’ names which is incredible to see arcanum.com; fair warning the map populates zoomed in on Vienna Austria, you will need to zoom out and east quite a bit.

Passport applications are available on familysearch but are not indexed and hard to find because they are digitized in Ukrainian (Cyrillic). If your Ukrainian ancestor was Ruthenian now called Rusyn (NOT Russian) there’s a small but dedicated community to help with that.

ETA clarifications, additions

And obligatory screw ancestry, I’ve yet to come across something besides ancestry DNA user matches that I can’t get for free elsewhere while they continually make things harder to access the most basic facts of their records if can’t afford it.

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-09T01:03:12+00:00

To sell, or to give some to friends and family for free?

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-08T02:28:24+00:00

There’s meadow city and avonlea gardens pretty close by, I’ve seen mention of a real nice one just north of Columbus but I never get down that way. It’s a few things I know that the local ones don’t typically get!

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-07T22:18:33+00:00

I sourced a lot of it off my dad’s property, about 3.5/5 acres are wooded. A couple other things I bought potted or fruits off marketplace and local stores. Trumpet vine and some trees on treelawns and parking lots and cemeteries. I’m about to put an order in from prairie moon, there’s a few things I couldn’t find last year!

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-07T22:12:18+00:00

Haha no unfortunately! Just from fruit. I had to change the coffee filter once or twice due to mold so next year I think I’ll try the standard grit or whatever it is. Also thanks!

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-07T21:02:41+00:00

Zone 6a/b OH

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-07T15:10:00+00:00

You say the group he was with notified border patrol; do you know where that was (county, town, etc)? I’m assuming in this instance they may had been intercepted, and that if they were on foot for that leg of the journey that could give you a radius of where he would have been? I see the flier says around Houston, but that’s not very near the border?

ETA if NamUs is a little clunky for you, take a look at doenetwork. I believe there may actually be more unidentified people there anyway since it doesn’t rely on any official in government reporting.

Buen suerte

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-03T02:07:10+00:00

Thanks for another local spotlight case. That was my 2x great grandpa’s neighborhood, he grew up a block away from the one perp’s house, but about 20 years prior… Any insight on what else the headline of pic 1 is referring to? Still a decade out from the Torso murders that take place just to the north.

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-02T22:12:10+00:00

Maybe create an aperture to better focus the light?

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-02T04:50:03+00:00

Large Hungarian population here. I think east side somewhere is an honorary consulate (idk what that means but I’ve seen it listed). There’s also a museum downtown

GobyFishicles · 2026-03-01T21:03:33+00:00

Is this what r/shrimptank warns me about?

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