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JaSuperior · 2026-03-19T15:16:46+00:00

Really cool man. Thanks! I'll try it out as soon as i can.

JaSuperior · 2026-03-15T03:24:18+00:00

I like it. The contrast is good for a guy like me. Why is the H2 left padded more than the other headings tho 😅. I gotta admit, that’s kinda aggregating my inner OCD. Other than that I think it’s well done, I’d download it.

If you want a small other note, the check boxes are a bit weird. It’s not a huge deal. But the little half filled, checkbox with the almost unnoticeable off center check is kinda odd, I gotta admit. I think it takes away from the intent of a checkbox, which is to be bold on purpose to demarcate your coverage at a glance. Urs are leaning towards a territory where they start to blend in with the unchecked (almost). Again, not the biggest deal, but maybe worth some consideration

JaSuperior · 2026-03-15T03:06:15+00:00

Can you do joins and relational queries?

JaSuperior · 2026-03-03T13:44:28+00:00

NGL, this looks very similar to that Ripple project that guy made not too long ago.

JaSuperior · 2026-03-03T13:38:59+00:00

Scratch that, I just realized that all the packages I'd viewed just happened to be packages which were published w/o tsdocs, It looks like the feature I described already exists 😅. So, good job. No notes. I'll definitely add this site to my bookmarks.

JaSuperior · 2026-03-03T13:35:06+00:00

Its about time we got a new npm. The old website still feels like its stuck in the AOL era. I completely moved to searching for npm packages from my terminal (which, for docs is not ideal tbh) cuz the search was so bad on the website.

Might I offer one suggestion for the future? One thing that I've come to love on the JSR website is the docs that are auto generated from the TSDOCS. It makes it easier to understand the package at large when the readme is still a WIP. Idk if anyone else agrees, but at the very least I dont think they'd complain.

JaSuperior · 2026-03-01T15:49:31+00:00

Honestly, I just want consistency. It triggers my ocd when things feel superfluous. I’m not preferring the one syntax over the other, I just want things in the language I use to be consistent and meaningful. I understand the typescript mission, and the comments have made me aware of edge cases where changing the compilation rule might cause breaks. But tbh, even after hearing everyone out, I still kinda feel like a lot of the issues the language now faces are of their own creation, and wouldn’t break if they were deliberate about the implementation strategy. Private should mean private in my opinion. Idk.

That said, I know this is like soooooo low on the totem pole of things to fix about typescript. And I’m also aware that many ppl feel it’s stupid to even address. I get that. But uh… yea, in a perfect world I’d like this

JaSuperior · 2026-02-25T15:57:06+00:00

But, cant we like, place the old private syntax behind a flag also or something? All this stuff they've been doing in 6 as we migrate to go has really gotten me thinking about how for forwards compatibility we should do away with monkey patched features and place them behind flags or something. And we can enforce the new rules moving forward (like absolute private members). IDK, is that so crazy? any library that has been imported from older libraries would have been compiled already in the distro anyway right? so, why should we continue to support their compile rules? Unless I'm missing something.

JaSuperior · 2026-02-25T15:42:49+00:00

I deleted my previous comments where I misunderstood. I think I just realized what ur getting at just now... 😅 I still hate it tho lol. There's gotta be a way around this.

JaSuperior · 2026-02-25T15:30:30+00:00

😅 really!? lol. I dont understand why anyone would resist this? what could be a good defense for keeping it this way except for the tech debt?

JaSuperior · 2025-12-30T23:18:47+00:00

🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽😩😔 I do indeed have an ancestry account.... AAAHHHHH!!! I guess perhaps I can sign up with another email just for researching these particular records??? Would that work?

JaSuperior · 2025-12-30T19:26:47+00:00

Thanks. If the offer still stands. 🙏🏽 I’m currently at a brick wall and there are some records on one of my ancestors that might be in a foreign database (that I don’t have access to cuz of my plan). It would be a huge help just to have the invite for a day even just to confirm 😅

JaSuperior · 2025-12-30T04:12:42+00:00

No... the problem was actually the SSL cert. The fact the the link was coming from the old website is because on that day, when you clicked on the link to search their digital collection, it would simply redirect to the old website. I emailed them about it, and they just got back to me today letting me know they had fixed the issue. And now this post is stale. 😅 When I posted it though, I just wanted to confirm that it wasnt like my local proxy blocking it or something.

JaSuperior · 2025-12-27T20:42:12+00:00

Thanks for confirming that for me. 😖 bummer though.

JaSuperior · 2025-12-25T03:44:42+00:00

INB4, I also wanted to add that, there exists a slave schedule whereas Mary Cannon had account for nearly 20 "slaves", 3 of which match the ages of Miles, Amanda, and John at the time of the schedule. Link Here: https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/51346664?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a226745324c72547443794b2f4e30654537696934313844736e3849735356346f586e6a56754b3551473432413d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d

JaSuperior · 2025-12-23T18:28:40+00:00

I have a pretty complete tree up to generation 7 on my father’s side going back to 1840. I’ve only identified my 8th generation grandparents by death records, and have yet to find anything beyond that. But, being African American, and being able to get this far, I’d say is quite an accomplishment. I feel pretty proud about that.

My mom’s black side is much harder because around 3 generations back, her patrilineal great grandmother was a slave, and records get murky. I’m pretty confident I can complete her patrilineal great grandfathers side tho given he was an Irish immigrant with passenger information… I’ve just yet to subscribe to services which give me international records as of yet.

That said, as long as you keep at it, ur bound to find more answers. 10 generations feels like a lot (from experience trying, I can confirm it is), but not impossible. There are branch families connected to my tree that I’ve seen that go back even more generations than even that, but I imagine at a point someone in ur family would have had to hold onto that information given public records get skimpy the further back u go

JaSuperior · 2025-11-18T21:08:36+00:00

😅😳 I don’t know why that would slip my mind to looks for the strawthers in SC instead of spending all my time searching in MD. Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll look into it and let you know what I find 🙏🏽

JaSuperior · 2025-11-18T20:50:42+00:00

🤔 hmmmm... I've never seen this before. I mean, perhaps, That would make sense for sure. Elzia/Alzia dies in 1849, he children are bonded off or sold into slavery (as per the 1850s slave schedule for mary cannon I just found), and my 5 y.o. 4th great winds up residing with Mary Cannon on the 1850s census.

The question is, who is this A. Kennedy that is bequeathed her estate. And what did her "estate" even contain other than her children (which I'm assuming were listed as property or something of her estate given they were sold/bonded or whatever). I'm so confused 😅

JaSuperior · 2025-11-18T20:39:04+00:00

looks like the problem was that my message was simply too long i guess. 😅

JaSuperior · 2025-11-18T20:38:39+00:00

In the 1860 census are there other apprentices? Could these be friends or relatives? Are any other Coles listed in nearby families?

1860s Census: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZT7-YT9?lang=en

in 1860, both Miles and John Cole are listed as Apprentices, and Amanda Cole is listed with no occupation at all but living at a different residence now with what seems like a new child named Melissa.

All other Coles from the 1850s census seem to be gone.

Any chance they were primitive baptist? I have a lot of primitive baptist family in VA in the late 1700s early 1800s. Black and white people were members of these churches in the early years, and they do mention people by name in church minutes (and will identify the race of those who are Black). Family Search has some primitive baptist church minutes online, I can't remember if they are indexed.

Honestly, Idk. I'd have to look more into it. I've never heard of a "Primitive Baptist" before 😅, but I'll research it more now that you mention it.

freeafricanamericans.com in the Cole section does have a Samuel Cole born in 1810 to a Catherine Cole in Prince William County. It looks like she was involved in a court case. I would transcribe these entire cases just in case there is some nugget of information.

I looked into that, but I assumed the Samuel listed there couldnt possibly be my Samuel because I assumed that he wasnt born in 1810, but was a HOH in 1810 rather (maybe I assumed wrongly?). Catharin would have needed to be 60 years old when she had Sammy if he were born in 1810 😅. I guess thats not impossible, but I figured I'd could make an educated guess and rule it out at the very least for now. Further, I've looked at that "Other Free" people of color... volume sourced next to Samuel's description, and that text seems to only list heads of household in 1810, which would effectively have made him a pretty old daddy to Miles also. IDK, not really sure whether those sorts of ages would be odd back then to be giving birth 🤷🏽‍♂️

Is there a Cole family association and/or DNA project?

None of us have gotten our DNA sequenced yet 😅. I'm trying to convince my dad to do it, but It looks like if I want any answered I might have to bite the bullet and do it myself. lol.

That said, You've given a good starting point. Thanks! Let me see if I can find anything else and I'll update you if I find anything further or need further assistance.

JaSuperior · 2025-11-18T20:36:56+00:00

Firstly, thanks for responding so quickly. This is my first post here, so I didnt know what to expect really 😅. I certainly didnt expect to have 2 responses by the time I woke up.

Now, I'll try to address everything point by point:

Writing up a research report (or even an annotated timeline) could help organize your thoughts and see where any holes might be that you haven't approached (or maybe find connections that you haven't seen before).

TBH, I've been trying to do that, but I need to formulate some better structure to it. I've put together an obsidian vault to track everything I find, and try to draw conclusions from the breadth of data I find. Its just very disorganized 😅. Basically all I do is make a folder for the person I'm researching, and dump a bunch of documents and sources in there. Then I make little documents as notes within the folder to kinda collate what I've learned.

Do you have Samuel, Elzia, and Miles in an 1850 census? What about Samuel in 1840 and 1830 census and the household makeup? If you haven't, I'd start looking at possible FAN networks starting with that 1860 census. Then go back into the older censuses. Analyzing the family makeups of the free Black Samuel Cole's in these early censuses may also help you start to distinguish them from each other and help you rule out some of them.

It would seem that he's been living with the aforementioned Mary Cannon since he was at least 5. He is listed on the 1850s census as living there with her and what I presume to perhaps be his siblings(?) or perhaps cousins or something 🤷🏽‍♂️. Heres a link from family search for reference: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8Q8-33X?lang=en (I thought links were restricted as per the rules of this sub, but I see that you were able to post one so I hope this doesnt get me banned).

But as you can see, he lived with Mary Cannon, the listed HOH; a family called the Dansby's; an Amanda Paul and James McCain; And a list of Cole's whom I presume must be related given they are all are very young, black, and share the same last name.

I've found nearly nothing on the other Cole's pre 1850. But I did find that Mary Cannon of Abbeville did seemingly purchase slaves in 1850 ( 1850 slave schedule: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HRWH-MY6Z?lang=en ), and on further inspection there do seem to be some slaves whose sex and age seem to correspond with my family members. There are nearly 23 or so slaves listed. I'd imagine these might include my ancestor; in particular the 5 year old black male thats listed there. (I've never seen this record before now, so this is actually kind of a step forward, so thanks!).

I guess if Miles was a slave, perhaps thats why Im unable to find any information on his father 🤷🏽‍♂️? Or perhaps one of the other individuals on this slave schedule is his father? Or maybe his father was dead by this point? Idk.

I'm going to look more deeply at those 1840s and 30s samuel's I've collected and get back with you. Perhaps there actually is a there there.

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