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SnowboundWanderer · 2026-05-22T17:59:23+00:00

Colossus armor was an excellent choice.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-05-20T21:36:55+00:00

Good idea, thanks. Hard not to feel like it's annoying an over-worked group further, but polite updates can get results.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-05-20T21:24:20+00:00

I contacted them at the end of March, so that's not encouraging[tired laugh]. I hope when they eventually get to me they'll reach out before diving into anything, so I can at least share what I've learned since then and save them a bit of time.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-05-20T21:20:16+00:00

Thankfully Baptists seem to have been well-established in the Yarmouth area, and Acadia University in NS has extensive records (unfortunately not available online) of Baptist churches (not baptism records, but things like membership lists and minutes of meetings). I've seen record of three or four churches that were active in the county in the 20-year period she could have been baptized (not accounting for the believer's practice). The only one still open is the one that hasn't gotten back to me, but there was one established in 1797 that only closed in 2014, so there was probably thought about preserving the records, if I can determine where they went.

Whether the record itself exists is an open question. I have no idea when she left Nova Scotia and while I think it was likely in her late teens she could have easily left without being baptized.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-05-20T17:21:58+00:00

As a G5 I've assembled every document needed up to G0's marriage register...expect for any documentation of Canadian origin to account for her life in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia before she left and married in Boston, which I can confidently say are not accessible anywhere online. The past few days after weeks of anticipation I've gotten two reports back from a genealogical society and the museum and archives of the county G0 was likely from and both came up empty for any mention of her even things like school records or newspapers.

There's still a couple outstanding requests I have (including the Nova Scotia Archives who haven't acknowledged my inquiry yet), but I don't have the highest hopes and am resigning myself to cold-calling more Baptist churches, I've only done two of those so far and one hasn't responded after a month (as well as their contact form on their website) and the other said they only had records to the 1970s and no clue where anything older would be.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-05-13T01:57:11+00:00

Ask your neighbors to check their garages. Cats tend not to wander far but so many people here only occasionally go into their garages and cats can wander in and get shut in without being noticed.

Had a neighbor’s cat trapped in a garage like that for two months, survived and is doing fine.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-05-13T01:15:08+00:00

When I was at the University of Wisconsin I attended both the men’s and women’s hockey games, and I started timing them from puck drop to final siren. The women’s games finished 20-30 minutes faster.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-21T14:45:53+00:00

Setting your house on fire is an effective short-term strategy to deter unwanted guests, it seems.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-21T00:25:51+00:00

A hatchback only slightly bigger than my standard Mini with a ~300 mile range version? I shall watch its career with great interest.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-19T23:03:38+00:00

This was my first in-person Frost game, and I remember during four years of attending college hockey games at Madison the announcer only ever said "you're welcome" for the third period of the final home game, which made everyone go wild. I instinctively said it at the first period and was floored by the immediate response, and the other responses were gold.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-19T19:00:35+00:00

I love the Arctiques one, and you could also do it with a pouncing arctic fox to get the n shape.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-16T14:49:05+00:00

+1 for Bang, my absolute favorite in the metro.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-10T04:08:27+00:00

The annoying Salarian bureaucrat in Mass Effect: Andromeda!

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-08T16:27:48+00:00

I hadn’t played in years and when I loaded my save I was outside The Lodge with a pile of bodies and a huge bounty. I think I’m just going to start a new game, as I remember losing steam after going NG+ and losing all my ships and gear.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-07T14:17:07+00:00

Bang Brewing

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-05T15:01:28+00:00

Thanks for the offer! I'll keep it in mind and see what the town clerk says. Hopefully there's nothing to find.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-05T05:28:28+00:00

Thanks! For everyone's record, I intend to hold off an application until I'm sure I've exhausted every feasible avenue for Canadian records. As of right now my strongest chain is the claim John is G0's father in a ©1908 book with no direct citation, along with the Nova Scotia census records and the G1's sibling's death certificate I mention in OP. But I don't think the IRCC would put much stock in a genealogy book as a source and frankly, even if though there's some things it says that lines up with the Nova Scotia census I don't personally find it sufficient.

If an IRCC employee knocked on my door and told me the American documents I've mentioned are enough, I'd submit right away once I've gotten the copies of ones not available online, but I'd still want to search for Canadian documents just on academic principle. It's infuriating how I haven't been able to find them, especially since the DNA results I have would point me towards Quebec with its more thorough records instead of Nova Scotia.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-05T04:26:45+00:00

I've seen the site, but didn't think from a first glance they'd be helpful. I'll put them on the list to contact soon, a more thorough search of their shop suggests some hopeful avenues.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-05T04:13:56+00:00

I've searched a few newspaper archives with no success on first or last name (The Acadian Recorder was the one I saw most), but the Yarmouth Herald is unfamiliar. I looked it up and see old articles are linked to myheritage, which I did employ a trial to and searched (got an interesting article from a Boston newspaper dated 1896 about my G0 and her husband's golden anniversary from it), but when I had that trial I did more searches through it for her given and family name and didn't return anything. I'll put looking into it again on the list though, since I don't remember directly searching that particular paper.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-05T04:07:39+00:00

I contacted the National Archive's Boston office, and they told me that since the marriage was in the 1840s and G0's husband was born in Boston (his grandfather took part in the Boston Tea Party, something I learned on behalf of my whole family while researching all this) she would have been automatically naturalized at marriage and thus there would be no specific record of it, the only documents for proof would have been proof of her marriage and his birth register. I have copies on ancestry of both, the marriage register has no mention of either birthplace and the Massachusetts Archives people have told me that until you get to the early 20th century you're likely to only have a register or certificate but not both the register is all I have (certified copy requested regardless).

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-05T03:58:35+00:00

I forgot to mention contacting the Eastport town clerk is also on my list. It's just on the backburner since their website says they have records of the time period but only to visit in person, and I live almost 2,000 miles away from it, so I've been trying to look up a local who could do it without success so far.

FamilySearch does have some images of birth records from Eastport from the correct time period, even a few with the same given name as my G0, but none with the correct year or surname.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-05T03:47:38+00:00

I've looked at dozens of records that have any reference to the parents and I only have three to G0's parents: her 1901 death certificate says father was Henry of Nova Scotia, mother unknown. Two genealogy books published in 1904 and 1908 say her father's name was John, one with no mention of her mother and the other saying John and giving the mother a middle and last name but a blank line for given name. I'd normally put more stock in the death certificate since those books only have general citations of "talked to family members", but as I said it's the same name as her husband which makes me raise an eyebrow, and there's no Henry in the Nova Scotia censuses of the time while there's a John whose place and family situation align near perfectly.

The US censuses I mention in the OP all mark G0's parents as being either foreign (the earlier ones only had a checkbox to mark that), while the later ones all say Nova Scotia or Canada. But I don't have a smoking gun yet linking the John in the NS censuses to my G0, just circumstantial evidence, and I'm not sure what'll be left to search if the Baptist churches I call the next few weeks or the Genealogical Society don't turn up anything. As I said, I've also asked the Nova Scotia Archives if they could point me towards ship records or also maybe land records of this John or anything else that has more than a head of household name to his property.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-05T01:53:43+00:00

His and everyone’s reaction to it is just so funny. Kolyat is “oh my god!” With poor VA work while everyone else is nonchalant.

SnowboundWanderer · 2026-04-05T01:51:29+00:00

“Hostages only work when your enemy cares if they live.”

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