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Sorry for the interruption.....can someone explain how the "reputation comments" work? I have gotten several of these and can see which thread they're from and who is giving the "reputation" comments. my last one came from this thread and I can see "great post, thanks for sharing. lilymae521" but I don't know how to respond, or to even how give some comments to others. can someone tell me how that works please? many thanks. and thanks to lilymae for your kind comment
You can respond by DMing the person, repping them, or commenting favorably on one of their posts.
I have them in his tree at family search but I'm not sure if I did the branch on ancestry.
My paternal family is from Northwest Missouri. One summer in the mid 1950s while visiting my grandparents, Dad introduced me to an older lady there who, as a little girl, had seen the James gang as they passed through town on their way to the Northfield, Minnesota bank raid. She was certainly old enough, but probably was influenced by family stories.
Looks as if a good many of us would qualify for a Charlemagne-Jesse James cousins' reunion.
My g-g-grandfather - maybe three greats, in the so-called "royal blood" line - had a first cousin who owned a gold mine in Virginia way back when. Alas, Cousin Gold Mine went broke, left Virginia for Kentucky - and the relatives which remained in Virginia let it be believed that he had died rather than become a Kentucky tenant farmer! Now, that's carrying family pride considerably too far.
Ironically, in recent years, a group of local hobbyists have leased the land and are recovering respectable amounts of gold from the original gold mine site's waterways, using very simple, basic methods: sluicing and panning.
I did 23&me strictly for the health aspects - THAT was and is very cool to me. Family and genealogy don't interest me in the slightest. Frankly, both sides of my family have a lot of mental illness - depression and several actual suicides. It's depressing in itself and probably best that we're the last of the line. Believe me, I know the genetics of mental illness.
I agree with the narcissistic part - I've never liked the "blood is thicker than water" concept because I KNOW how messed up my family is and they are no more special than anyone else. Why would or should they be? To be utterly fascinated that you had a 4th cousin twice removed who was advisor to a French ambassador? No, I don't think so.
I only have some cousins still living - I only knew one grandmother and she passed while I was in high school. No aunts, uncles living, parents gone, sister gone...what really is the point? Uck...okay, I should have just left this topic alone!
Sorry for the interruption.....can someone explain how the "reputation comments" work? I have gotten several of these and can see which thread they're from and who is giving the "reputation" comments. my last one came from this thread and I can see "great post, thanks for sharing. lilymae521" but I don't know how to respond, or to even how give some comments to others. can someone tell me how that works please? many thanks. and thanks to lilymae for your kind comment
If you look above on the banner of your post, or the post that you are reading, you will see some little scales. That is a clickable button that will take you to “leave a rep comment”. You can type in your rep comment, and then press the button. And if you’re like me you’ll have to press it again because it won’t go away and then you get a nasty little comment that says you can’t leave a rep comment for the same post twice. And then it will go away.
Hello, distant cousin - sort of. I am directly related to Jesse James through my mother's father! And yes, I am the descendant of various southern families so that really isn't a surprise. I bet there are tons of people who are related to the James' family now.
I just traced it at family search, on my son's grandmothers side, William Harris Smythe and his wife Catherine Ashby's daughter Mary Margaret Smith and some how with Sir Arthur Smith
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Sorry for the interruption.....can someone explain how the "reputation comments" work? I have gotten several of these and can see which thread they're from and who is giving the "reputation" comments. my last one came from this thread and I can see "great post, thanks for sharing. lilymae521" but I don't know how to respond, or to even how give some comments to others. can someone tell me how that works please? many thanks. and thanks to lilymae for your kind comment
Look at the top right of my reply, it says #80. Next to it is a scale icon, push on that, it opens a reputation box that you can type in. As Kathryn mentioned, if you do leave someone a rep comment, sign your name. I rep everyone that replies to threads I make, I also hand out rep every day until city-data tells me I can't rep any more. Some days I'll just throw my name in it, others I leave a comment with my name. Admitting that I'm lazy, I'll keep my sig in my copy/paste to make it easier.
I'm trying to bring rep comments back. Seems like people don't rep much any more. Some people don't like that I rep them for some reason..
And I scroll down and see you figured it out..
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My paternal family is from Northwest Missouri. One summer in the mid 1950s while visiting my grandparents, Dad introduced me to an older lady there who, as a little girl, had seen the James gang as they passed through town on their way to the Northfield, Minnesota bank raid. She was certainly old enough, but probably was influenced by family stories.
I can't imagine living back in the 1800's before electricity, cars, airplanes. Having said that, it would have been cool to live when everything was coming out.
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