Writ of Mainprize

I stumbled across this website searching for the latitude and longitude coordinates from the Da Vinci Code. It has nothing to do with the Da Vinci Code, but it’s actually pretty neat nonetheless. The idea behind the Degree Confluence Project is to build a photo archive record of all of the positions on Earth which correspond to the crossing of integer latitude and longitude lines (e.g. 44°N 79°W). | People are asked to provide photos of facing the four cardinal directions, and a photo of their …

I just spent a week in Dundas (near Hamilton, Ontario) and got to cycle on a number of paths and bike trails. I was certainly impressed with these trails. Several abandoned railroad right-of-ways have been converted to excellent shared use trails, many of the streets and highways have well marked bike lanes and there are many mountain biking trails (both maintained and bushwacked). There is a trail map available.

I’ve just recently returned from a mini-vacation in Southwestern Ontario where I went cycling along a number of surprisingly good trails. I will be posting about the trails later, but here are a few plant photos that I took while cycling. They aren’t the greatest pics, but you get the idea.

Black-eyed Susans
Ornamental grass
Teasel
Vervain?

Touch-Me-Nots
Aster
Body Snatcher?
Fern

One of my hobbies for a long time has been delving into my family tree and I’ve recently made a possible breakthrough regarding my Great Grandmother (Father-Grandfather-Great Grandmother) Sarah Vermilyea. The big question is who is her mother. At the present I think it’s Hannah Preston, but my proof is incredibly sketchy and there are a few conflicting sources. I am 99% certain that Sarah (Vermilyea) Mainprize was born on Apr 8, 1849 based on the 1901 census of Hastings County
All the sources that suggest Hannah …

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