Last Fall when I started knitting, I couldn't understand a word you said. Here I am 9 months later hanging on your every word and inspiration! Thank you for sharing your experiences, your passion, and your learning with us. It's a blessing.
I saw the title "Mitten fever" and I thought of having the flu in Michigan, LOL. I love your stories about herstory and history. I am knitting some toe up two at a time socks during story time.
Those women were certainly independent, and ahead of their times.. But it is a shame that they had to choose not to marry, in order to achieve their goals.. Wow...Imagine having to knit so many mittens! What if you hated to knit...or was horrible at it? However... It was such an interesting tradition.. ..Truly fascinating. Thanks for sharing.. I love Casual Friday, and look forward to it every week..👍
Another great podcast, Rox. I loved the background information about the mittens. It felt like an anthropology class. It's like a knitting potlatch. Every culture has a way to make women do a lot of stuff! And then you linked to another mitten story. Excellent. I am enjoying your forays into family history. I think you have said elsewhere that you were taking a writing class. I suppose you are now working on spoken word as your art form. Well done.
I love your Casual Friday episodes. I enjoy the genealogy aspects that you put into them. Our ancestors may have known each other. One of my possible ancestors come over on the Fortuna on that trip also. I haven't been able to definitively establish the relationship yet though. There is a family history that links to that is often sited, but I can't find any actual sources to confirm it.
I was able to find documentation going back to a certain point (and wondering why so many Bassett men had the name or middle name "Fortunatus"). A couple of generations after the Bassetts arrived, one of them married a great grand daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, who were passengers on the Mayflower. Those early-arriving people are well documented from the time they arrived going forward for several generations. The NEHGS (New England Historic Genealgical Society) has a Great Migration project that documents all those who arrived between 1620 and 1640, which can be helpful to finding that link. So the Bassett family and the Howlands are documented in confirmed genealogies that helps a lot.
Where did the yarn for the mittens come from? Did they spin it? Was it spun for them by another family member? I am assuming that there wasn't a LYS. Did the book or the mitten instructor mention that part of it? Your genealogy was also fascinating! Thanks Rox
Hi Roxanne, I love all the family history. May I ask how do you go about doing your research, I would love to be able to do the same for my family? Thank you.
I started out with Ancestry.com, but I also use FamilySearch, as well as a variety of databases (various state and county historical societies, genealogical societies, and archives), and visits to courthouses and state archives and local libraries. You will never find everything in only one place. Ancestry has a lot, but it doesn't have everything. My Ancestry.com membership comes with Newspapers.com and Fold3 (the latter hasn't been particularly useful to me) I'm also in the Knitting Genealogists group on Ravelry, which is very helpful. NEHGS (New England Historic Genealogical Society) is great. Also, Google. I use other people's trees as hints, but not as fact, because so many people don't know how to properly research. I re-evaluate whatever documents I have for any given person periodically, to see if I missed an important clue. Sometimes, information on a document doesn't have meaning (or you don't realize the significance) until you collect additional information, and then you can connect the dots. Different people have different goals when it comes to doing family history research. What you start out wanting to know isn't always what you end up wanting to know. Goals change.
Thank you! You can read all about this sweater on its project page. www.ravelry.com/projects/Rox/gray-silhouette People keep asking for a pattern, so I hope to get to it this year.
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Last Fall when I started knitting, I couldn't understand a word you said. Here I am 9 months later hanging on your every word and inspiration! Thank you for sharing your experiences, your passion, and your learning with us. It's a blessing.
Listened from beginning to end. Enjoyed every bit!
You are such a gifted story teller!
The genealogy this episode was a wild ride - love the mini history lesson!
Rox...you are facinating! I just love hearing about your Family Tree! Thanks!!
I saw the title "Mitten fever" and I thought of having the flu in Michigan, LOL. I love your stories about herstory and history. I am knitting some toe up two at a time socks during story time.
Another fascinating video! Love to hear about your family....you take after Hattie and Isabel....very smart!
Those women were certainly independent, and ahead of their times.. But it is a shame that they had to choose not to marry, in order to achieve their goals..
Wow...Imagine having to knit so many mittens! What if you hated to knit...or was horrible at it? However... It was such an interesting tradition.. ..Truly fascinating.
Thanks for sharing.. I love Casual Friday, and look forward to it every week..👍
Another great podcast, Rox. I loved the background information about the mittens. It felt like an anthropology class. It's like a knitting potlatch. Every culture has a way to make women do a lot of stuff! And then you linked to another mitten story. Excellent. I am enjoying your forays into family history. I think you have said elsewhere that you were taking a writing class. I suppose you are now working on spoken word as your art form. Well done.
Thoroughly enjoyed! History, especially family history is fascinating.
That is so many mittens! What a crazy history. Thanks for sharing! I probably never would've learned about this otherwise.
Thank you for sharing your stories! Such a fascinating family tree!
I love your Casual Friday episodes. I enjoy the genealogy aspects that you put into them. Our ancestors may have known each other. One of my possible ancestors come over on the Fortuna on that trip also. I haven't been able to definitively establish the relationship yet though. There is a family history that links to that is often sited, but I can't find any actual sources to confirm it.
I was able to find documentation going back to a certain point (and wondering why so many Bassett men had the name or middle name "Fortunatus"). A couple of generations after the Bassetts arrived, one of them married a great grand daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, who were passengers on the Mayflower. Those early-arriving people are well documented from the time they arrived going forward for several generations. The NEHGS (New England Historic Genealgical Society) has a Great Migration project that documents all those who arrived between 1620 and 1640, which can be helpful to finding that link. So the Bassett family and the Howlands are documented in confirmed genealogies that helps a lot.
Fascinating I went to Williams College! Great family genealogy.
Where did the yarn for the mittens come from? Did they spin it? Was it spun for them by another family member? I am assuming that there wasn't a LYS. Did the book or the mitten instructor mention that part of it?
Your genealogy was also fascinating! Thanks Rox
I will ask at the next class!
Hi Roxanne, I love all the family history. May I ask how do you go about doing your research, I would love to be able to do the same for my family? Thank you.
I started out with Ancestry.com, but I also use FamilySearch, as well as a variety of databases (various state and county historical societies, genealogical societies, and archives), and visits to courthouses and state archives and local libraries. You will never find everything in only one place. Ancestry has a lot, but it doesn't have everything. My Ancestry.com membership comes with Newspapers.com and Fold3 (the latter hasn't been particularly useful to me) I'm also in the Knitting Genealogists group on Ravelry, which is very helpful. NEHGS (New England Historic Genealogical Society) is great. Also, Google. I use other people's trees as hints, but not as fact, because so many people don't know how to properly research. I re-evaluate whatever documents I have for any given person periodically, to see if I missed an important clue. Sometimes, information on a document doesn't have meaning (or you don't realize the significance) until you collect additional information, and then you can connect the dots. Different people have different goals when it comes to doing family history research. What you start out wanting to know isn't always what you end up wanting to know. Goals change.
Thank you very much that is very helpful.
What pattern are you wearing? It's beautiful!
Thank you! You can read all about this sweater on its project page. www.ravelry.com/projects/Rox/gray-silhouette People keep asking for a pattern, so I hope to get to it this year.
I was thinking the same thing it's beautiful! Would love to knit this.
Cooperstown NY has Bassett hospital and many Bassetts, one left. I wonder if you're related.
Imagine you’re dying but you can’t yet because you haven’t knitted all the necessary mittens yet 😅🥲
The Minister must have ended up with a huge number of mittens after dozens of weddings over the years...
We asked about that. He could give them away to people who needed them. But, yeah, imagine the size of *his* mitten chest!
Gosh i bet that preacher was mitten poor. Interesting stoy.
Sorry, but I'm expecting knitting not lifelines. very disappointing. I know your knitting programs are fabulous