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Suzie and I sat and did the final proofreading, but we missed one. Toward the end of this three-hundred image slideshow is a photo outside of the Old Hatchery. It shows a bar waiting for text to be added. It should read: Katy and Mike’s Wedding. Sorry we missed that one.

In the last quarter, I show some colorized, old photos. Some got colored up better than others, but it is an interesting idea.

The music is no longer part of this slideshow—so turn on your stereo if you want music to go with it.

I am mainly capturing my generation before we are gone and forgotten. This is one of several slideshows about us on my YouTube site.

If you feel like supplying some information about a slide, refer to it by number—each image has a number—and add a comment here. I am not against the idea of adding images here. Here is an example.

We are gathered on the kitchen daybed. I told Suzie that we should have a side commentary so that people who know more than we do can add information.

You can also take screenshots to show us what you are talking about, if you are watching the slideshow on a computer, that is. This is a screenshot of the image with some missing information. I use an Apple computer: to select a section of my computer screen, I press Command, plus Shift, plus 4. I get something like rifle-sight crosshairs, which I can draw out to capture any part of the screen; the instant I release the mouse, the capture is placed on my desktop.

Another topic: Our lineage. I recently, I became interested in whether we could be related to one of my favorite poets, William Butler Yeats. I used basic information from factsheets a friend of Noreen did for her a few years ago. Here are the basic details you could use to launch research if you are interested, in the future.

My great, great grandfather Larry Battle spent his life in County Sligo, Ireland. He lived in Kilmacteige Parish. Cloonydiveen was his Townland—something like our township. He married Catherine Spellman.

His son, my great grandfather Lawrence Battle, emigrated to Ontario. He married Catherine Kenedy (today spelled Kennedy). She was daughter of Thomas Kenedy and Ann Connell, originally of County Sligo, Ireland.

Lawrence came to Paris to live near his son Jack (John Joseph) Battle who had worked as a record keeper (as far as we know) in lumber camps around western and northern Michigan. Lawrence left his home in Read, Ontario where he had shared innkeeping duties with a business partner. He acquired acreage in Barton Township at the intersection of 15 Mile Road and Beach. He spent the rest of his life there.

What I found in my research: W B Yeats’ people lived the next parish over from our people in County Sligo. However, I read as far back as I could in both our family trees in a deep dive online. None of the family names of any ancestors crossed. I have concluded that we are not related.

I hope you enjoy this slideshow.