u/Federal-Waltz-8645

This is probably a dumb question with an obvious answer but it’s stressing me out.

My youngest is going to preschool this year and she has to have milk as part of her lunch, provided by us. I didn’t have to do this for my older one. For my own sanity I was thinking of sending the horizon milk boxes but I’m not sure her opening them and I hate their straws. I don’t like using water bottles for milk because it gets in all the crevices and get gross. Any suggestions on the best way to do this - brands of bottles that work well?

posting on behalf of my SO - he needs active friends for XP and items. Will send back gifts fairly regularly.

0032 7746 8619 Sentient Conifer

I've hit a brick wall in my own family genealogy so I have been working on side projects that are tangentially related. Right now searching through more obscure/hard to find newspapers from the area my family was from and uploading the obituaries to easier to find places. Its actually quite fun.

One of the newspapers I have been working on was edited by someone who was famous at the time - somewhat still relatively - in a small community I am connected to so his own genealogy is pretty well researched. But - yesterday I found a two sentence line in this newspaper that said "John _____, brother of the editor of this paper died at this day in ____ county at age 33." I've already looked at this family's work and figured I'd see if they already had this clip. Nope. There wasn't even a listing for John in their tree - although he did fit perfectly in the gap between his other siblings where a "missing" sibling could have been. I ruled out all of the other siblings as matches.

Now I'm curious so I decided to see if I could find anything else about John. Can't find a gravestone that matches him on find-a-grave, nothing came up for a birth record, no other newspapers in that area published a death announcement I can find. He died young and pre-1850 so before it was easier to conclusively link a census to him with other members of his family. Its possible if I searched harder something is out there but my cursory search says no.

So, based on what I know of the family and the newspaper I am absolutely certain of what family he belongs to but that's all John is now. Two little sentences. I don't know if he was married or has descendants, why he died so young, where he was buried, or how he ended up a couple counties away from the rest of his family.

Even the ones we know a lot about we don't truly know unless you are truly, truly blessed to end up with a passed down collection of family diaries, pictures, and letters. But then there's the ones we don't even know existed - the kids that died young or moved away or went missing. The tree really isn't ever done.