I went to a local shop to get my hair cut today. The lady who was cutting hair next to where I was getting my hair cut was telling her customer about her cell phone woes.

Without boring everyone, is there anyone here who would want to help a lady with her Android cell phone woes?

I got in on the end of her story, but somehow HER photos (that she does NOT want to lose) have ended up on her mother's Android phone, and her (elderly) mother is locked out of her phone. Basically, her mother has forgotten what her password is to her phone. Her mother has it set to a WORD. (I'm used to iPhones where you use 4 or 6 numbers as a passcode, not a word.)

I suggested a few things, but I was of NO help once I found out that her (elderly) mother seems to not be able to remember what her password is on her phone.

I went to a local shop to get my hair cut today. The lady who was cutting hair next to where I was getting my hair cut was telling her customer about her cell phone woes.

Without boring everyone, is there anyone here who would want to help a lady with her Android cell phone woes?

I got in on the end of her story, but somehow HER photos (that she does NOT want to lose) have ended up on her mother's Android phone, and her (elderly) mother is locked out of her phone. Basically, her mother has forgotten what her password is to her phone. Her mother has it set to a WORD. (I'm used to iPhones where you use 4 or 6 numbers as a passcode, not a word.)

I suggested a few things, but I was of NO help once I found out that her (elderly) mother seems to not be able to remember what her password is on her phone.

If anyone has any suggestions, or can help, please feel free to DM me. The lady lives here in Cedar Rapids, so I'm sure the phone is also here in Cedar Rapids.

This is a laptop... I'm not a gamer, but I want a fairly fast computer. I am a genetic genealogist and volunteer my time helping adult adoptees determine who their bio parents are (using DNA) and then find those bio parents, dead or alive.

I spend a lot of time on the internet. I'm looking for help in seeing if I have overlooked something obvious.

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This hopefully includes 3 year Alienware Premium support (or whatever it's called).

This is a laptop... I'm not a gamer, but I want a fairly fast computer. I am a genetic genealogist and volunteer my time helping adult adoptees determine who their bio parents are (using DNA) and then find those bio parents, dead or alive.

I spend a lot of time on the internet. I'm looking for help in seeing if I have overlooked something obvious.

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This hopefully includes 3 year Alienware Premium support (or whatever it's called).

I have a small (Dell) laptop that I have been using for a few years. It's been a good little laptop, but suddenly the laptop seems to suddenly freeze up. I haven't been able to figure out what the exact cause is because the laptop will operate only for a couple minutes, until suddenly the mouse freezes up, and that's it. I can't get the laptop to allow me to do a task manager to do a shutdown. The ONLY way I can "shut" the laptop down is to unplug the machine from electricity and wait for the battery to drain. The laptop seems to be completely frozen.

I am using a wired mouse, and have been as long as I have been using it, which has been a few years.

Thoughts? The only thing I can guess is that either the port has suddenly gone bad (but I can use the laptop for a couple of minutes before it freezes up) or else the mouse driver has become corrupt.

Are there any other options that I am not thinking of? Suggestions, anyone?

Sincere question: What is Dragon doing lately? Last I heard, his son was very ill, so Dragon was not on the show, but that has been... at least a year or more, or so it seems.

Can someone enlighten me on Dragon? I hope he and his family are doing well.

I have a kitchen sink that is a divided sink. One side is larger and has a garbage disposer that is beside the dish washer. The other side of the sink is the smaller side that I honestly never use.

i went to wash out the smaller side today and found that water didn’t drain down that side.

I then tried to run water down the larger side of the sink, just to see if it drained or also had a problem. it drained fine.

i had about 6 or so inches of water in the side that didn’t drain. I couldn’t figure out what to do, but then my husband’s home health care nurse came to the door. She stayed a couple of hours because we had a lot of things to work through. After she left, I decided to look at the sink again and then call someone to come fix it, by because I never put anything down that side of the sink, I couldn’t figure out how it could have gotten clogged.

The sink had emptied the water out by the time I checked on it. I then tested it by trying to run more water down it, expecting it to not drain, but it drained with no problem.

What caused the one side of the sink to originally not drain, and then 2 hours later, drain fine?

My husband has Parkinson's and frequent UTIs. I have been told by his urologist that the reason he is getting UTIs is that he feels his bladder is probably not completely emptying.

We currently have a home health care nurse who comes once a week. (I don't know how much longer she will be coming. I am afraid she will tell me that his 6 weeks is about over.)

She came today to tell me that incontinence supplies and briefs are covered under Medicare.

In the 4 years that I have been buying disposable undies for him, I did NOT know that they might be covered by Medicare. We have original Medicare, as well as a supplement to Medicare that covers the remaining 20% not paid by Medicare.

I have been buying disposable undies from Sam's Club online for him. I have them shipped to the house (3 boxes at a time, to get free shipping).

Is this true that Medicare will provide "incontinence supplies" and are disposable undies covered? What else is considered "incontinence supplies" that would be covered by Medicare?

When he has been hospitalized, the hospital connects him to a "Pure Wick" (external catheter) to completely empty his bladder. Would something like that be covered by Medicare?

If disposable undies are covered, how do I start the process of ordering them and getting them covered?

I have to admit that I am always more than slightly confused when it comes to "twice removed". I realize what the concept is, but in real life:

My daughter-in-law's (deceased) father was adopted. He was born in 1938 in Indiana. His daughter, my DIL has always wanted to know who her paternal biological grandparents were, so I gifted her with an Ancestry DNA kit a couple of years ago.

I have since figured out who her biological paternal grandmother was, but am starting, once again, to work on her bio paternal grandfather.

I have a full subscription with Ancestry plus Pro-Tools.

Pro-Tools tells me that the relationship between "Sarah" and "Mary-Louise" is a 2nd cousin twice removed.

I have googled "Mary-Louise" and done a deep dive on her. She is an 88 year old lady who is still alive. I have started with the little public tree she provided and have created a larger tree for her, so I now know her ancestors going back quite a few generations.

"Sarah" only has 3 people in her tree, and all are alive, so I have absolutely NO IDEA who she is / how old she is / where she lives, etc, except for her first and last name. Ancestry shows that she has not logged on in more than a year.

I need an understanding of what a second cousin twice removed actually means. Would I look at the great grandparents of "Mary-Louise" and "assume" that "Sarah's grandmother is in the same generation as "Mary-Louise"?

TIA so VERY much.

Name: Chella M Moore
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 03 Aug 1901
Marriage Place: Anderson, Madison, Indiana
Spouse: Hiram N Freeman
FHL Film Number: 2108303
Reference ID: b9 p480

My daughter-in-law's father (deceased) was born 1938 in Indianapolis, Indiana and was adopted. My DIL has always wondered who her biological grandparents were, so a couple of years ago, I gifted her with an Ancestry DNA kit for Christmas.

Last year, I was able to determine who her bio grandmother was, using DNA. Her bio grandfather has to be a man with the surname MOORE, based on all of her DNA results, but unfortunately, none of them are close enough to tell which of the MANY Moore families he was from, or perhaps I'm not good enough to be able to figure that out.

Yesterday, I decided to take a different approach on the bio grandfather issue. I am now looking at a woman who was Chella Moore (Maysie “Masie” Moore Freeman). She was said to have been born 27 Sep 1878 Kentucky. She is on Find A Grave (Memorial 45941360). That memorial says she was born in Indiana, but all census records say she was born in Kentucky. The census records call her Maysie / Masie, but a few hours ago, in the middle of the night, I found her marriage announcement dated 8 Aug 1901 in Elwood, Indiana, calling her Miss Chella M. Moore, announcing her wedding to Hiram H. Freeman.

I am asking for any and all help in determining who the parents and siblings of Chella / Masie Moore were, because my current thought is that it is likely that one of her brothers, whoever they were, was a likely grandfather to my daughter-in-law.

I believe I found Masie (Macy Moore) in the 1900 census in Indianapolis, living as a boarder, in the home of Isham Mitchell. Everything lines up. Her birth date in that census is given as Sep 1877. She is 22. She is married in the following year (1901) in Elwood, Indiana, saying she was born in Kentucky, but recently came from Indianapolis, and is currently living in Elwood.

I have looked on Family Search in case someone there has already found her parents / siblings, but I'm not finding anything that looks like anyone realizes she was a Moore.

I was hoping that perhaps with this information, I might be able to find something that would name at least her father, or give me another lead, but I honestly don't know how to use Family Search all that well. I have a sign in and attempted to look for the film number, but apparently didn't do something right, as I can't find it. The reference ID... I don't have a clue as to what that means, or if it's something that can be searched on the Family Search website.

FHL Film Number: 2108303
Reference ID: b9 p480

ERROR IN MATH: Ferdinand was NOT 72 when he filed for naturalization. I had read a transcription which said he was 72. I should have done the math. My error. I apologize.

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Ferdinand Lisac, b May 1866 Netretic Yugoslavia, came to the USA May 1890. His first wife was Maria / Mary.

His second wife was Katherine, whom he married in 1913 here in the USA.

In looking for his marriage records and names of his children, I just found his naturalization record (1913). He was 72 years old when he was naturalized, yet he arrived in 1890.

He was naturalized in Pennsylvania, for anyone wanting to look at his naturalization record. (I see why I cannot find the marriage record to his first wife; they had children born in Yugoslavia, so they would have been married there.)

I thought there was some law that indicated that people have to be naturalized within 5 or 6 years of arriving here in the USA, but perhaps that law is for earlier immigrants or for immigrants settling in Illinois, and doesn't apply to Pennsylvania.

Thoughts, please?

I wanted to send a picture from my iPhone to my gmail account so I could download the picture to my computer.

I thought I could (easily) google how to do it and follow a few directions and get it done.

An hour later and I still don't have it done. I ended up texting the picture to someone else and asked that person to email the picture to me.

Could someone please tell me how to send a picture from my iPhone to my gmail account, and talk to me like I'm 5 years old, please? I hate to impose upon friends every time I want to do something that should be simple, but seems impossible to me.

TIA.

They both “upgraded” themselves without asking. This is the 3rd time the one has done this and the first time the other has done this.

I MAY have gotten them back to OA but when I ask one of them what time it is, half of the time I get druggy school girl back.

Has anyone gone to the Siri device for time and weather? What do you think of it?

Frankly, I am fed up with Alexa!!!!

I'll try to keep this brief.

I'm into genealogy. I often find old grainy pictures of people. I have started using ChatGPT to make the old pictures clear and am honestly impressed. I used to spend days with Photoshop and not end up with pictures that look like ChatGPT can.

Having said that, today I started with an old tombstone picture that had moss growing on the front of the stone, making part of the last name unreadable, and the date completely unreadable.

When I ran that picture through ChatGPT, the software changed the name. I thought it was just a glitch, so I tried it again and again. Finally I told ChatGPT that it was changing the name on the tombstone. I don't remember the exact verbage, but ChatGPT told me basically that I needed a different version of ChatGPT to NOT change the name on the stone.

Was it trying to tell me that I need to purchase the monthly version, rather than the free version?

Thank you for your time and help.

The thing I keep wondering about: When Duane was alive, it was my understanding that he owned BFR... so he would have (probably) signed a contract that would allow filming on his ranch... and he would have probably been the one who received payments for the filming...

But now that Duane has passed away... has his estate been probated yet? Who will inherit the ranch, or who HAS inherited the ranch? It's probably tied up in legalities, but I am somewhat surprised that filming has continued. There must be something in the contract that covered filming, in the event that Duane ever passed before the show was over...

Thoughts?

I bought a brand new Kenmore BU4050 Intuition Bagged Upright Vacuum. It arrived a couple days ago. I let it sit while I gathered enough nerve to get it out of the box and put it together.

I just used it for the first time. I am loving it --BUT-- it makes a very loud high pitched humming noise.

I'm as old as the dirt I'm trying to vacuum up and have used mostly Shark uprights (that I have loved) but thought I would try a vacuum with a bag. I am NOT loving the dust that flies out of my Sharks when I empty them.

Is it normal for the Kenmore BU4050 to have a loud high pitched noise? I can't imagine that I put it together wrong... it's a pretty simple machine to put together.

Thoughts, please?

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I just tried to log into my Amazon Prime account, and now I need to solve this puzzle in order to be able to log in. I do NOT understand how to move things from the right side to the left side. Nothing moves! HELP!

I've got to admit that I have been a lurker on this sub for a while, and have a couple different Sharks, and am fairly happy with them, EXCEPT when it comes to emptying the (small) dust/dirt container... when I end up with dust (and cat hair) flying everywhere.

I'm seriously looking at the Kenmore BU 4050:

https://www.amazon.com/Kenmore-BU4050-Intuition-Eliminator-Handi-Mate/dp/B08NPBCG97?th=1

But I am trying to figure out the difference between the Rose Gold version and the Red version.

Thoughts, please? I don't understand the difference between the two, except the color and the slight price difference. Thank you all.

Edited to add: I'm as old as dirt. I don't have a price range in mind. Most of the house is carpet, but it's low (not shag) carpeting. I have a cat. That pretty much says it all. I need a vaccum that will vacuum up cat hair. I want to have a vacuum that won't tip over all the time when I am using it, which is what happens all of the time with my Sharks. I want a vacuum that I can easily find bags and filters for.

I am a volunteer helping an adoptee, born in 1966 (USA) determine who her biological father is/was. Her closest DNA match (Ancestry) is 544 cM which is likely a 1C1R or Half Grandaunt. That closest DNA match was born 1940.

I think the biological father is likely from a HUGE Peterson family, originally from Sweden but settled in Iowa.

My husband has been in and out of the hospital so many times recently, I think my tiny brain is gone. I am trying to wrap my brain around which generation to look at to find this father, based on her best DNA match who was born in 1940, while she was born in 1966. The DNA match has a private tree and has not logged on in about a year (I haven't found an obit for her, but she could easily be in a nursing home or living with an adult child, although in the two marriages I have found for her, I'm not sure she had any children.) I should add that once I figured out who that DNA match is, I built a tree for her, so I know who her parents and grandparents are, and how she fits into that huge family.

Would the possible father be a brother of the father of the woman born in 1940? I'm not sure if my brain is even working these days, racing back and forth to the hospital. It's a huge family, but the thing that bothers me is that the adoptee's biological mother was born in 1946, so I am probably looking for a man born roughly 1946ish. NONE of the brothers of the father of the DNA match born in 1940 were even born close to 1946. The last brother was born 1914. The father of the woman born in 1940 (the best DNA match) was born in 1906.

Your help is greatly appreciated. I have worked so hard on this and just hope to be able to tell this lady who her biological father was, but every man I look at as a possibility seems to be too old, so I would have to look at men in the next generation down (born roughly the same time as the DNA match).

Now that I have talked this out, I think this is what I need to do, is look at the next generation down.

Does anyone agree with me?