Friday Fives

[ButtercupKid]

1) I was 4 0r 5. My neighbor taught me. And I am addicted to books from that point on!
2) I guess if I wanted to be one when I was a kid, it was always a fairy.
3)When I was 20 years old. First time I saw an IV put in a patient when I was a student nurse.
4)Smile, say thank you, and pay it forward.
5)A cousin of mine has traced Mom's side of the family back a number of generations. Scots / Irish on that side. Dads side mostly unknown. His Dad was adopted at 5 years old as he and his 4 siblings parents died and they were left with no family in Oregon in the late 1800's. Know a bit more of Dads mother history but not much. No one would talk of it. My Dads maternal Grandmother was German. Had tattooed numbers on her arm from Germany that my mother saw as Great Grandma Neuman was dying in hospital...Still no one would talk of it...

 

[sonya123]

Little early due to the holiday.
Here are your Friday Fives (@Morgan101 )
How old were you when you learned how to read?
Which mythical creature do you wish was real?
Have you ever gone unconscious or been knocked unconscious, not by drugs, but by accident, health condition, or someone desiring to hurt you?
How do you show your gratitude?
Through your own knowledge, research, or information that was passed to you, how many generations back can you trace your family ancestry?(Or to what time period?)

1. around 4 I think, I was reading the Pippi Longstocking books by the time I started elementary school at 5

2. I would like to be a real Harry Potter style witch

3. yes , recently in spring, passed out from dehydration when I got the covid and flu and taking care of the animals
before that I have slipped and fell on my head and had a concussion, and once doing martial arts , and once getting into fight with ex boyfriend

4. not sure, if people are nice to me I am nice to them also, if people are not nice, I am not nice either, so I reflect how I am treated by other back at them

5. my dad researched our ancestors on his side back to the middle ages, and found something interesting, a female decendent of his mom's family has been living in the village he was born in for 12 generations
his ancestors were mostly poor peasants and farmers

edit sorry typo

 

[Patchouli]

Little early due to the holiday.
Here are your Friday Fives (@Morgan101 )
How old were you when you learned how to read?
Which mythical creature do you wish was real?
Have you ever gone unconscious or been knocked unconscious, not by drugs, but by accident, health condition, or someone desiring to hurt you?
How do you show your gratitude?
Through your own knowledge, research, or information that was passed to you, how many generations back can you trace your family ancestry?(Or to what time period?)

Since I forget to stay caught up with this thread...
I was 5, almost 6
Loch Ness Monster or the Kelpie
Yes, once in a bad car accident and when my heart was failing me and I almost died.
Extend help to anyone who needs it. Doesn't need to be a big deal or huge favor, just being nice, holding a door, going the extra mile.
Somewhere in the 1600s with one line, as far as personally tracing; but my mom did a lot of the research before I got that far. More records are translated or brought out all the time now, from old church and cemetery records and old government records, that hadn't been available when she was still alive (1990s).