If you find the cemetery caretaker many have a list and map of who is buried there. “Find a Grave” is not always complete. Also, if you take a blank piece of paper and lay it over a hard-to-read tombstone then take a pencil and color over it, many letters and numbers will appear on the paper. My mother’s side is from eastern Pennsylvania, New Brighton, Beaver Falls area. Kidd was her maiden name.
We were hoping the church was open when we were there but unfortunately it wasn’t. We’ll have to try and contact them to find out if they have records back that’s far. We didn’t have any paper or a pencil/crayon with us that day. The stones didn’t have any sheen coating on them so hopefully the rubbing didn’t hurt them. Thanks for sharing your mother’s roots! It’s fun to find out about our ancestors! Take care! 🧡😊🤓
@@LivinRVision sadly should never use a wire brush as it damages the stone! Soft brush, and elbow grease is best! Also never use bleach (for anyone wanting to clean a stone.) Glad you found it!
If you get to come back to PA consider a stop at the flight 93 911 Memorial in Shanksville PA. It is a beautiful place. You can walk the grounds and visit the museum in about 3 hours. We recommend the Friendship Village Campground which is about 30 minutes from the Memorial.
We did actually think about going there but the only day we had available we decided it was too far of a drive to really spend some time going through it. Hopefully the next time we’re back there, we will make a point to stop. We have heard it is remarkable.
I’m like you guys - I love history and love to visit old graves to envision the lives of the people’s at the time in how they lived. Thank you for taking us along.
So amazing you found your ancestors Michelle and for taking us along. Glad you liked Primanti’s. We try to go there every time we go back home to Pittsburgh. What beautiful weather you had for traveling. Michelle did great backing up. Thank again for the great video!! 😊❤️
Thanks for coming along with us on our journey! 🧡 Oh Primanti’s was sooo good! It’s probably a good thing we don’t live near there, lol. Take care & have a great week!
That's so cool Michelle! Your grandpa was a COBBLER! and you love cobbler~ Neat little side road pie spot! Thank you for taking us along....and now I want Primanti ! It was riveting..... Safe travels!
Cool discovery of your ggg grandfather’s headstone. My gg grandfather was also born in Germany and came to America in 1837. Finding his gravestone started me on a journey to find his hometown in Germany.
@@LivinRVision Yes! I found the tiny farming village and my mom and I got to visit the main church in Mandelsloh, Germany in 2007. I was hoping to find living relatives, but most went to America…so I now want to travel and do more research in Missouri, Ohio and Indiana. By the way, my gg grandfather lived to be 100 years old.
Love this!! 🧡 So happy you found it AND even got to go there! I would love to go to Germany someday but feel would need to find out more info on my relatives first so we know where to go. Hope you’re able to find more of your relatives’ whereabouts in the states! Good luck! 🧡🤓
First off ... happy belated birthday, Brian!! Hope it was a great day! There's no way I can go walking through graveyards, but love going to/thru old family homes. Bless you for cleaning up those headstones! Good job backing in, Michelle! Thanks for the visit! I always look forward to Saturdays! ♥
You guys are right in my backyard - ten minutes up the road from our home in Gloucester. We use to have our RV club camp outs at that very park. Enjoy our area and its history.
Yes it gets addicting searching for your ancestors. Several years ago my Mom had done a lot of research and it was consuming but my siblings and I are grateful she did it. 🤓 Stay safe & have a great week! 🧡
Another Livin adventure down memory lane in remembrance of past family. Indeed this was a very good experience. PA holds many memories and history. I LOVED the HERSHEY factory tour :) Thanks....and what a great idea for a pie bake shop on the side of the road.
Awesome video with great music as always! Additionally however…my wife wanted me to let you know that she was very moved by your finding Michelle’s ancestors. And that in the many hours we’ve spent over the past year researching RV living in preparation for our retirement, that this episode was the coolest thing she’s seen on UA-cam ever. Thank you and safe travels.😎
Aww thank you! Tell your wife, that was probably one of the most awesome things anyone has ever said to us about one of our videos. That truly made our day. Making others happy/making a difference in someone else’s life… that is truly such a rewarding feeling. 🧡😊🤓
Hey! Came on here to find "how to replace a rivet" and want to share with Michelle my latest addition on "findagrave". Was looking for a great x3 aunt (Martha Wells) and the volunteer actually found a flat stone with her inscription of "Aunt Martha" So when I get back home I will be pounding the grass to find stones 🙃 I'm back to 10th century on my adoptive paternal tree ! But stuck on my mom's paternal side. Stella will be traveling to Mecklenburg NC/VA to search for Anderson Wells family tree (where I get stumped 😁)
Very cool to see and visit old relatives even if they are no longer living, good for you Michelle , God bless you both and great meeting you both at the Hershey RV show
I had a Permanti Bros in Pittsburgh, Pa. 38 years ago. We got their famous Cheese Steak. It had Cole slaw & French fries all on the sandwich. Never in my life did I ever see anything like it. Delicious. Very filling. I was pregnant that year, my Husband couldn't get enough of their Kosher Pickles. He got "1" every night he worked in Pittsburgh, he craved them. Me, I craved Hershey syrup in a can. I loved the tour of the Hershey factory. Some new restaurants in town. Hershey's Restaurant looked nice, & generous with their portions. Family History is neat to research. I like how easily you cleaned off the headstone. When I calendered the cemeteries near me, here in Grayson, Va. I had blank sheets of paper with me to lay on top of the stone, then used a chalk to rub over it to bring out the lettering to read names & dates. Interesting. Seemed like I used crayons, chalk, or pencils. A lot of cornfields. Beautiful scenery. I Enjoyed seeing both of you. I like this new campground. Looks very inviting. Enjoyed your video. I hope you both have a nice week.
Michelle & the huge Ice Cream Cone was adorable. You needed to take "1" of her in the Pie Shack. I was never a fan of Shoo -fly Pie either. It seems to be popular in this area here.
Thanks for sharing, Kimberly. Hershey syrup in a can! 😂 My goodness, we about forgot of the days we used to get the syrup in a can. Wish we would have tried the pickles. :( Love to research family history. You’re right, I should have taken one of her in that little pie shack. 👍🏻😊
With a Church being there if you got a hold of the Church you can see if they are buried there. Finding family is a great mystery. I ddo my family tree and it is habit forming. Good luck
Too bad the church wasn’t open at the time we were there. But you’re right, we could contact them and ask if they still have records back that far. Oh yes, researching ancestors can consume you! Have a great week!
Darn girl! You are quite good at that guiding that rv down that bridge! So impressed! We tow a 38 ft 5th wheel and I am a coward to pull it. I drive our truck w/truck camper, thats it!
Welcome to PA, glad you enjoyed our state. We have family in Hershey, they own a beautiful Bed and Breakfast just about a mile from Hershey park. We live in Montoursville, if ever near stop and visit.
We probably drove by their bed & breakfast many times while staying there. We enjoyed our time in PA. A very beautiful state! Stay safe & have a great week!
Thanks for your video, esp. the ancestry part. Life was definitely not "pie-like" in those days. I checked my (rare!) family name on that website and was surprised how many of those name siblings had made it across the ocean. But I am proud to be a Franconian 😁(Bavarian German!). Franconians are Bavaria's elite!
That’s very interesting! Thanks for sharing! My paternal grandmother’s family was from Germany also. Not exactly sure where they lived there. Researching ancestors is exciting and can be consuming. 🤓 Stay safe & have a great week! 🧡
Brian and Michelle, God bless both of your hearts in all you do in showing all the different places and things to do and rv tech advice. Thank you for sharing about Michelle's ancestors. I was wondering. Don't the cemeteries keep records of the loved ones location of the burial site? Due to the headstones so old and difficult to read. The headstone became more legible after you cleaned it Brian. Good job. Take care.
I’m sure we could contact that church and ask if they have any records back that far. Yes, thank goodness Brian is quick to think and thought of cleaning off the headstones. It was amazing to see them once they were clean. 🤓 Stay safe & have a great week!
Great video. As I was watching, I commented to my wife, I wonder how much it would cost to have the Headstone restored. Then you were using a brush, what a great idea and made such a difference.
A softer synthetic brush is a better option, it only takes off organic matter and lose stuff. The wire brush removes top skin of stone and opens the stone up to more weathering. It's like a car, you just want to get the surface dirt off, not cut through the paint into the raw metal.
Thanks for the tip. It’s all we had right then at the time and we were not going to be back to that area, so we had to go with what we had. That was our last free day we had before leaving. We plan to check on having it restored.
I am a huge genealogy fan! I have built family trees for my husband's family and mine. Something wonderful about tracing family thru history! I am happy for you, Michelle! And PA is a beautiful place!
Oh that is wonderful that you were able to do that for your families! I’m sure they are very grateful and love it! It is so interesting to learn about one’s ancestry.
It was nice meeting you at Whispering Springs today. You are both better looking in person!! Safe travels and thanks for the sticker. I plan to make a magnet out of it so it can join my magnet collection on the refrigerator.
Hi Dan!! It was a true pleasure meeting you as well! Sorry we were checking out and we didn’t get more time to chat. Hopefully we’ll see you done the road again soon! You’re very welcome! Great idea with the sticker! 😊🤓
Happy belated B'Day Brian! Hoped to run into you at Hershey. Saturday was way to crowded, so missed meeting you. I had to laugh though, didn't realize it till watching this video, we were about 20 feet from you in the Hershey chocolate store as one of us is in your video. Too funny, maybe next time! Enjoy and stay safe out there!😎
Loved this video. It was great sharing in on your family roots search. Glad it had a positive outcome. The headstone cleaned up well. Should last at least another 150 years.
We are planning to go across the country next year, and one of the stops we were thinking about is Wisconsin to find my 3 greats grandparents grave. After watching this episode we are going to do for sure! Thanks…BTW you may be related to my husband he is a Starr. Great rivet gun tip.
My husband and I love your channel we are new to it "binge-watching" lol. We have purchased a Outdoor RV 29ft TRX Toy Hauler it's being built here in Oregon hope to have it in April or May. You have inspired us to hit the road. We have a Home Decor Shop in our barn so we travel to purchase items for our shop. Most of the time it's hotels but now we are looking forward to slowing down and enjoying the adventure. Thank you. 🥰 Happy Travels🥰
Welcome! 🧡😊🤓 Very nice, congrats on your new Toy Hauler! We’re sure you will really love the adventures of traveling. We hope to see you out there sometime!
Generally you can check with the Church or Cemetery staff and they will have a map to help you find the gravestones. We did quite a bit of ancestry work a few years ago and found the find a grave website a very big help too where someone in that area will find the tombstones, take a photo and email to you.
We actually tried that, but could not get in touch with anyone while we were there. Brian went around and knocked on all forts of the church also. It was a Sunday so we were hoping someone was still there.
That was so enjoyable to find your relatives! So cool you could rub it and get it to show the names! I loved doing that with my Mom and family many years ago, 1971. You never know how long you will have them around with you, so get out there and enjoy your family history!
You are right! We need to learn about our family history from our parents & relatives while they can still share it with us. If we don’t pass it down and along, it will get lost. So glad you got the chance to do that with your mom & family. 🧡
Happy Birthday Brian!!!! You don't look a day over 39! Michelle, you did GREAT JOB backing in the Airstream!!! You definitely had some good help in which way to turn the wheel and when! Hope ya'll are being safe and having a good time!
We went to Chocolate World right after meeting you Saturday. I bought a chocolate candle. It is wonderful smells like hot chocolate in our house all day.
Love Primanti Brothers ! Didn’t like the Shoo Fly Pie either 😩Never heard of or had that bologna 😮 Way to go Michelle for backing in !!!!! Great video 👍
A late Happy birthday Brian!!!🎉🎉 This video had a little bit of everything very well done!! Michelle I also like to find my ancestors. My grandparents ,great grandparents, great great grandparents on my fathers side are all buried in the same cemetery. Michelle you back up great good job!!! See you next week stay safe!!!
Thank you for the birthday wishes! 😊 How nice that your father’s ancestors are all in the same cemetery. Makes it easier to visit their gravesites all in the same location. Take care & have a great week! 🧡🤓
My parents are in a cemetery five miles away. My mothers mom and her grandmother are all in same area of the cemetery. We decorate the graves once a year makes it easy when they are close !!
How did you like that 301 bridge from MD to VA? Little tight wasn't it? This is home for me and I've traveled that bridge many times. The replacement bridge is way over due!!!
😂 It’s SO frustrating too! I try to do as much as I can correcting UA-cams closed caption errors, but always run short with time to correct them all. It is so time consuming on top of everything else for one person to keep up with unless you hire it out. If I did shorter OR easier videos to edit, then I would have more time. I’ve been looking at hiring out the CC changes for someone to do manually and then I would just upload it. Gotta agree though, they ARE funny to read sometimes. 😂
Michelle, you rock at driving AND backing that big rig! I would have been in hog heaven with all those Hershey shops , pie and ice cream. Happy Birthday Brian! You both do a wonderful job with your videos. Keep up the good work, such helpful information & very entertaining ❤️
Thank you! 🤓 Believe us, it was hard for both of us to walk away from all those sweets! 😩 Thank you very much, we’re both so happy that you are enjoying them! 🧡😊🤓
Happy you were able to pay your respects @ the grave sites...Always enjoy your content, especially the on road footage and theme music...It's like I'm there...Take care...
Sweet Lebanon Bologna is of PA Dutch origin, Lebanon PA. We love Kunzlers the best. We make cream cheese pinwheels for snacks on the road. You certainly looked like you enjoyed my neck of the world. Enjoy your travels. See ya soon.
Thanks for sharing this! We did really enjoy it there! I also have a cousin that lives in PA also and they seem to really like it there also. Thanks again! 🧡😊🤓
I have to admit that I busted out laughing when you mentioned something about when you do-do another video about Happy Campers Deluxe. 🤣 Then I asked myself if I was like 9 years old or something, then I laughed again! 🤣🤣 Then later on, I was super surprised to see that you drove over our Harry Nice Bridge from MD in VA. You can imagine how happy we locals are going to be when the new bridge construction is complete. Well, I hope you enjoy your stay in Virginia! Safe travels!!
Way cool! always fun to find ancestors after 30 years working on and off my family tree I finished was able to go back to the year 0850 where it said no more written information on this family
Great job glad you found the grave sites. I think that's very cool. Wow pies and on the honor System never seen that before. My wife loves those sticky buns she would probably take them all.
My dream one day is to travel to sites where my ancestors lived. Some lived in New Brunswick, Canada. I love family history activities and volunteer at our local FamilySearch Center.
Hershey is a fun place. So interesting to have found those grave sites! We bought blueberry and apple pies from that little shed. They were very good! Another great video!!!!
Hi Louise! Michelle only tried the Shoo-fly pie there and wished she would have tried the others. She was not a fan of that one. Others did look very good! Thanks!
Just an FYI for you…..you can take flour and rub on tombstones that are hard to read and it makes most of them more readable and it doesn’t hurt the tombstone.
My husband and I love your channel and your humor. BUT he says you have become a bad influence on me cuz I did a thing yesterday. I bought a whole coconut cream pie from Sherman's deli yesterday!! OMG I'm in love!!
Uh oh…it’s all over now!! 😂 We both LOVE that pie! I wish Brian could enjoy the entire pie and not just the filling. He has tried it though and loves it too. It’s tempting to move there just for that pie! Lol Ok, maybe the reubens also. 🤓
The Spirit moves us! I love how you use Google Earth. Glad you found the Headstones! This is testimony as to why we need to keep records for future generations! What kind of brush did you use on the headstones? I always appreciate you maintenance advice. 🎶 Its your Birthday, bc I don’t give a 🎶 lol Go Shaughty~ lol. Y’all must be getting high in your subscribers, you’re getting more commercial breaks! Lol Had to stop and edit my comments several times. NiCE WORK! Always leaving viewers w/a smile. #seeyanextweek
I had to come back and edit, I just realized what you were saying about the ads. This is the second time UA-cam has did this to us. We don't get to choose who advertises on our channel but we can choose where the "mid-roll" ads are located. We don't like to have so many ads, so I manually do the placements myself, because YT likes to load them up everywhere of course. Well, this is the second time recently where YT had changed my settings after I saved them. Frustrating because we don't want to overwhelm people with ads. YT always wants to do more than you would see on a regular TV show. Too many. So sorry that happened to everyones experience and enjoyment of watching the video. :( Agree about the importance of keeping good records. I wish my son would feel that it’s important to know more about his family history. We nice my grandfather passed, I had always wished I had asked more questions. You got it! Go Shaughty! 😂 I had a wire brush in the truck so I just used that. Hopefully I didn’t cause any damage. They didn’t have a sheen to the headstones though. Thanks so much Crafty Clarke! 🧡😊🤓
Its always exciting when I find another ancestor’s headstone 🥰. Find-a-Grave is a great resource for genealogists. If you invert your headstone photos (flip them to a negative in an app) then you can read them better.
Do a rubbing of the stone to read better? Take a large piece of paper taped to stone and rub a crayon over the surface. Lettering will pop right out on the paper.
Not always, but the office sometimes will be able the look up the location of grave sites or they have a computer for you to look it up yourself. I love genealogy too!
Sorry just saw a comment that you tried this. You guys should check out ancestry and start a family tree. 🥰 of course there is several other online resources but in the end..,,fun!
find out who holds the records for that cemetary, there is a caretaker for a cemetary that will help you locate grave sites. OR the closets church can hold the records too..........also, can go to the local library and they maybe able to help you, and most libraries also have a local history room. Take a piece of paper and a pencil, turn the pencil on the side and rub on the part you are trying to read........
A wire brush. They were old tombstones from back in the 1800s with no sheen. We don’t think it damaged then but we plan to call a local company to see what they can do to help preserve them.
This is just fabulous, Michelle! I use Ancestry and have been tracking family as well, and my Great-Grandfather of my Dad's side was named Francis Haynes from Arizona (but lived mostly in TX I think) was born in 1903. However, HIS father (so my Great-Great-Grandfather?) was named Gaither Jackson Haynes born in 1861 in Horse Branch, Kentucky. I can see it's spelled different than your family, but what a coincidence! - Tabetha
Oh how cool! We did see some Haynes and Haines at this cemetery. Although, both are very common names and sometimes they were changed from Haines to Haynes or vice versa. A coincidence indeed though!
We stayed at the Hershey TT in June and we saw the sign for pies but never stopped and looked in the building! Will definitely stop the next time! Really enjoyed the video!
What a wonderful experience for Michelle, both of you, to find her family graves. Happy Birthday, Brian!
Yes we were excited about it! 🤓
Thanks for the birthday wishes! 😊🧡
A cool thing to do is take paper and charcoal pen and do a rubbing of the gravestone
Yes we’ve seen that done before. Unfortunately we didn’t have that with us that day.
Finding relatives graves are one of the most interesting things you can do
Agree!! Love to find out about our relatives and history!!
Gave me goose bumps to see you cleaning the headstone! Thanks for talking us along.
If you find the cemetery caretaker many have a list and map of who is buried there. “Find a Grave” is not always complete. Also, if you take a blank piece of paper and lay it over a hard-to-read tombstone then take a pencil and color over it, many letters and numbers will appear on the paper. My mother’s side is from eastern Pennsylvania, New Brighton, Beaver Falls area. Kidd was her maiden name.
We were hoping the church was open when we were there but unfortunately it wasn’t. We’ll have to try and contact them to find out if they have records back that’s far.
We didn’t have any paper or a pencil/crayon with us that day. The stones didn’t have any sheen coating on them so hopefully the rubbing didn’t hurt them.
Thanks for sharing your mother’s roots! It’s fun to find out about our ancestors!
Take care! 🧡😊🤓
@@LivinRVision sadly should never use a wire brush as it damages the stone! Soft brush, and elbow grease is best! Also never use bleach (for anyone wanting to clean a stone.)
Glad you found it!
If you get to come back to PA consider a stop at the flight 93 911 Memorial in Shanksville PA. It is a beautiful place. You can walk the grounds and visit the museum in about 3 hours. We recommend the Friendship Village Campground which is about 30 minutes from the Memorial.
Yes! Great thought!
We did actually think about going there but the only day we had available we decided it was too far of a drive to really spend some time going through it. Hopefully the next time we’re back there, we will make a point to stop. We have heard it is remarkable.
As a genealogist, you can imagine how much I loved this episode! Good sleuthing !
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching! 🧡😊🤓
I’m like you guys - I love history and love to visit old graves to envision the lives of the people’s at the time in how they lived. Thank you for taking us along.
🧡 Thanks for watching, we’re glad you enjoyed it. 😊🤓
My great grandfather was a Shoemaker. Same spelling?? Pennsylvania Dutch. They ended up in Kansas
Just so awesome you two. Hugs!
Oh that’s great! I think a lot of Pennsylvania Dutch migrated to the Midwest and west. A lot in Indiana and Iowa too.
Take care & stay safe! 🧡😊🤓
So amazing you found your ancestors Michelle and for taking us along. Glad you liked Primanti’s. We try to go there every time we go back home to Pittsburgh. What beautiful weather you had for traveling. Michelle did great backing up. Thank again for the great video!! 😊❤️
Thanks for coming along with us on our journey! 🧡
Oh Primanti’s was sooo good! It’s probably a good thing we don’t live near there, lol.
Take care & have a great week!
That was exciting when you rubbed off the stone and you could actually read the names and stuff. Cool video.
That’s when it gave me goosebumps! 🤓🧡
That's so cool Michelle! Your grandpa was a COBBLER! and you love cobbler~ Neat little side road pie spot! Thank you for taking us along....and now I want Primanti ! It was riveting..... Safe travels!
Oh wow, I didn’t think of the ‘cobbler’ correlation! 😉
Take care & have a great week! 🧡
Genealogy is a great. I have learned so much about my family on both sides. The surprises you discover.
Agree, it’s so interesting and fun what you can find out about your ancestors.
Another great video… You two work very well together. And a very happy but belated birthday young man. Be safe and be well
Thank you so much! 😊🧡
Cool discovery of your ggg grandfather’s headstone. My gg grandfather was also born in Germany and came to America in 1837. Finding his gravestone started me on a journey to find his hometown in Germany.
Oh how interesting! Thanks for sharing that! Did you find his hometown yet?
@@LivinRVision Yes! I found the tiny farming village and my mom and I got to visit the main church in Mandelsloh, Germany in 2007. I was hoping to find living relatives, but most went to America…so I now want to travel and do more research in Missouri, Ohio and Indiana. By the way, my gg grandfather lived to be 100 years old.
Love this!! 🧡 So happy you found it AND even got to go there! I would love to go to Germany someday but feel would need to find out more info on my relatives first so we know where to go.
Hope you’re able to find more of your relatives’ whereabouts in the states! Good luck! 🧡🤓
First off ... happy belated birthday, Brian!! Hope it was a great day! There's no way I can go walking through graveyards, but love going to/thru old family homes. Bless you for cleaning up those headstones! Good job backing in, Michelle! Thanks for the visit! I always look forward to Saturdays! ♥
Thank you! I don’t really care for walking though graveyards myself either. Michelle says, thank you! 🧡
Such a find! Thank you for sharing.
You’re welcome! Have a great week! 🧡😊🤓
Love watching the scenery that is shown and the music you incorporate into your videos. Thanks for showing your adventures. 🤗
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. 🧡😊🤓
That was awesome finding the graves!!!
It really was! 🧡😊🤓
You guys are right in my backyard - ten minutes up the road from our home in Gloucester. We use to have our RV club camp outs at that very park. Enjoy our area and its history.
Oh how cool! We really liked that area and definitely would go back there again.
You went right past our town, Saluda, Virginia, then pulled in to Thousand Trails right up the street from the house. Enjoy the history.
Oh wow! We should have waved 👋 as we went by!! We enjoyed our time there. Very nice area and would definitely go back.
I like shoofly pie! Great back up job Michelle! 😁👍💕
Thank you! 🧡🤓
Wonderful! Ancestors and pies! Great trip! I am doing Ancestry and finding your roots and family is so exciting and inspiring.
Yes it gets addicting searching for your ancestors. Several years ago my Mom had done a lot of research and it was consuming but my siblings and I are grateful she did it. 🤓
Stay safe & have a great week! 🧡
Another Livin adventure down memory lane in remembrance of past family. Indeed this was a very good experience. PA holds many memories and history. I LOVED the HERSHEY factory tour :) Thanks....and what a great idea for a pie bake shop on the side of the road.
Glad you enjoyed it Ramona! Yes, that side of the road pie shop was very handy! 😂 😋
Great job backing Michelle!
Thanks Michael! 🧡🤓
Very interesting ancestry, thanks for sharing! There are so many yummy things in this video. I enjoy starting my Saturdays with you two!
Aww we’re glad you’re enjoying Saturday mornings with us! Thank you! 🧡😊🤓
Awesome video with great music as always! Additionally however…my wife wanted me to let you know that she was very moved by your finding Michelle’s ancestors. And that in the many hours we’ve spent over the past year researching RV living in preparation for our retirement, that this episode was the coolest thing she’s seen on UA-cam ever. Thank you and safe travels.😎
Aww thank you! Tell your wife, that was probably one of the most awesome things anyone has ever said to us about one of our videos. That truly made our day. Making others happy/making a difference in someone else’s life… that is truly such a rewarding feeling. 🧡😊🤓
@@LivinRVision She smiled and said “that’s awesome!“ Take care folks😎🌴
Hey! Came on here to find "how to replace a rivet" and want to share with Michelle my latest addition on "findagrave". Was looking for a great x3 aunt (Martha Wells) and the volunteer actually found a flat stone with her inscription of "Aunt Martha" So when I get back home I will be pounding the grass to find stones 🙃 I'm back to 10th century on my adoptive paternal tree ! But stuck on my mom's paternal side. Stella will be traveling to Mecklenburg NC/VA to search for Anderson Wells family tree (where I get stumped 😁)
Those puns are funny....they "crack" me up....oooo should I have said that?
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Very cool to see and visit old relatives even if they are no longer living, good for you Michelle , God bless you both and great meeting you both at the Hershey RV show
Thank you! It was a pleasure meeting you too! 🧡😊🤓
I had a Permanti Bros in Pittsburgh, Pa. 38 years ago. We got their famous Cheese Steak. It had Cole slaw & French fries all on the sandwich. Never in my life did I ever see anything like it. Delicious. Very filling. I was pregnant that year, my Husband couldn't get enough of their Kosher Pickles. He got "1" every night he worked in Pittsburgh, he craved them. Me, I craved Hershey syrup in a can. I loved the tour of the Hershey factory. Some new restaurants in town. Hershey's Restaurant looked nice, & generous with their portions.
Family History is neat to research. I like how easily you cleaned off the headstone. When I calendered the cemeteries near me, here in Grayson, Va. I had blank sheets of paper with me to lay on top of the stone, then used a chalk to rub over it to bring out the lettering to read names & dates. Interesting. Seemed like I used crayons, chalk, or pencils. A lot of cornfields. Beautiful scenery. I Enjoyed seeing both of you. I like this new campground. Looks very inviting. Enjoyed your video. I hope you both have a nice week.
Michelle & the huge Ice Cream Cone was adorable. You needed to take "1" of her in the Pie Shack. I was never a fan of Shoo -fly Pie either. It seems to be popular in this area here.
Thanks for sharing, Kimberly. Hershey syrup in a can! 😂 My goodness, we about forgot of the days we used to get the syrup in a can.
Wish we would have tried the pickles. :(
Love to research family history.
You’re right, I should have taken one of her in that little pie shack. 👍🏻😊
With a Church being there if you got a hold of the Church you can see if they are buried there. Finding family is a great mystery. I ddo my family tree and it is habit forming. Good luck
Too bad the church wasn’t open at the time we were there. But you’re right, we could contact them and ask if they still have records back that far.
Oh yes, researching ancestors can consume you!
Have a great week!
Darn girl! You are quite good at that guiding that rv down that bridge! So impressed! We tow a 38 ft 5th wheel and I am a coward to pull it. I drive our truck w/truck camper, thats it!
Thank you! 🤓🧡. Don’t be so hard on yourself. Driving the truck with truck/camper is an accomplishment as well! 💪🏻
Welcome to PA, glad you enjoyed our state. We have family in Hershey, they own a beautiful Bed and Breakfast just about a mile from Hershey park. We live in Montoursville, if ever near stop and visit.
We probably drove by their bed & breakfast many times while staying there.
We enjoyed our time in PA. A very beautiful state!
Stay safe & have a great week!
Thanks for your video, esp. the ancestry part. Life was definitely not "pie-like" in those days. I checked my (rare!) family name on that website and was surprised how many of those name siblings had made it across the ocean. But I am proud to be a Franconian 😁(Bavarian German!). Franconians are Bavaria's elite!
That’s very interesting! Thanks for sharing! My paternal grandmother’s family was from Germany also. Not exactly sure where they lived there.
Researching ancestors is exciting and can be consuming. 🤓
Stay safe & have a great week! 🧡
You’re right, that last park was beautiful! And that one spot……perfection!
As usual, a great video with great editing. 😉
Thanks Lori! 🧡 Take care & hope you have a great week!
Oh, I love shoo-fly pie. Tastes like a cinnamon roll.
I think I should have tried it again as I wasn’t a fan of the one I had. Heard there are different types of it.
Brian and Michelle, God bless both of your hearts in all you do in showing all the different places and things to do and rv tech advice. Thank you for sharing about Michelle's ancestors. I was wondering. Don't the cemeteries keep records of the loved ones location of the burial site? Due to the headstones so old and difficult to read. The headstone became more legible after you cleaned it Brian. Good job. Take care.
I’m sure we could contact that church and ask if they have any records back that far. Yes, thank goodness Brian is quick to think and thought of cleaning off the headstones. It was amazing to see them once they were clean. 🤓
Stay safe & have a great week!
Cleaning that headstone was so cool! Well done!
Great video. As I was watching, I commented to my wife, I wonder how much it would cost to have the Headstone restored. Then you were using a brush, what a great idea and made such a difference.
Yes thank goodness Brian was quick to think about getting the brush a try. So glad he did and that it cleaned up so well. 🤓
A softer synthetic brush is a better option, it only takes off organic matter and lose stuff. The wire brush removes top skin of stone and opens the stone up to more weathering.
It's like a car, you just want to get the surface dirt off, not cut through the paint into the raw metal.
Thanks for the tip. It’s all we had right then at the time and we were not going to be back to that area, so we had to go with what we had. That was our last free day we had before leaving. We plan to check on having it restored.
I am a huge genealogy fan! I have built family trees for my husband's family and mine. Something wonderful about tracing family thru history! I am happy for you, Michelle! And PA is a beautiful place!
Oh that is wonderful that you were able to do that for your families! I’m sure they are very grateful and love it! It is so interesting to learn about one’s ancestry.
Enjoy the video it was great seeing you two enjoying your safe,s great to see 👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching! 🧡😊🤓
It was nice meeting you at Whispering Springs today. You are both better looking in person!! Safe travels and thanks for the sticker. I plan to make a magnet out of it so it can join my magnet collection on the refrigerator.
Hi Dan!! It was a true pleasure meeting you as well! Sorry we were checking out and we didn’t get more time to chat. Hopefully we’ll see you done the road again soon! You’re very welcome! Great idea with the sticker! 😊🤓
Happy belated B'Day Brian! Hoped to run into you at Hershey. Saturday was way to crowded, so missed meeting you. I had to laugh though, didn't realize it till watching this video, we were about 20 feet from you in the Hershey chocolate store as one of us is in your video. Too funny, maybe next time! Enjoy and stay safe out there!😎
Oh that is too funny! Hopefully next tune for sure! We’d love to meet y’all!
Loved this video. It was great sharing in on your family roots search. Glad it had a positive outcome. The headstone cleaned up well. Should last at least another 150 years.
Glad you enjoyed it!! 🧡😊🤓
We are planning to go across the country next year, and one of the stops we were thinking about is Wisconsin to find my 3 greats grandparents grave. After watching this episode we are going to do for sure! Thanks…BTW you may be related to my husband he is a Starr. Great rivet gun tip.
Good luck on your search! He’ll have to check to see if he’s related and let us know.
So awesome you guys were able to find those headstones! Oh gosh, that store smelled AMAZING! 😎💚
Yes it did!! 😋
You guys are so much fun. Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome! We’re glad you liked it!
I second the idea of taking a ‘rubbing’ of an illegible headstone. You would be surprised what comes up!
Yes and then you have a momento to save. 🧡
My husband and I love your channel we are new to it "binge-watching" lol. We have purchased a Outdoor RV 29ft TRX Toy Hauler it's being built here in Oregon hope to have it in April or May. You have inspired us to hit the road. We have a Home Decor Shop in our barn so we travel to purchase items for our shop. Most of the time it's hotels but now we are looking forward to slowing down and enjoying the adventure. Thank you. 🥰 Happy Travels🥰
Welcome! 🧡😊🤓 Very nice, congrats on your new Toy Hauler! We’re sure you will really love the adventures of traveling. We hope to see you out there sometime!
Generally you can check with the Church or Cemetery staff and they will have a map to help you find the gravestones. We did quite a bit of ancestry work a few years ago and found the find a grave website a very big help too where someone in that area will find the tombstones, take a photo and email to you.
We actually tried that, but could not get in touch with anyone while we were there. Brian went around and knocked on all forts of the church also. It was a Sunday so we were hoping someone was still there.
@@LivinRVision We are looking forward to getting to Iowa to do more searching. Thank you for sharing!
That was so enjoyable to find your relatives! So cool you could rub it and get it to show the names! I loved doing that with my Mom and family many years ago, 1971. You never know how long you will have them around with you, so get out there and enjoy your family history!
Great backing up Michelle!
You are right! We need to learn about our family history from our parents & relatives while they can still share it with us. If we don’t pass it down and along, it will get lost. So glad you got the chance to do that with your mom & family. 🧡
Thank you! 🤓
I could not cope with a driver in that area with bologna in her hand, and on her mind🤣🤣🤣
Beautiful park - how fun!
😂🤣🤣 Just a bunch of bologna isn’t it! 😉
That video was great, I mean great great great or great great....take care of pie girl ...travel safe.
😂🤪 Always! 😉🧡
Happy Birthday Brian!!!! You don't look a day over 39! Michelle, you did GREAT JOB backing in the Airstream!!! You definitely had some good help in which way to turn the wheel and when! Hope ya'll are being safe and having a good time!
Thank you very much! 😊🤓
Primanti bros is a Pittsburgh original.
Great sandwiches.
Yes! The bomb!!
That’s what we hear. They ARE great! 👍🏻😊🤓
What a great video! 🙌💕💕thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you! 🧡😊🤓
We have a friend from church named George Haynes
I don’t think it’s a very uncommon name. Have seen 3 different spellings also… Haines, Haynes and Hains.
Great job backing in!!!
Thanks! 🤓
We went to Chocolate World right after meeting you Saturday. I bought a chocolate candle. It is wonderful smells like hot chocolate in our house all day.
Oh my! We’d be drinking hot cocoa all day with that smell in the RV for sure! 😊🤓
Michelle did a great job backing up the airstream! We have never had shoe fly pie either! ~ Shion and Matthew
Thank you! 🤓
Lol, channeling my inner child..... when you DO DO it about the black tank 😂🤣
😂🤪
I love Pa ❤️❤️
Love Primanti Brothers ! Didn’t like the Shoo Fly Pie either 😩Never heard of or had that bologna 😮
Way to go Michelle for backing in !!!!!
Great video 👍
👍🏻 Thank you! 🤓
A late Happy birthday Brian!!!🎉🎉 This video had a little bit of everything very well done!! Michelle I also like to find my ancestors. My grandparents ,great grandparents, great great grandparents on my fathers side are all buried in the same cemetery. Michelle you back up great good job!!! See you next week stay safe!!!
Thank you for the birthday wishes! 😊
How nice that your father’s ancestors are all in the same cemetery. Makes it easier to visit their gravesites all in the same location.
Take care & have a great week! 🧡🤓
My parents are in a cemetery five miles away. My mothers mom and her grandmother are all in same area of the cemetery. We decorate the graves once a year makes it easy when they are close !!
What do you see on a south end of a north facing pie girl! Lol 😂 have a good week!… answer “Michell is backing in! You go girl! Well done..
😂🤣 You have a good week as well! Thanks!
How did you like that 301 bridge from MD to VA? Little tight wasn't it? This is home for me and I've traveled that bridge many times. The replacement bridge is way over due!!!
A little bit! 😂
The closed captions are hilarious. "Zoo meeting" ?
😂 It’s SO frustrating too! I try to do as much as I can correcting UA-cams closed caption errors, but always run short with time to correct them all. It is so time consuming on top of everything else for one person to keep up with unless you hire it out. If I did shorter OR easier videos to edit, then I would have more time. I’ve been looking at hiring out the CC changes for someone to do manually and then I would just upload it. Gotta agree though, they ARE funny to read sometimes. 😂
Michelle, you rock at driving AND backing that big rig! I would have been in hog heaven with all those Hershey shops , pie and ice cream. Happy Birthday Brian! You both do a wonderful job with your videos. Keep up the good work, such helpful information & very entertaining ❤️
Thank you! 🤓 Believe us, it was hard for both of us to walk away from all those sweets! 😩
Thank you very much, we’re both so happy that you are enjoying them! 🧡😊🤓
Happy you were able to pay your respects @ the grave sites...Always enjoy your content, especially the on road footage and theme music...It's like I'm there...Take care...
Thank you, glad you enjoy them. 🧡😊🤓
CHOCOLATE!! YUM!!! Winner winner Hershey Bar Dinner!!
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Sweet Lebanon Bologna is of PA Dutch origin, Lebanon PA. We love Kunzlers the best. We make cream cheese pinwheels for snacks on the road. You certainly looked like you enjoyed my neck of the world. Enjoy your travels. See ya soon.
Thanks for sharing this! We did really enjoy it there! I also have a cousin that lives in PA also and they seem to really like it there also. Thanks again! 🧡😊🤓
I have to admit that I busted out laughing when you mentioned something about when you do-do another video about Happy Campers Deluxe. 🤣 Then I asked myself if I was like 9 years old or something, then I laughed again! 🤣🤣 Then later on, I was super surprised to see that you drove over our Harry Nice Bridge from MD in VA. You can imagine how happy we locals are going to be when the new bridge construction is complete. Well, I hope you enjoy your stay in Virginia! Safe travels!!
😂 nope, just me, I’m 9…at heart for sure. 😬
I bet y’all WILL be happy when that’s finished!
Thanks and be safe out there!
Way cool! always fun to find ancestors after 30 years working on and off my family tree I finished was able to go back to the year 0850 where it said no more written information on this family
Wow! That is a great accomplishment! It is exciting to research and learn about our ancestors. 🧡
Happy birthday Brian
Thank you! 🧡😊
Great job glad you found the grave sites. I think that's very cool. Wow pies and on the honor System never seen that before. My wife loves those sticky buns she would probably take them all.
Thanks! Boy do I ever wish I could eat those sticky buns too! Used to LOVE them!
Sweet.... literally.....nice pic with ice cream 🍦 Michele. What campground is that? Looks nice.
Chesapeake Bay Thousand Trails. We really enjoyed it there. The ice cream helped. 🤪
Hope you are out of the storms out east. Little late with watching this week, getting ready to head south. Stay safe.😎🤓🥸
Rainy today…better late than never! 😊🤓
My dream one day is to travel to sites where my ancestors lived. Some lived in New Brunswick, Canada. I love family history activities and volunteer at our local FamilySearch Center.
Hershey is a fun place.
So interesting to have found those grave sites!
We bought blueberry and apple pies from that little shed. They were very good!
Another great video!!!!
Hi Louise! Michelle only tried the Shoo-fly pie there and wished she would have tried the others. She was not a fan of that one. Others did look very good!
Thanks!
Just an FYI for you…..you can take flour and rub on tombstones that are hard to read and it makes most of them more readable and it doesn’t hurt the tombstone.
Very interesting tip! Thank you for sharing!
Great video!! You guys crack us up!! I actually work at Goddard Space Flight Center. Been with NASA for 10 years. Great job backing up Michelle !!
Oh wow, that’s awesome! I would think NASA would be a very cool place to work. I had an uncle who worked for NASA many moons ago.
Thank you! 🤓
Happy belated birthday Brian. Fun place to be....cool
Thank you! 👍🏻😊
My husband and I love your channel and your humor. BUT he says you have become a bad influence on me cuz I did a thing yesterday. I bought a whole coconut cream pie from Sherman's deli yesterday!!
OMG I'm in love!!
Uh oh…it’s all over now!! 😂 We both LOVE that pie! I wish Brian could enjoy the entire pie and not just the filling. He has tried it though and loves it too. It’s tempting to move there just for that pie! Lol Ok, maybe the reubens also. 🤓
The Spirit moves us! I love how you use Google Earth. Glad you found the Headstones! This is testimony as to why we need to keep records for future generations! What kind of brush did you use on the headstones? I always appreciate you maintenance advice. 🎶 Its your Birthday, bc I don’t give a 🎶 lol Go Shaughty~ lol. Y’all must be getting high in your subscribers, you’re getting more commercial breaks! Lol Had to stop and edit my comments several times. NiCE WORK! Always leaving viewers w/a smile. #seeyanextweek
I had to come back and edit, I just realized what you were saying about the ads. This is the second time UA-cam has did this to us. We don't get to choose who advertises on our channel but we can choose where the "mid-roll" ads are located. We don't like to have so many ads, so I manually do the placements myself, because YT likes to load them up everywhere of course. Well, this is the second time recently where YT had changed my settings after I saved them. Frustrating because we don't want to overwhelm people with ads. YT always wants to do more than you would see on a regular TV show. Too many. So sorry that happened to everyones experience and enjoyment of watching the video. :(
Agree about the importance of keeping good records. I wish my son would feel that it’s important to know more about his family history. We nice my grandfather passed, I had always wished I had asked more questions.
You got it! Go Shaughty! 😂
I had a wire brush in the truck so I just used that. Hopefully I didn’t cause any damage. They didn’t have a sheen to the headstones though.
Thanks so much Crafty Clarke! 🧡😊🤓
We really enjoyed Hershey as well. Vute little tour. Enjoyed meeting you. Barb was the lady with the ccx white hat. Hope to see you in Florida.
Loved the little tour.
We enjoyed it too. It was a pleasure meeting you guys as well!
Its always exciting when I find another ancestor’s headstone 🥰. Find-a-Grave is a great resource for genealogists. If you invert your headstone photos (flip them to a negative in an app) then you can read them better.
Oh very interesting! We’ll have to try that technique next time. Thanks! 🧡😊🤓
Do a rubbing of the stone to read better? Take a large piece of paper taped to stone and rub a crayon over the surface. Lettering will pop right out on the paper.
We didn’t have paper or a crayon with us at the time. Luckily we had tools for the rubbing and that it worked great!
Well that stinks, you where only about 5 miles from my house in VA. Would have loved to meet you guys.
Hopefully next time, we would have loved to have met you as well.
Not always, but the office sometimes will be able the look up the location of grave sites or they have a computer for you to look it up yourself. I love genealogy too!
Sorry just saw a comment that you tried this. You guys should check out ancestry and start a family tree. 🥰 of course there is several other online resources but in the end..,,fun!
We would love to research both our families. It takes a a lot of time though so it may need to be done once we retire, lol.
Great video…really enjoyed watching!!
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
Happy birthday Looks like you guys are having fun we are in Texarkana at the KOA for the winter
Hey Lance! Thanks! Enjoy your time in TX!
That was so cool
find out who holds the records for that cemetary, there is a caretaker for a cemetary that will help you locate grave sites. OR the closets church can hold the records too..........also, can go to the local library and they maybe able to help you, and most libraries also have a local history room. Take a piece of paper and a pencil, turn the pencil on the side and rub on the part you are trying to read........
👍🏻 Thanks for the tips 😊🤓
What a fun one guys Thanks
As always love you two mmmmmm love chocolate
Thanks Mike!!
Cool you find Michelle’s family’s tombstones! What did you use to clean them? Worked well. PIES! So what did you get???
A wire brush. They were old tombstones from back in the 1800s with no sheen. We don’t think it damaged then but we plan to call a local company to see what they can do to help preserve them.
This is just fabulous, Michelle! I use Ancestry and have been tracking family as well, and my Great-Grandfather of my Dad's side was named Francis Haynes from Arizona (but lived mostly in TX I think) was born in 1903. However, HIS father (so my Great-Great-Grandfather?) was named Gaither Jackson Haynes born in 1861 in Horse Branch, Kentucky. I can see it's spelled different than your family, but what a coincidence! - Tabetha
Oh how cool! We did see some Haynes and Haines at this cemetery. Although, both are very common names and sometimes they were changed from Haines to Haynes or vice versa. A coincidence indeed though!
Great....now I want chocolate!!
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Good video. Thanks. Have a good week.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Have a great weekend!
We stayed at the Hershey TT in June and we saw the sign for pies but never stopped and looked in the building! Will definitely stop the next time! Really enjoyed the video!
We only tried the one (Shoofly Pie - wasn’t a fan) but the others we’re thinking are much better. 👍🏻😊🤓
I'll let you know when we are there next. My son lives in Hershey so we go quite often. I love that area!
We liked it there too. We would definitely go back and stay there. Lots to see in that area of PA.
I enjoy your adventures 🖖🏻😘👍🏻🙏🏻
We’re glad you like them! 🧡😊🤓