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Unknown Havermann

I ran into my older sister's genealogy post on an Unknown Havermann yesterday and I was wondering how it ever came to this. Back in 2010 we had a brief email discussion on the matter (I've made some of my reply-text bold for emphasis):

16 Nov 2010

I read with interest your blog on our family tree. I am amazed that you were able to go back that far. Question: Generation V: Heinrich (living with his mother in 1900) +

[The Generation-V link is a 2022-updated page. The + is a date-of-death marker. In 2010, I did not yet know that date. I have a Neheim1900 excerpt that lists only some family names.]

I have a Heinrich who was a child of Sette – born: Jan.30/1901; died: Feb.26/1922 which seems to be at odds with your information that he was a child of Heinrich Havermann and Maria Messelke. Perhaps we are talking about another Heinrich?

17 Nov 2010 reply

My Heinrich came directly from dad's Stammbuch. I had scanned a copy of it for my computer but I have since lost that file because of a hard drive failure a couple of years ago. You will have to look at the original (assuming it wasn't thrown out). The residents-living-in-Neheim-in-1900 list basically confirms the existence of that person. He is old enough to be a Fabrikarbeiter and indeed, because his father died in 1876, he would have been at least 24 years old then.

18 Nov 2010

Thanks for your email clarifying my inquiry. I do have the "Ahnenpass". This seems to be a booklet that belonged to the relatives in Wattenscheid. Is this the same as the "Stammbuch" that you are referring to. I am willing to share the information with you if you want. Let me know.

18 Nov 2010 reply

[to part 1] Yes, that sounds like it. It does have Heinrich as a son of Heinrich, does it not?
[to part 2] No. I have all the information I need.

On my end, Heinrich wasn't an "unknown" (birthdate "estimated between 1844 and 1900"). He was Heinrich Anton, born 30 Jan 1876, three days before his father's death! Is it any wonder that his mother named him after his father? He died 26 Feb 1922. I don't know if he ever married or had children, but my sister listed a son, Heinrich (30 Jan 1901 - 26 Feb 1922), which perversely mirrors the actual Heinrich's particulars except for the year of birth. My sister suggested that Heinrich might have been a child of Sette but that would have made him a Rademacher, not a Havermann (an actual Heinrich Rademacher was 1907-1945).

I'm having difficulty finding a lot of my original sources for all this. Heinrich Anton's birth year of 1876 is in the Stadt- und Landständearchiv im Kloster Wedinghausen (Alphabetisches Register, 1874 - 1879). I'm pretty sure that I had found a reference to his Helden Friedhof burial in a book that corroborates his birth year but I've been unable to re-discover it.

Anyways, I just wanted this on the record in case some future researcher is confused by the geni.com misinformation. As mentioned in a previous blog, I have an extended Havermann family text chart and, as well, a slightly more limited pictorial chart. But beware. The "chesswanks" links are files on my computer and will likely disappear after my death.

Goodbye Netflix, hello YouTube Premium

Today is the last day of my long-time (since April 2013) Netflix subscription and the first day of my new YouTube Premium subscription for which I'll be paying $5.64 less per month after my one-month-free trial.

The pore structure of Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin

[article] BioMoleculePlot3D (ribbons) in Wolfram 14.1: click to enlarge

Alphabetizing the integers

Last month I wrote an article called "Integers, in alphabetical order" that illustrated my then-obsession with the topic. In February 1981, Ross Eckler had an article called "Alphabetizing the integers" (in the magazine Word Ways) that loosely anticipated my exploration.

On page 20 of his article, Eckler notes Philip Cohen's approach to the "Bergerson" problem (find the fixed points for integers 1 to n):

one   one   one     four    five    five    five    eight   eight
      two   three   one     four    four    four    five    five
            two     three   one     one     one     four    four
                    two     three   six     seven   one     nine
                            two     three   six     seven   one
                                    two     three   six     seven
                                            two     three   six
                                                    two     three
                                                            two

The number of fixed-point counts leads us to OEIS sequence A340671, which provides the actual fixed points in one of the links. Eckler gives us the list-sizes which produce matches for the first twenty integers. I have extended this listing to 100000 integers here. Eckler then notes that 3 appears (I am paraphrasing) in A340671 at positions 13 and 31 and asks for additional values. The third occurrence is at position 201 (then 203, 204, 208, ...). He didn't ask for a first 4, 5, 6, ... appearance as these were clearly beyond his realm of realizability at the time. But here they are:

 1        1
 2        2
 3       13
 4      202
 5      213
 6     2202
 7     2213
 8    14475
 9   233164
10   320200
11   449694
12  2450694
13  4367488
14  4580804
15  4580824

The listing is for the first appearance of 1 to 15, giving the position/index at which it occurs. Michael Branicky found #12 on July 7. I determined #13 to #15 yesterday. The fixed points are added here.

Fun with digital roots

Éric Angelini's most recent blog is here. I was sufficiently intrigued with his challenge to find larger primes than his 20248751248751248751248751248751248751248751248751 that I gave it a go:

z(41) = 20 grows into z(89), Éric's 50-digit prime.
z(91) = 22 grows into z(280), a 191-digit prime.
z(300) = 35 grows into z(1064), a 766-digit prime.
z(3740) = 238 grows into z(d+3737), a d-digit (>130000) prime.

Up to this point, we have 151 primes in Z. Their positions/indices are: 2, 3, 4, 20, 21, 23, 26, 29, 31, 34, 37, 38, 40, 89, 280, 281, 284, 287, 290, 291, 293, 296, 299, 1064, 1066, 1073, 1078, 1079, 1081, 1084, 1085, 1144, 1147, 1170, 1171, 1184, 1221, 1262, 1263, 1265, 1268, 1271, 1278, 1280, 1287, 1616, 1617, 1619, 1660, 1665, 1698, 1700, 1703, 1706, 1707, 1712, 1719, 1721, 1724, 1729, 1784, 1787, 1789, 1792, 1897, 1899, 1914, 1919, 1920, 1922, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1986, 1993, 1998, 2001, 2022, 2043, 2045, 2064, 2075, 2076, 2097, 2100, 2103, 2104, 2106, 2109, 2112, 2115, 2225, 2242, 2243, 2245, 2248, 2293, 2336, 2338, 2363, 2366, 2369, 2371, 2388, 2393, 2396, 2513, 2516, 2517, 2660, 2693, 2696, 2697, 2699, 2704, 2709, 2724, 2727, 2744, 2747, 2748, 2750, 2795, 2800, 2801, 2803, 2810, 3156, 3183, 3188, 3191, 3204, 3206, 3225, 3290, 3293, 3360, 3427, 3462, 3475, 3477, 3484, 3485, 3487, 3506, 3511, 3512, 3515, 3738. So we are looking for prime #152 (the next one). I've put an indexed file of Z (to 3752) here.

One might suppose that in the absence of a definite d, we cannot continue Z. Actually, assuming that d exists, we can. What we cannot do is assign indices to the continuation, unless one is ok with:

d+3738  239  (prime #153)
d+3739  240
d+3740  241  (prime #154)
d+3741  242
d+3742  2428
d+3743  24287
        ...

I've computed 11288 terms of this continuation but, in order to make the file size smaller, I have removed d+7693 to d+15024 from view. The file is here. The final term at the bottom (index d+15025) is prime #190, a 7348-digit prime.

Festival!

The 1967 Murray Lerner documentary using Newport Folk Festivals (1963-1966) footage was on Turner Classic Movies recently and Catherine engaged me last Saturday about some issues. Mostly who some of the artists were. That's because TCM played the damned thing without subtitles, which is egregious.

Antti Alanen's 2017 blog post was a big help for its ordered listing but, as I watched the film myself, I realized that there were a number of deficiencies that were not being helped by simply Googling the Net. Eventually I looked for an .srt file for the movie and, upon finding one, realized that even though the text was crap, I could edit it to make it more presentable. Meaning that I couldn't actually see the subtitles on a copy of film, so I just organized it in a manner where a printed copy would be a decent adjunct for anyone watching an unsubtitled version of Festival.

00:00:37.121 --> 00:00:41.334   Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band: "Hannah Won't You Open That Door"

00:01:52.405 --> 00:01:54.865   Mel Lyman

00:02:25.896 --> 00:02:28.232   Jim Kweskin

00:02:38.034 --> 00:02:40.619   Fritz Richmond

00:03:36.133 --> 00:03:40.304   Joe Patterson: untitled quill instrumental

00:06:41.819 --> 00:06:46.198   Peter, Paul and Mary: "Come and Go With Me"

00:08:21.669 --> 00:08:25.005   voice of Peter Yarrow

00:08:51.281 --> 00:08:54.326   Peter, Paul and Mary: "If I Had a Hammer"

00:11:01.370 --> 00:11:05.165   The Sacred Harp Singers: "Rocky Road"

00:11:12.297 --> 00:11:15.300   voice of Pete Seeger

00:12:11.481 --> 00:12:15.485   The Georgia Sea Island Singers & Friends

00:12:15.569 --> 00:12:18.572   "Since I Lay My Burden Down"

00:13:00.739 --> 00:13:04.201   The Blue Ridge Mountain Dancers: clog dance

00:13:04.284 --> 00:13:08.789   accompanied by Pappy Clayton McMichen, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger

00:15:24.341 --> 00:15:27.761   voice of Pete Seeger

00:15:36.853 --> 00:15:41.525   Tex Logan & The Lilly Brothers: "Black Mountain Rag"

00:15:46.780 --> 00:15:49.032   Taj Mahal

00:16:34.327 --> 00:16:37.998   Tex Logan & The Lilly Brothers

00:17:13.742 --> 00:17:16.369   "Green Corn"

00:17:16.453 --> 00:17:19.623   Pete Seeger, with Mel Lyman & Jim Kweskin

00:18:31.152 --> 00:18:34.572   voice of Tom Paxton

00:18:51.965 --> 00:18:55.969   Buffy St. Marie: "Cod'ine"

00:21:41.301 --> 00:21:45.638   Spider John Koerner: "Crazy Fool"

00:22:08.411 --> 00:22:12.123   Pete Seeger: "Deep Blue Sea"

00:22:33.937 --> 00:22:37.982   Odetta: "Carry It Back to Rosie"

00:23:25.446 --> 00:23:29.659   Joan Baez & Peter Yarrow: "Go Tell Aunt Rhody"

00:25:25.358 --> 00:25:29.112   voice of Peter Yarrow

00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:02.979   Joan Baez: "Mary Hamilton"

00:28:26.789 --> 00:28:30.751   voice of Ronnie Gilbert

00:29:39.820 --> 00:29:43.282   voice of Peter Yarrow

                                Bob Dylan: "Mr. Tambourine Man"

00:29:51.791 --> 00:29:55.461   Bob Dylan: "All I Really Want to Do"

                                Joan Baez: "From Me to You"

00:36:46.163 --> 00:36:49.875   Joan Baez: "All My Trials"

00:38:02.197 --> 00:38:05.742   Peter, Paul and Mary: "Blowin’ in The Wind"

00:39:49.221 --> 00:39:53.642   Donovan: "And The War Drags On"

00:40:36.143 --> 00:40:39.980   Judy Collins: ”Turn, Turn, Turn”

00:41:21.188 --> 00:41:24.483   Fiddler Beers

00:42:04.064 --> 00:42:07.776   Donovan: "Ballad of a Crystal Man"

00:42:59.536 --> 00:43:03.498   Odetta: "I Be's Troubled"

00:44:01.681 --> 00:44:05.685   Peter, Paul and Mary: "The Times They Are A’Changing"

00:46:29.079 --> 00:46:33.333   Joan Baez & Donovan: "Colours"

00:49:39.602 --> 00:49:43.857   Fred McDowell: "61 Highway Blues"

00:50:28.401 --> 00:50:31.321   Fred McDowell

00:51:15.531 --> 00:51:19.702   Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee: "Key to The Highway"

00:52:24.809 --> 00:52:28.104   voice of Mississippi John Hurt

00:52:43.661 --> 00:52:46.664   Mississippi John Hurt: "Candy Man"

00:53:42.720 --> 00:53:47.683   Bob Dylan rehearsing with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

00:53:50.645 --> 00:53:53.481   Almeda Riddle

00:54:35.648 --> 00:54:38.234   Joe Patterson

00:54:48.870 --> 00:54:51.747   Eck Robertson

00:54:59.714 --> 00:55:03.468   Mrs. General Watson and Mrs. Ollie Gilbert

00:55:42.465 --> 00:55:46.636   Horton Barker: "Pretty Sally"

00:56:50.575 --> 00:56:54.537   Bob Dylan & The Paul Butterfield Blues Band*: "Maggie's Farm"

00:59:30.735 --> 00:59:33.612   Mike Bloomfield

01:00:14.987 --> 01:00:19.408   Lonnie & Ed Young Fife & Drums Corps: instrumental

01:01:53.127 --> 01:01:55.963   The Swan Silvertones: "Feed Me Jesus"

01:02:29.163 --> 01:02:32.958   The Staple Singers: ”Help Me Jesus”

01:03:19.254 --> 01:03:21.715   The Freedom Singers

01:03:21.799 --> 01:03:25.928   "Up Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air"

01:04:05.759 --> 01:04:09.471   voice of professor Willis James

01:04:39.668 --> 01:04:43.547   The Freedom Singers: "Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round"

01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:19.124   Fannie Lou Hamer & Company: "Go Tell It on The Mountain"

01:05:35.849 --> 01:05:39.728   voice of Pete Seeger

01:05:51.198 --> 01:05:54.368   The Freedom Singers: "All God's Children"

01:06:55.179 --> 01:06:58.724   "We Shall Overcome"

01:07:53.904 --> 01:07:57.032   The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: "Born in Chicago"

01:09:10.981 --> 01:09:13.608   Mike Bloomfield

01:09:42.929 --> 01:09:45.932   Son House

01:11:44.050 --> 01:11:47.846   Son House: "Downhearted Blues"

01:13:37.163 --> 01:13:39.833   "Levee Camp Moan"

                                The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: instrumental

01:16:48.521 --> 01:16:52.358   Howlin' Wolf: "Howlin' for My Darling"

01:19:20.924 --> 01:19:25.386   Mimi & Richard Fariña: "Reno Nevada"

01:20:30.702 --> 01:20:34.706   "Pack Up Your Sorrows"

01:21:12.869 --> 01:21:15.621   Mel Lyman

01:21:27.508 --> 01:21:30.344   Spokes Mashiyane: flute instrumental

01:22:24.315 --> 01:22:28.277   Cousin Emmy: "Turkey in the Straw"

01:22:42.333 --> 01:22:45.336   Theodore Bikel: "Karabli"

01:23:36.137 --> 01:23:39.557   Judy Collins: "Anathea"

01:24:58.886 --> 01:25:03.224   Johnny Cash: "I Walk the Line"

01:25:48.728 --> 01:25:52.315   The Osborne Brothers: "Ruby"

01:27:34.375 --> 01:27:38.170   Joan Baez: "Farewell Angelina"

01:29:13.933 --> 01:29:17.728   Bob Dylan: "Mr. Tambourine Man"

01:31:33.947 --> 01:31:37.242   Peter, Paul and Mary

                                Paul Stookey: "On a Desert Island"

01:32:34.174 --> 01:32:37.386   "Rising of the Moon"

01:34:46.014 --> 01:34:49.268   Pete Seeger, et al., group finale: "Down by the Riverside"

* minus Paul Butterfield, plus Al Kooper & Barry Goldberg

Winery

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Emily (my daughter, taking the photo) is helping out in a (short documentary) movie shoot.

Power interruption

One could say that yesterday morning's rainfall was significant! At around 12:40 pm we lost power and, unlike to the usual once-a-week (or so) off-and-ons, this one lasted until 6:25 pm. Apart from having to rediscover some camping survival skills during the outage, restoring my ongoing Leyland prime searches on sixteen computers (once power was restored) took me to 10:30 pm. Unfortunately, seven days of an expected fifteen-day run calculating five million terms of the Philip Cohen sequence is lost.

Khinchin geometric means

I first did a geometric-means analysis for Khinchin's constant (K) in early 2000 using 110000 decimal digits of the number. Late Friday, Neil Sloane informed me that a Carlos Simó had calculated one million digits! Converting these to 969680 continued-fraction terms, I did a reanalysis:

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In this range, the final time that the mean changes sign is from (540114, -9.67033*10^-7) to (540115, 0.0000323051). The record (proximity to K) mean at 353014 is -4.14662*10^-9.