Randy Seaver of
Genea-Musing started this meme and I loved the idea. Genealogists are great at
documenting our ancestors’ lives but not so great documenting our own. I’ll
write about what I’ve been doing the past week.
Genealogy
Intermediate Class. I presented the second class on
Naturalization and Immigration. This is a great group of students. They stay
very focused and all of them attempted last week’s homework. I still need to
add some kind of exercise for this class before I teach it again in May.
History Center. Tuesday, I got started on the
gentleman who queried the historical society about men who owned land in east
county in the swamp and overflow lands. Lots of land and tax records about
them. Wednesday, I attended the monthly board meeting. On Saturday, I worked
again for four hours, working primarily on the finding aid. It was good having
some un-interrupted time to work on it.
Presentation. I presented about German Genealogy at
the Mt. Diablo Genealogical Society on Friday. They had a full house—over sixty
people. The presentation went fine, except I somehow opened the wrong PowerPoint
file and slides I expected weren’t there and slides I had deleted were! But I
just passed through them quickly and went on. Lots of people came up for
questions afterwards and others asked questions during lunch. I enjoy having
lunch afterwards.
Client Work: Got started this week on my long-term
client work, working primarily on San Francisco records. I also helped a friend
by looking over some research she’s working on for a lineage society. It’s so
hard when you think you know the linkage between generations but have no real
proof, just some genealogy written years ago. It will probably take using
indirect evidence and writing a proof argument. First the evidence has to be
collected by following the siblings and FAN club. At least she has a plan of
action now.
Blog Posts
My blog work for the week was only 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks:
https://mytrailsintothepast.blogspot.com/2018/03/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-11-lucky.html.
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