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. This idea came from Randy
Seaver of Genea-Musing, who started this meme.
Genealogy
Attended Gena Philibert-Ortega’s presentation at the Sacramento Public Library on Sunday about how to use Internet Archive. I have used the site before but picked up a few tips from her today such as getting a library card so I can “check out” books that are not freely downloadable.
Made more progress on my certification portfolio. I returned
to the KDP to correct my numbering after reading Warren Bittner’s article in
the latest NGS Quarterly, where he showed the numbering system for foreign-born
ancestors. We discussed it some during our certification peer group meeting.
Examples could be found in the old BCG Standards book. We all got into the
classes we wanted for 2019 SLIG.
Flew to San Diego to attend the Team Leader meeting for the
International German Genealogy Conference (IGGC) that the Sacramento German
Genealogical Society and the German Interest Group of the San Diego
Genealogical Society are putting on next June. We made some great progress.
Attended the Monday Morning group where we all shared some
genealogy finds. I shared the new book, Researching
Like a Pro.
Blog Writing: Blog post I wrote this week:
- My 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks was about my traveling aunt, Lorene Hork Waldron on her half-way around the world trip with three friends.
Other
Outdoors activities included conducting the phenology
project at Strentzel Meadow, where we saw two California Quail in the
walnut tree. I brought the camera with a telephoto lens and got some shots of the
birds.
For sports this week, I woke early to watch most of the matches
of the Wimbledon games. Enjoyed both the women’s final and the men’s
semi- and final matches. Got to see a little of the final World Cup. Also watched two Giants-A's games on television.
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| California Quail female |
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| Shield bug eggs and nymphs on a Snowberry plant |
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Lisa,
ReplyDeleteDid not know you were applying for certification. Congratulations! I have no doubt you will sail through the process. Am thinking of doing it myself next year.