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
Blog Writing: I wrote the following blog post this
week:
- 52
Ancestors in 52 Weeks For week 14, our theme was Brick Wall. I
wrote about trying to find the father of David Shotts, my husband’s third
great-grandfather.
Webinars/Study Groups Attended:
- “One
Touch Genealogy” given by Thomas MacEntee at Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
He had great pointers about culling all of the information you can from a
document and to place “to do” items that you think of onto a separate
sheet so you don’t get distracted until you are done.
- In my
Thursday evening certification study group, we spoke about transcriptions
to abstracts. It was a good discussion and I shared my homework from
Chapter 21 of the AmericanGen study group. Next week we will discuss
client reports.
- In Friday’s
group we spoke a bit about genealogy lecturing again and started the
conversation about teaching genealogy in a classroom setting. Dennis and I
have both done that many times.
I volunteered at the Contra Costa County Historical
Society’s History Center on Tuesday. I worked on the spreadsheet recording
the research activities for the month of March and completed a couple of
queries. I culled out-of-county news from one of the Contra Costa Times
clipping files drawers.
This was my last night volunteering at the Oakland
FamilySearch Library until the center is open again after remodeling. By
then the remodeled Temple will also be open and we’re likely to get extra
visitors to the research center who come to tour the Temple. It’ll be nice to
have customers to help.
Own Work.
I met with Linda to see about reviving the NorCal chapter of
the APG, but we didn’t come up with any solutions at this time. Our
participation in the Thursday Cert Study Group might fulfill the desire of
working with other serious genealogists.
I continued to transcribe deeds on Nathan H.O. Polly. He
might be a good project to write the next case study on. How to tie the
Kentucky Polly with the Texas Polly.
I also continued scanning and gathering items for the personal
archives. The boxes should arrive soon! Once everything is archived, I’ll have
to make room for the boxes. Then on to start writing the Hork family history
book.
I did some client work this week getting a death certificate
from the recorder’s office and going to the Antioch Historical Society’s museum
for an obituary. I was also able to check out the rest of the museum and take
photos for the next installment of the archives in the county series for the
Contra Costa County Genealogical Society’s newsletter and website.
Other Activities
My activities were outdoors this week. Monday, I worked at
the John Muir NHP native garden, clearing out grass and weeds. The
flowers were blooming on several of the plants.
Thursday, Elaine and I led a walking group from Benicia on a
four-mile hike from the Amtrak station to the John Muir house stopping
at all of the small native gardens. It took three hours! Unfortunately I lost a
part from my binoculars somewhere along
the way. The group seemed to enjoy the walk very much.
Friday, I attended the Ukulele Jam session for the
first time in ages. I had lots of fun and need to buy the new blue book, as
they were using that more now.
Saturday, I was a part of a three-sister birthday
party celebration at my sister, Renee’s house. My birthday was in March, Danna's in early April, and Sabrina's will be later in April. We sisters, along with our nieces and daughters celebrate each other's birthdays three times a year. We had h'orderves and cocktails,
though I brought some champagne from Korbel. My contribution to the food was
sushi. The gluten-free chocolate brownies my sister made for me was so
delicious.
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