I have completed eighty-four (84) weeks of semi-lock down due to Covid-19. This past week I left the house to volunteer at the CCCHS History Center, do phenology, retrieve the car, and meet a friend for tea.
Genealogy
Blog Writing:
52 Ancestors—Week 42: Sports—What My Daughters Played I wrote about the sporting activities they did as children.
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Baby Photo. I showed two photos of me as a week-old and a
one-year-old.
Online Study Groups &
Meetings Attended: Met with Mary to discuss AppGen acceptance letters
and later with both colleagues. For study groups, I attended the NGSQ study
group, and met with Amigos and Peer groups. Sunday, I attended book club on
bring your own book day. I shared several novels I read while on our train
vacation.
Volunteer
Work
At the History Center on Tuesday,
Ben and I continued working on the final moving of books and took down the
center bookcase so we could put a table in, which will make working on a laptop
doing inventory easier. Wednesday, I worked at the Oakland FamilySearch
Library. Because of the rain, there were not many people there except for the
regulars.
Own Work:
I started my adult school classes on Monday: Intermediate 1 and Writing Workshop,
and on Thursday, the AppGen Institute class on land records started.
On the weekend, I worked on the biography of Susan Hork who married
Andrew Edward Hart. I filled in their life with death records found on Ancestry
and obituaries and other newspaper articles. I also attended part of the
Sacramento German Genealogy Society Seminar on Saturday and listen to lectures
about online maps.
Other:
I
visited with Elaine on Friday, meeting for hot drinks. Monday, we drove up to
Santa Rosa to rescue our stuck car and then had dinner at the Japanese
restaurant, Hana in Rohnert Park. I also attended the Coast Division Zoom
meeting on Saturday morning. Good discussion about the trip to CSRM last
Saturday.
I
am still reading:
- Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger
Photos
for this week: Some fall color with pistachio trees.
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.
We have cactus blooms, too, at least until the javelina eat them. :) No fall colors in Tucson, though.
ReplyDeleteI meant to take a photo of our Liquid Amber trees in my own yard, but I worry now that the 2-day continuous rain with the winds likely have knocked most of the leaves off the trees. My redbud is also pretty colorful. These trees above are from a walk, where a man has pistachio and olive trees.
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