I have completed one hundred ninety-two (192) weeks of semi-lockdown due to Covid-19. Outside activities involved having a hygienist appointment, volunteering at the History Center, and attending a Train Club meeting.
Genealogy
Genealogy
Meetings
This
week I met with Jacqueline and she showed me photos of a house in Oregon. I met
with Ron to discuss future beginning, intermediate, and advanced classes taught
at CGS. Wednesday, only Jacqueline
and I were at Amigos, and we both hosted the CGS Roundtable. Two new members
were very talkative and we had lively discussions. Sunday, I met with Jill and
discussed our homework for the BCG Education Fund research report class we are
taking.
Genealogy
Writing/Research
I
have not worked on my portfolio writing and only wrote blog posts this past
week. I would say the writing of a research report as homework for the BCG
Education Fund class would count.
Ancestry
has a new feature where they have indexed names from newspaper articles found
on their other site, Newspapers.com. They are organized by state and I spent
time searching for Hork family members in California newspapers. I found a cool
article about my grandfather being asked to play baseball while in the service
in 1918. The next step is to either add these articles to events in RootsMagic
or write some stories using the information as sources.
Blog Posts:
Ernest Ferdinand Served in Two World Wars. For week 45, I wrote about my husband’s
great-uncle, who served in the Navy during both world wars.
SNGF: A Photo of You With a Grandparent. I have a photo of both grandmothers with me as an
infant.
Cyril W. Hork Signed up to Play Baseball at the Naval Training Station in San Diego.
I found an article that he signed up to play baseball at the Naval Training
camp in San Diego.
Genealogy Volunteer/Work
I worked a half day on Tuesday and John and I spent part of the afternoon
searching for missing books in the inventory database. We then started sorting
the extra books into boxes alphabetically. These we will inventory and let our
members know of the book they can buy.
I presented a talk on brick
walls to the Roots Cellar group in Sacramento and a new talk on probate records
to the Seattle Genealogical Society for their 100th anniversary
seminar.
Our third class in the
AppGen land course went well on Thursday. I spent most of Monday and Tuesday commenting
on week two’s homework.
Webinars
Viewed:
- Reporting on Research: Applying Standards Improves Written Communications (Part 1) by Nancy A Peters (BCG Education Fund)
- Empowering Genealogists with Artificial Intelligence (part II - Extraction) by Steve Little (NGS)
- Polls, Personalty & Property: Making Sense of Tax Lists by Judy G. Russell (Seattle Genealogical Society)
- Obituaries and other Death Notices in Online Newspapers by Annette Burke Lyttle (SGS)
- Using Google's My Maps as a Research and Analysis Tool by Cari A. Taplin (CGS)
Other: We hiked this week on
Mt. Diablo State Park, accessing some trails from the side of the road. The
fall color on the wild grape and other trees was spectacular.
I
am reading:
- Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of
America by Heather Cox Richardson—FINISHED!
- Lincoln & California by Brian McGinty
- Skirts by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
- The Shooting at Château Rock by Marin Walker
Photos for this week.
Genealogists are great at documenting our ancestors’ lives but not so great at documenting our own. I will write about what I have been doing the past week. This idea came from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing, who started this meme.
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