Monday Genea-pourri, Week of March 5-11, 2018

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

Monday, I started the 6-week Intermediate Class sponsored by Contra Costa County Genealogical Society and the Concord Family History Center. The class is two hours long and held at the Concord FHC. There are six participants and the first lesson was about forming good research questions, creating a research plan, and then completing a research report after the research.

Tuesday, I worked at the Contra Costa County Historical Society’s History Center. I’d been gone over six weeks, so there was a lot of work to catch up on. One query looks very interesting and I look forward to working on it next week.

Wednesday, I began a new volunteer position at the Oakland FamilySearch Library. A bunch of members of the California Genealogical Society have volunteered to help keep the evening hours at the FamilySearch library. I worked the main desk where we collect money for copies made. I found some great newspaper articles about my Hork, Sullivan, and Quigley families from NewspaperArchive.com.

I also met with some of the participants of the CGS Trip to the Family History Library in April. I was pleased that several of them have great plans for research in the library.

I attended the Contra Costa County Genealogical Society’s meeting on Thursday, where the presentation was on Names, primarily first names, nicknames, and naming patterns.

I met with the certification study group on Friday and we discussed what we had done that past week and about the probate chapter in North Carolina Research. I had worked some on the development activities portion of the portfolio. I was working the desk at the library of the California Genealogical Society. I had no customers in the hour of the meeting.

So each day of the week, I had a genealogical activity. The weekend was to stay at home, where I worked on the lesson for the second week of the Intermediate Class, and participated in Game Night at DearMyrtle.

My blog work for the week included two installments of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 9: Where There’s a Will and Week 10: Strong Women and a Saturday Night Genealogy Fun post on six childhood memories.

Lessons

I did have a German conversation class on Monday and a music lesson on Thursday, where I brought my ukulele. I’m trying to learn to read and play by notes and I have a great new book that helps me. 

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