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
My entire week was spent doing genealogy!
CGS Research Trip
Sunday, April 22, I left Oakland for Salt Lake City to lead
a group of genealogists from the California Genealogical Society to research at the Family History Library. There were a
total of fourteen of us, including me, at the library.
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| On our way to Wednesday's dinner at the Garden Restaurant |
On the first day, where I gave a tour of the library to
those who were interested. Then I was available on the third floor at the
tables near the windows for consultations from anyone in the group. Sometimes I
sat with a participant helping with their interpretations of a document they
found or helped them navigate through the FamilySearch catalog to find the
images they wanted.
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| Some of the participants sitting around my empty chair |
It wasn’t all serious work, though. We took the time to walk
to the LDS office building to have lunch in their cafeteria. I enjoy walking
through Temple Square and the flowers were spectacular.
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| Some tulips in Temple Square |
We had three scheduled group dinners and a few impromptu
dinners with smaller groups. It was lots of fun. Several people made great
discoveries and new friendships.
Visits With Friends
Linda and I had dinner with genealogists, Pat
Richey-Erickson and her husband, Gordon, and Pam and Rick Sayre at the Red
Iguana Two. The food was delicious and the conversation wonderful. We even got to
do a little train watching as three Union Pacific trains went by on the
adjacent tracks. Too bad my back was to them.
I also had nice conversations with Luana Wentz Darby and
Warren Bittner while in the library. Warren gave me some tips about the
certification process.
Blog Writing: I wrote a couple of blog posts this
week:
- The Saturday Night Genealogy Fun post was about the weather on our day of birth.
- For this week’s 52 Ancestors post I wrote about my great-great aunt’s final resting place in a Brooklyn cemetery, which I visited.
Class/Webinars
I participated in one event this week: AmericaGen
Study Group. We talked about Chapter 4 which covered evidence.
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