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
I worked two Fridays this month at the Desk of the
California Genealogical Society’s library. The first Friday I had a couple of researchers
looking for their aunt. Last week I had two researchers looking for someone to
translate a record written in Portuguese. I sent them up to the FamilySearch
Library.
Our CGS Intro Class group had a meeting, as we are changing
the format. Each first Saturday class would be one of three types of class:
overview, records, and organization. We talked about who would work on which
part and scheduled ourselves for the following year. I’m to work on the
overview class.
I did get to meet with the Certification Study Group. All
five of us were able to meet and discuss our progress. I had worked on my case
study thinking about how to incorporate DNA into the argument. We also
discussed the Helen Leary article from the 1999 NGS Quarterly supplemental issue on Evidence.
The monthly Monday Morning Genealogy group met and I picked
up Kathie at BART. We discussed lots of different topics: DNA, archive websites
that have digital images, and successes of research. We continued the conversation
at IHOP afterwards.
Our Annual Meeting for the Contra Costa County Genealogical
Society was on the 10th. During share time, I shared about receiving the
personnel files of my grandaunt from the National Personnel Records Center at
NARA, St. Louis. The packet I received was over 75 pages and was filled with information
about her job in Greece as well as lists of previous jobs. After Greece, she
worked for the Bureau of Reclamation in Sacramento.
Lastly, I worked on my client’s genealogy, incorporating the
research into a finished product. It definitely taking longer than I expected.
I emailed him, explaining that it would take longer. I’m waiting to hear from
him before continuing any further.
Blog Writing: I wrote a few blog posts these past two
weeks:
Class
I completed two more classes for the California Genealogical
Society’s class Intermediate Genealogy: Records Series. Weeks two and three
were about Probate and Immigration.
Baseball
I attended three baseball games with my friend, Beth. The
San Francisco Giants played the Cincinnati Reds and out of the three games, the
Giants won two. We had great seats on the lower level and the field seemed so
close.
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