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.
Genealogy
After Christmas, I decided to work on family research
by taking care of some back-logged items, entering them into RootsMagic, and
renaming the files as appropriate. I worked for three days entering nearly 200 deed
records from Kaufman and Rockwall Counties in Texas that I had obtained from
the Family History Library back in 2015. These deeds are for the Lancaster
family, with Polly and Butler families thrown in. I discovered some interesting
information on George W. Lancaster by transcribing the deeds. More on that in a
separate blog post.
Blog Writing: I wrote the following blog posts this
week:
- Week 52: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks about my 2019 goals.
- Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: discussing last year’s goal and what I plan for next year.
Cert Support Group: We did not meet and have no plans
to meet until February, due to a multitude of commitments in January. Some of
us will get together during SLIG in Salt Lake City.
Other Activities
My daughter, Elizabeth, came to
stay with us on Christmas Eve and stayed through to Thursday. It was such a
nice visit with her. We made potato soup (the recipe from the Swedish cookbook)
on Christmas Eve and played Yam-Slam again. We “called” our younger daughter,
Margaret, who lives in New York City, and video-chatted with her while playing
our game. It was already Christmas there!
On Christmas, we opened some
presents and ate pancakes and sausage. Later, we took in a movie (the really
late show) of Mary Poppins Returns, which we all enjoyed very much. And then at
home we watched the first episode of Crown. It was nearly 3 am when we got to
bed!
We did a little shopping on
Wednesday and Thursday, tried a new Mexican restaurant, and then Elizabeth was
on her way home after my ukulele lesson. It was a very nice visit.
I also set up and filled the bird
feeders on my porch and am enjoying the arrival of finches, nuthatches,
titmouses, Nutall’s Woodpeckers, and warblers. Even a jay was trying to get
some of the peanuts but the feeder is not designed for them.
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