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
Blog Writing: I wrote the following blog post this
week:
- 52
Ancestors in 52 Weeks For week 15, our theme was DNA. I described
what I’m doing to learn more about using DNA in genealogy research.
- For Saturday
Night Genealogy Fun, I wrote about my paternal grandmother, Anne M.
Hork, whom we called “Nana.”
Webinars/Study Groups Attended:
- I
attended the Monday Morning Genealogy Group of the Contra Costa
County Genealogical Society and we had nice discussion about lots of topics.
We viewed a video of a new Italian LDS temple, spoke about searching in
Ancestry and FamilySearch, as well as lots of other topics. Most everyone
went to lunch together afterwards.
- I
participated in the DearMyrtle “AmericanGen” Study Group. This week
we covered court records and I spoke about finding evidence of a suit
against my husband’s grandfather in the newspaper. I have made a request
for the court records from the Jasper County (Missouri) Archives.
- In Friday’s
certification study group, we spoke a bit about genealogy review writing
from chapter 21 in the new ProGen book.
I volunteered at the Contra Costa County Historical
Society’s History Center on Tuesday. I spent most of the day culling out-of-county
news from one of the Contra Costa Times clipping files drawers.
Own Work.
I continued scanning and gathering items for the personal
archives. The boxes have arrived and I’m sorting the photos into appropriate
sized boxes. I started by putting archive numbers on the back of the photo and
record information about the photo into a spreadsheet. I wasn’t sure how to tie
the new number to the already-scanned photo on my computer, but I have decided
to record the current name on the spreadsheet along with the folder in which it
resides. I am finding photos that hadn’t been previously scanned, so I’m
scanning, too. What I should really do is re-scan all of the photos using a
higher resolution and save in TIFF format.
Other Activities
The main activity this week was attending two San Francisco
Giants baseball games at the newly renamed ballpark, Oracle Park. The Giants had
not been winning much, but to my pleasure, they won both games on Thursday and
Saturday, as well as the game in-between, for their first multiple-game winning
streak. I also got to eat my first garlic fries of the season!
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