I have completed eighty-two (82) weeks of semi-lock down due to Covid-19. This past week we were on board trains from New York to Chicago, then from Chicago to Los Angeles, and finally from Los Angeles to Martinez & home. We wore our masks aboard the train except when we were in our sleeping car room.
Genealogy
Blog Writing: Even though I was on vacation, I wrote both the 52 Ancestor and the Saturday Night Genealogy Fun blogs this week.
52 Ancestors—Week 40: Preservation—Canning Tomatoes. I wrote about my mother’s and our efforts to can excess tomatoes from our gardens.
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Ancestor Photographs. We listed the ancestors that we have photos of. I
made two lists, one for my ancestors, and one for my husband’s. We have a total
of 47 persons with at least one photo.
Online Study Groups &
Meetings Attended:
I attended the AppGen meeting on Friday after getting home and got caught up on
institute business. We had our orientation meeting on Sunday with our students.
I also attended a meeting of CGs from the Certification Discussion Group where
we discussed renewal applications. I met with Jacqueline on Saturday to discuss
how we’ll run the CGS Member Roundtable meeting next week. I attended Book Club
and we discussed At Home on the Range.
Volunteer
& Own Work:
I worked on my syllabus/workbook
for the Land class. I also accepted a couple of speaking engagements for coming
months. I reviewed the two presentations I’m doing this coming week and updated
the handouts.
I viewed quite a few webinars Friday through Sunday. On Friday, the BCG
had the Reisinger Memorial Lecture Series and I was able to view the first 5
and watched the sixth one on Sunday. On Saturday, the Contra Costa County
Genealogical Society had Craig Scott for the first part of the fall seminar.
- Context–A Powerful Tool by Elizabeth Shown Mills
- Seven Immigration Methodologies by David Ouimette
- Investigate the Neighborhood by Melinda Henningfield
- What am I Missing? by Patti Hobbs
- Using Mind Mapping as a Visual Research Plan by Amy Giroux
- Researching Your Revolutionary War Ancestor by Craig Scott
- Researching Your Civil War Ancestors by Craig Scott
- Researching Your World War I Ancestor by Craig Scott
- Private Land Claims by Rick Sayre
Other:
This
past week was travel time, returning home from New York City. I processed &
renamed 650 photographs that I took over our three-week vacation. I have many
other trips where I never renamed the images and I am sorry for that. During
our vacation, I also kept a journal, so I will be able to make a Shutterfly
book of our vacation and choose about 100 photos to include.
During
the vacation, I read five books. Some were listed last week. The books I finished
and am currently reading are:
- Leaving Everything Most Loved—Jacqueline Winspear—Finished!
- As Long as There are Mountains—Natalie Kinsey-Warnock—Finished!
- At Home on the Range—Elizabeth Gilbert & Margaret Yardley Potter—Finished!
Photos
for this week:
Some shots from our train.
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| Colorado |
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| New Mexico |
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| New Mexico |
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| California |
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.
Excellent landscape photos. The cross country train trip must have been a lot of fun, except maybe for having to wear masks all day. Necessary, but not fun.
ReplyDeleteBecause we were in a sleeping car room, we did not need to wear a mask while in our room. A definite plus!
Delete650 photos. I'm really impressed. We haven't done that with our 27 day trip. Thanks for the reminder we need to do that. You accomplished so much on your trip. How fun!
ReplyDeleteIt helped to rename the photos each day, but I could only do that when I was in a hotel with wifi.
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