Monday Genea-pourri, Week of September 27–October 3, 2021

I have completed eighty-one (81) weeks of semi-lock down due to Covid-19. This past week we were in New York City where masks were required indoor everywhere and vaccination cards & photo ID needed to eat at restaurants inside. Many restaurants had outdoor seating on sidewalks or in the street taking up parking places. With indoor eating available now, many are doing double what they did before the pandemic.  

Genealogy

Blog Writing: Even though I am on vacation, I wrote both the 52 Ancestor and the Saturday Night Genealogy Fun blogs this week.

52 Ancestors—Week 39: Steps—Lovetta Loveless at Club Med I wrote about my grandmother’s cousin who visited Club Med in Mexico.  

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Your Favorite Songs in Your HS Graduation Year. I wrote about the top songs in late 1971 & early 1972. I liked listening to Neil Diamond, John Denver, Barry Manilow, Simon and Garfunkel, and The Carpenters

Online Study Groups & Meetings Attended: 
I attended no meetings this week while on vacation. However, I met up with a book club member in New York City and we had lunch together. Afterwards, she took us around her neighborhood in the Village. She showed us synagogues, old cemeteries and churches, buildings with interesting architecture, and to the farmer’s market at Union Square. We had a very nice time together.

Volunteer & Own Work:
There has not been time to work on my own work. I feel satisfied that I have kept up with the renaming of the images I have taken this past two weeks.

Other:
This past week was spent with our daughters in New York City. Our oldest flew in on Saturday and stayed until Wednesday, staying with our younger daughter. We stayed at the New Yorker Hotel, having a small suite this time, which was nice as there was enough seating for all four of us. We did a lot of walking and eating. We walked over the High Bridge, around Central Park, and Brooklyn over the three days before she left. We also saw Wicked! Margaret worked Thursday and Friday, so we made our way shopping and walking around. Saturday, we rode the train to Bridgeport to have lunch, the ferry to Port Jefferson, where we had dinner, and then train back to Penn Station. It was a nice day. Sunday, we left for Chicago on the Lake Shore Limited where we have a sleeping car room.

I’m reading the following books. Reached my Goodreads goal of 30 books this year with the Robinet book.

• The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny—Finished!
• Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet—Finished!
• Choosing up Sides by John H. Ritter—Finished!
• Leaving Everything Most Loved—Jacqueline Winspear

Photos for this week: Shots from New York City.

 

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.

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