I have completed eighty-seven (87) weeks of semi-lock down due to Covid-19. This past week I left the house to volunteer at the CCCHS History Center on Tuesday, the Walnut Creek Model Railroad Society on Wednesday, and at the Strentzel Meadow for phenology on Thursday. I also had a visit to the dentist for a cleaning. Otherwise, I stayed home. We had cool, foggy mornings most of the week.
Genealogy
Blog Writing: Last week’s post on voting records in California was one of the post highlighted in the 52 Ancestors weekly email.
52 Ancestors—Week 45: Stormy Weather: Family Stories
of Storms from Newspapers I researched
in newspapers looking for articles about big storms and found two: one for
Hamilton, Montana, where on election day, there was stormy snowy weather. My
great-uncle, Tony Hork won the re-election for county clerk. And the other was
in Holdrege, Nebraska, where my husband’s collateral family member, John S.
Hult, had his chimney blown down in a huge storm.
Online Study Groups &
Meetings Attended: I attended the Amigos meeting on Tuesday, where
we discussed meals for our retreat; hosted the CGS Roundtable where we decided
to try Zoom next month as Google Meet was giving us too much feedback in the
sound; and attended the Peer group on Friday where we discussed chapter 14 in
Jones’ Mastering Genealogical Documentation. I also met with Jacqueline
twice this week, discussing first the roundtable and secondly source citations.
Volunteer
Work
At the History Center, I
continued working on the library where Janet and I moved a filing cabinet and
set up another bookshelf. Moraga Adobe volunteers came in looking for documentation
they could use for displays. John and I made decisions on a West County Times
collection.
Own Work:
I taught the last census class on Monday, the last land class for AppGen on
Thursday, and presented Breaking Brick Walls to the Genealogy Society of Washington
County Oregon on Saturday. I have two more writing classes to do before the end
of the month and then I’m on a break for a while.
For my own work, I wrote
three short essays on Loveless events for the new #ancestorcalendar, where we
find events in our Loveless trees on a particular day and share on our groups.io
group. By doing this, I have had to do some additional research because I have
not worked on the Loveless lines in at least ten years. I could tell it was at
least that time as I had no 1940 census records for these Loveless families. I
also updated their files in RootsMagic.
Webinars Viewed. I finished up viewing the
presentations I wanted to see at the Texas State Genealogy Conference. I also
presented after Janice Sellers gave the presentation to CCCGS about the CGS involvement
in the NGS conference in May and their asking for volunteers.
- Online Newspapers by Janice Sellers
- Tracing Female Ancestors in WWI Military & Non-Combatant Records by Debra Dudek
- Home Guards, Confederate Veterans, and GAR in Texas by J. Mark Lowe
Other:
I
took a few walks this week and visited the dentist. Otherwise, I read, watched
some television, and attended German on Monday night. I sure enjoy reading the
first Harry Potter book in German.
I
am reading:
- Broken Trust by W.E.B. Griffin—FINISHED!
- Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart
- Gospel According to the Klan by Kelly J. Baker
Photos for this week: The meadow. See the hint of green emerging on the hills?
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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