I have completed eighty-nine (89) weeks of semi-lock down due to Covid-19. I am still trying to be careful by wearing the mask and not getting too close to people. This past week I left the house to volunteer at the CCCHS History Center on Tuesday, the Meadow on Thursday, and spent three full days at the Walnut Creek Model Railroad Society operating trains for our annual holiday show.
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 47: Thankful: Family I wrote about being thankful for my family.
Saturday
Night Genealogy Fun – Your Genealogy Database Statistics. We checked out
the statistics from our genealogy software program. I use RootsMagic.
Online Study Groups &
Meetings Attended: I attended the AppGen meeting, visited with
Jacqueline twice, and with Annette in the Friday Peer group.
Volunteer Work
At the History Center, I continued
with updating the finding aid and adding new collections to PastPerfect. I also
began rearranging the books on the cities in the new library so I could add
more books to the east county cities. I’ll have to enter the books into the
computer first, as Ben has already been in that section. I need to find labels
for the library shelves and a supply of round dots to label the books for easy
return to the shelf.
Own Work:
I taught no classes this past week due to the holiday. I worked on the outline
for my new Foundations course for AppGen.
Webinars Viewed. I watched the APG Writer’s SIG
presentation:
- First Steps to Writing an Information or Instructional Book by Julie Cahill Tarr
Other: I continued working on a Shutterfly photo book about our private train trip to Vermont and NYC. My coupon for free pages wasn’t accepted because I chose standard lay flat pages and the free coupon didn’t cover that. I’m letting the book sit in the shopping cart, hoping for another coupon that will allow those pages free.
I
am reading:
- Gospel According to the Klan by Kelly J. Baker
- A Legacy of Murder by Connie Berry—FINISHED!
Photos
for this week: Some shots taken from the cab where we operate the model trains at the Walnut Creek Model Railroad Society. We did a two-weekend holiday show.
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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