I have completed one hundred twenty (120) weeks of semi-lock down due to Covid-19. I volunteered at the history center twice, went to the recorder’s office in Martinez for deeds, Fairfield for a civil court case, train club for our end of the month show, and to the Beaver Festival in Martinez where I worked at the Friends of Alhambra Creek booth.
Genealogy
Blog Writing: Randy Seaver highlighted my Broken Branch post in his Best of the Genea-Blogs post for the week of June 19-25, 2022.
Broken Branch – When the End of the Line Families are not Well-Documented I wrote about how as a baby genealogist, I found books about my families and entered them in my genealogy database without researching them in original sources. These all need further research.
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Your Paternal Grandfather’s
Matrilineal Line Randy Seaver had us list the maternal line of our
paternal great-grandfathers. I could list three generations, which isn’t bad
for a German line.
Online Study Groups &
Meetings Attended:
- Jacqueline and I met on Monday and we talked about her writing class she was taking at GRIP.
- NGSQ Study Group on Tuesday.
- Mentee on Wednesday as well as Amigos where we answered citation questions.
- Peer group on Friday, where Pam and I had a nice discussion about southern research.
Client
Work/Presentations:
I went up to Solano County to retrieve the civil court case for my client.
I
gave my Farming presentation to the San Mateo County Genealogical Society on
Saturday and picked up a few more resources to add to the talk, as well as a
book to download about farming practices.
Volunteer Work:
I volunteered twice at the History Center, both on Tuesday and Wednesday. I
fell in the library room on Tuesday and scraped my knee so I left early. I returned
Wednesday to retrieve deed records from the recorder’s office to send to the
researcher in Maine.
Own Work:
This week, I worked on adding content to the farm talk and started working on
my school records talk that I’m giving next month. I also finished processing
the Iowa Gleeson family documents I had collected over the past month and
entered the data into RootsMagic.
Webinars Viewed: I attended these presentations this
week:
- Finding Treasures in Academic Libraries by Jill Morelli
- Research Logs: Write or Regret it! by Rebecca Whitman Koford, CG
- Through the Eyes of a Genealogist: Paul Newman by Deborah Abbott
- Negative Evidence: Making Something Out of Nothing by Denise Cross
- Methods for Identifying German Origins of American Immigrants by Michael D Lacopo
- Irish Emigration to North America: Before, During, and After the Famine by Paul Milner
Other: Non-genealogy activities this week included joining the Ukulele club on Friday for some singing, running trains at the Walnut Creek Model Railroad Society, and volunteering at the Beaver Festival. I watched some Giants games on T.V.
I
am reading:
- Water
Street by
Patricia Reilly Giff—FINISHED!
- Ghosts of Gold Mountain by Gordon H. Chang
- On the Farm Front: The Women’s Land Army in World War II by Stephanie A. Carpenter
- A Practical Guide to Swedish Church Records by Geoffrey Fröberg Morris
- Fertile Ground Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940 by Rebecca Sharpless
- Working the Land: Stories of Ranch & Farm Women in the Modern American West by Sandra K Schackel
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