It's Saturday Night -
time for
more Genealogy Fun!
Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is to:
1) Do you have plans to
travel to do onsite genealogy research? [Thank you to Linda Stufflebean
for suggesting topics!]
Here’s mine:
I have lots of on-site research that I would love to do.
There are none planned for the near future, so these are on the back burner:
Research trip to Texas. I would visit Comanche,
Erath, and Rockwall counties as well as the NARA facility in Fort Worth and the
state archives in Austin to see if there are more records besides what has been digitized by FamilySearch. I would also visit libraries and archives in the
area. I made a trip to Stephenville in the 1990s with my grandmother and we
visited family and toured the area, but I did hardly any research besides taking photos at cemeteries.
Research trip to Kansas & Missouri. My friend Jacqueline and I are planning this trip. Besides NARA Kansas City and St. Louis,
we have libraries (Mid-continent Genealogy Library) and archives (she plans to
visit the Eisenhower Presidential Library for a military item). We also have on
our list the Tall Grass Prairie National Preserve, the Little House on the
Prairie Museum, World War I Museum, and Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
Research trip to Turlock, California. We are also
planning a trip to Turlock to view newspapers at the library. I want to look at
some special collections at the Cal State University Stanislaus library, take
cemetery photos in Hilmar, and hope to find Grange and Farm Bureau records. Jacqueline
wants to take photos at Lakewood Memorial Park, visit Allen Mortuary, and do
research for I.O.O.F. records, as well as newspaper research at the Turlock library.
We need to get these trips planned and GO!
ReplyDeleteLet's go!
DeleteSo your plans are like mine: kind of vague and in the future. At least I'm not alone. But Turlock isn't all that far from you!
ReplyDeleteYes, but the Valley has been a hotspot of people not being vaccinated. So we've been cautious. It's definitely doable.
DeleteLike you, I wish we'd get back to a much more normal life in terms of travel. I just don't feel very comfortable traveling yet either.
ReplyDeleteWe have traveled to NYC and plan to again in September, but we ride Amtrak in sleeping cars and wear our masks everywhere indoors in the cities.
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