I have completed one hundred forty-four (144) weeks of semi-lockdown due to Covid-19. I was better this week but I still didn’t take any walks. I did phenology and attended an operating session at a friend’s model railroad layout. Otherwise, I watched World Cup matches.
Genealogy
Blog Writing:
New Horizons: Going off to College—Freshman Year. I wrote my own history, my freshman year at Cal State Hayward.
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Linda’s “December Genea-Meme” We were to answer twenty questions about Genea-Christmas.
Meetings/Discussion Groups
I met with Jacqueline and the SLIG writing group on
Monday, my cert mentee and the Der Blumenbaum editorial team on Wednesday, and book club on Sunday.
Volunteer
I volunteered at the History Center on
Tuesday and Thursday. I worked on editing the photos in PastPerfect and
labeling the shelves in the library. The larger labels will make it easier to
find the books. There was a nice box of See’s Candy there to munch on.
I volunteered at the Oakland FamilySearch Library but being December, we had few patrons. I worked on my own projects. I did learn we have a new fast scanner for slides. I'll make plans over the holidays to do some scanning.
I am now the press release coordinator for BCG and put out two press releases this past week.
Client Work
I had no work to do this week.
Own Work
This week I worked on my Civil War soldier, Andreas Ptoftenhauer. His Civil War
personnel record, as well as his wife’s minor children’s pension record, can be
found on Fold3. I also found some probate, deed, and church records for him and
his family. My plan is to write up a biography and create a presentation on
some of the information, especially on the records of the Civil War.
Webinars Viewed:
- Trendy Tech Tools for Your Research: Yay or Nay? by Cyndi Ingle (Legacy Family Tree Webinars)
I
am reading:
- Water
Always Wins: Thriving in an Ae of Drought and Deluge by Erica Gies
- A Song of Comfortable Chairs by Alexander McCall Smith
Other:
I
watched the World Cup games quarter-final games this week. The semi-final games
will be during times I have other plans. The games have been very exciting.
The model railroad ops session was fun and working with Richard was enjoyable. Tony has a nice small layout but with enough work for four people to do.
The jury duty last week was a bust. I checked in and they immediately dismissed me, saying they had enough jurors for the day.
Photos
for this week: The rest of the crew at the operating session and shots of the campus at the Oakland Temple.
Genealogists
are great at documenting our ancestors’ lives but not so great at 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.
I watched Cyndi Ingle's webinar, too. She made a lot of good points.
ReplyDeleteEspecially the points that everyone's brains think differently and tools work for some and not for others. I never could get my head around Evernote but liked OneNote better. Now I just use Word and Excel as my tools.
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