I have completed one hundred fifty-eight (158) weeks of semi-lockdown due to Covid-19. My outside activities included working at the History Center, doing phenology, bird watching, and working the train club weekend shows.
Genealogy
Blog
Writing:
- Lucky – My Parents’ New Home They didn’t have to move far!
- SNGF: Are/Were You a Wild and Crazy Genealogist? I wrote about the time my husband and I searched
through eight cemeteries in Faulkner County, Arkansas. Bless his heart!
Meetings/Discussion Groups
This week I met with Jacqueline,
attended the Kinseekers military SIG, and met with my certification mentee, and
another Northern California APG member about rekindling the NorCal group. The
AppGen founders had a brief meeting and will meet again on Monday.
Volunteer
John and I worked some on the library
inventory, and I worked on foldering a new collection that came in. Next up is to
write a finding aid and enter it into Past Perfect. I took the minutes of the
historical society’s board meeting and the Sonoma County Genealogical Society’s
board meeting.
Client Work
This week, I mostly finished
working on the curriculum for the Probate class I’m teaching this coming week.
I sent out an email asking the students about their experience with probate
records along with the syllabus. The students have a wide mixture of experiences.
I gave a presentation on using city directories for the Sonoma County Genealogical Society on Saturday. It only took me 40 minutes on zoom. I need to add more content. When I used to do these presentations in person, it would take over an hour. I think the difference is, I took questions during the session and asked the audience questions. It’s too hard to do that on zoom, so I just go through the slides and take questions at the end. Still, the whole thing took just an hour.
Own Work
I did little work this week
but discovered a new database with images at Ancestry: “Illinois, U.S.,
Catholic Diocese of Joliet, Sacramental Records, 1800-1976.” They have color
images of St. John’s church in Joliet and I can’t wait to dig deeper. I have
the information already, as I had written to the church when I first started
doing genealogy and they sent me the data. Now I’ll have images of the actual
church record. Yeah! Who knows, I might find more relatives.
Webinars Viewed. None.
I am reading:
- Gateway
to Victory: The Wartime Story of the San Francisco Army Port of Embarkation by Captain James W.
Hamilton
- Wise
Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage by Nathalia Holt
- Researching
U.S. WWI Military Members by Margaret M. McMahon, PhD.
Other
I went bird watching with the Mt. Diablo Audubon Society on Friday at Valle Vista, a staging area of
the East Bay Municipal Utility District’s site near the San Leandro Reservoir. I
saw about thirty-six birds and the highlight was the band-tailed pigeon. We
also saw several American Kestrels, which was pretty cool, too.
Photos
for this week. From my own yard:
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.
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