I have completed one hundred sixty-nine (169) weeks of semi-lockdown due to Covid-19. My outside activities included volunteering at the History Center and beginning a four-week vacation.
Genealogy
Blog
Writing:
A
Visit to the Gorrell Homestead and Gravesite For week 22 of 52 Ancestors, I wrote about attending
a Gorrell reunion in Missouri and how we visited the homestead of Amos Gorrell
and the cemetery where he and his wife is buried.
SNGF: What Genealogical or Historical
Societies Have You Joined? I
wrote about joining different genealogical and historical societies over the
years, some of which I am still a member.
Meetings/Discussion Groups
None this week.
Volunteer
I volunteered at the History Center and
worked on finishing the processing of a collection
Client Work
None this week.
Own Work
I continued working on the
skeleton of the KDP, outlining the families and deciding which families I would
continue forward in the three-generation project. I brought my portable table
and it worked perfectly on the train as we traveled from Los Angles to New
Orleans. The room on our trip from New Orleans to Charlottesville was not large
enough for the table, so my lap was sufficient.
Webinars Viewed
None
this week.
I
am reading:
- Death
of Faith by
Donna Leon—FINISHED!
Other
We
began our four-week vacation on Wednesday by taking the San Joaquin Amtrak
train to Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, we caught the Sunset to New Orleans, a
two-night trip across Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana. We had a
wonderful car attendant, Paul, and the dining car crew was great, too. The chef
did a nice job of preparing the somewhat boring food. The only excitement was
federal police (DEA, FBI, & Border Control) and state police (Texas
Highway Patrol), and local Alpine Police, boarded the train and inspected it
and us for something. That caused an hour’s delay. We were in the dining car
when they got on. We don’t think they found what they were looking for.
After the overnight in New Orleans, we boarded the Crescent for Charlottesville. At Hattiesburg, a genealogy colleague got on and rode with us to the next stop, about two hours away. We sat in the lounge car and had a nice conversation. I had only met him on Zoom.
One
overnight on this train and we arrived in Charlottesville, Virginia, where we
got off. After checking into the hotel, we took their shuttle up to Monticello
for a nice visit. We had the Behind the Scenes tour and got to go up on the
second and third floors. We walked around the grounds reading the displays and
taking photos of plants and flowers.
Finally, Judy Russell picked us up and we had dinner with her in downtown Charlottesville. We tried our first fried green tomatoes and they were delicious. We had a wonderful time with her.
Photos
for this week
The flowers
at Monticello were beautiful.
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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