I have completed two hundred (200) weeks of semi-lockdown due to Covid-19. During the first week of the new year, I returned to many of my activities. Besides genealogy activities, I did phenology in the meadow, hiked with Wednesday Hikers, and attended a funeral for a former train club member.
Genealogy
Genealogy
Meetings
This week our certification peer group met and
the five of us stated our 2024 goals. We decided to meet next month and discuss
the first chapter in the Advanced Genetic Genealogy: Techniques and Case
Studies, edited by Debbie Parker Wayne.
Genealogy
Writing/Research
This
week I worked on downsizing files from a drawer in the file cabinet, primarily
my father’s family: Tierney, Gleeson, and Sullivan. I still have the Hork
family to do next. I am hoping to get all the saved paper files into just a few
document boxes. While working on these families, I did some newspaper research to
locate digital copies of paper articles I had, so I didn’t have to scan them. I
also found other articles!
On
Sunday, I started analyzing my RootsMagic database from my daughters forward,
making sure I can document the child-parent relationship. I then remembered
Yvette Hoitink’s Level-up Challenge and filled out her supplied chart for both
my and my husband’s ancestors. The blog post about that will be published on
Wednesday.
Blog Posts Published:
Family Lore – Do We Have Native American Ancestry? I wrote about the stories of having Native American
ancestors, though I have not found any evidence yet.
Downsizing Genealogy Files is Hard. I
wrote about how I am going through my genealogy paper files and deciding what
to keep and what to toss. Many of the items I’m tossing are being scanned
first.
SNGF: Your Very Best Genealogy Finds in 2023. I highlighted the three blog posts I wrote last year
discussing some new findings.
Genealogy Volunteer/Work
I posted the press release for the upcoming 2024 schedule of the BCG-sponsored
webinars. This week was the first back to the Oakland FamilySearch Center.
There were more staff than researchers, so I got to spend time scanning at the
copy machine. Two trips to the History Center this week and I worked on the
library database.
Webinars/Courses
Viewed:
Artificial
Intelligence and Genealogy: New Beginnings in 2024 by Steve Little (Legacy
Family Tree Webinars)
Other:
We hiked
at Inspiration Point in Tilden Park because it is an asphalt trail and it had
rained the night before. New growth is coming up and Elaine and I walked slowly
checking out what plants were coming up. I love it after a rain when the
variety of fungi spring up.
I am reading:
- The Girls Who Fought Crime: The Untold True Story
of the Country’s First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting Squad by Mari K Eder—FINISHED!
- White Bird by R.J. Palacio—FINISHED!
- From a Far and Lovely Country by Alexander McCall Smith
Photos for this week. From the Tilden Park hike.
Genealogists are great at documenting our ancestors’ lives but not so great at documenting our own. I will write about what I have been doing the past week. This idea came from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing, who started this meme.
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