I have completed two hundred and sixteen (216) weeks of semi-lockdown due to Covid-19. This week I was not in semi-lockdown. I spent three days at a model railroad convention, where I attended classes, visited home layouts, and judged models. I hope I didn’t catch anything!
Genealogy
Genealogy
Meetings:
Again this week, Jacqueline and I continued discussing
plans for our upcoming research trip to Texas, which we leave next Tuesday. I
was too busy to meet with the Amigos and the RootsMagic SIG.
Genealogy
Writing/Research:
I went to the FamilySearch center in Oakland to
do some deed lookups in Erath County and fortunately, I was able to see the
films on my computer. All my docs were downloaded and I got the citations all
written. All I need to do now is the transcriptions. I did not have time to
redo the Rockwall deeds I had failed to download to the thumb drive last week. I
also found some tax records for Lancaster, Coor, and Welch families in Erath
County. I will be looking at more tax records at Tarleton University when I’m
in Stephenville, Texas. Now that I have seen ESM’s webinar on tax records, I
may go back and do more sleuthing.
I have reached out to the repositories in several counties in Texas to do research and have heard back from three. Looking at the possible weather, we might have rain the first few days. That will certainly ensure we have humidity. The news of tornadoes is scaring me. I have no clue what to do if we see one or how we even know if one is being reported if we’re driving in a car.
Blog Post Published:
Civil War: Lancaster Husbands Served in the Texas 6th Cavalry. For 52 Ancestors, I wrote first about how I used the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive to locate an old website. This site on an old Rockwall County genealogy site had burials of Civil War soldiers. Two daughters of Ellis Lancaster married soldiers.
SNGF: The Best Newspaper Article You Have Found for Your Family History. I wrote about how I analyzed two obituaries of my husband’s 2x-great-grandparents published five years apart and how they showed some differences that bring up more research questions.
Genealogy
Volunteer/Work:
I worked a half day at the History Center. I
accessioned everything that was on the desk so it would be clear for any new
accessions while I am gone.
I worked on press releases for upcoming webinars sponsored by BCG.
Webinars/Courses Viewed:
- Tax Rolls: Getting Our Money's Worth From the Taxes Our Ancestors Paid by Elizabeth Shown Mills (LFT Webinars)
- AI for Genealogy Writers and Editors: Drawing the Line by Steve Little (APG Writers SIG)
Other:
Our walking group hiked 3.5 miles in the John
Muir Land Trust property Fernandez Ranch. It was a nice cool and overcast day
and I saw lots of flowers, many of which had insects, bugs, or spiders, which I
was able to capture in photos.
I really enjoyed the Pacific Coast Region (NMRA) convention in Milpitas. I saw some nice layouts with beautiful scenery. I was put on a future list to operate at Seth’s. I also saw some building models that I would like to build myself. All owners let me take photos which you see a few below. On Saturday, I was one of five judges who judged models entered in the model building contest. We had a nice lunch afterward.
I am reading:
- 101 Things You Didn't Know About World War I: The People, Battles, and Aftermath of the Great War by Erik Sass.
Photos for this week.
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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