I have completed two hundred and thirty-five (235) weeks of semi-lockdown due to Covid-19. Outside home activities involved volunteering at the History Center, attending the CCCHS Board meeting, train club meeting, and the train club show, where I worked as the trackwalker.
Genealogy
Genealogy
Meetings:
Jacqueline and I met on Zoom and discussed new iPads
for use with the Family Tree Notebook sheets. We planned our trip to RootsTech
2025 during Amigos. For the Kinseekers Military SIG, I asked a question about the
WWI Bakers & Cooks schools. I attended the first of what I hope are many
peer-support & accountability group meetings for those of us CGs who want
to work on our renewals. Roundtable met and the five of us shared what we were
working on. Lastly, I attended Book Club and we discussed the book, American
Fly Girl by Susan Tate Ankeny.
Genealogy
Writing/Research:
Most of my writing this week was centered around
the articles for Der Blumenbaum and Nugget. I submitted a draft
of the Der Blumenbaum article and got some feedback to work on. The Nugget
article is still in the planning stages. I research the Woodmen of the World and Woodmen Circle for an upcoming blog post.
Blog Post Published:
A Trip to Comanche County, Texas, to View Tombstones. For 52 Ancestors’ theme of “Tombstone,” I wrote about the cemeteries I visited last May in Comanche County, Texas.
SNGF: Have You Used a Family Tree Checker? I wrote about using the RootsMagic Problem Search.
Genealogy
Volunteer/Work:
I am still working on the Pleasant Hill
Historical Society Collection both on Tuesday and Friday. As I began to create
the finding aid, I realized that some of the boxes needed to be better
organized, so I am still organizing the collection. The are numerous boxes of
files about schools and I am sorting them into school-named files. On Friday, I
got an update on the project John is working on.
I also met with NGS about the upcoming conference. We are still working on a plenary speaker and may have someone lined up.
My writing group met this week. No one submitted any writing, so we discussed instead how to fix the table of contents in Jacqueline’s document and about different publishing programs we could use. Everyone thought they would look into Affinity Publishing, which is similar to InDesign but a lot cheaper.
Webinars/Courses
Viewed:
I began the Fall SLIG
course, Advanced Study of Death, coordinated by Gena Philibert-Ortega.
This is a weekly course until mid-November and I am the Hiveminder. My internet
stayed on the entire time. Yeah! I also viewed the following webinars:
- Avoiding Distractions by Craig R Scott (APG Writers SIG)
- Translating German Newspapers: As Easy as Eins, Zwei, Drei by Mary Roddy (LFT Webinars)
- AI and Family History: Entending Beyond the Basics by Andrew Redfern (LFT Webinars)
- 10 Things You Don't Know About Cemeteries by Gena Philibert-Ortega (LFT Webinars)
Other:
We hiked the Pine Creek trail at Castle Rock Park
and had cookies to celebrate our leader, Karen’s birthday.
I am reading:
- American Fly Girl by
Susan Tate Ankeny—FINISHED!
- Death of a Hussy
by M.C. Beaton—FINISHED!
- Journeys of the Forgotten: The Orphans of Hamilton County, Iowa by Jill Morelli
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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