I have completed two hundred and thirty-seven (237) weeks of semi-lockdown due to Covid-19. Outside home activities involved my volunteering at the History Center, phenology, attending a Giants baseball game, and flying to Salt Lake City out of Oakland Airport.
Genealogy
Genealogy
Meetings:
At our weekly Zoom meeting, Jacqueline and I discussed
her research with the McCurdy family in Arkansas. I attended a peer group about
BCG renewals and the Monday Morning group on Zoom.
Genealogy
Writing/Research:
The only writing and researching I accomplished this
week was preparing to write the two blog posts.
Blog Post Published:
Homesteading in Minnesota – A Poor Illiterate Irish Miner Gets Land. For the 52 Ancestors’ theme of “Homestead,” I wrote about Jeremiah Sullivan’s homesteading in Todd County, Minnesota. It was highlighted on Friday’s Family History Finds and by Randy Seaver in his "Best of . . ."
SNGF: An Ancestor Who Experienced or Did Something Unique or Memorable. I wrote about a great-grandaunt who ran for County Superintendent of Schools in Deer Lodge County, Montana in 1900 and served one term.
Genealogy
Volunteer/Work:
I am still working on the Pleasant Hill
Historical Society Collection and spent two days at the History Center working
on it. On Wednesday, I attended a meeting where this subcommittee continued our
discussion of one part of the strategic plan.
I traveled to Fairfield in Solano County to do some client record pulls. I am so loving my new printer that scans!
I attended the Sonoma County Genealogical Society board meeting on Zoom and took the meeting minutes. I hosted the CGS RootsMagic SIG this month with Keith on vacation and answered other members’ questions.
Webinars/Courses
Viewed:
I attended the third session
of the SLIG course, Advanced Study of Death, coordinated by Gena
Philibert-Ortega.
I also viewed the
following webinars:
- Buried in the Federal Records Center: Uncovering XC Pension Files by Alec Ferretti (Legacy)
- Finding Origins & Birth Families: Methods That Work by Elizabeth Shown Mills (Legacy)
Other:
I attended a San Francisco Giants game with a
long-time friend. Although the Giants lost, we had a good conversation
together. Sunday, I traveled with the CGS group to Salt Lake City for a week of
research in the FamilySearch Library. I hope to get a lot of writing done.
I am reading:
- Gamerville by Johnnie Christmas –
FINISHED!
- Lost Birds by Anne Hillerman –
FINISHED!
- The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City
of Angels by Pamela Prickett
- Journeys of the Forgotten: The Orphans of
Hamilton County, Iowa by Jill Morelli
- Yours Truly: An Obituary Writer’s Guide to Telling Your Story by James R Hagerty
Photos for this week.
There was no hike this week, so my photos are from
my journey to Utah.
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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