I have completed two hundred and forty-seven (247) weeks of semi-lockdown due to Covid-19. My outside activities were trips to the History Center, to the train club, and to a Wednesday Walkers party.
Genealogy
Genealogy Meetings:
I met with the Cert Renewal group, Kinseekers Military SIG, Jacqueline, and Amigos this week. I shared the WWI draft classification record from Erath Co, Texas during Kinseekers. Jacqueline and I talked about my new iPad and Jacqueline asked questions about census citations. We got caught up with each other during Amigos.
Genealogy Volunteer/Work:
At the History Center on Tuesday, I continued with the same collection—this time I’m entering data into the finding aid and correcting some folder labels. Our Writing Group met and because no one had submitted any new work, we discussed general topics and made the dates for the next session. We decided to meet once a month through April.
Genealogy Writing/Research:
I did some major tidying of files on my computer and entered stray files in the download folder into RootsMagic. One folder had an Excel file of names I wanted to locate in the 1950 census that I hadn’t finished, so now that is done. I located everyone from the list in the census except my great aunt, Bev Russell. I haven’t looked line by line but Sacramento is large with several EDs and I am not looking forward to that. I have records that show she was in town in 1950, having returned from Greece in 1949.
I also started the KDP and I plan to write from NHO Polly down to his grandchild, William C. Lancaster, my 2x great-grandfather. I will only do direct descendants but will fill out a little bio for the other offspring in each generation. I hope to share this with my family.
Blog Post Published:
For the 52 Ancestors’ theme “Chosen Family,” I wrote about how books helped connect my mother-in-law and me.
We had a huge list of topics to choose from that Randy received from his AI bot. I chose these two topics: family gifts and food.
Webinars/Courses Viewed: Some live and some catch-up.
- Researching Your 19th Century Ancestors on Fold3 by Brian Rhinehart (Heritage Seekers Gen Club)
- Exploring the National Archives Website for Family History Research by Marisa Louie Lee (Kinseekers)
- Not in Fine Fettle: Researching the health of Your Ancestors by Jane Neff Rollins (Appleton Public Library)
- AI & Genealogy by Randy Seaver (GeneaBloggers Nov Meetup)
- Researching in 19th Century Lutheran Church Records by Ute Brandenburg (German Genealogy Headquarters)
- Researching in 19th Century Catholic Church Records by Ute Brandenburg (German Genealogy Headquarters)
Other
Our hike this week was short, a walk around the neighborhood of the host of our Wednesday Walkers party. The geese in the park were entertaining and we also saw a common merganser and a great egret.
I was elected again as secretary at the annual meeting of the Walnut Creek Model Railroad Society.
I am reading:
- Uprooted: A memoir about what happens when your family moves back by Ruth Chan—FINISHED!
- Serafina and the Black Cloak: the Graphic Novel, based on the novel by Robert Beatty, adapted by Michael Moreci and art by Braeden Sherrell—FINISHED!
- Surfside Girls: The Clue in the Reef by Kim Dwinell—FINISHED!
- A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization by John Perlin
- Miss Merkel: Mord in der Uckermark by David Safier
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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