I have completed two hundred and fifty-two (252) weeks of semi-lockdown due to Covid-19. My outside activities were trips to the History Center, Oakland FamilySearch Center, phenology, and an Amtrak trip to Eugene, and visiting with Jacqueline.
Genealogy
Genealogy Writing/Research:
Research this week has been collecting more documents using the FamilySearch full-text search. I have found documents for Elizabeth Gleeson, Margaret T. Gleeson, Mary Martha Gilbert, and Julian Hulaniski. The only writing I’ve done is writing up the research as I did it, making sure I captured all the elements for writing the source citation.
Blog Posts Published:
I wrote about the nicknames I found for Wayne, my grandmother’s youngest brother, from his high school yearbook.
On January 15, I celebrated my fourteenth anniversary of starting the blog Mam-ma’s Southern Family.
I did a quick search using the FamilySearch full-text search. I found a document for Elizabeth Gleeson, where she was authorizing a power of attorney to locate and secure mining rights in Alaska. It was a cool document!
Genealogy Meetings:
This week, I met with Jacqueline, and we discussed last-minute details about my visit to her. Monday was very busy with meetings: NGS Conference Committee and Kinseekers military SIG.
I also started the year-long study group led by Cyndi Ingle on reading and discussing NGSQ articles and our first session was this week. Skip Duett, the author of our article, attended and it was great hearing his take on writing the case study.
Genealogy Volunteer/Work:
I worked on entering data into the PastPerfect program at the History Center. I seem to have missed some collections and the only way to be sure is to double-check them all.
A client request for a probate pull came in and I went to see if the court office had the file, which they did not. It was a trust, so they likely never had the estate probated.
I gave a webinar to the Swedish Ancestry Research Association from Worcester, Massachusetts, on creating and using research plans.
Webinars/Courses Viewed:
- Collaborative Trees: Making Them Work for You by Drew Smith (Legacy Family Tree Webinars)
Other:
This was the week for my trip to visit Jacqueline in her new home in Oregon. I got on the train Thursday night and had a roomette on the sleeping car. She met me in Eugene and drove me back to their house on the coast. We walked the beach, saw the carnivorous plants, Darlingtonia californica at a preserve, visited a military museum, and shopped in Florence. It’s been a fun trip so far and I will return home Tuesday night arriving back in Martinez on Wednesday morning.
I am reading:
- Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales—FINISHED!
- Sixty-eight Rooms by Marianne Malone
- A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization by John Perlin
- Miss Merkel: Mord in der Uckermark by David Safier (for German class—will take a while to read)
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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