My outside activities included two trips to the History Center, one to the archives storage facility, one to the John Muir National Historic Park visitor center to meet with our phenology supervisor, and one to the train club for our monthly meetings. Otherwise, I stayed home working on projects at my desk or outside in the gardens.
Genealogy
Genealogy Volunteer/Work:
I spent two half-days at the History Center, finishing the scrapbook collection and meeting with Tara about putting the library database on PastPerfect. We decided to do it, but we need to add a couple more columns of data to our spreadsheet. Also on Tuesday, a group of us visited the long-term storage site where four huge crates of materials are stored. None of us knows what is in these crates, so we’ll arrange to revisit to take inventory later this year. From a brief glance once the crates were opened, we have many maps, boxes of book inventory (for sale), and boxes of phone books. But there is likely much more, deep in the crate that we could not see.
For the upcoming NGS Family History Conference preview webinar, I worked on the slides and text of what I presented during the webinar on Friday. For the upcoming BCG-sponsored webinar, I sent out a press release. I also scheduled a press release for the fall Reisinger lectures.
My writing group met on Thursday and we discussed Lynne’s submission. We also planned the dates for the next four months, keeping them to the second Thursday of the month. I recommended a webinar at Legacy on incorporating social history into their writing.
Genealogy Meetings:
I met with the NGS conference committee on Monday and again with the webinar committee on Thursday in prep for the webinar.
Book Club met and we discussed When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion by Julie Satow.
Genealogy Writing/Research:
Ancestry sent an email with a record hint, and I spent time adding more documents and information to the Wanda Loveless and A. T. Maddox family. I still need to add the names of their children, spouses, and grandchildren from their obituaries. This will help with deciphering possible DNA matches on the Loveless lines.
Blog Posts Published:
For the theme of “Big Mistake,” I wrote about how I wished I had paid more attention to things our elders told us when they were alive and that I didn’t ask them questions about their parents and grandparents.
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I didn’t write a post this week, as Randy wanted us to write two truthful statements and one false, having people guess which one is false. I don’t want a false statement on my blog that someone might copy into an online tree. There are enough falsehoods out there on trees!
Webinars/Courses Viewed:
I attended the eighth SLIG class coordinated by Kimberly Powell. Rick Sayre had us work on a rural neighborhood in an eastern Ohio county. We have just two more classes.
- Breathing Life into Ancestral Stories: Using Social History in Genealogical Research by Robyn Smith (LFT Webinars)
- Using Employment & Labor Records for Family History by Madeline Yanov (Kinseekers)
- Engagements, Weddings, Marriage Contracts and Divorces in 19th Century Germany by Andrea Bentschneider (LFT Webinars)
Other:
The meadow phenology team met with Tori to view some of the data from our site on the National Phenology Project. We have been observing the plants in the meadow for fourteen years, so there is lots of consistent data there. Afterwards we toured the native garden and the photos below are from there.
I am reading:
- When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion by Julie Satow—FINISHED!
- Blood From Stone by Donna Leon
- Miss Merkel: Mord in der Uckermark by David Safier (for German class—up to Chap 30)
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.
As always, you've kept busy and your spring photos are gorgeous.
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