Monday Genea-pourri, Week of May 12–18, 2025

My outside activities included a trip to the History Center and the start of a vacation to Indianapolis and Louisville.  

Genealogy

Genealogy Volunteer/Work:
At the History Center, I worked on accessions, making sure the details of past accessions had been entered into PastPerfect. I’m about three-quarters done.  

Genealogy Meetings:   None 

Genealogy Writing/Research:
On the train with no internet available, I was able to enter a lot of documents into RootsMagic without having any distractions, such as wanting to do lookups. I also started a KDP writing about Reuben M. Johnston.

Blog Posts Published:

Settling on Land in Montgomery County, Iowa: P.A. Lundquist Bought Land from the CB&Q Railroad
For the theme of “Wheels,” I wrote about my husband’s ancestor who bought his Iowa land from the railroad.

SNGF - Did You Have Genealogy Fun This Past Week?
I wrote about my progress entering data into RootsMagic while on the train.

Webinars/Courses Viewed: None

Other:
We began our 27 day trip on Thursday by taking the San Joaquin train to Los Angeles, getting there with just enough time to catch the Southwest Chief to Chicago. Ten minutes out, we stopped behind another train who hit someone at Fullerton, causing us to have a two and a half hour delay. Further delays on the train caused us to be 5 hours late. We were pulled from the train at Galesburg, Illinois, to be bussed to Indianapolis because we would not have made it to Chicago to catch the Cardinal.  We’re staying in a hotel made from the old train station. Monday, I get some research done at the archives and the state library.

I am reading: 

• Miss Merkel: Mord in der Uckermark by David Safier (for German class—up to Chap 35)

Photos for this week. We hiked at Fernandez Ranch and saw some nice blooms.

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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