My outside activities included visits to research repositories in Louisville, Shelbyville, and Frankfort, as well as visits to attractions and distilleries in Kentucky.
Genealogy
Genealogy Volunteer/Work:
I have started drafting the upcoming
BCG-sponsored webinar press release for June and will send it out this coming
week.
Genealogy Meetings: Meetings this week: None. I meant to attend the RootsMagic SIG but forgot.
Genealogy Writing/Research:
This week's research involved researching at the Filson
Historical Society in Louisville, the library in Shelbyville, and the Kentucky
Department for Libraries and Archives in Frankfort.
I spent three hours at the Filson looking at books, mostly about bourbon. One was exactly what I wanted, so I bought a used copy instead of wasting time photographing pages. I also researched subjects concerning Lewis and Shelby Counties, where my ancestors are from. I missed some items on my list because I wasn’t careful when sending the email with my list. At least, when I get back home, I can contact them about anything I did not find at other repositories.
In Shelbyville, we first visited the history museum in town. We were told the archives are at the public library in their Kentucky Room. There, I found surname folders with family group sheets and copies of bible records for the Lancaster family. I also found some histories of the Dover Baptist Church. The Neal family donated land for the church and lived nearby, so I got to see the area where my ancestors were from.
At the KDLA, I hit gold. They had the court case files for the Polly family in Lewis County. I found the divorce record of Phebe Polly divorcing NHO Polly, as well as other files for David Polly. I also got a couple of case files for the Lancaster family in Shelby County. I could have stayed there longer, but hubby was waiting for me.
Blog Posts Published:
A College Reunion for Dr. Nelle O. Lundquist. For the theme of “reunion,” I wrote about my husband’s first cousin, 2x-removed, who attended a medical school reunion.
SNGF: Who Are Your 32 Third-great-grandparents? – I used RootsMagic to make a list of my 32 known 3x-great-grandparents.
Webinars/Courses Viewed: I viewed no webinars this week. Too busy having fun!
Other:
We are in our third week of our 27-day trip,
spending time in Louisville, Shelbyville, Frankfort, and Williamsburg. Besides the
places where I researched, we visited Angel Envy Distillery, Wild Turkey
Distillery, and both Capitol buildings in Frankfort. On Saturday, we rode the Big
South Fork Railroad into the Big South Fork River and Recreation Area, a
National Park, where we stopped at the location of the former Blue Heron Mine
No. 18. The ranger there gave a great talk about mining in the area.
Sunday, we drove up to Ashland, where we returned the rental car and boarded the Amtrak Cardinal to Chicago at 10:15. Goodbye, Kentucky! We had a great time.
I am reading:
- A Lesson in Secrets
by Jacqueline Winspear
- Miss Merkel: Mord in der Uckermark by David Safier (for German class—up to Chap 35)
Photos for this week.
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| Dover Baptist Church, Shelby Co, Kentucky |
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| Kentucky River, Frankfort, Kentucky |
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| Wild Turkey Distillery, Lawrenceburg, Kentucky |
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| Big South Fork of the Cumberland River from the train |
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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