My outside activities this week included doing phenology, visiting the history center, attending a historical society presentation, and having cataract surgery.
Genealogy
Genealogy Volunteer/Work:
At the historical society, I worked on Dean
McLeod’s collection, filing papers into archival folders and using smaller
document boxes. He gave a talk on Sunday and said he would be sending 2 file
drawers full of stuff, so it would be nice to be familiar with the materials we
already have.
I presented on German immigrants obtaining federal land to the Sacramento German Genealogy Society on Tuesday via Zoom.
Genealogy Meetings:
Jacqueline
and I met and talked about the retreat. I attended Amigos, and
while Stewart took a phone call, Jacqueline and I talked about the NARA SIG she
attended on Monday. Later, Stewart, Karen, and I were the only ones at the
RootsMagic SIG, and we discussed the Places tab.
Genealogy Writing/Research:
I worked on next week’s 52 Ancestors post, researching
and writing about the first families that arrived in Texas. I need to visit a FamilySearch
Center for some deed research, as the records are locked from home. I located
some marriage records in Cherokee County using the full-text search.
I made some preliminary searching on possible German-American towns to write about. The theme for the next Der Blumenbaum is Saxony. When researching for the land talk, I discovered that many Germans settled in Lancaster County, Nebraska. Through research, some of them came from the Volga area of Russia. So I have some options.
Blog Posts Published:
Funeral Mass &
Recitation of the Rosary
For the theme of “religious traditions,” I wrote
about how to say the rosary.
George Wilson Lancaster Goes After Government Land in Arizona Territory, Part I
I am studying George’s land file and have begun a
multi-part post about the process.
SNGF – Five Reference
Books for Beginning Genealogy Researchers.
I chose 5 different books than Randy did,
choosing two from Drew Smith, one from George Morgan, the newest one from
Elizabeth Shown Mills, and the last an oldie from Emily Anne Croom.
Webinars/Courses Viewed:
- Unique Challenges of DNA Research in Germanic Europe by Ute Brandenburg (German Genealogy Headquarters)
- Escape and Return in Jewish Vienna: a DNA Case Study by Ute Brandenburg (German Genealogy Headquarters)
- Forgotten Records: Pension Ledgers and the Payments They Represent by Craig Scott (Legacy Family Tree Webinars)
Other:
It’s been cool this past week, so the native
plants are still doing okay. I keep them watered.
On Monday, we went to San Francisco to meet our daughter. We met up at the Presidio (part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area) and were able to walk in the park above the new tunnel over Highway 101. It was pretty cool and a bit windy. We walked out of the park to a neighborhood and had Italian food for dinner. I walked over 10K steps and was pretty sore the next day.
On Wednesday, we hiked in the Walnut Creek Open Space south of Rudgear Road. The grass was dry and no flowers, but the blue oaks were just gorgeous.
On Thursday, I had cataract surgery on my left eye. It all went well, and I’m seeing pretty well through it already. She put some medication in so I don’t have to do eye drops.
I am reading:
- Asterix der Gallier
by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
- How Welfare Worked in the Early United States by Gabriel J. Loiacono
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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