My outside activities this week included a trip to the History Center, doing phenology, and hiking with my walking group. Outside, I started cleaning up some leaves before we go on our vacation. It is still fire season here, and we want to make the area around the house safe.
Genealogy
Genealogy Volunteer/Work:
Tuesday, I volunteered at the History Center, where I entered accessions into
PastPerfect and descriptions into the library database. Thursday, our writing
group discussed Nancy’s article in the New Mexico Genealogist and Jacqueline’s
experiment using AI to assist with her blog writing.
Genealogy Meetings: Jen and I were the only accountability members to meet on Monday. The Roundtable group met, and most discussed what they were working on. Jacqueline and I met briefly and got caught up with our activities since our last meeting. At RootsMagic SIG, Keith discussed new features of RootsMagic 11, as well as the report functions.
Genealogy Writing/Research: I finished an article about land research for Der Blumenbaum.
Blog Posts Published:
What Became of Robert
Hutson of Cherokee County, Georgia?
For the theme of “disappeared,” I wrote about the
Hutson family members for whom I have no death date, as I don’t know what
happened to them after 1860. I wrote about my analysis and came up with some
search strategies. It was highlighted on Friday’s
Family History Finds.
SNGF
– Share a Genealogy-Related Joke or Funny Story
We were asked to tell a funny story or joke. I
browsed for some genealogy jokes and shared a few groaners.
Webinars/Courses Viewed: I
played catch-up this week, watching webinars that I had missed. I also watched
several short videos about the new RootsMagic 11 from their website after I
upgraded to 11.
- School Censuses: What, When and Where by Billie Stone Fogarty (LFT Webinars)
- Research Treasures in the WPA: You Won't Believe What You'll Find by Sharon Batiste Gillins (LFT Webinars)
- Discovering Old Land Surveys in Deeds and Probates by J Mark Lowe (LFT Webinars)
- RootsMagic Explained! by Taneya Koonce (NC Triangle Reg. Chapt AAHGS)
Other:
I have finished the
recording of my slides! Now to figure out where to donate the non-family
images. My husband and I also scanned some of his father’s negatives. They are
oversized, so we used the scanner at the History Center.
I am reading:
- How Welfare Worked in the Early United States
by Gabriel J. Loiacono – FINISHED!
- Die Trabantenstadt
by R Goscinny & A Uderzo (another Asterix in German)
- A Settler’s Year: Pioneer Life Through the Seasons by Kathleen Ernst – FINISHED!
Photos for this week. We hiked at the Pacheco Marsh on a cool, rain-in-the-air day, which allowed for even light and nice sky photos.
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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