Monday Genea-pourri, Week of October 13–19, 2025

We completed our first week of vacation.

Genealogy

Genealogy Volunteer/Work:
I did not volunteer or work this week.

Genealogy Meetings: 
I attended no meetings this week.

Genealogy Writing/Research:
During free time on the train, I worked on some future blog posts and researched the Rodgers, Hutson, and Wollenweber families whenever I had access to the internet.

Blog Posts Published:

Substitutes to Fill in for a Military File that Burned.|For the theme of “fire,” I wrote about how to locate other records to fill in a WWI military service because of the loss from the 1973 fire at NPRC. Highlighted on 52 Ancestors email.

SNGF – Your Most Recent Ancestor with No-Name Parents
I have a bunch of people in my database with no parents, especially on my Irish and Polish lines.

Webinars/Courses Viewed: None this week.

Other:
We arrived in Chicago on Tuesday and stayed at the Palmer House for one night. The next day, we took the Lakeshore Limited to New York City, arriving on Thursday evening. We checked into the Homewood Suites and then rode the subway to meet up with our daughter for dinner. We walked all around New York on Friday (Central Park) and Saturday (Lower Manhattan), and on Sunday, we visited the New York Historical to see a few exhibits. Our other daughter arrives late on Sunday. The weather has been wonderful but we might have rain next week.

I am reading: 

• The American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age by Pete Davies—FINISHED!
• A Château Under Siege by Martin Walker

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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