Outside activities included two trips to the Oakland FamilySearch Center, phenology at the Meadow, and the doctor’s office for labwork.
Genealogy
Genealogy Volunteer/Work:
Because of the holiday, there was no volunteer or work activities.
Genealogy Meetings: The Renewal Accountability Group met and I asked about what to do about sources for a genealogy summary when it really needs to be a proof argument. No one really had a complete answer. I’m still researching it.
Roundtable met and we ran out of topics before the two hours were up so all said Merry Christmas and we ended the call. Jacqueline and I talked for a little bit after her yoga. I had watched the NGS class on Airtable but she hadn’t yet.
Genealogy Writing/Research: I had more free time this week to work on genealogy. Two days, I scanned photo albums and loose photos at the Oakland FamilySearch Center, which was only open for staff to come in and and work on their own research. I scanned four Creative Memories albums, one of my mother as a child, one of my grandmother’s brother, Luther, and one of my childhood that had no photos left in it but still had the descriptions my mother wrote. I might be able to place the correct photo onto the digital copy.
I also worked a few blog posts and scheduled them. I have a new plan to work on twelve family lines throughout the year, one each month. One of the blog posts is about that. I worked on an Airtable recording what I know about the family for January’s research.
I finished up the book about the 4th Division during World War I, making notes about what the 4th Engineers were doing. I then collected all the rosters that name my great uncle, Jack C. Sullivan, who was with the 4th Engineers. When I get to the Sullivan line this year, I hope to complete his story.
Blog Posts Published:
Lest
Emma and Minnie Loveless are not Forgotten
For the theme of “memorable,” I wrote about two
young children of Ebenezer Loveless and his wife, Eliza A Rodgers, who died
young.
12
or ’26: A new Meme for 2026
I highlighted how I will select twelve different
family lines to focus on, one each month. The Hutson/Selman line will be in
January.
SNGF
– Your 2025 Genea-Gifts
I wrote about the wonder gift the director of the
OFSC gave us by being open a couple of days during the holiday break.
Webinars/Courses Viewed:
- Airtable Essentials by Amberly Beck (NGS GenTech)
Other:
No hike this week so
Elaine and I did some weeding and other work at the train station garden, Kiawana’s
garden, and at the meadow trimming some bushes in the way of our observed
plants.
Christmas was spent quietly at home, listening to the Christmas records one last time. We watched “White Christmas” on the television.
I am reading:
- Ghosts of Greenglass House
by Kate Milford—FINISHED!
- The Fourth Division: Its Services and
Achievements in the World War by Christian Albert
Back & Henry Noble Hall—FINISHED!
- The Door-to-Door Bookstore
by Carsten Henn—FINISHED!
- Agatha Christie: an Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
Photos for this week. Some miscellaneous shots from the meadow after a rain.
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.
Happy New Year!
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