Outside activities included a History Center, Soup Day party, Oakland FamilySearch Center, the bank in Cotati, and train club.
Genealogy
Genealogy Volunteer/Work:
I covered for our Executive Director on Tuesday at the History Center. I spent
most of the day adding data to the library database. I created the BCG webinar
press release and scheduled it to be sent on Monday. Wednesday at the Oakland
FamilySearch Center, after helping a new genealogist get started with FamilySearch,
I did more scanning of my grandmother’s photos. On Saturday, I gave a
presentation about researching cemetery and funeral home records to the Seattle
Genealogical Society.
Genealogy Meetings: Jacqueline and I met and we discussed using AirTable some more. She showed me her AirTable base. I hosted the writing group on Thursday and we spent time talking about creating goals for the year. Hopefully, this will spark some writing. I drove up to Cotati to meet with two Sonoma County Genealogical Society board members at the bank to open a few CD accounts. Tim and I then went to lunch and had a nice conversation about Quakers. Sunday was book club and we discussed the book about Agatha Christie.
Genealogy Writing/Research: I did not write as many blog posts this week. I continued adding the deed documents I found for the purchases and sales by Peter H. Hutson in Comanche County. One of the posts this week was about how I’m processing those documents. On Friday, I opened the Zoom room for two of my genie buddies to join and spend time writing, but I ended up doing it alone. Got in 90 minutes of writing done!
Blog Posts Published:
World
War I Draft Card Adds Color to a Black and White Photo
For the theme of “a record that adds color,” I used
the description of my 2x-great-grandfather’s draft card to describe his hair
and eye color.
12
or ’26: Week One Update on the January Family – Peter H Hutson
I described my methodology in processing the deed
records found for Peter and how I enter the data into a Word document,
RootsMagic, and AirTable.
SNGF– Condense Your Research Notes into a Genealogical Sketch Using AI
It was an interesting experiment giving ChatGPT a
genealogy summary from RootsMagic and ask it to write a sketch. I still would
rather write my own sketches.
Webinars/Courses Viewed:
- Beginner’s Guide to Using Airtable for Genealogy by Diana Elder (CCCGS)
- Embracing Research Challenges: 2 Chinese-American Women by Carly Lane Morgan (Kinseekers)
- Embracing Research Challenges: Case Study—Nuns in the United States by Sunny Jane Morton (Kinseekers)
Other:
Instead of a hike, Wednesday
Walkers met at Ulla’s home for Soup Day. I did some walking on Saturday and
Sunday, first walking around the Martinez marina looking for birds, and again
on Sunday at Heather Farm Park in Walnut Creek looking for different birds. I
have a challenge to record one different bird a day, so I am actively looking
for unusual birds to start out. So for the first 11 days, I have 10 different
birds. One day, it rained all day and I saw no birds outside my windows.
I am reading:
- Agatha Christie: an Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley—FINISHED!
Photos for this week. The narcissus in my yard are blooming.
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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