Outside activities including weeding on my backyard in preparation for our summer vegetable garden, doing phenology, hiking at Shell Ridge in Walnut Creek, having lunch with friends, operating on Tony’s layout, and working the last Friday night show at the train club.
Genealogy
Genealogy Volunteer/Work:
I spent a half day at the History Center on Tuesday, working on the library
database, and researching some last minute items for the article of lost
communities in the county.
Genealogy Meetings: Our renewal peer group met and we got caught up with our projects. I hosted the roundtable. Jacqueline and I discussed our trip to Pittsburgh for GRIP. I attended the RootsMagic SIG.
Genealogy Writing/Research: I continued working on George Wilson Lancaster this week, starting a timeline. So far, the timeline is twelve pages, and I’m not finished yet. This timeline needs some citations corrected, especially those from locked images on FamilySearch. The timeline has also sparked areas where new research can be done. I want to add where I can do some social history research to add context to his life. After working this month on him, his son, and grandson, I can do a KDP with this family.
Blog Posts Published:
Who
Needs a Pattern: Mom’s Way of Sewing
For the theme of “A Family
Pattern,” I wrote about my mother’s forays into sewing.
12for ’26: Update on Lancaster Research
The end of the month summary
of what I had accomplished in researching the Lancaster family.
Webinars/Courses Viewed: I attended the Dallas Genealogical Society’s seminar and picked up a couple other webinars this week.
- America at 250: The Historical Census Manuscripts by Colleen Robledo Greene (CSUF Digital Scholarship Librarian)
- From Research to Data with AI 2 of 5: Cleaning Up—Fixing, Formatting, and Validating Data by Andrew Redfern & Fiona Brooker (LFT Webinars)
- Overcoming the Language Barrier by Michael Lacopo (Dallas Genealogical Society)
- German Genealogy on the Internet: Beyond the Basics by Michael Lacopo (DGS)
- Finding and Using German Church Records by Michael Lacopo (DGS)
- Telling Their Story: Adding Character to Your German-American Genealogical Narrative by Michael Lacopo (DGS)
- How the Weather Affected Your Ancestors by Ari Wilkins (Arizona Genealogy Day 2026)
Other:
Two
more green-waste cans have been filled with weeds from our backyard. We weren’t
home when these started coming up, so didn’t keep up with it. I worked the
train club show in set-up and there were not too many mishaps to fix. On
Saturday, I operated on Tony’s layout with Mike. It was fun and I wore my
OpsSIG Railroader button. It’s now on my DVL cap to wear when I go to the PCR
convention in April.
I am reading:
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Photos for this week. Some photos from my garden.
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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