Outside activities included a hike at Pt. Pinole, volunteering twice at the History Center, and two days of train club show.
Genealogy
Genealogy Volunteer/Work: I opened the History Center on Tuesday and closed on Wednesday. I worked on a query looking at deed indexes and court records. On Tuesday, I took minutes for the Sonoma County Genealogical Society board meeting.
Genealogy Meetings: On Monday, I attended the renewal accountability meeting and the military SIG. Josh and I met on Friday, catching up on our activities. Sunday, I attended book club and we discussed Paper Bullets.
Genealogy Writing/Research: I attended two sessions of writing with the Level Up group. For 12 for ‘26, I did some full-text search on Ebenezer Loveless and wrote that up. I started writing up the timeline for his father, Jesse Loveless.
Blog Posts Published:
Searching in Cave Hill Cemetery for Vohringers
For the theme of “at the
cemetery,” I wrote about our visit to Cave Hill Cemetery after the NGS Conference
and locating gravesites for some of my husband’s relatives.
12 for ’26: Ebenezer Loveless Full-text Search Looking for Deed Purchase
Primarily I used full-text
search to locate any record that named Ebenezer, but particularly hoping to
locate the deeds for land purchases.
SNGF: Where Were Your Ancestors 150 Years Ago?
We were to discover which ancestors
were alive in 1876.
12 for ’26: Jesse Loveless (1806-1873) Timeline
These are the records I
already have.
Courses Attended:
I attended the third session
of the course Merging and Separating Identity with Jan Joyce. This week, we
worked with AI, learning how to have it help with ancestor profiles from the
spreadsheets we created, and from indexes on Ancestry.
Webinars Viewed: None this week.
Other:
We
hiked at Pt Pinole. I did not bring the binoculars and I wish I had, as there
was an osprey nest with chicks out on the abandoned pier poles. I did see and
hear other birds that were closer.
This weekend was one of our weekend train club shows. I worked the set-up area and spent much of the time either crawling under the layout or climbing on ladders to reach higher parts of the layout, in order to fix derailed or stuck trains. Between calls, I got some writing and reading done.
I am reading:
- Paper Bullets by Jeffrey H. Jackson—FINISHED!
- Ancestoring: Understanding Records, Family, and Ourselves by Darci Hind Posz
Photos for this week.
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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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