Outside activities included a hike at Mt. Diablo again, volunteering at OFSC, a bird count on Mt. Wanda, and a train club meeting.
Genealogy
Genealogy Volunteer/Work:
I worked on the BCG webinar press release and will send it out this coming
week. At the History Center, I got there after lunch and worked on entering
books into the library database. On Wednesday, I volunteered at the Oakland
FamilySearch Center.
Genealogy Meetings:
Jacqueline and I did not meet
this week. I attended the APG NorCal meeting and we merged with the Southern
California group and selected a new logo. The Labor SIG met on Thursday this
week and we had a great discussion in the 90 minutes about lots of different
topics.
Genealogy Writing/Research:
I started a new surname for 12 for ‘26, beginning
with my 2x-great-grandfather, Ebenezer Loveless. As I have done in past months,
I first created a timeline with what records I already have collected. This
week, I’ll finalize the full-text and newspaper searches, before moving on to
his father, Jesse Loveless.
Blog Posts Published:
Why Would Philippina Voehringer Wollenweber Refuse an
Inheritance?
For the theme of “a question
the records can’t answer,” I wrote about a note written by my husband’s aunt
stating Philippina refused an inheritance.
12 for ’26: Loveless Family for
April – Ebenezer Loveless Timeline
I started the new month with
a new surname, Loveless. As in the past, I started with the timeline for
Ebenezer using the records I already had.
SNGF: What Automobiles Did Your Ancestors Own?
This theme I had suggested
and I used the chapter from a family history I wrote about my parents.
New Strategies When Using Full-text Search at FamilySearch
While I was working on the
full-text search for Ebenezer Loveless, I realized I had changed my strategy in
using full-text search and thought others would find it useful.
Courses Attended:
I attended the second session
of the course Merging and Separating Identity with Jan Joyce. To get the most
out of this course, it is important to either work on the class materials or
have a merging/separating problem of your own. I don’t have one of my own I’m
ready to start, so I’m working with the class materials. We are getting lots of
good tools to help us.
Webinars Viewed: None this week.
Other:
We
hiked on the Devil's Elbow Trail at Mt. Diablo State Park. There were some nice
surprises and I took over 40 photos.
On Saturday, I met with Cheryl and Jodie to do a bird count on Mt. Wanda, part of the John Muir National Historic Park, in honor of World Migratory Bird Day. The Western Tanager, Townsend Warbler, and Wilson’s Warbler were the highlight but we saw lots of Oak Titmice, Bushtits, Dark-eyed Juncos, Lesser Goldfinches, Acorn Woodpeckers, Violet-green Swallows, and a few nuthatches, mourning doves, and house wrens.
I am reading:
- Paper Bullets by Jeffrey H. Jackson
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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