Outside activities included a trip on the weekend to Santa Rosa to babysit the granddog and give a genealogy presentation. Otherwise, I was sick the early part of the week and stayed home.
Genealogy
Genealogy Volunteer/Work:
The only work I did was to give a presentation about research plans to the
Sonoma County Genealogical Society, an in-person seminar. This was my last
event with the group. I turned my secretary binders over to the new secretary.
The seminar went well and many people came up to me at the break thanking me
for the talk. I think they enjoyed how I involved the audience during the
presentation. They all seemed to enjoy the second presentation on railroad
records, too, which was very good.
Genealogy Meetings:
I attended the Kinseekers NARA
SIG on Monday but didn’t participate much as I was not feeling well. I shared
that I am getting a bankruptcy file from NARA Kansas City soon.
Genealogy Writing/Research: I attended two session of Level Up writing, working on my Tierney family this week, locating deeds from FamilySearch. It is time consuming to locate the deed, write a source citation, and then either transcribe or abstract the deed. I need to do all of them because I don’t know yet which are my John Tierney. I am also collecting deeds for Denis Tierney and William Tierney, who I think are John’s father and brother.
Blog Posts Published:
Martha Mary Tierney Becomes Sister St. Melanie of the
Grey Nuns of Ottawa
For the theme of “The Ancestor Who Stays With Me”
I wrote about Mary Martha Tierney who joined the Grey Nuns of Ottawa as Sister
St. Melanie.
12 for '26: Margaret Gleeson nee Tierney’s Family in
Canadian Census Records
This was the second of my
posts about the John Gleeson and his family.
SNGF: Three Things About Your Father
I wrote about my father,
William Joseph Hork, being the youngest, throwing a football with either arm,
and having a dog name Nappy.
Courses Attended:
No classes this week, but I
am enrolled in GRIP virtual this coming week in the class called “Marching
Toward Change: Reformers, Crises, and Movements that Transformed 19th and 20th
Century America.” I downloaded and printed the syllabus and hope to take notes
by hand.
Webinars Viewed:
- Data Collection: Mastering Techniques in Genealogical Research by Jill Morelli (BCG/LFTWebinars). What she was talking about seemed so familiar and it’s because I viewed this at NGS last year.
- Public Land Survey Basis: placing Your Ancestor in the Township and Range Grid by J. H. Fonkert (Minnesota Genealogy Center)
- Finding Your Railroad Ties by Cindy Brennan (Sonoma Co Gen Soc)
- Citations-Easter than You Think by Stewart Traiman (CGS)
- Questions within Questions -- Implementing a Dynamic Research Plan by David Ouimette (NGS 2026)
Other:
No
hike this week due to my illness. I was feeling better by Wednesday but would
cough sometimes. They were hiking where there were steep hills. By Friday, I
was much better, and we drove up to Santa Rosa to watch my daughter’s dog while
she worked. We then ate outside at her restaurant. We stayed overnight at The
Flamingo Hotel and Resort, so I could drive over to the FamilySearch Center to
give one of the seminar’s presentations.
I am reading:
- Ancestoring: Understanding
Records, Family, and Ourselves by
Darci Hind Posz
- A Season for Spies: A Lane
Winslow Prequel by Iona Whishaw—FINISHED!
- Death on a Scottish Train: A Scottish Isle Mystery by Lucy Connelly
Photos for this week. We walked with the dog at a park in downtown Santa Rosa and I took photos of roses that were growing in a huge garden by the bocce ball courts.
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.
The garden looks so cool and comfortable. Beautiful flowers, as always. Welcome to summer!
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