My Trails into the Past

Genealogists are great at documenting our ancestors’ lives but not so great 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. Genealogy Education I taught the last class of  the 5-class session on Intermediate Skills for the California Genealogical Society, being held at the Oakland FamilySearch Library on Wednesday evenings. This last class was about planning a research trip. Blog Writing : 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks  For week 26 (the half-way point), the theme was “legend” and my post was about the legend of my maternal grandmother’s family having Native American ancestry. Saturday Night Genealogy Fun We started a series of questions posed by Ellen Thompson-Jennings and completed the first five. They are very interesting questions and I look forward to the next five. 8th Blogiversary! I have completed eight years of writing b...