My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's Saturday Night again -  Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment tonight from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is here. 1) Write your 2025 Genea-Santa letter. Have you been a good genealogy girl or boy? What genealogy-oriented items are on your Christmas wish list? They could be family history items, technology items, or things that you want to pursue in your ancestral quest. Here's mine: I hope that Genea-Santa thinks I have been a good genealogy girl. I have written family stories on my blog for all 52 weeks of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. I volunteered most months at the Oakland FamilySearch Center and weekly at the Contra Costa County Historical Society’s archives. There, I processed several collections and cataloged the library. I gave numerous genealogy talks and facilitated a monthly writing group. The best gift received this year was from my research trip to Kentucky and Indiana, where I visited ar...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's  Saturday Night  again -  Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment this week from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings : Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. Here's your chance to sit on Genea-Santa's lap (virtually) and tell him your Christmas genealogy-oriented wish list: 1) Write your 2023 Genea-Santa letter. Have you been a good genealogy girl or boy? What genealogy-oriented items are on your Christmas wish list? They could be family history items, technology items, or things that you want to pursue in your ancestral quest. Here's mine: Santa, I have been a good Genea-Girl this year. Here’s what I did in 2023: I hosted monthly roundtable talks via Zoom for both the Contra Costa County Genealogical Society on the fourth Monday and the California Genealogical Society on the second Wednesday. Other volunteer activities included creating a library database an...