My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musing Fans: It’s Saturday Night again Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has given us our assignment this week. We are do the following: 1) In your childhood (and into the teenage years), what did you save or collect as a hobby or interest? Do you still have them? 2) Tell us all about it in a blog post of your own, in comments on this blog post, or in a post on Facebook. Be sure to link to them in a comment on this blog post. Here’s mine: We actually did a post similar to this in 2016 and my post is here where I wrote about collecting stamps, troll dolls, and postcards. I have also collected other things. I’d say my biggest collection during my teenage years was collecting books. My friend, Beth, and I would go to used book stores once a week to purchase all kinds of books: Star Trek, Harlequin romances, young adult, westerns, and my favorite: Man from U.N.C.L.E. books. I still have some of these books. Most are in storage...

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. I have completed twenty-four (24) weeks of semi- “lock down” due to Covid-19. I went out a little more this week (mask on): I attended training at the Acalanes Adult School for the new program Canvas, delivered empty jars to Jacqueline, weeded with the Native Plant Team, did phenology at the meadow, and visited with brother- and sister-in-law at the local brew pub. I also got a haircut! It is still a bit smoky outside, with some days better than others. At least the hot weather has passed us by for a while. Genealogy Blog Writing : Blogs posted this past week: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 35: Unforgettable—Raymond Hork of Montana   I wrote about my great-uncle, Raymond Hork, who died young and unmarried at 28. Study Groups Attended:   ...

It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun! Here is Randy’s assignment tonight from Genea-Musing .   Our mission is to: 1)  Teresa at the Writing My Past blog wrote a post about her genealogy bookshelf, even showing photographs of the books on several of her shelves.  Linda Stufflebean thought this was a good SNGF topic, so here we are! 2)  Tell us what books, or types of books are on your genealogy bookshelf/ves in your home.  Do you have a photo of them?  Are there specific books that you use more than others? 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a post on Facebook . I have genealogy books on several different bookcases in my home. The ones I use most often are next to my desk. Others are placed based on their size, though I have most of my German genealogy books together. Actually my books get moved around often as I always take books to share when I teach genealogy c...