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. I have completed fourteen weeks of semi- “lock down” due to Covid-19. I left the house this past week to work at the CCCHS History Center, get blood work done at Kaiser, and have a heart monitor fitted. I did a couple of walks, but otherwise, I met people on Zoom. Genealogy Blog Writing : Blogs posted this past week:  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 25: Unexpected—My Grandparent’s Marriage License Location.   I wrote about finding my grandparent’s marriage record in a neighboring county and wondered why. Thomas N. Davey Passport Gives Confirmation About Arrival Ship . I updated a previous blog post with the evidence I found from Thomas’ passport application. Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Your Dad’s Work History . We wrote about the jo...

It's  Saturday Night - time for more  Genealogy Fun! Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is the following: Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to: 1)  Check out Pauleen Cass's blog post,  Crazy Month of May 2020 Meme: Pandemic Experiences.   We did the first 10 prompts last week. 2)  Let's do the last 11 of the prompts this week. 3)  Tell us about your own pandemic experience in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a post on Facebook.  Be sure to leave a link to your work as a Comment to this post and also on Pauleen's post. 4)  Thank you, Pauleen!! Here's mine: 11)  What have you found to be the strangest change to your life?  That I discovered I don’t mind staying home. I miss the chance to visit with people in-person but I really enjoy just staying home. 12)  Have you found the changes an...