Read, Blog, Google, Library, Research, Chart - my six word memoir for today's genealogy day.
I was reading my email and blogs by 8:30 a.m. and posted "The Elusive --?-- (Wife of Cornelius Feather)" on Genea-Musings. She is really an FNU LNU person! Reading through my notes, I realized that I could find a few more things about Cornelius and his wife, so I Googled them for awhile, especially in Trumbull County, Ohio. I found the "Treasures of the Past" web site and posted about it at "I Wish Someone Would Visit My Grave". Then I opened my database and spent two hours entering some of my new found data about Cornelius Feather and his FNU LNU wife. I had a quick lunch, then went off to the library to visit with John and Dearl.
Shirley had her computer class going, and I popped in twice, but spent about 90 minutes back with John and Dearl in the Family Research stacks. We swapped stories for awhile. I went to the bank on the way home, and was back on the computer at 2 p.m. The mail came, and I received two packages - one with the "Bad Baby Names" book and the other with the 2006 and 2007 St. George (Utah) Conference Syllabuses on CDs. I read all of them over the next three hours, and blogged about the " 'Bad Baby Names' Book is Great." I love conference syllabuses, although I wish some authors would provide more than a list of references for their talks. Dinner time ...
After dinner, I was back on at 7 p.m., checked my email and blogs, and wrote several emails for CVGS issues. I explored the tree charts made by FTM so that I could compare the charts with Legacy Charting. I made several with a nice background and printed one out - 12 pages big. There is no "save to .jpg" like Legacy has. I don't usually do many tree charts because I find ahnentafel and descendant lists more useful for my own research. Just me. I had written down some web sites from the conference syllabuses, so I explored them for awhile - I found nothing extraordinary.
Genealogy today was 10.0 hours - 1.0 hour doing email, 0.5 hour reading blogs, 1.5 hours blogging, 1.0 hour doing research and database entry, 2.5 hours doing CVGS things, 2.5 hours reading my new books and syllabuses, and 1.0 hours doing FTM charts.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Family History Journal - 03/09/08
This was an off-day for genealogy, mainly because I was tired out. I ate too much last night, and woke up at 11:30 with acid reflux. Then I woke up every hour for most of the night, and finally got up at 7:30 PDT and was groggy and grumpy all morning. We went to church and I dozed/nodded through the sermon - the pastor asked me later if I was OK. When we got home, I took a one hour nap then had lunch.
At 1 p.m. I finally read my email and blogs using Bloglines. I posted "Best of the Genea-Blogs - March 2-8, 2008" and "Crime, Punishment and Your Ancestors" by Kathleen Trevena at SDGS Yesterday" and went in and took another hour long nap. It was too warm outside (about 80F) to do any hard work, so I pulled weeds in the shade for awhile, then we had dinner and watched the "About San Diego" program with San Diego historical vignettes. Then I went and cut the front lawn (I fertilized it two weeks ago - it grew!), which took almost an hour since I trimmed up the neighbor's side also.
Finally at 7:30 p.m. I was back on the computer, and read email and blogs, then wrote some CVGS emails, downloaded and read the March newsletter, and made a form for the April seminar. I played a bit with Legacy Charting making a mtDNA chart for my grandmother, but it wouldn't let me make a .jpg out of it - out of resources. Oh well. Where did the time go?
Genealogy today was only 4.5 hours - 1.0 hour reading email and blogs, 1.5 hours blogging, 1.0 hour doing CVGS things, and 1.0 hour messing with Legacy Charting.
At 1 p.m. I finally read my email and blogs using Bloglines. I posted "Best of the Genea-Blogs - March 2-8, 2008" and "Crime, Punishment and Your Ancestors" by Kathleen Trevena at SDGS Yesterday" and went in and took another hour long nap. It was too warm outside (about 80F) to do any hard work, so I pulled weeds in the shade for awhile, then we had dinner and watched the "About San Diego" program with San Diego historical vignettes. Then I went and cut the front lawn (I fertilized it two weeks ago - it grew!), which took almost an hour since I trimmed up the neighbor's side also.
Finally at 7:30 p.m. I was back on the computer, and read email and blogs, then wrote some CVGS emails, downloaded and read the March newsletter, and made a form for the April seminar. I played a bit with Legacy Charting making a mtDNA chart for my grandmother, but it wouldn't let me make a .jpg out of it - out of resources. Oh well. Where did the time go?
Genealogy today was only 4.5 hours - 1.0 hour reading email and blogs, 1.5 hours blogging, 1.0 hour doing CVGS things, and 1.0 hour messing with Legacy Charting.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Family History Journal - 03/08/08
My six word genealogy memoir for today is Read, Blog, FHC, SDGS, Shop, Research.
As always, I started my genealogy day at 8:30 a.m. reading my email and blogs using Bloglines. I posted "The Elusive Sarah Sephrona Fletcher ..." about one of my elusive female ancestors. I printed off about 30 flyers to take with me today to the SDGS meeting. Then I tried to post another blog, but Blogger was messed up so it waited until I got home.
I remembered my flash drive and I was off to the FHC at 10 a.m. I copied the Oneida County NY deeds for Russell Smith from film to the flash drive, then ordered 3 more films, and helped a fellow do some census research. At 11.15 I jumped in the car, ate my quickie lunch, and went to the SDGS meeting. I talked to Marna beforehand and was able to put my flyers out. I bought several paperback books for leisure reading, then enjoyed the two talks by Kathleen Trevena. The goodies were excellent today - donuts, cookies, candy, etc. Then it was home by 3 p.m. I quickly got back into blogger and posted "My Ancestral Homes Bucket List" and created a few more "elusive female ancestors" in FTM, and edited some of the notes too. Then I shopped for some genealogy books and bought 3 at Eastman's bookstore.
We went out to dinner to the Butcher Shop tonight - it's my favorite place to eat - a nice filet mignon, salad, baked potato, and garlic bread is my kind of meal. Mine was fine, Linda's came late and wasn't so good. We talked about a cruise, Jamboree and other genealogy things. I ate too much We were home by 7 p.m. and I did my hubby-do chores - swifter the tile and vacuum the floors.
Then on the computer I did a little research for the Trevena topics, then wrote the post "Ancestral Dollars and Cents by Kathleen Trevena at SDGS Today." I checked Ancestry to see what new databases they have (lots!) and tried to read the latest Ancestry Magazine (I'm locked out for some reason - it's supposed to be free for Ancestry subscribers). Then I looked for early census records for Cornelius Feather in PA and John Kenyon in RI/CT, and had only some luck. Time to stop and watch the news, I think.
Genealogy today was 7.5 hours - 0.5 hour reading email, 0.5 hour reading blogs, 1.5 hours blogging, 1.0 hour at the FHC doing research, 2.5 hours at the SDGS meeting, and 1.5 hours messing around on Ancestry.
As always, I started my genealogy day at 8:30 a.m. reading my email and blogs using Bloglines. I posted "The Elusive Sarah Sephrona Fletcher ..." about one of my elusive female ancestors. I printed off about 30 flyers to take with me today to the SDGS meeting. Then I tried to post another blog, but Blogger was messed up so it waited until I got home.
I remembered my flash drive and I was off to the FHC at 10 a.m. I copied the Oneida County NY deeds for Russell Smith from film to the flash drive, then ordered 3 more films, and helped a fellow do some census research. At 11.15 I jumped in the car, ate my quickie lunch, and went to the SDGS meeting. I talked to Marna beforehand and was able to put my flyers out. I bought several paperback books for leisure reading, then enjoyed the two talks by Kathleen Trevena. The goodies were excellent today - donuts, cookies, candy, etc. Then it was home by 3 p.m. I quickly got back into blogger and posted "My Ancestral Homes Bucket List" and created a few more "elusive female ancestors" in FTM, and edited some of the notes too. Then I shopped for some genealogy books and bought 3 at Eastman's bookstore.
We went out to dinner to the Butcher Shop tonight - it's my favorite place to eat - a nice filet mignon, salad, baked potato, and garlic bread is my kind of meal. Mine was fine, Linda's came late and wasn't so good. We talked about a cruise, Jamboree and other genealogy things. I ate too much We were home by 7 p.m. and I did my hubby-do chores - swifter the tile and vacuum the floors.
Then on the computer I did a little research for the Trevena topics, then wrote the post "Ancestral Dollars and Cents by Kathleen Trevena at SDGS Today." I checked Ancestry to see what new databases they have (lots!) and tried to read the latest Ancestry Magazine (I'm locked out for some reason - it's supposed to be free for Ancestry subscribers). Then I looked for early census records for Cornelius Feather in PA and John Kenyon in RI/CT, and had only some luck. Time to stop and watch the news, I think.
Genealogy today was 7.5 hours - 0.5 hour reading email, 0.5 hour reading blogs, 1.5 hours blogging, 1.0 hour at the FHC doing research, 2.5 hours at the SDGS meeting, and 1.5 hours messing around on Ancestry.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Family History Journal - 03/07/08
Read. Write. Think. Library. Taxes. Charts. That's about it for today. My six-word biography for 3/7/08!
At 8:30 a.m. I was reading my email and blogs via Bloglines, and then posted "Frustration turns to success - and lessons relearned" about my search for Mary Lou Olson's name for Sue yesterday. Then I read Mark Tucker's blog ThinkGenealogy and downloaded the picture of the Genealogy Research Map to use as wallpaper on my computer. I blogged about it at "My Wallpaper is Mark's Genealogy Research Map" just in case people missed his post (did you - tell the truth now - you really need to read Mark's stuff!). I photo-shopped a number of images I'm using for my presentation to crop them and improve the contrast. At this point, I was pretty bored and uploaded 7 humor/wisdom items to my long neglected (two weeks!) Randy's Busy Life blog - I'm too busy to write on it every day. I had lunch and took off for the library.
At the library, I made copies of about 5 Chula Vista Star-News newspaper articles about the Mary Lou Olson kidnap and murder back in January 1960. The copier acted up a bit and some of the copies are terrible. I headed home, and decided I'd better do my taxes, so I spent the rest of the afternoon battling Turbotax - they changed it again! I was used to the previous screens and liked it better. Linda needed to send an email so I went in and read the paper and watched the news until dinner at 6.
After dinner, I was back on the computer. I tested the "new look" Ancestry some more and still don't like it...I filled out their feedback form about what I liked (not much) and needed improvement (most everything). Argggh. Why do people have to change things that aren't broken? Then I went into Legacy Charting again to test out some of the options. I ended up printing some 4, 5 and 6 generation charts on 8.5 x 11 paper, and blogged about it at "Testing Legacy Charting - Post 2." So far, no other blogger has posted anything about this except the press release and Legacy images.
Genealogy today was only 6.0 hours - 0.5 hour reading and writing email, 1.5 hours blogging, 1.0 hour getting newspaper images, 1.0 hour testing new Ancestry, and 2.0 hours working in Legacy Charting.
Tomorrow I will go to the FHC with my flash drive, then to the SDGS meeting. I need to work more on my presentation charts.
At 8:30 a.m. I was reading my email and blogs via Bloglines, and then posted "Frustration turns to success - and lessons relearned" about my search for Mary Lou Olson's name for Sue yesterday. Then I read Mark Tucker's blog ThinkGenealogy and downloaded the picture of the Genealogy Research Map to use as wallpaper on my computer. I blogged about it at "My Wallpaper is Mark's Genealogy Research Map" just in case people missed his post (did you - tell the truth now - you really need to read Mark's stuff!). I photo-shopped a number of images I'm using for my presentation to crop them and improve the contrast. At this point, I was pretty bored and uploaded 7 humor/wisdom items to my long neglected (two weeks!) Randy's Busy Life blog - I'm too busy to write on it every day. I had lunch and took off for the library.
At the library, I made copies of about 5 Chula Vista Star-News newspaper articles about the Mary Lou Olson kidnap and murder back in January 1960. The copier acted up a bit and some of the copies are terrible. I headed home, and decided I'd better do my taxes, so I spent the rest of the afternoon battling Turbotax - they changed it again! I was used to the previous screens and liked it better. Linda needed to send an email so I went in and read the paper and watched the news until dinner at 6.
After dinner, I was back on the computer. I tested the "new look" Ancestry some more and still don't like it...I filled out their feedback form about what I liked (not much) and needed improvement (most everything). Argggh. Why do people have to change things that aren't broken? Then I went into Legacy Charting again to test out some of the options. I ended up printing some 4, 5 and 6 generation charts on 8.5 x 11 paper, and blogged about it at "Testing Legacy Charting - Post 2." So far, no other blogger has posted anything about this except the press release and Legacy images.
Genealogy today was only 6.0 hours - 0.5 hour reading and writing email, 1.5 hours blogging, 1.0 hour getting newspaper images, 1.0 hour testing new Ancestry, and 2.0 hours working in Legacy Charting.
Tomorrow I will go to the FHC with my flash drive, then to the SDGS meeting. I need to work more on my presentation charts.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Family History Journal - 03/06/08
Busy. Frustrated. Frustrated. Busy. Exhilarated. That was my genealogy day. Now the details:
I was on the computer by 8:30 a.m., and read my email and blogs using Bloglines. Then I posted my "How good was Della's list?" post - turns out she was pretty much right on! Smart girl, my great-grandmother. Who cares? I do! I answered a few emails and got ready to go to the FHC. I got to the FHC and then realized that I had left my flash drive at home. Drat (strongly worded exclamation deleted!)!!! So I read my two films of Oneida County NY deeds, and listed the Hawkins, Pray, Wade and White names from the Grantor Index of Glocester RI deeds, and went to lunch (McDonalds).
Then I had a haircut and went to the Chula Vista library and read the latest Everton's Genealogical Helper and went to the National City library to look for a newspaper article from 1961 for my correspondent, Sue. 90 minutes later, I'd had enough - didn't find the murder victim I was looking for. I went home and
read email and blogs again, then posted "SDGS Library in El Cajon" for my San Diego readers. I read the paper, watched TV and we had dinner.
At 6:30, I was back on the computer and posted two items on the Chula Vista Genealogy Cafe blog about upcoming programs. Then I downloaded a modified version of Legacy Charting and it worked on my uncompacted FTM database. I spent about 3 hours working on my presentation for 5 April - I have quite a bit of it done now, it needs bells and whistles and polishing. I scanned about 10 pages to use in the presentation. Finally, I Googled a bit to try to find the name of the girl who disappeared in National city in 1961 - I found it was in early 1960, and sent an email to Sue with two newspaper page images from Ancestry as proof. Success!
Genealogy today was 11.0 hours - 1.5 hours reading and answering email, 1.5 hours reading blogs and writing blog posts, 2.0 hours at the FHC researching Russell Smith, 2.0 hours at the NC library and home researching the missing girl, 1.0 hour at CV library reading EGH, and 3.0 hours working on my presentation.
I was on the computer by 8:30 a.m., and read my email and blogs using Bloglines. Then I posted my "How good was Della's list?" post - turns out she was pretty much right on! Smart girl, my great-grandmother. Who cares? I do! I answered a few emails and got ready to go to the FHC. I got to the FHC and then realized that I had left my flash drive at home. Drat (strongly worded exclamation deleted!)!!! So I read my two films of Oneida County NY deeds, and listed the Hawkins, Pray, Wade and White names from the Grantor Index of Glocester RI deeds, and went to lunch (McDonalds).
Then I had a haircut and went to the Chula Vista library and read the latest Everton's Genealogical Helper and went to the National City library to look for a newspaper article from 1961 for my correspondent, Sue. 90 minutes later, I'd had enough - didn't find the murder victim I was looking for. I went home and
read email and blogs again, then posted "SDGS Library in El Cajon" for my San Diego readers. I read the paper, watched TV and we had dinner.
At 6:30, I was back on the computer and posted two items on the Chula Vista Genealogy Cafe blog about upcoming programs. Then I downloaded a modified version of Legacy Charting and it worked on my uncompacted FTM database. I spent about 3 hours working on my presentation for 5 April - I have quite a bit of it done now, it needs bells and whistles and polishing. I scanned about 10 pages to use in the presentation. Finally, I Googled a bit to try to find the name of the girl who disappeared in National city in 1961 - I found it was in early 1960, and sent an email to Sue with two newspaper page images from Ancestry as proof. Success!
Genealogy today was 11.0 hours - 1.5 hours reading and answering email, 1.5 hours reading blogs and writing blog posts, 2.0 hours at the FHC researching Russell Smith, 2.0 hours at the NC library and home researching the missing girl, 1.0 hour at CV library reading EGH, and 3.0 hours working on my presentation.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Family History Journal - 03/05/08
It was a beautiful day, so what did I do? I spent most of it inside working on genealogy things. I did go out for a bit, as we'll see.
I was on the computer by 8:30, and read my email and blogs on Bloglines. I posted "SDGS Meeting on Saturday features Kathleen R. Trevena" and then did some research to answer another query about living people - I found an obituary and a contact number for my queryist. I printed off several CVGS papers and organized my pack for later, then posted "Descendants of Sam and Mary Ann - Post 7" about their son, Amos Vaux. Sad...
Then it was a quick lunch at home, and I was off to the post office to get CVGS mail then to the library for the board meeting at noon. We were done before 2 p.m. and I was home by 2:30. I read email and blogs, then Linda wanted the computer and I went in and read the paper and took a nap before dinner.
After dinner, I was back on at 6:30 p.m. I wrote an email to the CVGS members, then wrote my newsletter articles and emailed them off to the editor. I posted two articles on the Chula Vista Genealogy Cafe blog. I decided to finish the research on Della's list of grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Samuel and Mary Ann Vaux, and created a post to put up tomorrow. Then I input data for several census years for two families in my database. That completes the census data for the descendants of Samuel Vaux (finally).
Genealogy today was 10.0 hours, of which 1.5 hours was reading and writing emails and reading blogs, 1.5 hours was blogging, 4.0 hours was CVGS business, and 3.0 hours was researching and entering data in my database.
I was on the computer by 8:30, and read my email and blogs on Bloglines. I posted "SDGS Meeting on Saturday features Kathleen R. Trevena" and then did some research to answer another query about living people - I found an obituary and a contact number for my queryist. I printed off several CVGS papers and organized my pack for later, then posted "Descendants of Sam and Mary Ann - Post 7" about their son, Amos Vaux. Sad...
Then it was a quick lunch at home, and I was off to the post office to get CVGS mail then to the library for the board meeting at noon. We were done before 2 p.m. and I was home by 2:30. I read email and blogs, then Linda wanted the computer and I went in and read the paper and took a nap before dinner.
After dinner, I was back on at 6:30 p.m. I wrote an email to the CVGS members, then wrote my newsletter articles and emailed them off to the editor. I posted two articles on the Chula Vista Genealogy Cafe blog. I decided to finish the research on Della's list of grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Samuel and Mary Ann Vaux, and created a post to put up tomorrow. Then I input data for several census years for two families in my database. That completes the census data for the descendants of Samuel Vaux (finally).
Genealogy today was 10.0 hours, of which 1.5 hours was reading and writing emails and reading blogs, 1.5 hours was blogging, 4.0 hours was CVGS business, and 3.0 hours was researching and entering data in my database.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Family History Journal - 03/04/08
I spent just about all day slaving over a smoking keyboard... typing, not playing music.
The day started at 8:30 a.m., with reading email and reading blogs, although bloglines was problematic for awhile. I posted "Descendants of Samuel and Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux - Post 6" on Genea-Musings while waiting for Bloglines to heal itself - it did. Then I posted "43rd Carnival of Genealogy has 32 Submissions" soon after. Marna wanted me to look at the new SDGS web site and comment on it, so I did - I really like the look and content, and told her so. I'm trying to put together a short Beginners Guide for our new members, so I went looking for all of the forms I've made over the years. I edited them to add up-to-date web sites and links, and when I looked up it was noon time.
After a quixk lunch (soup and GS cookies), I answered several emails of CVGS queryists and sent scans of obituaries to two people. I listened to the latest Genealogy Guys podcast while doing this - multi-tasking! I received an email this morning from Legacy Family Tree about a free trial period for Legacy Charting. I downloaded it, installed it and imported an FTM file and it didn't work well. I wrote a nasty-gram to Legacy and then uploaded a GEDCOM of another database and that worked great, so it must have been my raw FTM file. I got a quick response that said to "compact" my FTM file and try again, and this time it worked, so there was something wrong with my FTM file. I posted my observations with some screen shots in "Using FREE Legacy Charting Pre-release Edition" on Genea-Musings, and had to edit it later. Then it was nap time and paper reading because Linda came home and needed the computer for awhile.
After dinner, I was back on at 6 p.m., and did some research on the "Cousin Mida" Vroman families I found the other day. I exercised the California BMD indexes a bit and found quite a few dates for many of Almeda's descendants. In every family, it seems like there is tragedy - a child dies, a wife dies, a baby is orphaned, etc. I input all of that info into my FTM database. Then I chased other Underhill lines on WorldConnect - my cousin Alison Pligman has done a nice job on her side of the Underhill family. I printed off several lines, and input them to my database which didn't have them before for some reason. Gee, it's 10 p.m. now - I'd better stop.
Genealogy today was 11.0 hours - reading and answering email was 2.5 hours, reading blogs was 1.5 hours, working on the forms was 2.0 hours, working with Legacy Charting was 1.0 hour, and researching the Underhill/Vaux cousins was 4.0 hours.
Tomorrow is a busy day - we have the CVGS Board meeting and I need to deliver flyers, among other things. I've been forgetting to post on the Chula Vista Genealogy Cafe blog and I need to do that too, plus write my newsletter articles for the month. Always some - idle hands are the devil's tools, they say.
The day started at 8:30 a.m., with reading email and reading blogs, although bloglines was problematic for awhile. I posted "Descendants of Samuel and Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux - Post 6" on Genea-Musings while waiting for Bloglines to heal itself - it did. Then I posted "43rd Carnival of Genealogy has 32 Submissions" soon after. Marna wanted me to look at the new SDGS web site and comment on it, so I did - I really like the look and content, and told her so. I'm trying to put together a short Beginners Guide for our new members, so I went looking for all of the forms I've made over the years. I edited them to add up-to-date web sites and links, and when I looked up it was noon time.
After a quixk lunch (soup and GS cookies), I answered several emails of CVGS queryists and sent scans of obituaries to two people. I listened to the latest Genealogy Guys podcast while doing this - multi-tasking! I received an email this morning from Legacy Family Tree about a free trial period for Legacy Charting. I downloaded it, installed it and imported an FTM file and it didn't work well. I wrote a nasty-gram to Legacy and then uploaded a GEDCOM of another database and that worked great, so it must have been my raw FTM file. I got a quick response that said to "compact" my FTM file and try again, and this time it worked, so there was something wrong with my FTM file. I posted my observations with some screen shots in "Using FREE Legacy Charting Pre-release Edition" on Genea-Musings, and had to edit it later. Then it was nap time and paper reading because Linda came home and needed the computer for awhile.
After dinner, I was back on at 6 p.m., and did some research on the "Cousin Mida" Vroman families I found the other day. I exercised the California BMD indexes a bit and found quite a few dates for many of Almeda's descendants. In every family, it seems like there is tragedy - a child dies, a wife dies, a baby is orphaned, etc. I input all of that info into my FTM database. Then I chased other Underhill lines on WorldConnect - my cousin Alison Pligman has done a nice job on her side of the Underhill family. I printed off several lines, and input them to my database which didn't have them before for some reason. Gee, it's 10 p.m. now - I'd better stop.
Genealogy today was 11.0 hours - reading and answering email was 2.5 hours, reading blogs was 1.5 hours, working on the forms was 2.0 hours, working with Legacy Charting was 1.0 hour, and researching the Underhill/Vaux cousins was 4.0 hours.
Tomorrow is a busy day - we have the CVGS Board meeting and I need to deliver flyers, among other things. I've been forgetting to post on the Chula Vista Genealogy Cafe blog and I need to do that too, plus write my newsletter articles for the month. Always some - idle hands are the devil's tools, they say.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Family History Journal - 03/03/08
Just another mostly genealogy day - with quite a bit of variety too!
After reading email and blogs via Bloglines, I posted "Descendants of Samuel and Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux - Post 5" on Genea-Musings. I emailed two correspondents with the results of my obituary and online searches, attaching images of the obituary pages. Then I started on a Beginners Guide for the CVGS new members. I stopped at three pages.
After a quick lunch, I went to the library with three more queries to work on. John and Dearl were there helping a young lady with her Filipino family data. I listened and kibitzed for awhile, then went and did the queries. I was home by 2:15, but Linda was on the computer so I took a nap. I came back at 3 p.m. and had no clue what to post, so I decided to start my "Elusive Women" series - I chose Mary Kent (1726-????, wife of William Cutter) as my first one - I don't know who her parents are. Maybe someone else does.
We went to Rubio's for dinner and Linda took food to the hospital for her friend who was real hungry for tacos, while I drove around and listened to the radio. San Diego has a new Oldies station at KURS-1040. Cool, fun. We got home before 7 p.m., but Linda had email to do so I finished the paper and watched Jeopardy - I got Final Jeopardy right again (Mount Rainier) -- I love the geography and history questions!
Then I was back on the computer and after reading email and blogs, I posted about the SCGS Jamboree program, which I am going to attend and be a small part of. Then I went searching for "Cousin Mida" who shows up in Abby (Vaux) Smith's letters in the 1890s. I found her - she was Almeda (Underhill) (Vroman) Willoughby, who was Abbie's first cousin. Almeda is in every census from 1850 to 1930 (of course, I can't find the 1890, but I'll bet she's in it!). She and her brood end up in Los Angeles, and there are several distant cousins probably living there still.
Genealogy today was 9.5 hours - 2.0 hours reading and answering email and Bloglines, 1.5 hours blogging, 4.0 hours on CVGS activities, and 2.0 hours of researching Almeda.
After reading email and blogs via Bloglines, I posted "Descendants of Samuel and Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux - Post 5" on Genea-Musings. I emailed two correspondents with the results of my obituary and online searches, attaching images of the obituary pages. Then I started on a Beginners Guide for the CVGS new members. I stopped at three pages.
After a quick lunch, I went to the library with three more queries to work on. John and Dearl were there helping a young lady with her Filipino family data. I listened and kibitzed for awhile, then went and did the queries. I was home by 2:15, but Linda was on the computer so I took a nap. I came back at 3 p.m. and had no clue what to post, so I decided to start my "Elusive Women" series - I chose Mary Kent (1726-????, wife of William Cutter) as my first one - I don't know who her parents are. Maybe someone else does.
We went to Rubio's for dinner and Linda took food to the hospital for her friend who was real hungry for tacos, while I drove around and listened to the radio. San Diego has a new Oldies station at KURS-1040. Cool, fun. We got home before 7 p.m., but Linda had email to do so I finished the paper and watched Jeopardy - I got Final Jeopardy right again (Mount Rainier) -- I love the geography and history questions!
Then I was back on the computer and after reading email and blogs, I posted about the SCGS Jamboree program, which I am going to attend and be a small part of. Then I went searching for "Cousin Mida" who shows up in Abby (Vaux) Smith's letters in the 1890s. I found her - she was Almeda (Underhill) (Vroman) Willoughby, who was Abbie's first cousin. Almeda is in every census from 1850 to 1930 (of course, I can't find the 1890, but I'll bet she's in it!). She and her brood end up in Los Angeles, and there are several distant cousins probably living there still.
Genealogy today was 9.5 hours - 2.0 hours reading and answering email and Bloglines, 1.5 hours blogging, 4.0 hours on CVGS activities, and 2.0 hours of researching Almeda.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Family History Journal - 03/02/08
Sunday's are usually not big genealogy days for me, but today was somewhat different, in more ways than one!
I read my email and blogs on Bloglines at 8:30, and posted "Descendants of Samuel and Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux - Post 4" before we went off to church. We stayed for our friend Lillian's memorial service at noon and a nice reception afterward (she planned everything out herself...) and we were home by 2 p.m. It was nice to see several old friends, but not under those circumstances.
I was on the computer from 2 until 5 p.m. I posted "The Matri-Name Game" and got kind of carried away with the "what ifs." Then I researched and posted "Best of the Genea-Blogs - 24 February - 1 March 2008." This always takes some time even when I have made a list of candidates during the week (that really helps!). I went in and read the paper, watched TV and we had dinner. I regularly watch Ken Kramer's program called "About San Diego" - it's about San Diego history, and is on at 6 p.m. Sundays on KNSD-7/39. He has several 2-5 minute vignettes with stories and lots of historic San Diego pictures. I keep hoping that I'll see my grandparents or great-grandparents in the pictures!
At 7 p.m., I came back to the computer and read email and blogs, then decided I had better start on my presentation "Finding Your Elusive Ancestors" for the 5 April CVGS Seminar. I spent about two hours on it, and have the format set and 8 pages done. About 30 more to go! I have a general idea what I need to prepare and present - but these things never go exactly as I planned! I need to scan a bunch of papers and photos to add graphic detail to the presentation. I use OpenOffice 2.2 for this and present it from my laptop on an LCD projector. That's on the "to-do" list for tomorrow and this next week.
Genealogy today was 6.5 hours - 1.0 hour reading email and blogs, 3.5 hours blogging, and 2.0 hours preparing my presentation.
I read my email and blogs on Bloglines at 8:30, and posted "Descendants of Samuel and Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux - Post 4" before we went off to church. We stayed for our friend Lillian's memorial service at noon and a nice reception afterward (she planned everything out herself...) and we were home by 2 p.m. It was nice to see several old friends, but not under those circumstances.
I was on the computer from 2 until 5 p.m. I posted "The Matri-Name Game" and got kind of carried away with the "what ifs." Then I researched and posted "Best of the Genea-Blogs - 24 February - 1 March 2008." This always takes some time even when I have made a list of candidates during the week (that really helps!). I went in and read the paper, watched TV and we had dinner. I regularly watch Ken Kramer's program called "About San Diego" - it's about San Diego history, and is on at 6 p.m. Sundays on KNSD-7/39. He has several 2-5 minute vignettes with stories and lots of historic San Diego pictures. I keep hoping that I'll see my grandparents or great-grandparents in the pictures!
At 7 p.m., I came back to the computer and read email and blogs, then decided I had better start on my presentation "Finding Your Elusive Ancestors" for the 5 April CVGS Seminar. I spent about two hours on it, and have the format set and 8 pages done. About 30 more to go! I have a general idea what I need to prepare and present - but these things never go exactly as I planned! I need to scan a bunch of papers and photos to add graphic detail to the presentation. I use OpenOffice 2.2 for this and present it from my laptop on an LCD projector. That's on the "to-do" list for tomorrow and this next week.
Genealogy today was 6.5 hours - 1.0 hour reading email and blogs, 3.5 hours blogging, and 2.0 hours preparing my presentation.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Family History Journal - 3/1/08
It's March already - Tempus Fugit, I think, is the Latin term.
After reading email and blogs on Bloglines this morning, and posting "Descendants of Samuel and Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux - Post 3," I shepherded my CVGS group to the San Diego Family History Center - 13 in all went. We left the parking garage at 9:35 a.m. and returned at about 2:25 p.m., and I was home by 2:45. I read email and blogs again, but was tired so I went in and took a nap in my recliner. I read the paper, finished my Richard North Patterson book, and we had dinner and dessert.
I came back to the computer after 7 p.m., read email and blogs, and posted "CVGS Research Trip to the FHC Today" to document what happened at the FHC - not much! I was frustrated by the lack of success and not being able to do any of my own research - two films came today! I checked Ancestry for their latest databases to see if I've missed anything. Nope! Then I decided to go hunting for surname web sites that might identify some elusive ancestors or enrich my databases. I went through my list of "elusive women" and all I really found was my own message board posts and web site matches for most of them! I think I'll start an "Elusive Women" series after I finish the Vaux descendants posts. I did find Spangler and Pickel web sites that have authoritative data on those families in PA and NJ, respectively.
Genealogy today was 8.5 hours - 1.0 hour reading email and blogs, 1.0 hour blogging, 5.0 hours on the CVGS research trip, and 1.5 hours of furious Googling...
After reading email and blogs on Bloglines this morning, and posting "Descendants of Samuel and Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux - Post 3," I shepherded my CVGS group to the San Diego Family History Center - 13 in all went. We left the parking garage at 9:35 a.m. and returned at about 2:25 p.m., and I was home by 2:45. I read email and blogs again, but was tired so I went in and took a nap in my recliner. I read the paper, finished my Richard North Patterson book, and we had dinner and dessert.
I came back to the computer after 7 p.m., read email and blogs, and posted "CVGS Research Trip to the FHC Today" to document what happened at the FHC - not much! I was frustrated by the lack of success and not being able to do any of my own research - two films came today! I checked Ancestry for their latest databases to see if I've missed anything. Nope! Then I decided to go hunting for surname web sites that might identify some elusive ancestors or enrich my databases. I went through my list of "elusive women" and all I really found was my own message board posts and web site matches for most of them! I think I'll start an "Elusive Women" series after I finish the Vaux descendants posts. I did find Spangler and Pickel web sites that have authoritative data on those families in PA and NJ, respectively.
Genealogy today was 8.5 hours - 1.0 hour reading email and blogs, 1.0 hour blogging, 5.0 hours on the CVGS research trip, and 1.5 hours of furious Googling...
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