January draws to a close with a full genealogy day at home. I stayed home and worked, but we had to go to the DMV and the store this afternoon which terminated 8 straight hours of genealogy time.
After reading my email and Bloglines at 8 a.m., I did a bit of research in the new Ancestry database of California Voter Registration Lists. I found many of my San Diego ancestors listed, and blogged about it in "California Voter Lists 1900 to 1944." I resisted the urge to waste more time, and got my Glocester RI probate record film images organized in my computer files. Then I transcribed the probate records for John Horton (1696-1796) and Elizabeth (Arnold) (Hawkins) Smith (1678-1758), widow of William Hawkins and Israel Smith.
In the afternoon, I went into the Rootsweb WorldConnect database and systematically looked for the marriage dates and names of spouses, and their birth and death dates, of the children and siblings of John Horton (1696-1796). I found some, and added them to my database. I posted "Probate Record of John Horton (1696-1796) of Glocester RI" later on. I played with Google Maps trying to get my Y-DNA and mtDNA trails defined, but couldn't figure out how to put the map in a Blogger post. Oh well. I love maps!
Tonight after dinner, I did a bit of Googling to find more information about John Horton, and reported on it in "More on the John Horton Family." I also searched the California Voter Lists for more relatives, including some of Linda's ancestors in San Francisco. This will be a good resource for Seaver families too when I get around to it.
Genealogy today was 10.0 hours - including 1.5 hours reading email and Bloglines (some excellent posts about Dinner Parties!), 2.0 hours blogging, 2.0 hours researching CA Voter Lists, 3.0 hours transcribing probate records, and 1.5 hours researching Horton data online.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Genealogy Journal - 01/30/08
This was a very full genealogy day in which I made absolutely no progress on my own genealogy research. some days are like that, eh?
I was on the computer by 8:30 a.m., reading email and Bloglines. I printed off some of the color flyers and gathered the papers I needed for the CVGS meeting. Then I read Thomas MacEntee's blog post and thought "that was great" and decided to write the post that I have been mulling for a week now - "Bridging the Internet vs. Traditional Genealogy Gap" about genealogy societies and Internet-only researchers.
It was 10 a.m., so off I went to the UPS Store to get my copies made before the CVGS meeting at noon (see, I work well ahead of deadlines!). I got the two-sided agenda copies made, but while copying the 10 page handout two-sided, the first copy machine broke down. After 10 minutes, we decided to copy it on the second copy machine - it broke down doing two-sided copies immediately. The owner put me on the color machine doing single-sided copies - and it was really slow and balky too. He got the second machine working single-sided, so we finished the handouts and the flyers, but it took longer than expected. He gave me a good break on the cost due to the hassle, which I appreciated. He managed to have all three machines in working order (I think) before I left. I was glad I went down there early! Then it was down to McDonalds for lunch, the post office for mail, and then library to get set up.
I got to the library by 11:40 a.m., and entered through the employee entrance. Several board members were already there getting the food table and the audio/visual equipment set up. I put the agenda and program handouts on the table, grabbed a cookie, and went into the auditorium to see if the projector had arrived yet. The speaker was there waiting - it came at about 11:50, which was enough time to get the speaker set up to give her talk. The library doors opened at noon, and our members and guests invaded the conference room and auditorium. They know the drill - sign in, get handouts, buy a raffle ticket, have a snack, talk to everybody, go to the auditorium and find a comfy seat, talk some more until the meeting starts.
I started the meeting at 12:20 p.m. and we introduced the speaker, our own Shirley Becker, at 12:45 p.m. She talked about "Research in New York State." After the meeting, I went into the library and delivered the flyers for the February program, talked to my library contact person about the CVGS web page on the library site, and then came home by 3 p.m.
When I got home, I read my email and Bloglines again, then posted a summary of the presentation both Genea-Musings and the CV Genealogy Cafe blogs. I called the San Diego FHC to see if they were going to be open on Saturday, and they will not be due to Hinckley's death. I wrote a post on the CVGenCafe blog about that, then emailed our member list to tell them that we will be taking our research trip to San Diego Public Library on Saturday rather than the FHC. The library contact person emailed me with the web site information, which I edited and revised and returned to her. Then it was debate time on TV and dinner time.
I came back to the computer at 7 p.m., and made myself not browse through Google matches or WorldConnect databases looking for the elusive David and Russell Smith. I checked my Yahoo mail, read some of the Google genealogy newsgroups (these have really deteriorated), checked out the new Roots Television videos and checked in on the Forensic Genealogy photo contests. I received an email yesterday about the new Internet Genealogy magaizne, so I pulled that up and read it one sitting. I've learned to take some notes about web sites to investigate and other important issues when I have online genealogy magazines. I usually print out the table of contents page and make my notes on the back side. Hmm, now it's 10 p.m. and I've had a pleasant evening watching videos and reading genealogy magazines. I learned quite a bit tonight - the magazine is really good - and had a fun time too - cool.
Genealogy time today was 10.0 hours - 1.5 hours reading email and Bloglines, 1.5 hours blogging, 4.0 hours doing CVGS activities, 1.5 hours watching videos, and 1.5 hour reading IG and other things. I feel like I'm back in the saddle again - finally. Maybe tomorrow I can do some database work. Or I could go to the FHC again...
I was on the computer by 8:30 a.m., reading email and Bloglines. I printed off some of the color flyers and gathered the papers I needed for the CVGS meeting. Then I read Thomas MacEntee's blog post and thought "that was great" and decided to write the post that I have been mulling for a week now - "Bridging the Internet vs. Traditional Genealogy Gap" about genealogy societies and Internet-only researchers.
It was 10 a.m., so off I went to the UPS Store to get my copies made before the CVGS meeting at noon (see, I work well ahead of deadlines!). I got the two-sided agenda copies made, but while copying the 10 page handout two-sided, the first copy machine broke down. After 10 minutes, we decided to copy it on the second copy machine - it broke down doing two-sided copies immediately. The owner put me on the color machine doing single-sided copies - and it was really slow and balky too. He got the second machine working single-sided, so we finished the handouts and the flyers, but it took longer than expected. He gave me a good break on the cost due to the hassle, which I appreciated. He managed to have all three machines in working order (I think) before I left. I was glad I went down there early! Then it was down to McDonalds for lunch, the post office for mail, and then library to get set up.
I got to the library by 11:40 a.m., and entered through the employee entrance. Several board members were already there getting the food table and the audio/visual equipment set up. I put the agenda and program handouts on the table, grabbed a cookie, and went into the auditorium to see if the projector had arrived yet. The speaker was there waiting - it came at about 11:50, which was enough time to get the speaker set up to give her talk. The library doors opened at noon, and our members and guests invaded the conference room and auditorium. They know the drill - sign in, get handouts, buy a raffle ticket, have a snack, talk to everybody, go to the auditorium and find a comfy seat, talk some more until the meeting starts.
I started the meeting at 12:20 p.m. and we introduced the speaker, our own Shirley Becker, at 12:45 p.m. She talked about "Research in New York State." After the meeting, I went into the library and delivered the flyers for the February program, talked to my library contact person about the CVGS web page on the library site, and then came home by 3 p.m.
When I got home, I read my email and Bloglines again, then posted a summary of the presentation both Genea-Musings and the CV Genealogy Cafe blogs. I called the San Diego FHC to see if they were going to be open on Saturday, and they will not be due to Hinckley's death. I wrote a post on the CVGenCafe blog about that, then emailed our member list to tell them that we will be taking our research trip to San Diego Public Library on Saturday rather than the FHC. The library contact person emailed me with the web site information, which I edited and revised and returned to her. Then it was debate time on TV and dinner time.
I came back to the computer at 7 p.m., and made myself not browse through Google matches or WorldConnect databases looking for the elusive David and Russell Smith. I checked my Yahoo mail, read some of the Google genealogy newsgroups (these have really deteriorated), checked out the new Roots Television videos and checked in on the Forensic Genealogy photo contests. I received an email yesterday about the new Internet Genealogy magaizne, so I pulled that up and read it one sitting. I've learned to take some notes about web sites to investigate and other important issues when I have online genealogy magazines. I usually print out the table of contents page and make my notes on the back side. Hmm, now it's 10 p.m. and I've had a pleasant evening watching videos and reading genealogy magazines. I learned quite a bit tonight - the magazine is really good - and had a fun time too - cool.
Genealogy time today was 10.0 hours - 1.5 hours reading email and Bloglines, 1.5 hours blogging, 4.0 hours doing CVGS activities, 1.5 hours watching videos, and 1.5 hour reading IG and other things. I feel like I'm back in the saddle again - finally. Maybe tomorrow I can do some database work. Or I could go to the FHC again...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Genealogy Journal - 01/29/08
I worked on genealogy almost all day - taking a short break for lunch, another before dinner, and another to set my wife's new cell phone up this evening. Did I accomplish anything? The jury is out, I think!
I was reading my email and Bloglines at 8:30 AM, and posted my John Richman biography on Genea-Musings before I left at 10 AM for the FHC. I had three films at the FHC, and I read all three - one was will abstracts for Oneida county NY, 1790-1885 or so - and I found all of the Smith's...but not one for David or Russell smith - drat! I also read the two films with the deed index (grantor and grantee) for Smith - lots of deeds! There were some for David smith, and some for Russell and Esther Smith - so there may be some leads when I order the actual deeds on film. I got nauseous watching the film go by - I had to close my eyes, put my head down and put my hand in front of the machine while I rewound it. Then I copied the early Smith deed indexes onto my flash drive using the microfilm scanner/printer computer system. I left at about 1 PM, and was home by 1:30.
I posted the NGS Quarterly table of contents for the latest issue, and made some comments about several articles. Then I made the programs for the CVGS meeting on Wednesday, and the flyers for February. I'll take them to the copy shop, along with Shirley's handout, to make copies tomorrow.
After dinner, I messed around for most of the evening. I Googled for David smith a bit, and then searched WorldConnect for David, Russell and Arnold Smiths from RI, with no real success. WorldConnect and OneWorldTree don't have any useful family trees for my known Wade, Hawkins, Smith families... I decided to look for the genealogy and historical societies in Oneida County NY and found them, but there is not much decent online besides the USGenWeb site for Oneida County. They have listings for many cemeteries. I checked out Google Maps for Oneida and Jefferson counties to try to get a feel for settlements and the geography, but some of that area has not been mapped.
Genealogy today totalled about 8.0 hours - reading email and Bloglines was 1.0 hour, blogging was 1.5 hours, searching at the FHC was 2.5 hours, CVGS activities was 1.0 hour, and uselessly searching databases was 2.0 hours.
I was reading my email and Bloglines at 8:30 AM, and posted my John Richman biography on Genea-Musings before I left at 10 AM for the FHC. I had three films at the FHC, and I read all three - one was will abstracts for Oneida county NY, 1790-1885 or so - and I found all of the Smith's...but not one for David or Russell smith - drat! I also read the two films with the deed index (grantor and grantee) for Smith - lots of deeds! There were some for David smith, and some for Russell and Esther Smith - so there may be some leads when I order the actual deeds on film. I got nauseous watching the film go by - I had to close my eyes, put my head down and put my hand in front of the machine while I rewound it. Then I copied the early Smith deed indexes onto my flash drive using the microfilm scanner/printer computer system. I left at about 1 PM, and was home by 1:30.
I posted the NGS Quarterly table of contents for the latest issue, and made some comments about several articles. Then I made the programs for the CVGS meeting on Wednesday, and the flyers for February. I'll take them to the copy shop, along with Shirley's handout, to make copies tomorrow.
After dinner, I messed around for most of the evening. I Googled for David smith a bit, and then searched WorldConnect for David, Russell and Arnold Smiths from RI, with no real success. WorldConnect and OneWorldTree don't have any useful family trees for my known Wade, Hawkins, Smith families... I decided to look for the genealogy and historical societies in Oneida County NY and found them, but there is not much decent online besides the USGenWeb site for Oneida County. They have listings for many cemeteries. I checked out Google Maps for Oneida and Jefferson counties to try to get a feel for settlements and the geography, but some of that area has not been mapped.
Genealogy today totalled about 8.0 hours - reading email and Bloglines was 1.0 hour, blogging was 1.5 hours, searching at the FHC was 2.5 hours, CVGS activities was 1.0 hour, and uselessly searching databases was 2.0 hours.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Genealogy Journal - 01/28/08
Looking back on the day, it seems like I didn't get much accomplished.
I was on the computer by 8:30 AM, reading my email and then Bloglines. I polished up my post on "My Family History Genealogy Parade Float" and posted it on Genea-Musings, then I decided I had better burn down my email list. I have about 15 requests for information from my Ancestry Personal Member Trees. I printed each of them out, then went into my databases and made genealogy reports for each of them, saving them to my hard drive. Then I started answering the emails and attaching a report to the email. I got about half of them sent, and my email list is burned down a bit. Then it was lunch time and after that I went to the library for our regular Monday "table talk" session.
Dearl was holding down the fort at the library, and a couple from Colorado were busy looking at books in our genealogy collection. They have several one-name studies going as their life's work, and had an excellent system of finding data, abstracting it and eventually incorporating it into their database. Shirley came by with her laptop and showed us her NY state research presentation for comments - looked great to me. I got home by 2:30 PM.
I decided to post "Finding Cousins through Ancestry Member Trees" on Genea-Musings based on my morning efforts. Then I remembered that I needed to close out our financial records for 2007, so I did that for almost two hours. Then it was news time, dinner time, and I watched the SOTU before coming back to the computer.
I wondered if Juliana Smith had a summary for 1808 so that I could add it to my posts about "Where were they in 1808" and she didn't ... but when I Googled [1808 events] I found that Wikipedia has a page for every year and every day of the year. What a great collection of historical data (assuming it's correct...). So I read that stuff for over an hour and posted "What happened on this day, or that year?" Lastly, I updated my post about the 1940 census to add the procedure to obtain the Bill Dollarhide census book.
Hmm, I still haven't advanced the ball at all on my own research today! So I looked for info on Simon Wade and Phebe Horton on Google, Ancestry and WorldConnect - what I found was most of the submitted data reference my web page. Arggh. I give up for tonight. Tomorrow I'll go to the FHC and hopefully get some Russell Smith information.
Genealogy today was 7.5 hours - 1.0 hours was reading email and Bloglines, 1.0 hour was making genealogy reports and sending them out, 2.0 hours was blogging, 1.5 hours was CVGS related, and 1.0 hour was reading in Wikipedia and 1.0 hour was working in Ancestry/WC.
I was on the computer by 8:30 AM, reading my email and then Bloglines. I polished up my post on "My Family History Genealogy Parade Float" and posted it on Genea-Musings, then I decided I had better burn down my email list. I have about 15 requests for information from my Ancestry Personal Member Trees. I printed each of them out, then went into my databases and made genealogy reports for each of them, saving them to my hard drive. Then I started answering the emails and attaching a report to the email. I got about half of them sent, and my email list is burned down a bit. Then it was lunch time and after that I went to the library for our regular Monday "table talk" session.
Dearl was holding down the fort at the library, and a couple from Colorado were busy looking at books in our genealogy collection. They have several one-name studies going as their life's work, and had an excellent system of finding data, abstracting it and eventually incorporating it into their database. Shirley came by with her laptop and showed us her NY state research presentation for comments - looked great to me. I got home by 2:30 PM.
I decided to post "Finding Cousins through Ancestry Member Trees" on Genea-Musings based on my morning efforts. Then I remembered that I needed to close out our financial records for 2007, so I did that for almost two hours. Then it was news time, dinner time, and I watched the SOTU before coming back to the computer.
I wondered if Juliana Smith had a summary for 1808 so that I could add it to my posts about "Where were they in 1808" and she didn't ... but when I Googled [1808 events] I found that Wikipedia has a page for every year and every day of the year. What a great collection of historical data (assuming it's correct...). So I read that stuff for over an hour and posted "What happened on this day, or that year?" Lastly, I updated my post about the 1940 census to add the procedure to obtain the Bill Dollarhide census book.
Hmm, I still haven't advanced the ball at all on my own research today! So I looked for info on Simon Wade and Phebe Horton on Google, Ancestry and WorldConnect - what I found was most of the submitted data reference my web page. Arggh. I give up for tonight. Tomorrow I'll go to the FHC and hopefully get some Russell Smith information.
Genealogy today was 7.5 hours - 1.0 hours was reading email and Bloglines, 1.0 hour was making genealogy reports and sending them out, 2.0 hours was blogging, 1.5 hours was CVGS related, and 1.0 hour was reading in Wikipedia and 1.0 hour was working in Ancestry/WC.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Genealogy Journal - 01/27/08
We didn't get home from church until 1:30, there was the Annual Meeting today and I was elected to the Gifts and Memorials Committee for the third time - I've been Chair the last three years. I got my email and Bloglines read and posted about the CVGS meeting on Wednesday, but Linda wanted to do hers, so I took a nap, then watched the end of the golf - Tiger always wins in San Diego!.
At 4 PM, I came back and posted the Best of the Genea-Blogs on Genea-Musings, which takes awhile to put together. Then it was dinner time, and TV news after that.
At about 6:30, I answered a few emails and then started my blog post about the genealogy parade float. I went looking on the Library of Congress American Memory site for some images, but didn't find what I was looking for. I still have editing to do, and adding some links, but I have the basic post finished. Then I went back and spent an enjoyable hour or so looking at the photos on the LOC American Memory site - I had not visited it before.
Genealogy today was a total of about 4.0 hours - 1.5 hours with email and Bloglines, 1.5 hours blogging, and 1.0 hour looking through the LOC site.
Tomorrow may be a big genealogy day - I hope to get back into my probate transcriptions and get ready to go to the FHC on Tuesday.
At 4 PM, I came back and posted the Best of the Genea-Blogs on Genea-Musings, which takes awhile to put together. Then it was dinner time, and TV news after that.
At about 6:30, I answered a few emails and then started my blog post about the genealogy parade float. I went looking on the Library of Congress American Memory site for some images, but didn't find what I was looking for. I still have editing to do, and adding some links, but I have the basic post finished. Then I went back and spent an enjoyable hour or so looking at the photos on the LOC American Memory site - I had not visited it before.
Genealogy today was a total of about 4.0 hours - 1.5 hours with email and Bloglines, 1.5 hours blogging, and 1.0 hour looking through the LOC site.
Tomorrow may be a big genealogy day - I hope to get back into my probate transcriptions and get ready to go to the FHC on Tuesday.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Genealogy Journal - 01/26/08
Well, the Lolo adventure is over for this month. We drove up to Temecula this morning and met her parents at the Chick-Fil-A restaurant in Murrieta. The best visual was when her mom and dad got there - Lolo came out of the restroom at the same time, saw them, and ran like in a dream shouting "mommy, mommy" with open arms and a big smile on her face. I didn't take the camera... We had lunch, exchanged stories about the week, watched Lolo play on the equipment, said goodbyes and came home, getting back at about 1 PM. I was tired from driving, so I took a nice 2 hour nap in my recliner. In the evening, one of our widow neighbors came over for dinner and conversation.
Besides reading email and other bloggers, the only positive thing I did in genealogy today was posting "Back to my Genealogy Future" and "NGS Book Collection at St. Louis County Library" on Genea-Musings. I did have an enjoyable half hour reading The Genealogue's most recent challenge results.
Other than that, I've spent a whole 3.5 hours today on genealogy - 1.5 hours reading and answering email and reading Bloglines, 1.5 hours blogging, and 0.5 hour researching the NGS book collection in St. Louis.
No football tomorrow - maybe I can get back to some research.
I notice that I've been putting more personal life activities in these posts - this is the only journal I'm currently writing and I will continue to write about my "real life" since it impacts my "genealogy life." Hey, it's my blog, right?
Besides reading email and other bloggers, the only positive thing I did in genealogy today was posting "Back to my Genealogy Future" and "NGS Book Collection at St. Louis County Library" on Genea-Musings. I did have an enjoyable half hour reading The Genealogue's most recent challenge results.
Other than that, I've spent a whole 3.5 hours today on genealogy - 1.5 hours reading and answering email and reading Bloglines, 1.5 hours blogging, and 0.5 hour researching the NGS book collection in St. Louis.
No football tomorrow - maybe I can get back to some research.
I notice that I've been putting more personal life activities in these posts - this is the only journal I'm currently writing and I will continue to write about my "real life" since it impacts my "genealogy life." Hey, it's my blog, right?
Friday, January 25, 2008
Genealogy Journal - 01/25/08
Today was not Lolo all the time, but it wasn't genealogy central either. We stayed home this morning until Linda came home and took Lolo to lunch and a play date. I took off for my weekly walk with George on the bayfront and then went to Costco for a new phone answering system (ours failed on Monday), and was home by 1:15. When they got back at 2, Lolo went down for her nap, and I followed at 3. I'm trying to shake the cold and failing. We went out to dinner to Rubio's, and when we got back Lolo watched TV then took her bath and was down to bed by 8.
I managed to read my email and Bloglines this morning, and then wrote my "Dinner With my Elusive Ancestors' Children" (written for the Carnival of Genealogy) after I got home from my walk. Tonight, I read email and Bloglines and browsed the new Ancestry databases, and saw the Walter Goodwin Davis compendiums are available, so I posted "Walter Goodwin Davis Ancestry Compendium on Ancestry." I didn't do much else today!
Genealogy today was about 3.0 hours - 1.0 hours on reading email and Bloglines, 1.5 hours blogging, and 0.5 hours checking out the Davis compendium.
I managed to read my email and Bloglines this morning, and then wrote my "Dinner With my Elusive Ancestors' Children" (written for the Carnival of Genealogy) after I got home from my walk. Tonight, I read email and Bloglines and browsed the new Ancestry databases, and saw the Walter Goodwin Davis compendiums are available, so I posted "Walter Goodwin Davis Ancestry Compendium on Ancestry." I didn't do much else today!
Genealogy today was about 3.0 hours - 1.0 hours on reading email and Bloglines, 1.5 hours blogging, and 0.5 hours checking out the Davis compendium.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Genealogy Journal - 01/24/08
Lolo won the time battle again today. We went to the mall this morning and she played in the kiddie area for awhile, then we had Sbarro pizza for lunch - she ate a whole piece, as I did. Then it was home for a nap, but she didn't sleep. She watched TV most of the afternoon (I read and did nap!) and then she was cranky at dinner, so much so that we couldn't have an ice cream bar for dessert. She was in bed by 7 and out by 7:02 I think. On top of that, I've caught the cold that Logan had last weekend and will probably feel crappy for the next week (I use Tylenol cold and Flu to reduce the symptoms). The perils of grandparenting - I just hope Lolo doesn't get it, or her parents.
Genealogy today was limited to reading email and Bloglines, writing two posts on Genea-Musings and three on the Chula Vista Genealogy Cafe, getting up to speed on the Transitional Genealogists Forum blog (including reading the first study article - this is a members only blog), and searching through the English links at Price & Associates for awhile.
My total time was maybe 3.5 hours - 1.0 hour reading email and Bloglines, 1.5 hours blogging, 0.5 hours on the TGF blog, and 0.5 hours doing research.
Genealogy today was limited to reading email and Bloglines, writing two posts on Genea-Musings and three on the Chula Vista Genealogy Cafe, getting up to speed on the Transitional Genealogists Forum blog (including reading the first study article - this is a members only blog), and searching through the English links at Price & Associates for awhile.
My total time was maybe 3.5 hours - 1.0 hour reading email and Bloglines, 1.5 hours blogging, 0.5 hours on the TGF blog, and 0.5 hours doing research.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Genealogy Journal - 01/23/08
This was another Lolo-centric day - I did nothing in genealogy but read email and Bloglines and write three posts. Lolo woke up early this morning, and I let Linda get up and give her breakfast. I got up at 7 and essentially took over as Linda wanted to leave by 8 for her day out. I wanted to get on the road by 9 if possible, but Lolo didn't really want to go - she was watching Disney Channel programs.
We finally left for the Zoo at 9:45. We saw the orangs, then went down Monkey Trails to Tiger River (tiger not visible), past the hippo pool (they were sunning themselves), saw the Pandas, then up Bear Canyon and saw the lions out in the sun. At the top of the hill we had lunch, then watched the elephants up close, and left the park by 11:45. I got my exercise in - probably a good two miles. She went down for her nap when we got home so I had about 3 hours to do my genealogy thing.
I managed to read email in the morning while Linda was here, but didn't get to Bloglines until after we got home. Then I wrote three Genea-musings posts on "Where Were They in 1808? The Seaver Side," "DAR Patriot Request" and "The Baby Name Wizard NameVoyager." Lolo woke up at about 3 and we watched videos until dinner time (well, I dozed a bit too).
After dinner, we shared an ice cream bar (this is "bonding with Grandpa"), played with the Wedgits and the puzzles for awhile, then watched Diego and Blue's Clues videos, then she had her bath. I read my book for awhile and after the bath she went in to Grandma to read books, and then I put her down for bed - no fuss, she just lies down, talks a bit and goes to sleep. I watched Deal or No Deal until 9, then came to the computer and read email and Bloglines, looked for the new Ancestry databases and wrote this post.
Genealogy today - about 4.0 hours - of which 1.5 hour was reading email and Bloglines, 2.0 hours was blogging, and 0.5 hour was working in Ancestry. Not much genealogy, eh? Lots of good family history stuff, though!
We finally left for the Zoo at 9:45. We saw the orangs, then went down Monkey Trails to Tiger River (tiger not visible), past the hippo pool (they were sunning themselves), saw the Pandas, then up Bear Canyon and saw the lions out in the sun. At the top of the hill we had lunch, then watched the elephants up close, and left the park by 11:45. I got my exercise in - probably a good two miles. She went down for her nap when we got home so I had about 3 hours to do my genealogy thing.
I managed to read email in the morning while Linda was here, but didn't get to Bloglines until after we got home. Then I wrote three Genea-musings posts on "Where Were They in 1808? The Seaver Side," "DAR Patriot Request" and "The Baby Name Wizard NameVoyager." Lolo woke up at about 3 and we watched videos until dinner time (well, I dozed a bit too).
After dinner, we shared an ice cream bar (this is "bonding with Grandpa"), played with the Wedgits and the puzzles for awhile, then watched Diego and Blue's Clues videos, then she had her bath. I read my book for awhile and after the bath she went in to Grandma to read books, and then I put her down for bed - no fuss, she just lies down, talks a bit and goes to sleep. I watched Deal or No Deal until 9, then came to the computer and read email and Bloglines, looked for the new Ancestry databases and wrote this post.
Genealogy today - about 4.0 hours - of which 1.5 hour was reading email and Bloglines, 2.0 hours was blogging, and 0.5 hour was working in Ancestry. Not much genealogy, eh? Lots of good family history stuff, though!
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Genealogy Journal - 01/22/08
It's good to be home, although genealogy is still taking a back seat to grandfather duties. Lolo is visiting for the week while her mom and dad work.
My last week has been very busy, with little time to do any genealogy research. I managed to read my email and Bloglines, and post several prepared blogs while at my daughter's home, but that was about it. Two little boys and a frazzled daughter don't leave much time for the fun stuff, but I did get to make more family history with the grandsons. Not much sleep, but some good times.
I got home last night by 6 PM, but didn't get on the computer until 8:30 since I had to give Lolo her bath and get her to bed. When I did get online, it was email and one Genea-Musings post about the Weary Genealogist. I went to bed early and had a good nights sleep.
This morning was Lolo-centric until 10 AM when she left with Linda to do errands, play at a park and have lunch - girl things. I decided to post about the February 8-9 St. George Expo, and then gathered all the info for the Best of the Genea-Blogs for last week. They came home and I got Lolo down for a nap, and then answered some email. I don't think she slept at all - got up at 2 PM and we watched Disney TV until she fell asleep in my recliner at 4. I dozed too! She woke up at 5 and we went out to Chick-Fil-A for dinner - Lolo played in the play area for 30 minutes before we came home. Then it was TV, bath, books and bedtime, but it took an hour for her to go to sleep. I finally got back online at 9 PM and read my email and Bloglines, but did nothing else of value. Maybe tomorrow. I'm still working on an Ancestors Parade post and also the 1808 post in my head.
Genealogy today - only 4.5 hours, 2.0 was reading email and Bloglines, and 2.5 hours was blogging. No research, no CVGS, just pretty much Lolo time - which is fun because she is really a good 3-year old full of life and just starting to talk. I'm blessed with instant family history here.
My last week has been very busy, with little time to do any genealogy research. I managed to read my email and Bloglines, and post several prepared blogs while at my daughter's home, but that was about it. Two little boys and a frazzled daughter don't leave much time for the fun stuff, but I did get to make more family history with the grandsons. Not much sleep, but some good times.
I got home last night by 6 PM, but didn't get on the computer until 8:30 since I had to give Lolo her bath and get her to bed. When I did get online, it was email and one Genea-Musings post about the Weary Genealogist. I went to bed early and had a good nights sleep.
This morning was Lolo-centric until 10 AM when she left with Linda to do errands, play at a park and have lunch - girl things. I decided to post about the February 8-9 St. George Expo, and then gathered all the info for the Best of the Genea-Blogs for last week. They came home and I got Lolo down for a nap, and then answered some email. I don't think she slept at all - got up at 2 PM and we watched Disney TV until she fell asleep in my recliner at 4. I dozed too! She woke up at 5 and we went out to Chick-Fil-A for dinner - Lolo played in the play area for 30 minutes before we came home. Then it was TV, bath, books and bedtime, but it took an hour for her to go to sleep. I finally got back online at 9 PM and read my email and Bloglines, but did nothing else of value. Maybe tomorrow. I'm still working on an Ancestors Parade post and also the 1808 post in my head.
Genealogy today - only 4.5 hours, 2.0 was reading email and Bloglines, and 2.5 hours was blogging. No research, no CVGS, just pretty much Lolo time - which is fun because she is really a good 3-year old full of life and just starting to talk. I'm blessed with instant family history here.
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