I can’t believe how busy I have been lately.
I’m usually quite the hermit – not that I’m antisocial or anything, because I’m not. But at our past duty stations, I just spent a lot of time at home (especially the 3 years I was holed up in my house in Alaska). Things are different here. I seem to know half the neighborhood and there are always functions and parties to go to. I’m really enjoying meeting so many great people and actually having an active social life. It makes it hard to get much research done though. Add to the social functions the fact that I’m trying to walk about 40 miles a week and I don’t have a lot of free time left. It’s just a different season of life I suppose and it soon shall pass too. Who knows where we’ll be living this time next year. Maybe I’ll be a genealogy hermit again.
Here are a few good reads:
- The Right to Be Forgotten - an interesting read over at Irish Genealogy: Hep! The Faery Folk Hid My Ancestors!
- I am hoping to someday make a trip to Salt Lake City. I know that I’ll manage to work it in one of these days – probably when the kids are a bit older. There are so many little mysteries that I just know I could solve if I had the entire Family History Library to explore for a week or two. Denise of Family Curator has an interesting mystery of her own to solve in Nancy Drew Goes to Salt Lake City.
- Cheryl Palmer over at Heritage Happens is talking about Sweden again!! Good luck!!!
- I loved Susan’s post The Home Place Brought Home over at Nolichucky Roots.
- The Ties That Bond over at The Legal Genealogist is a very informative read. I have a quite a few marriage bonds and had always wondered what exact purpose they served.
- Do Students Cheat More Now? over at A Hundred Years Ago gave me a laugh. It’s weird to think of your grandmother as a 16 yr old student, cheating on a test.
- Where do you turn to for research guidance? over at Marian’s Roots and Rambles has some good advice on where to turn when you don’t know where to turn. Especially since there are a lot of good sources in the comments too!
- Introducing the National Archives Transcription Pilot Project!!
- How sad that epileptics used to be institutionalized. Read Walt M. Runyan: He Wasn’t Born on Wednesday over at Old Stones Deciphered.
- Do you have any murders in your family tree? I haven’t come across one yet….Thriller Thursday: The Murders at Rocky Fork over at Genealogy and Me is an interesting read.
And a couple of pictures from this past week…
I had the privilege of taking pictures of the sweetest little baby that lives down the street. It really makes me want to have another one……
Thanks for the mention of A Hundred Years Ago. And, the photos are awesome. They are so thoughtful, artistic, and well-designed.
Thanks so much for the mention of Old Stones Undeciphered and my short lesson on the historical treatment of epileptics, and I LOVE those baby toes!
You’re welcome!!!
Thanks Sheryl! And you’re welcome for the shout out. I’ve been enjoying the diary entries – I really wish I had someone’s journal.
I hope you get to SLC some day in the not too distant future. But be warned, it can be overwhelming on your first visit. On my first visit in 1988 I ran right down to the International Floor B-1 and tackled the Dutch microfilms. It helped that I already knew the village of my 3rd great-grandfather, Jan Killewinger. Within hours and with help from two Dutch-speaking folk at the reference desk, I had 5 or 6 generations of my ancestors.
On many, many trips since I have run down my Dutch,Bavarian and Polish ancestors as far back as the records go, as well as my husband’s Swedish branch. Unfortunately, no films exist for much of his Pomeranian (German) ancestors.
I once spent two weeks at the Library and came home exhausted. Not a good idea and now I don’t stay more than 3 to 4 days on a visit. I find that for every day IN the Library and spend a FULL WEEK at home digesting and entering my finds into my database.
And by the way, I probably mentioned awhile back — my 2nd great-grandfather, John Haskin, was shot and killed by his brother-in-law.
According to the news article: It appears that Kinney was jealous of Haskins, suspecting him of undue intimacy with his wife, which was the cause of the quarrel. Haskins died confessing the crime of which Kinney suspected him. The latter is in custody.” (Custody didn’t last too long, however, as Kinney was found in the census only two years later.)
I know that I’ll make it there someday! I will take your advice and try not to get too overwhelmed – maybe focus on a couple of specific lines. I have a bunch of German ancestors to search for so that seems like it might be a good place to start.
While I of course don’t wish for a murder in my family tree, it would be kind of interesting.
Thanks for the FF shout-out. Wish you were coming to SLC so we could meet-up. I sure hope to solve a few mysteries while I am there!