Busy Summer!

I have been keeping my son entertained all summer.  He played football on Thursday with his youth group and we took a class together.  He went to Vet Tech camp and liked it but he said he was a little disappointed that it was not more about cats and dogs.

I managed to fit in a few ProGen assignments along the way.... I did my marketing plan and I am now working on my business plan.  There are not too many left in the Sunday group for ProGen7.

We went to Prescott and I planned to see the genealogy collection at the Prescott Valley Library but I went on a day that the Genealogy Library in Prescott Valley was closed.  We went to the Sharlot Hall Museum and other historical spots as well as Lynx Lake and Goldwater Lake.

One of the things I really enjoyed was the night hike at the Heritage Nature Center as part of their "Bug a Boo Bliss".  The stars were amazing!


Fall is finally here!  My dear boy went back to school today. I miss him already!

This month's assignment for ProGen Transcription

I felt a little intimidated by this assignment! I really enjoyed it after I got into it. I was unsure if I needed to put all that survey info (Chains and links anyone?) into my abstract. My friend who teaches a course on Land Records for our local genealogy society suggested that I keep the survey info in addition to the land description. I really like deeds because I worked with auditing deeds in mortgage banking. You never know what skills you will need later! Mortgage banking helped me understand some of the legalism that we find in deeds. I look forward to my group comments on my transcription. One transcription I could not do was a monument inscription in Europe. It was in Latin. My friend who is a writer helped me with it by working on it with her daughter when she was homeschooling and learning Latin. They tackled it together. Now we know what that Riddell family member did. I have other things I need to transcribe but mostly they are family letters and one of the other Riddell items has already been transcribed at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/malquery.html search for Key word: John L. Riddell to Abraham Lincoln
Letter is dated December 1863: This one is already transcribed. John Leonard Riddell was my direct ancestor's brother. If you would like to know more about this interesting character please contact me by email and I will be happy to share with you.

Genealogy Achievements for 2010

1. Joined ProGen Study group in August. It is a nineteen month commitment.
2. Published "Ballaymeath?" on my website after a year of research
3. Got to know fellow genealogy enthusiasts at the North San Diego County Genealogical Society and volunteered at an event to greet and hand out programs. Part of the genealogy "Lunch Bunch".
4. Wrote an article for the North San Diego Genealogical Society Newsletter, Paths to the Past on the SCGS Jamboree Experience (Vol XL, Number 9, Sept. 2010) and Santa Barbara Trip, Spanish Heritage Anyone? (Vol XL, Number 8, August 2010,page 8)
5. Brick wall buster. Thanks to the Obituary Index at the Rutherford B. Hayes Library in Ohio I found a lead on my elusive ancestor Edward Ward.

Jamboree 2010, Part 3 Other meetings and Internet Resources

During the course of the three days of Jamboree, we took a group photo for the ProGen Study group and I attended my first Association for Professional Genealogists meeting in which I joined the Southern California Chapter. The vendors offered discounts on books, services and software as they usually do every year. This year Ancestry offered scanning on their high speed scanner but they had some problems when the power went out in our building for a few hours on Friday.

We took the train back to Oceanside and arrived at seven pm on Sunday.


Internet Resources:

Lisa Louise Cook: Genealogy Gems
http://genealogygems.tv/

Guild of one Name Studies
http://www.one-name.org/

Jean Wilcox Hibben
http://www.circlemending.org/topics.html

Arlene Eakle
http://www.arleneeakle.com/wordpress/

Unclaimed Persons
http://www.unclaimedpersons.org/

Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak
http://www.honoringourancestors.com/aboutus.html

ProGen Study Group, SDGS visit to North County

Our ProGen Study group is starting in June. I am looking forward to meeting my group on Friday at Jamboree.

A small group from SDGS will come and visit in North County tomorrow. We will take the tour of the Leo Carrillo Ranch, eat Mexican food and go to the Georgina Cole Library in Carlsbad.

I still need to get a Hawaiian shirt for Jamboree. Aloha!