Hello Blog. I've missed you...

I've started to blog again on behalf of NCGS featuring items in our genealogy library.  You can link to it here: https://niagaracountygenealogy.wordpress.com/  It's help to encourage me to get back to blogging on my own genealogy and presentations that I give.

Yesterday I presented for NTLGC on RootsTech2019.  I taught about the new features that Ancestry, MyHeritage, and FamilySearch announced while at RootsTech.  Many of those features are DNA based, but the new MyTreeTags from Ancestry is not.  I can't believe how many of my direct ancestors that I haven't yet obtained death certificates for.

MyTreeTags is helping me identify items like that so that I may complete the vital records on at least my direct ancestors.  If I ever want to join a descendancy society like Mayflower or DAR, I'm going to need to have all my ducks in a row (as Grandpa Ed always says).

I visited Grandpa Ed yesterday in the Nursing Home.  He's 96 now and at this year's Adams Fire Co. Installation Dinner, he will be honored as a 50-year member.  I hope we can safely get him there for the dinner.

I've spent all day working on my genealogy, but I've been all over the place.  It's like I can't focus on one thing.  At first, I was trying to get down the number of shakey leaves that I had.  It's a pretty vicious cycle as I started with 5,809 and after hours of work, I ended up with 6,060!!  Each time I add a new ancestor, a bunch more hints pop up.  Especially the census records that add parents and siblings.  I actually started ignoring records of spouses that were nowhere near my direct line.  It's hard to do, though, as I know that they were most like part of my ancestor's FAN club and could be in pictures, etc.

I spent quite a long time going through my old Reunion Tree and copy/pasting the notes that I took from interviews with various people and uploading them as stories to my FamilySearch tree.  I'd like to go back and add pictures to some of them too.

Later I worked on uploading the church records that I got from the FHC this past Tuesday on the GLEISNER family and making sure that I was citing where I got them and uploaded them to both Ancestry and FamilySearch.  It is soooo slow taking the time to properly document and transcribe each record.

My Dad just got back from vacation in Jamaica.  He sent me a picture that I couldn't help but see a resemblance to Grandpa Ed.  I couldn't stop laughing!!