Part to-do list...
Part dear diary...
Part Nosy-Nellie...
Weekly events, plans (and a question or two) from my oh-so exciting genealogy (and sometimes non-genealogy) life...
""I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
- Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson
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What happened this week:
Blog housekeeping...
- I gained 2 more followers...as always, thanks for following and reading! I appreciate your comments and I think I've followed everyone in turn, but if I haven't please let me know
- Thanks to Lori, I've started to contain my blogrolls to a scroll list...
- I've added 10 new-to-me blogs to my reading lists - see below (though I'm sure there will be more, as always!)
- I posted my lists for the "Ancestor Approved" award I received last week from Lisa... Thanks again!
- Giving back: I signed up as a RAOGK volunteer (photographing select Oshawa cemeteries). Does anyone else volunteer here? Do you get many requests?
- I've also continued indexing with FamilySearch - I posted about my initial foray into the indexing world at "Chronicles of a NFSI*" and I've since moved on (though still in the 1861 Ontario census project) to Orford tp., Kent co....
- Regular features were whittled down to Tombstone Tuesday (Oshawa Union) and Wordless Wednesday (Valcartier picture postcard)...
- I've been working on organization: getting family group sheets and sources together...and it's a good thing to know that my yen to file by document type is not alone...
- ...I also stumbled across Tribal Pages. Has anyone created a site here? What do you think about it?
- Lastly, I started to (re) explore (since he's updated the site quite a bit) Murray Pletsch's Canadian Gravemarker Gallery. He started out with the north/northwest portions of Ontario, and has now expanded to all of Canada!
- I finished 2 books this week, including...
- Drew Smith's Social Networking For Genealogists
- Megan Smolenyak's Who Do You Think You Are?: The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History, A Companion To the NBC Series.
- ...and I'm almost done G. J. Meyer's A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 - 1918.
- I've created a new account at Shelfari, added a few recent books, and plopped the widget on the sidebar. I've tried out a few different book tracking sites, but I always seem to return to Shelfari...
- Cemetery blogs (2):
- General genealogy blogs (8):
- Hopefully I can get back into the post-holiday swing of things and return to a regular posting (and research!) schedule...
- Regular features, including Tombstone Tuesday, Wordless Wednesday, and Tabloid Thursday...
- ..."52 Weeks to Better Genealogy" result and challenge posts...
- ...and I've finalized my plans for a series of Military Monday posts, to start January 17th...
Thanks for reading!
Jenn
My personal research and blog diary for the week ending 9 January 2011 (just a little belated).
