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Tuesday, January 11

Better Late Than Never, Right? (Research Diary, no. 8)

My Research Diary:
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!

Genealogy:

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!

Books:

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...

New-to-me blogs:

Cemetery blogs (2):
- The Old Colony Graveyard Rabbit
- Whispers Through the Willows
General genealogy blogs (8):

What's coming up:

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).

Thursday, January 6

I'm "Ancestor Approved"!

My first blogging award! :)

Lisa from Genealojournal was kind enough to pass on the "Ancestor Approved" award, which she received from Liz (at My Tapley Tree...and its Branches).

The "Ancestor Approved" award was created in March 2010 by Leslie Ann Ballou of Ancestors Live Here as a way to show "how much I appreciate and enjoy...blogs full of tips and tricks as well as funny and heartwarming stories...".

Recipients are to list ten things which surpised, humbled or enlightened you about your ancestors, before passing it onward to ten other bloggers. My list contains a few non-ancestral things, but which are genealogy related nevertheless. I had such a great time coming up with this list, I had enough material for two lists! However, I've contained myself only 10 things, as requested:

1. I am humbled by the amount of work volunteers (bloggers and otherwise) do, on the web and off...

2. I am humbled by the kindness and friendliness of geneabloggers community...

3. I am enlightened by geneabloggers sharing their family's stories and their research triumphs (and woes), helping me realize research possibilities...

4. I can't say I was surprised when I discovered that half of my paternal heritage was Scottish (with a name like Cameron, how could it be otherwise?!), but I was surprised by how early they immigrated to Canada (between 1820s-1830s)...

5. I was surprised when I discovered that one of my ancestors was one of the first settlers in a township - that just tickled me pink! ;)

6. I was surprised that very few of my ancestors (or their relatives) served in the Great War (though I really shouldn't be, since they were farmers and farmers were, for the most part, exempt from service...)

7. I was both humbled and enlightened by ancestors who came to Canada at a time when it was nothing but wilderness and carved out their homes (sometimes literally) with their hands...

8. I was extremely surprised to learn that my grandmother's first husband - and the man I was told was my grandfather (my mom's father) - died 2 years before she was born...this is still a "Big Secret" (shhh).

9. I am humbled by the kindness and helpfulness of librarians, archivists' and society members. Working from the other end of the stick (currently in a library and previously in an archives), I know how busy it can get.

10. I am enlightened by how much I'm learning every day - not just about my ancestors and their families, but by digging into their lives, my appetite for history has only been wetted even more...

Many, many, many geneabloggers have already received this award since it's inception in almost a year ago. So forgive me if you've already received it, but this is my list of ten geneabloggers who are not only doing their ancestors proud, but have also inspired, assisted and entertained me. There are many more, but since I could only list ten...

1. Kathy at Family Matters
2. Ian at Ian Hadden's Family History
3. Caroline at Caro's Family Chronicles
4. Kerry at Clue Wagon
5. Lori at Family Trees May Contain Nuts
6. Lorine at Olive Tree Genealogy Blog
7. Spitalfields Life
8. Bill at West in New England
9. Amy at We Tree Genealogy
10. Elise at Librarians Helping Canadian Genealogists Climb Family Trees

Jenn ;)

Sunday, January 2

It's Snowing!* (Research Diary, No. 7)

My Research Diary:
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...

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
~ Oprah Winfrey (b. 1954)