Category Archives: JGSLA 2010

Visit to my Second Home

Categories: Accountability, Family History Library, Genealogy, IAJGS, JGSLA 2010
Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 32 seconds

I finally went back to the Family History Library. It had been over two weeks, with all the early and total closings around Christmas, and it was my first visit this year. I got some work done for two clients in Polish records. I ran out of time to work in the Virginia records for another client. I was hoping to have the willpower to continue the work sometime after I got home, but as usual, I didn’t. But at least I got some work done.

I also visited the JGSLA 2010 web site and submitted a couple of lecture proposals. I left them in edit mode so I could tweak what they say. Given my history, albeit of only two years of IAJGS conference lectures, they won’t get much tweaking between now and the final deadline.

On the way home from the FHL, I picked up another box of hair color. If my title is The Ginger Jew, I really should be more ginger. We’ll see how this particular color works out. Instead of auburn, I bought strawberry blond.

I also just noticed the visibility option in the publish box. I can make all these accountability entries private and post other things publicly. I’m sure that’s the way to go. Now all I have to do it start posting things that other people might want to read. I just hope other bloggers don’t expect me to start reading their blogs more just because I have one now. I read some of them sometimes. Mostly, I just read blog entries when they’re tweeted and the title intrigues me.

Actually, I’ve decided to leave them all public instead. I can always change it later.

In The House

Categories: Accountability, David Tennant, Genealogy, Hugh Laurie, IAJGS, JGSLA 2010, UJGS
Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 57 seconds

After yesterday’s Doctor Who marathon, today had a House marathon on USA Network. I mostly slept through it, but I had it on for a while. So now my blog has hit upon my two favorite doctors and my current favorite actors, David Tennant and Hugh Laurie.

There has also been some work accomplished. While I didn’t feel like I had done much, by the time midnight came around, I was getting some genealogy work done. I did some data entry for a client. I’m searching Polish church records for Jewish records and hoping to find more information about his family. After typing up the last batch that I had handwritten last month, I finally compared the whole file (even though I have a couple more years to look through). Sadly, I didn’t find a single record that corresponded to what I already know about his family.

And it really does make me sad when I don’t find anything. The thrill of genealogy is not just the searching, but the finding after spending so much time searching. When I don’t find anything, I feel bad. Not just for the client but for myself. All that time spent and I didn’t find a single record useful to his family research.

In addition, I finally started to plan out my lectures for the 2010 IAJGS conference in Los Angeles. I have until the 15th to submit my lectures and I hadn’t really worked on it. My plan is to sort of repeat what I did last year, but try to do it better. Next Monday, I am presenting at the UJGS meeting, and I want to submit that to the conference. Instead of doing a computer lab about Facebook, I am going to do a lecture. My other computer lab from last year was about using Microsoft Publisher, and I want to submit that possibly as two labs, beginner and intermediate levels.

Not such a useless day after all. And there’s still a few more hours to go before I fall asleep, so maybe I’ll get some more work done for my genealogy clients, or I’ll update a web site. Or maybe I’ll just waste some time.