Lilian's Tree

Arriving, yesterday afternoon, we settled into our villa and unpacked. Pre-dinner drinks from 6.30pm in the cocktail lounge, followed by dinner at 7.30pm.  Bed, after a glass of port and chocolate. The sound of the sea, lulled  us to sleep. I was up at 5.15am, so I didn't miss sunrise. Cool but not cold, with no wind,  I stood just off the beach and watched as the sun slowly crept up out of the ocean. Beautiful. It was cloudy on the horizon but there was enough of a gap to see the sun. Back inside, Paul was still asleep, I made a cuppa and relaxed.  Breakfast at 8.30am was a buffet style, like last nights dinner. Plenty of delicious selections to choose from.  After breakfast we strolled to the Toowoon Bay Surf Life Saving Club and discovered that they had a café, something to consider, for lunch. Back in our villa, I settled down to do some research and Paul did his weight lifting exercises. Finding the coffee table to low, I set myself up at...

I started Saturday with a quick walk around Temple Square. I wasn't going to take photos as I was here, last year, then I went, 'yeah but there was snow last year and there isn't now! Go take photos!' So I did.           Last year this are was covered in snow and you couldn't tell was under it. Well while the plants are snow free, they have a while to go before Spring. The contrast is beautiful, from last year.   This tree, last year looked like a Christmas tree, full of snow.                                                    It is a beautiful shape.                       ...

While I am getting a lot of research done, I'm making time to get out and about. Stretch my legs, get some fresh (brisk) air, take photos and shop. So around lunch time Monday and today I've done that. Monday I saw  "window washers" hanging from the entrance to the convention centre. No the weren't washing windows but... making this. We should all be able to see where RootsTech is. These are all along the streets, leading to the convention centre. The entrance to the Family History Library. There are patches of dirty snow around. None of the lovely stuff, from 2016. The street, in front of the convention centre and the street my hotel is on had lots of yellow school buses parked. I saw a lot of children going into the gallery.   City Creek Mall.    So I'm going to  go back to the library and dig the dirt on more  ancestors.   Bye for now, Lilian.    

Tuesday 7 February 2017 @ 11.45am. After  Sunday it was time to get down to the serious side of being here, Research in the Library! I didn't take note of the opening hours, so rocked up at 8.30, only to find the opened at 8.00. Still they don't close until 6.00pm. Plenty of time! I was going to concentrate on my German Ancestry but even with the guides I have, it is very difficult. Seriously considering asking a researcher to do it for me, one who speaks and reads German. This was on Level B1, so for my English, Scottish and Irish Ancestors, it was down to Level 2. Plenty of familiar faces, down here! Frustrating!!!! I know that the FamilySearch record says he is on this microfilm but it says To Be Continued!   Re-shelved it and went to Level 3 for Mondays with Myrt. Pat and I during my session. It was great to catch-up.   After this I went for a walk, then back to my room and rechecked my research, yes I had it correct. Back into the l...

There is a Facebook group, organised by Thomas MacEntee, called Genealogy Do-Over. (Have a look at the site for more details.)  It is all about looking at your research and starting over, with fresh eyes, checking those bits of information, we have on bits of paper, etc. Well, I opted for the go-over and spent last night and today, going over one of my certificate folders. I printed off the data base, of certificates and the list of names on my tree and highlighted the ones I wanted to do.  (Note to self, need more highlighter pens.)  What I did was locate the certificate, in the folder, locate the person on the tree and double check that I'd entered ALL the information correctly and had CITED where it came from. For certificates I used the number they had on them, for documents I looked for numbers and if none, used the one I'd allocated, to them.  If all was correct, I moved to the next, ticking off what I'd done.  I used the Notes section of the program fo...