Lovely Visit and some possible leads from Ancestry! 26 June 2016

This morning I followed President Tate's affirmation of Mind over Mattress, and got up about an hour earlier than I had planned.  I used the time to do a big batch of indexing and then checked out how to download my family tree from Family Search to Ancestry.

The family trees on Ancestry are somewhat different than the Collaborative Tree on Family Search, in that the trees are not editable by anyone except the person who creates them.  There are positive and negative things about each way of managing the trees, so it is good to have both options.  I will probably also eventually go back to using a stand-alone program, but for now that is not an option, so uploading from Family Search to Ancestry is a good back-up and doable for now.

Both websites provide hints or suggestions for sources, and I was delighted to get many hints and find that I will probably be able to attach many more descendants for my third great grandfather Grapatin, as well as some other lines.  I found a firm date for my second great grandfather's birth which I should be able to verify at the Library this week. One of the family trees which was part of the hinting process is by a man in Germany who is willing to look up information, so he may be a great resource.

Before I went to the Tabernacle Choir broadcast I decided to call the sister with whom I was planning to meet this morning concerning an assignment for the branch and ask if we could have our meeting another day.  My dear missionary and his wife were coming to visit--and that meeting would cut our visit to just the minimum.  Blessedly the sister was more than willing to reschedule to Monday.  In addition, in speaking with her I learned that she actually was also from Star Valley, and knows my missionary well.

The visit was so very enjoyable!  We had sufficient time to catch up on each others' lives, and just rejoice in being together for a little while.  As it turns out, we should see one another the end of July because we have tickets for the Saturday night Pioneer Day Concert on the 23rd.  So they should get to meet my Sweetheart at that time.  Then in September we will connect again during the Star Valley Temple Open House. Joy and rejoicing all around.

Music, meetings and visits in person and by phone make for a very blessed Sabbath.