Wow! Already we are a week into July! Amazing!
Today was a mixed bag, as I was not able to help as successfully with German translation for other people, but once I found the right microfilm I was able to find and attach pictures as sources for several of my ancestors from Eppingen! That was very rewarding, after looking first at some films that had been identified in the Tree as sources, but they were katholische, not evangelische, records which did not fit my family. Then the catalog was giving me "Come back later" messages, but it finally cooperated, and I got to work with the actual records.
The potluck went well, and my dish was all eaten up! I am glad when that happens. I had to leave a little early, because the couple in charge of feeding the young elders wanted to meet for lunch to implement some changes. I was surprised that my duties will be minimal in this assignment, but I am delighted that the couple was able to streamline the process.
I spent probably more time than was necessary on www.thefhguide.com after completing an activity for this week's inservice lesson. I do recommend this site for fun ways for people of all ages to get involved in family history. The project that I chose was descendancy relative finder. I found that I am a cousin to a fairly famous author, one who I denied relationship with in the past, just out of ignorance. Fourth cousin, twice removed, is not a huge distance in family history, and I was able today to determine that the Family Tree is probably accurate in linking us. I am not going to write who the author is, just to see if anyone in my family chooses to look it up:).
However, I will report that I was linked to several famous LDS people: Quentin L. Cook, one of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles [12th cousin, 2 times removed], and Camilla Eyring Kimball [11th cousin, 3 times removed]! I am especially delighted to be related to Sister Kimball, as her husband was such a favorite of mine, and she was quite a delightful speaker in her own right. The problem with these two links is that there are few sources to provide evidence for the ancestors that form the links. Back into the 1500s sources are hard to come by. Eventually it will be proven--or not. What is really funny is that my connection is through the Baum family, which my Dad had told me I would probably not find much information on because "they were just common people, just farmers." I found when I had done research long ago on this line that the family had quite a few city or county officials, school teachers, etc., so they were not just common people. And the line goes back nearly if not totally the farthest of any of my lines. And to think that this line connects with prominent members of the Church is just so fun! This is also the line that connects me to Eppingen.
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