When I got up this morning, after an attempt to call my granddaughter, I decided to do more indexing for the Indexing Event. At first I kept getting error messages that no batches were available for the Kentucky Marriages! That seemed to good to be true--and it was. I shut down the program and opened it back up to reveal that batches were indeed available. I indexed one batch and then arbitrated what I could out of ten batches. Some I sent back because the second page was skipped on each image. I finished the batches up not long before it was time to start for choir practice.
Choir practice went pretty well after it was determined that for the song for next week there were two different versions, which did not work well together! After that was straightened out, practice went fine. For today, a group of young elders sang a combination of The Spirit of God, and How Firm a Foundation. They sounded very good together.
I actually stayed awake during sacrament meeting! I had slept fairly long, and I could hear most of what the speakers said as I was in the congregation and not in the choir seats. Then I chose to go to a regular Sunday School class, and the lesson was on Alma 30, the chapter that solidified my testimony of The Book of Mormon. The story of Korihor, from this wonderful book published in 1830, was so modern--he was a practitioner of the "God is dead, it doesn't matter how you live, because there is no life after this one" message. When I first read of this event in The Book of Mormon I felt that the book had been written for me, as I had turned my back on the god of my fathers, and now the true God had brought me to a place where I was receiving truth. And now, nearly 42 years later, I am grateful to have had a multitude of experiences which confirm this for me. I am blessed beyond measure.
The lesson from the President Hunter book was about Family History and Temple Work! That was so appropriate for our Mission Branch! I had not previously realized the extent of President Hunter's involvement in research and in guiding the work of family history. No wonder his brief Presidency was focused so much on the temple!
My sweet Cuban sister has had some physical challenges this week and was worried because she had not cooked much. I reassured her that the kidney beans I made yesterday would be perfect for our dinner tonight--and they were. She did have four different vegetables, and I had made some peanut butter no-bake cookies, and had a fresh peach to add to our simple dinner.
When I came back to the apartment, I began to work on a family history tangle, which will probably require more research at the Library. Sometimes the fact that Germans seemed to recycle names a lot causes the records to get into a big mess! However, the nice thing is that some of the German record images are now online from the German government. I have not yet checked, but I just had the thought that the very first records that I researched in German on my husband's Fehr line are probably there! I will have to go check that out!
In less than 18 hours my special visitor will arrive--I expect my blog entries will be rather short for the next 8 days!
This is an addendum: I found a missing child!! The tangled up family referenced above led me to a Magdalena Bruckbach, born three years after her sister, Magdalena, was born and died in 1815. The image of her death record in 1826 is in the Landesarchives of Baden-Wuerttemberg online! Happy day, all is well!
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