Phone and German success. 6 July 2016

More than a year ago I bought a cell phone on clearance from Republic Wireless, and at present I am very grateful that I did.  My regular cell phone is having issues with the battery charging, so late last night I activated the other phone with a very inexpensive Wifi only plan.  I was not pleased when it dropped a call from my Sweetheart this morning, so I thought I would have to just buy a newer phone.  My daughter helped me upgrade the plan to include cell coverage, and so far that is working very nicely. 

This was my very late day at the library, so in addition to the special conversations with my dear ones and getting my pot luck dish finished for tomorrow's luncheon, I pretty well took it easy all morning.  I got yesterday's mail and found that the dear messages from my Virginia family finally made it to me!  I was so glad I bought some refrigerator magnets last week, since I now can enjoy those sweet sentiments over and over again while I am in my kitchen.

At the library I got to practice and improve my transcribing skills several times.  In one instance I eventually figured out that what the guest thought was Franz was actually Georg, and that Gertrud was the wife--turned out this was a record of her direct line great or 2nd great grandparents--she was very happy!  Later when she had another name to decipher even the more experienced missionaries could not figure it out.  Since the guest had limited time I showed her that she could learn to do this work herself with the help of If I Can, You Can decipher German records, which is available in pdf format online.  She was happy to learn about that, too.

I helped two of the missionaries with deciphering also, and one of them indicated there was more work to be done on that line.  I learned some search strategies and other websites from consultants at the German/Slavic Help Desk.  So things went well today.

Tomorrow is an early day, so time for bed!