On my way to the Library today one of the Library trainers who I met on my first day in the Library asked if I would like a ride. [I was going in early, because this was our cleaning day, so ordinarily I do not see her in the morning.] I accepted her offer, but told her I had to put something in my car first. When she picked me up she was surprised to have learned that the cute little apple-green car belonged to me! Apparently she and some others have been wondering about who owned it. She then said, "Are there any other surprises I don't know about you?" So, of course, I told her I was engaged--getting to share that fact always causes me to smile!
This was my research day, so I only had to put in 3 hours on the floor, one of which was as floor manager. Then I was a helper for 2 hours, and I got to teach a guest about Irfanview, She had already learned about this program, but was unsure of how to go about doing it on her own. I helped her go through the process once, and then decided to write out the directions for her, or the shortcuts. It turned out that she needed to go through the process more than once, and by the end of my helping her she was pretty good at following the directions, and was very happy to have the "Cheat Sheet" to take with her. I was glad to have the review myself, since I usually don't have to use the program. I also learned from consulting with one of the young elders that one can make the image fit the size sheet one is using. That is probably old news to many of you, but it was good for me to learn.
I had prayed this morning that I might spend my research time on something worth while. The other times I had research days I felt I was not spending my time very productively. When I had a bit of time early in the morning I felt impressed to look at records on my Kalbfleisch line. I began by looking for microfilms available for several locations. Some of the records have been extracted and indexed, and appear as record hints in my Family Tree. When I accessed a couple of the hints, I noticed data problems which I had previously ignored. One cannot have a dad who is only a couple of years older than his child!
Although I had apparently researched the relevant film before, this time I found that the dad of both children had lost his first wife after the son was born. Then he married his second wife about 4 or 5 years later. This was also her second marriage, and it was a blessing that the marriage record told that she was a widow, and gave her first husband's name as well as her maiden name. I was able to clean up most of the mess in Family Tree, and also attach pictures of the records which I took with my tablets. Modern technology truly has such benefits for working in family history!
When I got home this afternoon my daughter helped me set a different ringtone on my phone. It turned out that my phone has a kind of delay in actually ringing, so neither of the musical numbers she sent me yesterday were able to solve the problem of my missing calls, but hopefully the new ringtone will facilitate my hearing the phone! I can hear it after 1.5 seconds, rather than the 5 seconds it took to hear my other tone. The new one is also louder overall and plays longer. I certainly hope it solves the problem!
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