My day at the Library was very slow--until the last half hour, when I was asked to help a couple with German research. For them I stayed an extra half hour, and then turned them over to a research specialist because I did not know anything else to help them with. Because of some indexed German records on Ancestry, we found the man's father's birth record, but even though the same film had marriage records, the grandparents did not seem to be included. I hope the specialist was able to get them back farther in the line. As I was finishing up the little report on that couple I was able to help someone figure out how to enter places in Family Tree--that only took about 2 minutes.
The rest of the time at the Library was not unproductive--it just did not involve helping guests. I set up the computer for working on a How To Guide for Hamburg Passenger Lists. I learned a few new things from that, and reading through it brought up some questions that we need to research. I did not have a clear idea of how to do the guide, so we just read them almost through before doing the practice. I think next time we will go to the practice first, as most of us have some familiarity with Meyers Gazetteer. Then we can refer back to the instructions when we need to.
I also got a batch of indexing up. That turned out to be pretty interesting, as the Dutch research member of the group had a bit of trouble with understanding why the word for fourth was not fourteen--but now he understands better how the German number system works and the rest of us understand the Dutch system better.
I could not linger after the meeting because I was scheduled as Greeter. We did not have a lot of new guests during that hour, but apparently in the early morning there were many French guests. Blessedly our French-speaking missionaries do not leave for another week. They will be hard to replace!
I played the keyboard for afternoon devotional [I did not start until 10 today], and then had the in-service lesson which focused on how important it is to record the stories of our family--more people are touched by stories than by names, dates, and places.
My lunch and supper today were a bit different. For lunch I had a sandwich that a friend had left from a cookout over the weekend, plus pan-fried yellow squash that one of the local missionary couples brought from their garden--prepared with onion it was so very tasty. Then my supper, which I ate as I walked to the temple, was cheese and nuts plus a banana-nut muffin that my visiting teacher brought me last night--so yummy!
Once I talk again with my Sweetheart I will try to turn in. Even though tomorrow is my late day, I am overdue for a haircut, so I expect to get that done pretty early, and then take a nap so I can get through the evening.
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