Today I did not really help any guest at the Library in real time, but someday some people may be blessed by my indexing efforts. Although we had been warned that the floor might see a great increase in the number of guests due to an Eastern European Family History Conference, that influx did not occur this morning. I spent my three hours as a Helper doing indexing on some of the ten German batches I have downloaded. I have made a lot of headway, although since I do not have a very methodical approach, I do not really know how much is left to do. I know I have at least 2 of the batches completed, and the others are in varying stages of completeness. It has been rather fun to get familiar with the surnames in the parish, and the minister has been the same throughout, so I am pretty familiar with his writing, which is a big help. I often tell guests that they are the experts on the records of their own family, even if they may need some help with some of the transcribing.
The afternoon I spent my research time on records from Merlau, Hessen, Germany. It was a joy to see the actual records, and some very old signatures, for my great-grandmother, her father and mother, her grandparents, aunts and uncles. Although I had the information, there is just something special about the actual images, many of which are now attached to the person pages in Family Tree. The improvements in the Family Tree app have made such a difference for me--truly a blessing. cleared up one bit of confusion, where the information my grandfather got from the then current minister at Merlau was not clear on the year of a great-great-grandaunt's marriage. It was 1825, not 1824. There is at least one other discrepancy in our family records, but I have not yet located where the problem is, so until I do that, I cannot fix it.
When I left the Library I went right to my car to go and get a haircut. I knew if I went to the apartment it would be really hard to get myself motivated to leave, and I really needed the haircut. I had to wait less than 10 minutes, and I actually liked the way the stylist did the cut, even better than the woman in South Jordan. I may just continue to go to this closer shop.
I went into a grocery store, bought an ear of corn, a banana, and [impulse buy!!] a little bag of dark chocolate peanut butter cups! Not bad, but not a really good idea, since I have eaten several servings worth already.
While waiting for my Sweetheart to call, I indexed more records from the batches. I doubt I will get all ten done by Sunday, but there are more done than I had anticipated.
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