Switzerland, Germany and Minnesota, not Greeter and Monitor. 10 October 2016

Walking to practice for Elijah Choir at 6 the air was chilly.  By noon it was warm, and by 5 when the Library closed it was tending towards chilly again.  Our choir performed quite well on In Hymns of Praise, even though we started the morning practice a bit roughly.  But, as one of the Young Elders said, "I had the most trouble with this piece, but I finally got it today!"  I think many of us felt that way.

My first duty at the Library was to be a Helper, and towards the end of the first hour I became just that.  A guest with Swiss ancestry found that records for her area were available in the CD-ROM collection--only we do not actually have the discs.  Instead they are loaded onto only one specific computer on our floor, and another guest was using that computer.  Blessedly he was willing to move to a different computer, and the guest figured out how to get the program to work, so after a short while she assured me she could do what she needed to do on her own.

That was a good thing, because a delightful couple arrived almost immediately and I spent the next two hours helping them find records and make plans to find more information.  As we spent time looking at a microfilm, I was inspired to ask the woman if she had any older relatives living in the place in Germany where her family was from--she still has cousins living right in the house her ancestor lived in early in the 1900s!  She agreed it would be a good idea to write to them to get the birth and death information.  The man found lots of information just through searches on FamilySearch, and at the end of their time they each got a FamilySearch account and began entering information.

After our Trainers Meeting this afternoon I was supposed to be the Monitor, but a sister asked for my help with a guest, and she took the Monitor's badge, and I worked with that guest until nearly time for the Library to close! His family lived in Minnesota, and we could not get him across the pond, but he will come back later this week, and I encouraged him to go to the floor that specializes in finding records that will get him a place name in Europe.

Once I got home I decided I needed to make broth with Saturday's turkey carcass before it went bad. So I had that cooking and cleaned out the frig, which netted the makings of supper.

I just finished a nice talk with my Sweetheart.  Tomorrow will be another busy day, I am sure.