I decided to attend my zone's Prayer meeting before going to the JSMB. I will be giving the remaining in-service lessons, so I wanted to see how the presentation on Record Seek worked out. We used a BYU Family History Library video by James Tanner, and I think it was pretty well received. I highly recommend Record Seek, which attaches sources to FamilySearch and to Ancestry.com from other websites, and automatically generates the citations.
Capstone Training focused today on Census records. I did learn a few things that will help me to help others with US research, and possibly with some descendancy research of my own someday.
After training I went to the Library to try to find my 3rd great-grandmother's birth record. Although there are records available from the churches in the areas all around where the 1819 Mecklenburg Census indicates she was born, I have not been able to find her. That was quite a disappointment.
The 1819 Mecklenburg Census proved valuable in tracking down her daughter-in-law's family, however. Because of that census I could tell that the lines are not yet complete. I hope to get a bit of help with this from family members.
I needed to ask for help from one of the volunteers who is a native of Germany, because a birth and christening record was written in a format I had never seen before. The child's name was first, but the father was only identified by his surname, and the mother was just called the wife of the father. However, I do know positively that it is my line because of that 1819 Census.
I had a short meeting with the sister who is taking over the responsibility of the Young Elder Dinners. She is making the program work for her, and except for meeting with her for a short time tomorrow, she seems to feel she will not need my help any more. That is very nice on one hand but feels a little strange, too. Each of the people I know of that has filled this assignment has had their own way of doing it. I suppose that this is the way it is with most Church callings--we each get to learn the lessons we need by doing new tasks.
I am grateful that my daughter took care of getting the car licensed in good order. A worldly thing but very necessary in our current situation.
This evening I decided to attend a tour of the Church History Library. One of the couples in our MTC group was assigned to work there, and our group got a special tour. I enjoyed reading a little from a facsimile copy of the 1830 Book of Mormon. It had no verses, so was written in paragraphs. There were some chapters, but not at the same places as our more recent editions. I like the paragraph style, and when I get home I will probably go back to using a version that is written that way.
At the CH Library I also got to see a fragment of the Book of Abraham papyri. That is quite interesting to see. I did get a picture of that with my cell phone camera which actually turned out fairly well. The picture I took of a page from The Book of Mormon manuscript did not turn out nearly as well. The 2200 year-old document was more clearly defined than the 187 year old one!
Phone connections with my Sweetheart have their issues from West Virginia. We are hoping to use Skype to overcome the challenge.
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