Genealogy Jottings

A have had a week without genealogy. My life keeps getting in the way of any serious research.

It goes this way:

• Sunday, being Valentine’s Day, I spent enjoying some leisure time with my husband/tech advisor,
• Monday, being President’s Day, I spent shopping at all the great sales,
• Tuesday, I took care of my three-year-old granddaughter, and she is not very interested in genealogy, yet,
• Wednesday, I spent catching up on all the correspondence I had neglected earlier in the week. I did sneak in some time to read the newest issue of the NGS Quarterly.

Here I am now on Thursday with nothing to show in the way of genealogical progress. I do plan to work on some genealogy today. I have a stack of Sherman family documents on my desk that I need to analyze. I also have on online webinar that I want to hear.

I also discovered a little gem among some genealogy material I inherited last year. Our cousin Alta Kaessinger had a membership in the Coles County, Illinois genealogy society for many years, and she saved all their newsletters. I want to go through them to see if I can find any Reed or Sherman-related information. Of course, I could take a short cut and just look this up on PERSI, the Periodical Source Index for genealogy publications, but I would get a better sense of place if I read the newsletters.

So, I have big plans, just not big amounts of time. I will do what I can.