I completed the correspondence genealogy course at the end of August. I had been working on this course since August 2009. One of my co-workers suggested that I write a series of blog posts about my experiences working the course. I definitely need to send the organization’s blog master an inquiry as to if they would even be interested in posting my experiences on their blog. Nevertheless, if it doesn’t pan out--these articles will definitely be posted here!
Worked my organization’s booth at FGS in Springfield, IL. I really enjoyed meeting students and graders in person there. The president of my organization purchased the genealogy social networking book that I blogged about previously. It was great to see someone else having an interest in how that plays into the world of genealogy. I had wonderful to talks with various organizations that gave me some new ideas/clues to look into with my research.
Took a much needed vacation after the conference and visited my family in Decatur. Unfortunately after the conference, I caught a cold so this put a bit of a damper on my visit with the family. I refused to let the cold keep me from working on my afghan and doing genealogical research.
I have completed embroidering another strip while I was in IL. However, I’ll be honest work on the afghan has suffered and I’ve been feeling unmotivated to work on it. Since I finished my genealogy course, I’ve picked up trying to finish the Spanish course I’ve been doing on my own. Years ago, I had enrolled in a Spanish 101-Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish course at my local community college. Even though I was really enjoying the course and doing really well at it, I dropped it due to insomnia. I decided to try to complete the course on my own and have worked on it off and on for many years. Currently I’m on lesson 49 out of 52 lessons, so I very close to completing this. The end portion of this course involves writing alot of compositions in Spanish. I realize that I should focus on my afghan and then concentrate on the Spanish once I’ve finished it.
Before the conference started, I visited the Illinois State Archives to do some planned Brennan and Yockey family research. I’ll post more about my visit in a later post.
One of my plans was to visit Mound Cemetery near Hunt City, IL while I visited my family in Decatur. After the conference and while feeling under the weather, my husband and I drove to the cemetery. I had wanted to visit it because so many Yockeys are buried there. I took pictures of many of the graves that I found and even shot a video of the location of Emily and John M. Yockey’s grave. I’ll post more about this visit in a later post.
I need to scan and send the documents I found to my brother-in-law as well as post them to my WeRelate page as well as document my research in my research log. Additionally, send him the video I made and post it and the gravesite photos to WeRelate . I also made some time at the very last minute before I left IL to do some ‘home research’ and in the process I took a few Womble family items from my family’s house-with their permission of course! One of these items I discovered that I had been referring to it incorrectly and will need to change this in my genealogy source citations that refer to this document. Another reason to accurately cite your sources!!
