Wordy Wednesday

 

Weekly Roll - Basketball Adjacent

 

Former Blazers player and now retired from the NBA, Meyers Leonard has a country song - Good in Goodbye.

***This post was supposed to be for last week but never posted. However, it ties better into March Madness, right

Linky Love

Running Point - Watch this on Netflix.  I thoroughly enjoyed this series. 

There was a request for M&M cookies - Robbi's M&M cookies fit the bill

Inappropriate Thoughts

Well my son was contacted by the Pharmacy Experience Team. It made me laugh. The one medication is hard to obtain due to lack of supply. Insurance has been extremely unhelpful and challenging to obtain the proper medication. The thought that the insurance cares one wit about his customer experience is laughable.

Trash Talk

I won at the trash game last Sunday. I found panties. Thank the lord for tongs. My friend said my band name is "Park Panties".  Don't think about it too much.

Recycled Art Show - My Bird Era

 

Artesia Clean and Beautiful hosted an art show at the library. I of course contributed the bird art above called Priority Mail. I swear I have reached the end of my security envelope birds. Below are some of the art entries.

Throwback Thursday

 

My mom gave me this picture a couple years back. Yep, I was a Brownie.  I was in Girl Scouts until High School, and I earned the Gold Award similar to the Eagle for Boy Scouts. Scouting was a huge part of my elementary through high school years. I carried this picture in my purse for a good long while. Ever had anything get lost in your purse?

I talk about an adventure I had with the Girl Scouts on a long-ago throwback Thusday. I had to sell a ton of cookies and candy bars for that trip and probably calendars too.

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Wordy Wednesday

 

This is the title of Ina Garten's Memoir and also makes a great letterboard quote.

Booking it March

 I am linking up with Modern Mrs. Darcy's quick lit. Check out what everyone else has been reading.

 I have been working on a challenging read for me for book club, so I have been reading something completely different than that to balance out.  That book has been Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe

I thought it was well written, and I enjoyed the overview of all the famous Vanderbilts. I have read other books about them, but this one stands out. I especially liked reading about Alva Vanderbilt as it has tied into other things I have been reading. All the excess of the gilded age is discussed and the rise of the Vanderbilt's in society and the downfall of having too much money. Who better to tell these tales than Anderson Cooper who is related to the Vanderbilt's.

In the past I have Read - American Duchess about Consuelo Vanderbilt and her autobiography The Glitter and the Gold

52 Ancestors - Roots Tech Wrap Up

 Last weekend I spent a lot of time taking classes at Root Tech.  Roots Tech is a in person and online genealogy conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah. I think I took 12 classes online. This year they offered a BYU beginner track. I found those interesting and a good way to get back to good fundamentals of genealogy. BYU has an in-person Family History Degree.  There was a lot of discussion of the use of AI in genealogy research. It is interesting to see where all that is leading too.

My favorite class had two parts of Mining the Census.  There is so much, and so little information contained in them.  I also attended a few German Genealogy courses.  One of the ancestors I have come from Germany, and it is my brick wall aka dead end.   Above all I got a lot of good information and some new methods for breaking down my brick walls.  Things didn't consider doing or records I didn't know about. Have you ever heard of a German Gazetteer?

Based on these classes. I will be revisiting two brick walls/ancestors I have hit a dead end on.

Jane Marie Devault  (Maternal Line) I have some avenues I am going to research.   I am also going to revisit some of my research. I am going to make a good research plan. Part of my plan involves looking for a Best Known Match and I think I have found one, so I am going to try to use that to connect to my tree.

John Lendman - (Paternal Line) I took a number of German Genealogy classes, and I plan to use a German Gazetteer to help me identify where in German he may have come from.  I have a place name.