Research has been limited lately with work commitments and other more pressing matters, but did manage to sneak in a bit of family history research so far this week:
On President's Day, took advantage of a day off from work to visit the Jay County Historical Society Museum, where I copied the original probate estate packets for Luman Walker Lemasters, George W. Haley, George Haley, John Metzner and John Adam Metzner. This will give me a ton of stuff to sort through and plenty of fodder for future posts. Plus, spent time with my dad and visited my aunts and uncles in Portland.
Continue to work through my RootsMagic database, correcting the Quaker dates that I had originally adding in the system with only the year for the date and included month & date with the place. Ex : 1815 (8mo 3d) New Garden MM. I was unaware that the database can handle the date sort in the correct order, and have been working through a query that looks for any place name with a parenthesis in it to make corrections. At the same time, I am eliminating county names with the place names I had for the monthly meetings, as many encompassed more than one county. Now the place name will simply say "New Garden Monthly Meeting, North Carolina".
Watched the latest episode of "Genealogy Roadshow" this week on PBS. I thought the best story was the first one, where the women found out that her grandmother's family had helped Jews escape from Austria - and that they actually were cousins of her family. Why do so many families continue to keep secrets?
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