Randy Seaver started this meme among the genea-blogger community. I was tagged today by two blogging friends who I have had the pleasure of meeting in person: Schelly Talalay Dardashti Tagged: Fives and Tens of Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog and Maureen Taylor Tag I'm It! An Online Game of Family Tree Magazine's Photo Detective Blog. I don't usually participate in memes but I'll just consider this a continuation of Terry Thornton's Getting to Know Me Challenge.
Ten years ago I was:
1. planning a trip to Puerto Vallarta with 20 of my husband's closest friends to celebrate his 50th birthday.
2. the mother of two in elementary school which meant soccer games every Saturday and a lot of carpooling the rest of the week.
3. in a Greek folk dance group with some other moms.
4. giving disaster preparedness presentations to local neighborhood groups.
5. just on the cusp of serious genealogy research after several years of collecting family information.
Five things on today's "to-do" list:
1. Order a copy of Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 20: Co. Tyrone II, 1825, 1833-35, 1840 from the Ulster Historical Foundation. (done)
2. Organize materials obtained from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. (made a dent)
3. Upload and tag photographs from Ireland trip. (done)
4. Clean off my desk (looks better).
5. Work on the CGS Branding project. (tomorrow)
Five snacks I enjoy [the healthy version]:
1. Edamame
2. Blueberries
3. Apple slices
4. Hummus on baby carrots
5. Tzatziki on whole wheat pita
Five places I have lived:
1. Western Pennsylvania
2. Downriver Detroit suburb
3. Ann Arbor (Go Blue! - okay, I'm still saying it but seriously - Toledo? In the Big House?)
4. San Francisco
5. East Bay
Five jobs I have had:
1. Clerk in the corner drugstore - applied at age 4; hired at age 16
2. Cashier/hostess in hotel restaurants - college
3. Retail and hospital staff pharmacist
4. Supervisor, Inpatient pharmacy services
5. Mom (the toughest, by far!)
Schelly included two more categories:
Five places to visit again:
1. Northern Ireland
2. Tzintsina, Greece
3. Sendai, Japan
4. Paris
5. Florence
Five places I want to visit for the first time:
1. Northumberland Co., England
2. Smyrni/Izmir, Turkey
3. Costa Rica
4. Venice
5. Hong Kong
This meme has been passed to many already so I'm tagging some international genea-bloggers:
1. England: Kate Gilby – Kate's Family Tree
2. Ireland: Rachel Murphy – Irish Family History Blog
3. Sweden: Anna-Karin Schander - Anna-Karin's Genealogical Blog
4. The Netherlands: Henk van Kampen – Trace Your Dutch Roots
5. Australia: Carol Riley – Genealogy in New South Wales
Recent Posts
17 October 2008
Tagged Twice by the Five and Dime
16 October 2008
Information Swap Meet - October 23, 2008
The California Genealogical Society received this notice from Carly Perez-Banuet, Breuner Building Operations Manager.
Good Afternoon Tenants,
The owners and management of 2201 Broadway cordially invite you to join us at our “Information Swap Meet”. We have many diverse and interesting people and activities in our 2201 Broadway family and we want to bring us all together so we can all find out what everybody else in our building is up to. We will have tables set up in the large open space on the ground floor and invite you to reserve one and spread your information about your group on it for others to see.
Carly Perez-Banuet
Operations Manager
Cushman & Wakefield of California, Inc.
Global Client Solutions
2201 Broadway, Suite M-3
Oakland,CA 94612
Date: October 23, 2008
Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Main lobby conference room, Suite 101
15 October 2008
Wordless Wednesday
Gene Peck and Anne Robinson
Photographs by Kathryn M. Doyle, 9/18/2008.
14 October 2008
CGS Computer Committee
Some of the most important volunteer work done at the California Genealogical Society is carried out behind-the-scenes by the members of the Computer Committee: Al Clark, Kathy Watson and Gary Willcuts.
In June of this year the committee conducted a survey of member volunteers to identify problems. Responses were logged and priorities set. The committee created a project work list and assigned one member to oversee each issue.
The committee's first priority is to create consistency among all the computers. The intent is to set up all of the computer desktops in the same way so that a volunteer can sit down at any computer and find things in the same place. Icons have been set up in a specific order.
Subscription and free databases are now easily accessed by clicking the "Links" button on the bottom right side of the toolbar.
"Links" opens the list of all available databases:
Ancestry
Boston Pilot Missing Friends
CGS Catalog
Customize Links
Family Search
Footnote at the California Genealogical Society
LDS DigFamHists
Lib of Congress Cats
Mid-Atlantic States Archives
NEHGS
New England Records
NewspaperARCHIVE.com
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Rootsweb
VitalSearch-CA
VitalSearch-worldwide
WorldVital Records
Other issues that are being addressed by the committee include performance, training, e-mail, back-up, new software, and setting up all computers for data entry and data access.
13 October 2008
Limited Time Offer: Two Free Issues of Everton's Online Edition
Leland K. Meitzler of Everton Publishers sent this announcement:
Everton is offering access to the two Online Edition issues now available at the site: July-August 2008 and September-October 2008 - absolutely FREE until October 17, 2008.
Simply go to: http://www.everton.com/ and download the issues.
Until October 27, 2008 the $12 annual subscription fee to the Online Edition of the Genealogical Helper will be reduced to $10.00, and the $29.00 annual subscription fee for the hard copy edition of the magazine (includes access to the Online Edition) will be reduced to $25.00.
The Genealogical Helper is widely recognized as having no equal in terms of amount of total content, educational and research information, and lists of organizations, events, and repositories.
The complete magazine is online, and all Web sites listed in either the content or advertisements are hot-linked.
This is a great opportunity for CGS members to take a free look at the publication. The offer expires this Friday.
