Saturday Night Fun Genealogy Calendar

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Make a Calendar!
from Genea-Musings by Randy Seaver
Hi SNGF fans - it's Saturday Night, time for some major Genealogy Fun!!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:

1) Open your genealogy software or family tree program of choice and make yourself the highlighted person.

2) Find out how to create a Calendar to show birthdays and/or anniversaries of yourself and all of your ancestors (or all relatives, or all persons - your choice!). The "Help" button is your friend here!!! It can be done in all of the current software programs.



3) Create your calendar. Pretty it up if you want. Save it. Can you show us a page from your calendar - say January 2010? This is from Ancestral Quest version 12


4) Which of your ancestors (or relatives, or descendants - your choice!), if any, were born on 30 January?

January 30
20th birthday for Kevin Campbell
176th birthday for Sara Hamer
80th Anniversary for Henry and Bertha Bengston

This is the landscape view page 1, it has more entries on page two. My mom and dads anniversary on January 14 ended up at the bottom of the page. Portrait view got all on one page but only used initials for given names.

Color code
Blue male birthday
Pink female birthday
Green anniversary

52 Weeks to Better Genealogy Challenge 4

We are supposed to go to the library and check out how to do an inter-library loan of a genealogy book in a distant library.

As a library volunteer I have used inter-library loans quite a lot, so it is as easy as filling out a form, and selecting the material you are interested in. Our library does not let genealogy books out of the library, so I have been pleasantly surprised that other libraries do loan out genealogy books. Most of the items I had used inter-library loans for was newspapers. Most newspapers are on microfilm somewhere, and you can get a copy of the newspaper from your hometown by inter-library loan right now, you do not have to wait for it to come on the internet, and the cost is right, free.

Wordless Wednesday Golden Gate

One more picture from my great Aunt Latisha Vanderpool's trip through Yellowstone Park July 21-28, 1915

Golden Gate (Notice the three coaches)

Non Genealogy post US Figure Skating

From January 14, 2010 Spokane hosted the US Figure Skating Championships and the winners would go to Vancouver to represent the USA in the Olympics. This picture is the US Olympic Team. While I had to work many days, I did get to the arena each evening and both Saturdays and Sundays.



The last day the 24th they had the winners from the novice, junior and seniors give a program, and you can see some of them on NBC tonight. The second picture was what they call the finaly. They load up those tables with souvenirs bunches of frizbie rings and some other towels or t-shirts, they ask the Olympians to sign the souvenir and throw it into the stands. Each of those tables came out heaping with these souvenirs, and it took them about 10 minutes to throw them all out to the crowd.

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your Interests?

It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:

* Tell us about your "other" hobbies or interests outside of genealogy and family history research, writing, speaking, etc.

Wow: is there other life away from genealogy?? I am a do it your self-er, love watching all the "how to" shows on PBS and DIY. When it warms up I like gardening and eating the produce from the garden.

Wordless Wednesday Bitter Root Mountains

One more picture from my great Aunt Latisha Vanderpool's trip through Yellowstone Park July 21-28, 1915

Saturday Night Fun Remember When

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Remember When?
from Genea-Musings by Randy Seaver
Hey there, it's Saturday Night, time for more Genealogy Fun!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music!), is:

1) Remember when you were 12 years old? On a summer day out of school? What memory do you have of fun activities?

Yes I remember when I was 12 years old, the 1960s had just started, John Kennedy was running for President, and I spent my summers either at home during the week days or at the lake on the weekends. See the post I did on How I spend my Summer Vacation for the Carnival of Genealogy.