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Here are my recommendations for some Genealogy  Fun this weekend:
1)  Listen to Geneabloggers  Radio  tonight (Friday night, 10 p.m. ET, 9 p.m. CT, 8 p.m. MT and 7  p.m. PT) hosted by Angela Walton-Raji. This week's topic is "Ethnic Genealogy." The special guests include:
*  Linda Geiger CG℠, CGL℠ who will discuss  Native American research
*  Lisa B. Lee, PLCGS who will  help us learn more about Black Canadian research. 
2) Listen to the  FGS Radio - My  Society show on  Saturday (2 p.m. ET, 1 p.m. CT, 12 noon MT, 11 a.m. PT) hosted  by Drew Smith this week. The topic is "Focus on Genealogy Society Bylaws."  
The special guests  are:
*   Robert a“Bobbi” King will join us as  we review issues involved with society bylaws and ways to use them to strengthen  your organization. 
*  In addition, we’ll be highlighting the Anchorage Genealogical Society in our weekly  Society Spotlight feature.
3) Check out the recent  Webinars on:
*  Researching Your Connecticut Ancestors. by Marian  Pierre-Louis (free until 3  October 2011)
* Exploring FamilyLink.com and WorldVitalRecords.com by  their founder, Paul Allen.
* "Newspapers for Genealogists: Using GenealogyBank.com to  document every day of your ancestors' lives" with Tom Kemp.  
* "Organizng for Success" with Karen  Clifford (available free indefinitely from Legacy Family  Tree)
* "The Power of DNA in Unlocking Family Relationships," with  Ugo Perugo (available indefinitely from Legacy Family  Tree)
*  "Leveraging the Power of "We": a Watershed Event in  Discovering Where to Find Your Ancestors (Research Wiki, Research Courses, and  FamilySearch Forums)," with Michael  Ritchey (available from Legacy Family  Tree).
*  RootsMagic Webinars (all free) available at http://www.rootsmagic.com/Webinars/
* National Genealogical  Society (NGS) Videos (some are free to view) at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/videos_online
* Thomas MacEntee's Explorinar  on Easy Website Creation (free to  view).
* Thomas MacEntee's Explorinar  on Evernote - Easy Note Taking UPDATED  (free to view)
4)  Respond to my Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge, posted on  www.geneamusings.com soon after 12 noon  Pacific time (that's 1900 GMT for those who understand time zones).  
5) Go to a local genealogical society  program.  I'm going to the San Diego Genealogical Society program on Saturday morning, featuring Linda Serna, and then going to the Chula Vista Genealogical Society workshop in Bonita in the afternoon.
6) Go to a local or close  repository with genealogy and family history material. Do some  research in traditional resources or order FamilySearch microfilms online with  original source records.
7) do some  online research in the latest record collections at FamilySearch  (free, https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list),  Ancestry ($$, http://www.ancestry.com/cs/reccol/default),  Fold3 ($$, www.fold3.com), WorldVitalRecords  ($$, www.WorldVitalRecords.com),  American Ancestors ($$, www.AmericanAncestors.org),  GenealogyBank ($$, www.GenealogyBank.com),  etc.
8) Add material (names, dates,  places, notes, images, sources, etc.) to your genealogy software  program. I still have three inches of paper collected from my  vacation, and will try to enter some of it into my database this  weekend.
9) Spend time with your family  doing fun things.  Linda and I are going to a wedding on Saturday evening.
10)  Go to a local cemetery and clean stones, take  gravestone pictures, or transcribe epitaphs for your local  society, for Find-a-Grave, or a similar online service.
Whatever you  decide, please tell us about your genealogy endeavors on a social network or in  a blog post. You never know when your experiences may stimulate or encourage  others to do useful genealogy work.
Welcome to my genealogy blog. Genea-Musings features genealogy research tips and techniques, genealogy news items and commentary, genealogy humor, San Diego genealogy society news, family history research and some family history stories from the keyboard of Randy Seaver (of Chula Vista CA), who thinks that Genealogy Research Is really FUN! Copyright (c) Randall J. Seaver, 2006-2024.
 
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My favorite "fun genealogy activity" for the weekends are to visit cemeteries. Even though it poured down rain last weekend we still made a cemetery visit--although a bit shorter than usual.
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