Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 10 November 2019

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week:

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society board meeting on Wednesday, and reported on the Newsletter, Research Group, and DNA Interest Group.  Wrote, edited and published via email the CVGS Newsletter for November 2019.  I will print and mail the postal copies on Tuesday. 

2)  Participated in Mondays With Myrt today.  The panel discussed Remembrance Day, Veterans Day, 1940s occupation of Norway, Pat's map issue, Dave's computer problems, backup and cloud storage, photos of ancestors who served, and the Sayre talk on Soldiers homes.  I contributed only to the photos with my post Veterans Day 2017 - Honoring My Heroes.

3)  Watched one Family Tree Webinars video -  Famous DNA: Looking into the genetic history of Joseph Smith Jr., founder of Mormonism.

4)  Wrote and posted a biographical sketch of 7th great-grandfather #514 Samuel Rayment (1679-1724) for my 52 Ancestors biographical sketch on Friday.  

5)  Transcribed a 1778 deed of  5th great-grandfather Simon Gates buying land in Westminster, Massachusetts from Silas Marshall for Amanuensis Monday.

6) There were several sessions working in the RootsMagic software program to match with and update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and my ancestral families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 33,469 of my RootsMagic persons with FSFT.

7)  Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and sources to my RootsMagic profiles.  I now have 55,335 persons in my RootsMagic file, and 111,669 source citations.   I TreeShared once this week updating 155 profiles, and I resolved 241 Ancestry Hints.  I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 121,955 to be resolved, but I work on them weekly.  

8)  Added the ThruLines for three AncestryDNA matches with "Common Ancestors."  Researched the ancestry of one of the Brigham cousins to see if there were any common ancestors other than the Brighams.  There weren't, but some lines are not complete.

9) Wrote 20 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which two were press releases.  The most popular post last week was Don Created a Wonderful Genealogy Website on TNG  with over 317 views.

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