Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 26 November 2023

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

1)  Wrote a genealogical sketch for my paternal grandfather Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942).  I started the 52 Ancestors theme with my great-grandparents, and need to write sketches for my grandparents also.

2)  Transcribed the 1865 Will of Benjamin F. Seaver (1820-1866) of Essex County, New Jersey for the Amanuensis Monday theme.  

3)  Wrote about ten genealogical sketches for siblings of my father and my paternal grandfather with all events and source citations to add to my RootsMagic and online family trees, but have not posted them yet.  I wondered whether to do long or short sketches in Rabbit Holes With Randy -- Sketches for Relatives in my Family Tree.

4)  Wrote six Storyworth articles, mainly based on past blog posts, for the upcoming book.  I now have about 40 stories for the book about my life and have started getting them into a rational order.

5)  Made a photo album on my Ancestry Member Tree for my mother and for my father, uploading more photographs from my collection to reflect their lives in pictures.  I updated the file names, dates, and descriptions of the photos.  The Ancestry sort by date doesn't work perfectly.  I need to do this for my grandparents too.

6)  AncestryDNA now has 44,418 DNA matches (up 27 from 19 November) for me today, with one new ThruLines.  I added Notes to 6 matches.  MyHeritageDNA now has 11,960 DNA matches (up 14 from 19 November) for me, with no new Theories.  Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

7)  Occasionally matched RootsMagic 9 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree.  I have matched 50,057 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 4).  

8) Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and source citations to my RootsMagic profiles. I now have 71,663 persons in my RootsMagic family tree (up 13), and 146,373 source citations (up 41).  Resolved 317 Ancestry Hints. TreeShared no new and updated profiles with my Ancestry tree.  My Ancestry Member Tree has Ancestry Record Hints with 13,757 to be resolved, but I work on them several times a week.  

9) Wrote 16 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which two were a press release. The most viewed post last week was Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Memories of the Decade of Your Choice with over 257 views.  Genea-Musings had about 16,200 page views last week.  

10)  Real life:  This is week 194 since COVID restrictions started.   I stayed home except for visiting Linda almost every day at the skilled nursing/memory care facility. Went shopping on Monday and Friday.  Went to Thanksgiving dinner at my daughter Tami's home in Huntington Beach on Thursday.  Walked almost every day on the block and talked to several neighbors.  Finished reading Michael Connelly's The Law of Innocence, and started Nathan Dylan Goodwin's The Deserter's Tale.   My SDSU football Aztecs beat Fresno State on Saturday (finished 4-8), the basketball Aztecs won two games, and the Chargers lost on Sunday to the Ravens 20-10 (so now 4-7).  Watched some college football on Saturday and NFL football on Sunday.  

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