Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
1) March 21 is National Memory Day. How can we celebrate, and participate, in the day? I asked AI tool ChatGPT how, and it suggested "Capture a Memory Before Its Gone;" "Rescue and Identify Old Photos;" "Record a Oral History;" "Organize One Small Thing;" "Share a Story With Family;" "Visit or Virtually Honor Ancestors."
2) For SNGF this week, do one or more of those tasks or some other related task of your choosing.
3) Share your selected National Memory Day activity in your own blog post, or in a Facebook, SubStack, BlueSky or other social media post. Leave a link to your post on this blog post to help us find your post.
[Thank you to geneablogger Janice Sellers for telling me about the National Memory Day and suggesting this topic.]
Here's mine:
a) I had already planned to post the Biography of Peter Victorse and Sarah (Kinnan) Putman of New Jersey and New York, so that should count as virtually honoring my ancestors.
b) I had a recent thought about my childhood that I don't think I've shared bofore -- here it is - (this should count as "Capture a Memory Before Its Gone" - it's been gone for over 70 years):
"When I was a boy of about 8 to 10, we had strawberry and raspberry plants in the garden south of our house (before the apartments were built on the lot in 1953). They produced excellent crops because my grandparents were garden experts and religiously watered them and weeded them and they kept producing. My brother Stan and I were tasked with picking the ripe berries every day and washing them. They provided fresh food for our family and my grandparents. When there were too many baskets of berries, we had the bright idea to take them up to the Piggly Wiggly grocery store on Juniper Street and sell them to shoppers going into oro ut of the store. Sometimes we sold them on the street corner across from the Piggly Wiggly and sometimes going door-to-door on our block, and other blocks, to neighbors. We earned a bit of spending money (for baseball cards? Candy? Gum?)."
Perhaps I should have Claude produce a "The Watchful House Remembers" story about this.
c) I've put off sending another Randy-Gram to my family members for months - this would be a good time to remind them that we are still alive, and I've been busy telling family stories about their ancestors on my blog, and on my YouTube channel. My hope is that some of them will happily click to read a story or watch a video of their ancestors. (This fits the "Share a Story With Family" category.)
d) I keep finding photographs in my piles in the genealogy cave (and I know I have a box of photographs in the garage (another recent memory...) so I should digitize the "good ones" I find and upload them to MyHeritage (to enhance and colorize if they need it) and use them in my Wordless Wednesday posts. I need to do more "Live Memories" on MyHeritage too, and enhance and enlarge some of my small and fuzzy images using ChatGPT and/or Gemini (This fits the "Rescue and Identify Old Photos" category).
e) I want to start using my own ovice with my family stories. I could tell one of my stories from my StoryWorth book using Zoom or Substack, save it and upload it to my YouTube channel (This is a "Record an Oral history" project.).
f) That leaves the Organization project. I'm hopeless with piles of paper on all sides of my desk besides the computer and printer, boxesw of paper on the floor behind and beside me, and "unopened for ten years" binders in the bookcases and piles of perioicals on top of the bookcases. There is not enough time today, or tomorrow. Procrastination is powerful.
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