13 days until I board a jet plane
and head to Salt Lake City, UT, to attend the 2015 FGS/RootsTech Conference.
I've been busy. I'm finally updating my RootsMagic database with all the
copied and downloaded files I've had for my German immigrant
great-great-grandfather, Andreas Ramminger.
I took a German genealogy course
through the Genealogical Studies program. So glad I did. Of course I wish I
hadn't signed up during December/January, made things really hectic. Working
through my assignments I found the Andreas with his first wife and six children
in the New York Passenger List on Ancestry.com. I now have the port of departure,
Rotterdam, and the date they arrived in United States, 6 July 1852.
I have such a feeling of
accomplishment. I've been dutifully citing all my sources. I can then file all
those pieces of paper in my permanent file folders.
After I've updated the database I
want to generate reports, save them as PDFs and import them to my tablet
computer. This way I won't have to carry all the papers on the trip.
I've been checking the weather for
Salt Lake and making notes on my trip check list. This time next week I'll
break-out my suitcase and start throwing in the items I'll need.
© 2015, Gayle Ficarra Wolcott
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