What They Wore-Orange

Hurrah fall is finally on its way so we wore orange!

Another whirlwind of a Sunday has come and gone. After church I was settling in on the couch for a Sunday doze when I spied the laptop and I felt a bit guilty since I hadn't worked on family history for months.  Like embroidery, it is one of those hobby that waxes and wanes with the birth of children. After a new baby is born all my extra time for hobbies falls to the wayside and once they are less time consuming I gradually come back to them. I have always (since high school) been into family history I come from generations of Latter-day Saints and so most of the easy work (I know there is probably more research to be done though) on the family lines has been done.

 Eddy's mom is from Magdalena, Mexico and his Mexican family history was untouched as he was a convert to the LDS faith and we only knew the names of his maternal grandparents and a vague place and we didn't even know the names of his great grandparents.  So I began working on his Mexican family history shortly after we were married (he has an aunt who joined the church and did quite a bit of work on the Carlton line).  Years passed with frustration and very little success and I kept at it when finally about four years ago we had a big break through and found a tiny town in Sonora, Mexico called Banamichi where his family had lived for years and I was able to gather hundreds of names by painstakingly reading birth, death and marriage records all in Spainish in flowery script that is sometimes hard to read. Most of the names have a birth date or a death date but not both, so there is still a lot of research to do. It is so much easier now since most of the films are online to view from the comfort of home rather than ordering films from Salt Lake.

Anyhow I decided to work a bit on the family history and after two hours with no luck I thought I would check out the indexing volunteer program. Basically you download a free program and read old records summarizing them and then upload your work. I got started on a batch of records and had to stop to make dinner and handed it to Eddy. He really took to it and finished two batches. Usually he is not to involved with the family history to much but he really liked the indexing. In fact, I didn't do any of it.  The best thing about the lds family history website is it is absolutely free.  If you are looking for a easy, enjoyable service project check out indexing or if you want to know more about your ancestors or where your family comes from explore the family search website.

Declan really wanted a moody photo of him with his feodora.