Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Being Out-Geeked

Worked, which included much phoning and emailing of references of new job candidates. R picked me up, and we picked up Hubby from work early and had lunch at Shmed Shmobin (yummmmm).

After lunch, I took them home, picked up B from work, and spent some quality time genealogy-ing at the library while he went to the social security office. Home, Gilmore Girls marathon on TV with the family, more genealogy-ing. I just can't not look them up. 

Until yesterday, this was kind of embarrassing to admit, but now that I'm better at Excel than I was when I started at the bookstore, I've been using it to make a spreadsheet of my closest family members so I can see who still needs research done. Also, at work, I have a small map of the United States on my wall, on which I wrote the surnames from my family tree in the states where they were born. 

BUT THEN I met someone at the genealogical society who made a spreadsheet just for the sources she uses for research, AND was wearing a t-shirt with a US map that had little gemstones denoting which states her family members came from. And now I'm just in awe. I thought I was the biggest geek in six counties and it turns out I'm not.