Gone but not forgotten
January 24th, 2008 by sashafaith
Well, I’ve been gone, but hopefully not forgotten. I don’t know what it is that keeps me from just taking a few minutes to sit and write, but hopefully this post will usher in a new period of faithful and regular blogging. I have not been researching much recently, despite several weeks of intense research just before Christmas. I was rushing to hopefully complete an article about my distant relative, Father Norman DuKette in time for publication in American Legacy magazine. His home church will be celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, and I hoped that I could draw some interest to them with the article. Unfortunately I have been unable to obtain any research materials thorugh interlibrary loan, and the one scholar I hoped might be able to share some of her work with me would not return my calls. The materials I gathered on my own will have to serve. But then I got sick just before Christmas. Then Christmas and all of its events came, and then a second bout of illness in the family. We are only now recovered. Some good news I have to share is that I have a new computer. My old one was very slow, and unable to make DVD’s, so I’m very much looking forward to many creative projects on my new computer. I will post later about my new computer and some new software I’ve been trying out. I really wanted to just “break the ice” so to speak, after so long since I’ve written. I’m hoping to start fresh with this new year and make progress on several different fronts. I have a few projects to share: I created my first Ancestry Press book as a gift for my Uncle Andy & Aunt Bernadette, featuring their combined family history. I was grateful for the cooperation of Bernadette’s family, who shared lots of history and photos. The finished product was wonderful and a great introductory price of only $29.99! I hope to make many more of these books, as long as the price is right. Also, I completed my own 2007 family scrapbook, although like my others, it is lacking in journaling. Now that my new computer is here, I hope to catch up with that. Another family history related gift was for my sister-in-law Jennifer. I bought a nice looking “fill-in-the-blank” family history book for her with a matching photo scrapbook. I gathered family photos and information for her and filled it in her book. Jen’s mom was very happy with the finished results and plans to hire me to do more work on her lines. Certainly that’s exactly the kind of work I hope to pursue in my business, so I’m eager to do that with her. That’s all for now, but I’ll be back again soon with more news and posts.