A Slow Week For Tegan

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

This will be a very brief blog post this week because we went on an extended trip this weekend and I came home with the most painful sunburn I've ever had. We left Thursday, June 12th, and returned Sunday the 15th. I found myself unable to stand or walk from the sunburn until Tuesday the 17th. I considered not even posting this week, but I know I won't be posting next week or the week after.

Revolutionary War Research

We finally had a group come in this week. This is the first group I've seen all summer other than workers' friends. It was mostly youth learning how to make accounts and looking at their ancestors if they already had an account. One of their dads came with them because he had lost a document and needed help refinding and printing it. Usually, this would be the easiest request, but he forgot the name that was on the document. All I had to work with was "he was around 40 by the middle of the Revolutionary War and he had two sons who died in the Revolutionary War." He also remembered the last name, which for privacy I will call him "Johnson." I showed him how to use a descendancy chart from his first ancestor with the last name "Johnson"; from there, we expanded every male's descendants until we found all the men in his family with the last name "Johnson," who had at least 2 sons, and who was born in a year that would line up with him being around 40 by the middle of the Revolutionary War. It narrowed the options down a lot, but there were still dozens of possible men. It got to closing time, and we hadn't found anything yet. I suggested he ask his mother, who he mentioned does more genealogy than himself, if she had further information and then come back another day when he had more time, as with the 20 youth they brought, I was only able to dedicate around 20 minutes to helping him.

Fulfilling Orders

Tuesday, June 17th, and Wednesday the 18th, I got to work more on my current two orders for the mother and daughter. I finished the rest of the Video8 cassettes, so now all I have left are the 12 VHS-C, which means there's only about a 6-hour waitlist for any VHS/video cassette services. Once we get back from our trip coming up, I'll start putting ads out again.

Finishing my RootsTech 2026 Audition

I only have 1, maybe 2, core slides I want to add to my presentation, and then I'll write down notes so I don't rush through and forget to mention half the things on my slides. I'm trying to be done by Saturday, June 21st.

An Overloaded Term

Last week, I registered for classes, but there was a bug on the site that caused the "register" button to just not show up. So I had to submit a help ticket to be manually registered. The first person who helped me didn't let me pick my classes and just picked them for me, which I didn't mind because the classes all had to get done anyway. A week later, it was still showing me as unregistered, so I submitted another help ticket. They asked me what I wanted to be registered for, and I told them "Paleography, Research Methodology, and Evidence Analysis." They responded, telling me there are prerequisites, so I just decided to sign up for those classes. Today, Wednesday, June 18th, I checked my registration status, and it showed that I was registered for SIX classes, the three from the first ticket and the three from the second ticket. For reference, I was only in 2 classes this past term.