{"id":1072,"date":"2009-01-26T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/weekly-genealogy-blogging-prompt-4\/"},"modified":"2013-07-12T19:56:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T00:56:51","slug":"weekly-genealogy-blogging-prompt-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/weekly-genealogy-blogging-prompt-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt:<\/strong>\u00a0 Take a genealogy day trip and blog about it. Discover the local history and genealogy in your area. Take a trip to a cemetery or other historic location. Describe the day, what you learned, where you went, how it looked, how it sounded. Armchair genealogists will love the mini travelogue.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually quite funny that this topic came up when it did.\u00a0 I took my first excursion to our local genealogical society&#8217;s library last Thursday.\u00a0 Mind you, this is the first genealogical library I&#8217;ve ever been in (remember, I&#8217;ve had records galore in my possession, so this need hadn&#8217;t arisen, until now).<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;trip&#8221; actually started on Tuesday night, when a friend and I went to the society&#8217;s monthly meeting.\u00a0 The topic that night was a tour of the library.\u00a0 Even though my family is not from around the area I currently live in, there is still a wealth of information to be scoured in this library.\u00a0 So we planned to return later in the week to begin digging.<\/p>\n<p>When we arrived, our sights were set on the DAR lineage books, since we are both applying for membership.\u00a0 I already had my line mapped out and sourced, but it was neat to see that other women in my family were DAR members.\u00a0 I found that two of my first cousins four times removed (Julie Ann WEBSTER and Nettie Elizabeth VLIET) and a second cousin four times removed (Isabel Erskine PARKS) were members.\u00a0 I already knew that my great-granduncle Joseph Webster PARKS was an SAR member.\u00a0 I guess I&#8217;m following in the family&#8217;s footsteps by joining this wonderful organization myself.<\/p>\n<p>After I transcribed the three DAR membership records, I checked out some of the cemetery books that the genealogical society put together.\u00a0 It helped me to put together a blog post about a local family buried in Evergreen Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>It was getting close to closing time, so I wrapped up my research for the day.\u00a0 We plan to return later this week for more genealogical fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt:\u00a0 Take a genealogy day trip and blog about it. 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