It is now May 22, 2011. We just keep doing the same thing every day which is exciting because new people come in every day with new problems and information. I am getting the hang of New Family Search so I am able to help people get their family ordinance forms printed up. I am even helping Warren learn NFS. We have just started being able to print the cards off at the library so they can take them directly to the temple and just walk in to do the ordinances, which is great. Since I come from pioneer families from all four grandparents, I find a lot of errors on my New Family Search lines. Since I am working to fix my problems, I am also able to help fix some of the problems that occur with our patrons. People are so excited to find family members that they can take to the temple. We are continuing to get people coming into the library who are just starting to do their work and they are the ones I like to work with.
Since we arrived I have found four people that are on my collateral lines that were not on New Family Search so their work has not been done. I couldn’t believe it. But these are the people that were born in the late 1800s and early 1900s whose families have fallen away from the church and no one in their direct line is doing the work; so I get to at least get them on New Family Search. I am unable to do the temple work because they were born less than 95 years ago. But, someone some day (even me if I live that long) will get to do it.
Warren seems to be the go-to person when no one can answer a question. He is amazing in that he picks up on things really quickly –he also has an ability to bluff his way through!!! I am now the official Ancestry.com teacher. This is great because I really get to learn the ins and outs of the site. It is a great site, but has its flaws and does not have everything, but it sure has a lot of information with more than 30,000 databases and each database having thousands and hundreds of thousands of records.
We started going back to the grocery store right across the street from UCLA. We stopped going because it was so busy, but it is a bigger store than the one we had been going to. It also has the advantage of the excitement of college life. We could just walk there, but it would be too hard to bring the groceries home. We go for walks at least three times a week and get to walk through the beautiful greenery and beautiful blooming flowers of California. . . oh, and also, an occasional homeless person sleeping on the city sidewalk. There are trees on our walking route that have purple flowers that are just beautiful. We also have more than 35 tomatoes on our tomato plant on our 3 sq. foot patio. We have already eaten two of them and five of them are turning red right now.
On the home front, Lindsay Daniel (David’s wife) will have her sixth child in July, and Katie (our daughter) will have her sixth child in November; so we left with 14 grandchildren and will come home to 17. At church I just love to watch all the babies and just think about how my grandchildren are growing.
