Charleston, SC

I went to the NGS meeting in Charleston and visited with Drew Smith about how I had started a blog, but was having a hard time keeping up with it. So I'll try again. I am still busy transcribing Grandma B. diaries, writing MY story, doing a journal on prison life of an ancestor who left letters behind, volunteering my time with Find-a-Grave and Ramdon Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK), plus I've been made Web Master for Smith County Texas. A job I am struggling to full fill. Then there are genealogy meeting, and cemeteries to photography for the society (ETGS) that I belong to. Finally there is Mary Jane, my dear aunt who will be 100 in August. She is in a nursing home, however it is up to me to help her and visit as often as I can.

I have been able to do some research on my own family: Anna Gertrude Wessling via Sister Mary Pauline. She is the Grand niece of my Great grandfather Bishop. I had some information on her and wanted to verify it, so I spent days looking and finding her on censuses, tax roll, voter lists, city directories, but no death date. She had been in California for years and my information confirmed this, but no death date. Finally a member of RAOGK suggested I contact the Mother House of the Sisters of Mercy, her order. After she went to the home for the aged in California, they moved her to Council Bluffs, IA to their hospital, where she died and was buried in St. Joseph Cemetery in Council Bluff, in the section reserved for Sisters of Mercy. Now it's on to another ancestor.