Monday 04/08/2024
First up was the Resident Association meeting. Nothing special there. Off to FOPAL. It is the week preceding the sale and I had a bunch of boxes to process. Unfortunately 2 hours in, and only half-done with pricing, the computers all lost DNS service, claiming they couldn’t find Bookfinder.com when just seconds earlier it had come up perfectly. So I had to repack the unpriced books into boxes and leave, meaning to come back tomorrow.
Then down to a lunch date with sister in law Jean. We had sandwiches at Eric’s and chatted. She is in remarkably good shape for a 96-year-old. We compared aches and pains. She is in the process of moving a huge genealogy project — her family, her French ancestors plus, by marriage, some Cortesi’s — from the proprietary Reunion genealogy app, which she has used for years, into Ancestry.com. She wants to make this accessible to her other family members to see and maintain, and wanted me to test the access to it as a non-user of Ancestry.
Well that didn’t go super well. Ancestry won’t let you just wander in and look. They pester you and harass you until you sign up for a free trial membership, and the sign-up process is very lengthy as they try to force you to begin your own personal family tree. But finally when I could do a search, there is a remarkable amount of info. They know a lot more about Emilio Cortesi than I did. Interestingly, he is linked in at least 6 family trees. Who the heck are the Ruth Family that has my father as a leaf in their tree?
Unfortunately for Jean’s work, my searching did not turn up some of the things she is sure she imported from Reunion. So she has more work to do.
Back to CH for a 3pm meeting of the Good Times committee, planning our September event which will be a Hootenanny, i.e. a bunch of folk music. We are near to finalizing the song list.
Ate supper in my room; not feeling sociable.
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