Saturday, on a very icy morning, we head to the Minnesota Genealogy Society in South St.Paul. While I don't mean to criticize Boy Scout volunteers who are spending their day, often thanklessly, working for the benefit of the Scouts, I have to admit that Scoutmaster Bucky has me spoiled. There is little information at check-in as to what the plan is. Will there be classwork? We are shuttled into a meeting room, and without much guidance, Sander and I start working on the other requirements just on our own time.
I will say that the tour of the library was fun and informative for Sander. He spent 20 minutes at Ancestry.com looking up some of the ancestors I have in our records. He finds some meager information that could be worth following-up on, but when I suggest he look up the name "Eliza Jack" (one of Sarah's ancestors), he finds an actual census record. This makes it much more real for him- a scanned document over a hundred years old. And under place of birth for Eliza Jack: "New Brunswick." At last, the Canadian heritage he celebrated back in first grade.
Anyway, with a lot of work (his comment: "This isn't like school. In school, we do stuff- this is all just writing."), he starts and finishes Genealogy in short order. 19 down!!
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