Saturday night has rolled around once again so it’s time for one of my favorite blogging activities – Saturday Night Genealogy Fun with Randy Seaver.

Here’s this week’s challenge:

1)  When was the last time you visited the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, or visited a local FamilySearch Center?

2)  What record collections are on your To-Do List, whether at the FamilySearch Library, or a FamilySearch Center, or the Full-Text Search feature online, or Digital Microfilm on the Images or Catalog Link on the FamilySearch.org website?

This answer is going to be quite short because I went to the FamilySearch center just last Friday.

The last time I was lucky enough to be in the FamilySearch Library was during RootsTech 2019. I considered going to RootsTech in 2020, but Covid was beginning to appear everywhere and I decided, having asthma, that I didn’t want to take the chance both flying to Salt Lake and being around thousands of people.

In 2019, my to-do list mostly consisted of looking at books that weren’t digitized or available locally in Tucson.

Although it’s been five years since I’ve been in Salt Lake, my local FamilySearch center is a short 15 minutes away form my house and I only have to travel on three streets to get there!

My earlier visit this summer happened because I had a list of Virginia and Maryland records that were digitized, but locked from home. I also wanted to use full-text search in those places for some of my husband’s Thompson lines.

Last week, my to-do list consisted of one film – marriage records of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada. I had earlier retrieved an image of my 3X great grandparents marriage in the West Isles of New Brunswick in 1836. However, when I looked at it at home, I found the image had failed to save properly so I needed to retrieve it once again.

I also had four other couples related to my ancestors who might well have married in Charlotte County. However, I didn’t find any of those marriages and now suspect that they might have married in some Maine town like Eastport, Lubec or Calais or even a smaller nearby town. None are in my direct line so I haven’t spent anytime browsing page by page for them. Those Maine vital records aren’t indexed.

I haven’t yet begun a new FamilySearch to-do list, but I imagine I will have one before the end of the summer and will make another visit to the FamilySearch center.

Thanks, Randy, for this week’s challenge.