It seems like November is flying by as we are already in the middle of the month and the weekend has rolled around once again.

This week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge from Randy Seaver is interesting and one that is very different:

1)  Review the last three or four “Best of the Genea-Blogs” posts (see   https://www.geneamusings.com/search/label/BestofGeneaBlogs). 

2)  Pick one of the articles listed that either helped you with your research or your writing, and/or that touched your emotions, and/or you are really impressed by.

3)  Tell us which article you picked (and link to it), and why you chose that article, and how it helped, touched or impressed you.

Here are my choices:

1. Cari Taplin, who blogs at Genealogy Pants recently wrote about cleaning up her tree. Since I need consistent motivation to plod through my own cleanup, I was motivated by her recent post Revisiting My Roots: Ancestry Tree Cleanup. I’m also pleased to say that I finally finished work on my own Generation 7 and have printed out Generation 8 and started on it. Cari’s reviewing her Ancestry tree, but it’s editing and revising all the same and it got me to the end of my Generation 7 this week.
2. Marie Cooke Beckman, on MarieB’s Genealogy Blog drew me in with Using Google’s NotebookLM to Brainstorm & Critique Your Research. I’m not much into using AI, but this looks like an interesting technique to try out.
3. Deborah Carl’s post on Mission Genealogy, One Man’s Trash, also resonated with me. I have a handful of items similar to those she shared and while I know to whom they belonged, no one else does. I need to label them and decide their fates.
4. 5 Unexpected Lessons From Walking My Ancestor’s Streets (That Changed How I See Heritage Travel) by Lisa Lisson also caught my attention as it brought back memories of my trek around Copenhagen on the trail of my 3X great grandfather, Johannes Jensen, who served a life time enlistment in the Danish Army. I couldn’t figure out what a company drummer and fiddler would be doing for an entire military career in Copenhagen. He lived in the barracks at Rosenborg Castle and I was there when I think he reached out to me with the answer. Rosenborg Castle is where the Danish crown jewels are kept and, as Dave and I walked around the grounds, all of a sudden, we heard soldiers marching to a drumbeat. It was the changing of the guard at the castle. That was Johannes’ job assignment!

Thanks, Randy, for a really interesting topic this week.