Still RV Looking, Valentine Genealogy Seminar

We started this month off with going to the annual Vero Beach Gardenfest put on by the Garden Club of Indian River County at the Riverside Park. We always enjoy going to get some ideas on plants and see what might work in our yard. We bought a Tibouchina or princess flower plant there and stopped at Busy Bee Garden Center and bought a bromeliad before going home.

I went to the D.A.R. luncheon on the 6th at the Vero Beach Country Club and our speaker talked about 100 Years on a Florida Cattle Ranch which was interesting to learn about the early cattle ranching in Florida.

I attended 4 of Pam Cooper's classes on genealogy on Tuesdays. She had a different topic each week and she covered Courthouse Records, Church & Cemetery Records, Newspapers & Military Records and Emigration, Naturalization & Passport Records.

I also went to our monthly genealogical society meeting and Pam Cooper was the speaker and she spoke about Rarely Used Records of Skilled Workers - railroad records, union records, etc. So we all learned some new resources to look for when we research our ancestors.

Mike and I went up to the IMAX theater to watch The Great Wall movie with Matt Damon - really good movie! After the movie we stopped at the Texas Roadhouse for dinner. We both ordered the Bacon
CheeseBurger and Steak Fries.

The 25th was the 2017 Valentine Genealogy Seminar and our speaker was Judy G. Russell, "The Legal Genealogist". Her topics were "Finding the Law", "Where There is - Or Isn't - A Will", "NARA Mythbusters: Your Family IS in the Archives", and "How Old Did He Have To Be ...?". All very informative and sometimes entertaining. A local deli TooJay's catered the seminar and we had coffee and pastries in the morning during the sign-in period and I had their Turkey Wrap for lunch. 

We're still looking at different travel trailers on the internet to see if we can find something that our Outback can tow. Right now it's hard to find something and even a lot of the pop-ups are too heavy for our car to tow.

As to my part-time job as bookkeeper for the medical practice where our son works, I've put in 80 hours this month. I've been going back through last year's records and correcting some items that were posted to the wrong expense or account. I've also had to undo the bank reconciliations for last year. So I'm slowly getting the records straightened out and the bank accounts reconciled for the 3 checking accounts that they have. I've been averaging about 20 hours a week so far.