I would strongly encourage anyone taking a trip to the Family History Library to travel midweek to midweek through the weekend so that you can use Sunday—when the Library is closed—to reassess and plan for whatever remaining days you have. That’s one of many things that I think that the Oakland County Group does well. They even get a large room in the hotel with tables, power strips, and snacks for the whole day, allowing everyone the opportunity to spread out and work.

For me that meant taking as much time as possible filling in the gaps on the materials I’d found and making a long list of items I wanted to go through in the remaining two days of the trip. I took some time transcribing some of the Bradley County deeds and thinking about other angles in researching those families. And I recognized a large oversight in copying the Canadian “C” Series index and forgetting to go back and copy the original documents—top of my list for Monday morning.

Mormon Tabernacle Apr 2015I would also encourage everyone to take the time regardless of their religious bent to hear the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. I went and it was a fabulous experience including with lovely moving music and a thoughtful message about decluttering one’s life based in the ideas Mari Kondō presents in her NYT Bestseller, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up—I can’t escape libraryland.

To round out the day a large group got together for dinner at Red Rock Brewing Co. for Chicken Schnitzel and Oatmeal Stout. It was a fine way to end the day!

Happy hunting,

Jess