Invisible Histories

I am now tackling the staggering backlog that piled up over the last month while I was sick with, then recovering from, the virus. Please have patience! I’ve started with returning personal and project emails/messages but if you haven’t heard from me by now please let me know — I may have missed one in there somewhere.

Next I’ll be updating the Finland Project’s mtDNA maps, will get back to work drafting the project’s Family Finder page, and hopefully have some blog items posted Friday-Saturday.

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After returning from a short trip with my husband last week I immediately came down with a nasty cold and cough and have been quite sick. Although I had assumed I’d be feeling a little better by now, I’m worse; according to the doctor it is taking most people about three weeks to fully recover from this virus. However, I am hoping that with extra sleep and minimal distractions I can be on the mend and at least partially back to writing, blogging and project work after the holiday weekend.

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Since last Friday we have had another flurry of Family Finder results come in (including my husband’s) so beyond returning emails and dealing with a few pressing project to-dos, the rest of my day will be spent entirely on attempting to bring some degree of tidiness to this business of understanding and successfully making connections with Family Finder.

Family tree pruning may be in order in some spots; MegaQuickGrow may be necessary in others. And over at our project’s home I will be re-arranging the furniture to make room for a new Family Finder area. The interior designer I hired describes the look as “Spartan” (complete with a haughty sniff and moue of distaste) but hey, genetic genealogy ain’t exactly bringing in the big bucks these days. A cot on the floor and a chart on the wall is about as good as it’s gonna get. Maybe throw in a dusty trunk of surnames that people can sort through. We’ll see how it goes.

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