Making progress with the York co. court records

Mary came to the Archives today to help out.  We had a good time together.  Still did not figure out the method or lack thereof, used by the clerks who filled out the docket write up in the books.  So she found the numbers and I wrote the papers.

After Mary left, I finished off the “Continued Actions” that we had been working on and got out the papers for the “new entries”.  I decided to just go from the first entry to the last entry and it worked out a lot better for me to work it this way.  The books have not been written in numerical order or even alphabetical order and it is hard to follow the reasoning.  Therefore, I used no reasoning at all and the entries got documented on paper and pretty soon I will have the whole thing finished.  Perhaps I will be able to get all the flattened out papers done before Jeff returns from his vacation.

In preparation for the new missionaries it might be a better idea to just spend the time flattening out papers than trying to write them up in preparation for digitizing them.  Will have to talk to Jeff about that.

When I got into work today, there was a jar of peaches on the desk.  Anne had left them there.  She said that since I would not be here for my next birthday, that she bought me a jar of peaches due to the fact that I had told her of my wish when I was little to have a whole can of peaches all for myself as my birthday present.  How sweet it this lady?  I will surely miss her when I go back to Arizona.

This evening I went visiting teaching and we visited Rose.  She told us the story of Sheila whom she met in Bangor and brought her home to live with her here in Hallowell.  Sheila is allergic to cats (Rose has 5) and dogs (Rose has one) and so Rose said she had to find another place for Sheila to live.  She called Sue, our Relief Society President and it was suggested that Maria be asked to take her in.  She did.  We met with Sheila last week and told her about the book of Mormon and she said she would read it, so we gave a copy to Maria to take to Sheila.  It always astounds me at the connections that we make.

I am very concerned about leaving the ‘cocoon’ of missionary work and all its protections etc. and go back into the real world.  Did this one time before and it felt like someone had pulled the rug from under my feet while I was standing on it.  I am not looking forward to this experience again.

  It is quite nice and very comfortable doing the work we are doing.  Having to leave it and enter the world again is not inviting at all.