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What have you been reading? It seems like a lot of us are having trouble reading during covid-19. "Distracted" seems to be the key phrase.     Perhaps Earth Day inspired you ( Bookmark's Earth Day Inspirations ). Have you wanted to read more about pandemics? New York Times Essential Pandemic Books or fiction   Books to Read During a Pandemic .   Note: my husband enjoyed and recommends "Pale Horse, Pale Rider".  He read it the first week of  "stay-at-home" and periodically shared interesting facts about the Spanish Flu pandemic.  Needed to escaped into Science Fiction or Fantasy? Bookmark's Five Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Ease Your "April" (now May) Isolation I have had trouble reading. In the beginning of this stay-at-home time I focused my attention on my "family history" hobby and wrote a family history book to give to my aunt for her birthday.  After four weeks, that was finished, and now I had a lot of...

How many of you are spending these days putting together puzzles? My cousin's family had a puzzle challenge where they challenged a friend's family to start a 1000 piece puzzle at the same time and see who could finish it first. (Then switched puzzles and challenged again.) My puzzling challenge for the last four weeks has been "family history".  I researched, documented, and wrote out a family history for my aunt's birthday gift.  If you haven't built your family tree or you've heard family stories about where ancestors came from and never documented these stories: chunks of uninterrupted time is all you need. FamilySearch.org is a great place to get started. Archiving genealogical resources for education and family archiving, and research has been a goal of the Church of Later Day Saints since 1894. They have been microfilming records since the 1930s and switched to digital archiving in 1999. In 2013, through mostly volunteer efforts had dig...