I'm still working part-time but it can be debated what counts as work. If someone calls me after I'm supposed to have left the building, I answer. Also I answer e-mails. I have had to spend two afternoons in meetings that were important, even though I shouldn't. One afternoon I drove to Malmö City Library to look at a book collection they were discarding. I picked out about 12 books for my library. Driving in the center of Malmö in rush hour is not something I will be doing again soon. It was absolutely terrible. Despite these ordeals, I managed to visit three charity shops also to get more books. Soon after, someone contacted us to say she was clearing out her mother's house and asked if we wanted the books. I went there during my working hours this time and picked out a few, mainly on local history.
At work I have shown parts of the reference collection to new staff members. Most of the time, I have desk duty or retrieve books. The weeks around Halloween were stressful with too few staff members. The Thursday just before, I got desk duty because a colleague was sick, but could only be there until 10 AM, then I had a meeting. After a quick lunch I drove home. Just minutes later my father came to pick me up and after 3 1/2 hours we arrived in Borås. I stayed with my mother and her boyfriend. Friday my mother and I went to a few second hand stores. In the evening my father, sister and her family came over for the usual taco dinner. Saturday morning I watched when my niece trained figure-skating and then went on to the second hand store where my mother volunteers. Bought more books. For lunch I went with my sister, niece and father to a farm in the countryside. We had a tasty tomato soup in a room decorated for Halloween. Lots of cobweb, pumpkins and skeletons. In the evening my father treated us all to dinner at a restaurant. The up-scale bacon burger was very good. After a very nice weekend my father drove me home on the Sunday.
Another Sunday I visited my colleague Maria. She asked for help reorganizing her family history documents and photos. We sat in their screened-in porch and sorted through hundreds of items. I learned after a while what her relatives looked like, so I could sort the photos in piles. We also got the old folders exchanged for new ones and wrote explanations on the envelopes. One particular photo caught my eye. It was of the students at a house-keeping eduction in Lund 1911. Maria's great grandfather's sister Alma was on this photo and to my surprise so was my great grandfather's sister Olga! Incredible that there would be such a connection. Since Maria had duplicates of this photo, I received one. In all, a very nice visit.
Even though I work too much, I have had time to update my genealogy files. I have added more generations on the family tree I keep at MyHeritage. Last week there was a new match showing up on my DNA-profile. It was a rather close match, a second cousin once removed. I have never heard of this woman before and when I reviewed her family tree I couldn't see that we are related. I actually did research on her tree to make sure she hadn't missed anything but it's correct. In my opinion there could only be one explanation here - her father cannot be the one she thinks it is. I hope that she has figured this out herself so that I don't have to be the one telling her...
