I’m writing this on Thursday morning as I prepare to head to St. Louis later this afternoon. I’ll be spending some time with my daughter and grandsons, who live in Richmond, Kentucky, before we all gather for a family wedding on Saturday.
This exercise gave me a deeper appreciation for the time and effort that Warren puts in writing the blog. Not only does he put in a lot of time and effort in researching the person/people he is writing about, but figuring out who he is going to write about presents its own challenge. Thank you, Warren, for everything you do in telling the stories of East Perry County!
As I was trying to decide what to write about, I found myself thinking about Warren’s method for choosing individuals to highlight in his blogs. Out of curiosity, I opened the first section of my German Family Tree file on my computer. (I don’t know how Warren organizes his, but mine is divided into four sections.) I entered the date March 27 into the search bar, wondering how many records he might have to sift through to find just the right one for a given day.
I was surprised to discover that, in just the A–G section alone, 110 individuals had significant events on March 27. I decided to take a closer look at the breakdown: 39 were births, 6 baptisms, 27 confirmations, 9 marriages, and 29 deaths.
The large number of confirmations especially caught my attention. Then I remembered Warren’s post from earlier this week about it being confirmation season. When I went back and looked more closely, I noticed that every one of those confirmations took place in the same year—1904.
That led me to check the other 3 sections to see how many other confirmations I could find. Turns out, there were a total of 83 young adults confirmed on March 27, 1904. Not quite as many as what Warren found a couple days ago, but still a significant number.
This exercise gave me a deeper appreciation for the time and effort that Warren puts into writing the blog. Not only does he invest a great deal in researching the people he writes about, but even deciding who to highlight on a given day is clearly no small task. Thank you, Warren, for everything you do in telling the stories of East Perry County.