All My Ancestors

Lidian at The Virtual Dime Museum blog tagged me for the meme currently making the rounds.  In my quest to find fresh topics to write about by using other blogger’s suggestions, I decided I’d participate.  In one of my lives, I’m a librarian, which doesn’t make me an expert–just makes me nervous about committing. 

What issues/topic interests you most–non-fiction, i.e,cooking, knitting, stitching, there are infinite topics that has nothing to do with novels?

I love all of the above and more.  I tend to like to read about cooking more than actually performing, my shoulder has started hurting so my knitting’s going by the wayside, and genealogy and knitting long ago took over my stitching obsession.  However, almost any sort of craft “how to” I enjoy, especially if it deals with paper or fabric.  And then there’s all my genealogy and local history books–can you ever really have enough?

Would you like to review books concerning those?

Not particularly, at least in any formal fashion.  It takes time away from actually doing–the knitting, crafting, genealogy.

Would you like to be paid or do it as interest or hobby? Tell reasons for what ever you choose.

I’ve done some of the crafting and genealogy for pay and as a hobby.  I love them both, though doing it for money puts more pressure on me.  If this question refers to the writing of reviews, I tend to do it in a more informal manner–I’ve written formal reviews in a former academic life, for no $$$, of course.

Would you recommend those to your friends and how?

As I said earlier, my recommendations tend to be more informal.  I do have a  “visual bookshelf” on my facebook page, and I have some of my books up at “Library Thing,” so I suppose that could count as recommendations.  I haven’t figured out how to do it on my current blog.  But any recommending I do really tends to be more informal–especially if I come across something that I know a friend is interested in–that’s the librarian in me, I guess.

If you have already done something like this, link it to your post.

I don’t think I’ve done this–I’ll go back through my posts to be sure, but I don’t think I’ve done it here.  I usually recommend Emily Croom’s Unpuzzling your Past as my favorite beginner’s “how to” genealogy book, but that’s more likely to occur in my classes than on my blog.

….as for tagging others, I think I’ll let this branch of the meme die with my posting–I’ve read lots of others and I suspect its time has come.   On the other hand, if you’re reading this and want to take it further, consider yourself tagged.