My mother on her scooter she rode when I was born. 

Now, I will be able to see me and my family when I was 6 in the 1950 US Census that will be available after Ancestry and FamilySearch volunteers index it. Ancestry has developed amazing technology that will scan each page and with truly unique, revolutionary software read the handwriting of the census takers. 

This will then be made available to volunteers around the world to look up, then correct any errors for any given enumeration district. I happen to know exactly where I lived in Los Angeles County, so it will be a cinch for me to find ME

These two women are amazing! While going to RootsTech's various Virtual Vendor Websites, I found Family Locket Genealogists  and their tips on "How to Research Like a Pro," another on DNA and another on how to organize your files and photos. Cool. You can watch their short video on YouTube at the link above.

 Did I say I'm developing a Research Plan by watching RootsTech 2022?

Well, here was my FIRST PLAN. My mother worked at Lockheed in Burbank, CA as a draftsman during WWII. This was my birth announcement. 

Now I've discovered Ancestral Quest's free version of software that interfaces with my FamilySearch family tree like PAF used to. I've used Legacy and RootsMagic, but they don't think like I do. So I've uninstalled them and have nothing now on my hard drive. Hmmmm maybe it's time to rethink having my own private version/software on my computer.

This Girl Detective is on the Hunt!!!! I am searching for my ancestors who are end of line mysteries, by watching RootsTech 2022 a Virtual Event with lots of Virtual Vendors and over hundreds of sessions. 

Also, I've just signed up to discover where my parents lived in Pasadena, California by volunteering to index the 1950 US Census that will be released on April 1, 2022. 

A Tournament of Roses Parade Memory

Downey CA entry in Rose Parade 1976

This is the float that I designed as a last minute favor to the Downey Rose Float Committee for the 1976 entry into the Rose Parade. Downey Public Works built it and volunteers paste on all the flowers. Downey was home to Rockwell and it's space connections. So pioneers across the plains and to the stars was my idea drawn a week before the deadline to submit!

Friends and I spent the night before sleeping in chairs and cots to protect people from "taking souvenirs" or flowers off of it. Having spent a whole week cutting various flowers into their parts, gluing flower parts and seeds onto the surface and putting whole roses into tubes with water in them,  then sticking those into the float, we didn't want all that ruined by curious people walking the pre-parade route parking.

No parade in today in 2021. Next year perhaps.

Hot and Dry

     The BEE in this Arizona Desert is surviving the hottest and driest July in the history of Arizona. I'm glad I live in Tucson, because it was only 108 today, not the 110 of Phoenix.

     Bees have water gatherers that bring back moisture. Some of the workers start flapping their wings, some in the doorway. These bees are smart, they work together for the benefit of the whole hive to keep it cool.

     Did you know that bees recognize colors and that they recognize their hive if it's a certain color and oriented in a particular direction? 

     Now these cute bee houses/hives are in England, I believe. But if you look closely you will see many at the door/slit of the nearest house. 

    Now here's a comment from me that is just out of left field. My last name is Field and I saw a blogger post with the name Left Field. So that thought took me to Right Field. If I posted under that name would I be unabashedly saying I'm right? No, that wouldn't do. What about Middle Field? Would I then be walking down the median of mediocrity or as another LDS blogger says "That's Adequate!" their slogan. LOL.

Here's signing off:

BEEField 

Focus is What is Needed in 2020

Life is like a Camera

Just Focus on What's Important

  and Capture the Good Times

Develop from the Negatives

  and If Things Don't Work Out

Just Take Another Shot

Bob takes Selfie 1961

Bob Still Taking Photos in 2020

     My High School friend, Bob Burke, received his first camera in 1961 and the first photo he took was in the mirror. He still uses this as his FaceBook portrait, and his daughters say, "Hey that's the oldest selfie on FaceBook." Well, oldest meaning earliest one taken, dated then posted. 

     Now all his photography is done on a digital camera. He's never without it. He posts photos he's taken online, mostly at the request of friends, where there are weddings, sports events and travel photos numbering in the 10,000's. A lifetime of FOCUS.

     Now it's time for BEE in the Desert to FOCUS in this blog so that it is relevant to the 2020 Pandemic; self (read that physical) distancing but definitely NOT social distancing. Here we Go: Family Memories, Bee Culture, and insights into the scriptures.