Books, Bones and Beyond: Pinterest Revisited

Genealogy tip for the day: Social Media – Pinterest

Last year we talked about the use of social media to do your genealogy research. Although social media won’t give you information on where your great aunt is buried, or where you third cousin got married it will do many other things that are helpful.

In July of 2013 I mentioned on the 22^nd about Pinterest. If you will either click on this link, or go to the tab above (Our Posts on Previous Blog) and click, then scroll down to the 22^nd you will see where we discussed Pinterest. But given that just recently I have once again used this website, myself, I thought I would remind you of it as well.

You can search for family trees, genealogy, genealogy tips, and genealogy forms – any number of related words on Pinterest. What a lot of folks have done is ‘pin’ websites and ideas (among other things) of genealogical interest to their genealogy boards.

You could use even more specific terms to search than what is suggested above, such as the history of a local county, or a genealogy society, or genealogical library… The sky is the limit!

This is yet another way to look for new ideas, possibilities or websites you didn't know about. This gives a whole new meaning to ‘being pinned.’ If you have looked at a while back, try it again. If you never have, check it out. It is a free board. You only have to register!

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Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower

dies on this date, 1969

Today in History

March 28

1774		Britain passes the Coercive Act against rebellious Massachusetts.
1854		Britain and France declare war on Russia.
1864		A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in Charleston, Illinois. Five are killed and twenty wounded.
1885		The Salvation Army is officially organized in the United States.
1908		Automobile owners lobby Congress in support of a bill that calls for vehicle licensing and federal registration.
1910		The first seaplane takes off from water at Martinques, France.
1917		The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded, Great Britain's first official service women.
1921		President Warren Harding names William Howard Taft as chief justice of the United States.
1930		Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara respectively.
1933		Nazis order a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.
1939		The Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to Francisco Franco.
1941		The Italian fleet is routed by the British at the Battle of Battle of Cape Matapan
1941		English novelist Virginia Woolf throws herself into the River Ouse near her home in Sussex. Her body is never found.
1942		A British ship, the HMS Capbeltown, a Lend-Lease American destroyer, which was specifically rammed into a German occupied dry-dock in France, explodes, knocking the area out of action for the German battleship Tirpitz.
1945		Germany launches the last of its V-2 rockets against England.
1946		Juan Peron is elected President of Argentina. He will hold the office for six years.
1962		The U.S. Air Force announces research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and satellites.
1969		Dwight D. Eisenhower dies at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, D.C.
1979		A major accident occurs at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
1986		The U.S. Senate passes $100 million aid package for the Nicaraguan contras.
1990		Jesse Owens receives the Congressional Gold Medal from President George Bush.
1999		An American Stealth F117 Nighthawk is shot down over northern Yugoslavia during NATO air strikes.
Born on March 28
1652		Samuel Sewall, British colonial merchant and one of the Salem witch trial judges.
1818		Wade Hampton, Confederate general in the American Civil War.
1862		Aristide Briand, premier of France (1909-22).
1868		Maxim Gorky, Russian short story writer and novelist.
1895		James McCudden, the first RAF pilot to receive the Victoria Cross.
1909		Nelson Algren, novelist (The Man with the Golden Arm, A Walk on the Wild Side).
1929		Frederick Exley, American novelist (A Fan's Notes).
1930		Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, helped confirm the existence of quarks.
1936		Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes).

Presentation of Congressional Gold Medal

Jesse Owens races

Jesse Owens

Word for the Day

trump card

PRONUNCIATION:

(trump kard)

MEANING:

noun:	1. In card games, a suit chosen to rank above the others.
	2. Something that gives an overriding, decisive advantage.

ETYMOLOGY:

An alteration of the word triumph, which was the name of an old card game. Earliest documented use: 1823.

USAGE:

"How big a factor might home advantage be for Kilkenny? Potentially, it could be their trump card."
Vincent Hogan; Kilkenny v Tipperary; Irish Independent (Dublin); Jul 2, 2013.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

The mind is the effect, not the cause. -Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher (b. 1942)

Today’s Recipe

March - Breakfast Foods

Ham and Swiss Egg sandwiches

Ingredients

Cooking spray

4 ounces thinly sliced lower-sodium deli ham

4 large eggs

4 English muffins, split and toasted

4 (1-ounce) slices Emmentaler or Swiss cheese

Preparation

1. Preheat broiler to high.

2. Heat a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Coat the pan with cooking spray. Add ham to pan; sauté 2 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from pan. Recoat pan with cooking spray. Crack eggs into pan. Cover and cook for 4 minutes or until desired degree of doneness. Remove from heat.

3. Place 4 muffin halves, cut sides up, on a baking sheet. Top each half with 1 cheese slice. Broil for 2 minutes or until cheese melts. Divide ham among cheese-topped muffin halves; top each with 1 egg and 1 muffin half.