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Monday, March 17, 2014

SHORTIE TIP – New Find


SORRY FOR THE DELAY, TODAY, FOLKS. I WAS NOT ABLE TO GET THIS POSTED THIS MORNING DUE TO SOME URGENT THINGS THAT CAME UP AT THE LIBRARY. SO I AM DOING THIS FROM HOME TONIGHT. SUCH IS LIFE. :-) ENJOY~~~
Genealogy tip for the day: SHORTIE TIP – New Find

 

In one of our earlier posts we talked about learning styles and how that impacts how we research and how we present out work to friends and family. If you are audio, visual or kinetic have I got something for you!


I was surfing through websites regarding genealogy, as I often do. I came across one website that referred to another. I clicked on it and discovered Story Press. <storypress.com> is the URL for this website and it is set up so you can upload pictures and record audio to go with it. This also works for videos. You need to register to use the website, but it is free. There is no cost. Their whole purpose is to help you preserve your family history.


I have registered and poked around. It seems easy to use, although I’ll have to admit I haven’t actually used it yet. But when I discovered it, I thought of you who fit the above learning styles! Anyone can use it, but let’s face it – not everything appeals to everyone! Right???  But go have a look and see what you think.


“History is who we are; Genealogy is who I am” sg


If any of these posts are helpful drop us a line in the comments section below. We just want to know if the information we provide to you is beneficial in anyway.



ANNOUNCEMENTS
Summer Reading Program will be starting soon. Watch for announcements on that and registration information. This is for ages Adults through young children! Come Join Us - and explore new worlds.
Are you a Lord of the Rings lover? We are having a LOTR marathon starting March 22!! Don't miss it!
You can find our website at rogerspubliclibrary.org 
And our other blog at RPL's Movies and Music




 




March 17

1766
Britain repeals the Stamp Act.
1776
British forces evacuate from Boston to Nova Scotia.
1799
Napoleon Bonaparte and his army reach Mediterranean seaport of St. Jean d'Acra, only to find British warships ready to break his siege of the town.
1868
The first postage stamp canceling machine patent is issued.
1884
John Joseph Montgomery makes the first glider flight in Otay, Calif.
1886
Twenty African Americans are killed in the Carrollton Massacre in Mississippi.
1891
The British steamer Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar.
1905
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York.
1910
The Camp Fire Girls are founded in Lake Sebago, Maine.
1914
Russia increases the number of active duty military from 460,000 to 1,700,000.
1924
Four Douglas army aircraft leave Los Angeles for an around the world flight.
1930
Mob boss Al Capone is released from jail.
1942
The Nazis begin deporting Jews to the Belsen camp.
1944
The U.S. Eighth Air Force bombs Vienna.
1959
The Dalai Lama flees Tibet and goes to India.
1961
The United States increases military aid and technicians to Laos.
1962
The Soviet Union asks the United States to pull out of South Vietnam.
1966
A U.S. submarine locates a missing H-bomb in the Mediterranean.
1970
The Army charges 14 officers with suppression of facts in the My Lai massacre case.
1972
Nixon asks Congress to halt busing in order to achieve desegregation.
1973
Twenty are killed in Cambodia when a bomb goes off that was meant for the Cambodian President Lon Nol.
1973
First POWs are released from the "Hanoi Hilton" in Hanoi, North Vietnam.
1985
President Ronald Reagan agrees to a joint study with Canada on acid rain.
1992
White South Africans approve constitutional reforms giving legal equality to blacks.
Born on March 17
c.389
St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
1828
Patrick R. Cleburne, Confederate general.
1832
Daniel Conway Moncure, U.S. clergyman, author, abolitionist
1846
Kate Greenway, painter and illustrator (Mother Goose).
1902
Bobby Jones, American golfer.
1919
Nat "King" Cole, American jazz pianist and singer.








Today’s Recipe

March - Breakfast Foods




For baked oatmeal here is a basic recipe that you can customize by adding your favorite mix-ins and toppings. In a bowl mix together 2 cups (uncooked) oatmeal, 1/3 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt. In another bowl combine 3 tablespoons melted (and slightly cooled) butter, 1 egg, 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract and 1 cup milk. In a well greased baking dish place a thin layer of sliced bananas, then the oatmeal mix, then pour on the milk mixture. Try to distribute the milk mixture evenly over the oatmeal. Bake at 350 F for 20-25 minutes. 

For the pumpkin spice baked oatmeal simply add 1/4 cup pumpkin puree, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon and a pinch of nutmeg to the milk mixture before you pour it over the top of the oats.

For the coffee cake baked oatmeal add 1/4 teaspoon instant coffee or ground espresso to the milk mixture before pouring it over the oats. Garnish the top of the oatmeal with a crumb topping made of 2 tablespoons cold butter, 1/4 cup flour and 3-4 tablespoons brown sugar. Mix that together with your (clean) hands so that it's crumbly, sprinkle over the top of the oatmeal for the last 10 minutes of baking.









Mar 12th Mini Quiche

Mar 13th Red Velvet Waffles, with cream cheese gravy – (I didn’t say they would be healthy!)

Mar 14th Triple Berry Smoothie – not just for breakfast any more.




ENJOY!


Now You Know!



Wednesday, March 12, 2014

SHORTIE TIP – Tunnel Vision

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Summer Reading Program will be starting soon. Watch for announcements on that and registration information. This is for ages Adults through young children! Come Join Us - and explore new worlds.

You can find our website at rogerspubliclibrary.org 
And our other blog at RPL's Movies and Music






Genealogy tip for the day: SHORTIE TIP – Tunnel Vision

When researching your genealogy on computers, or over the Internet, be sure and use more than one website. We can sometimes get stuck using only one website because we have learned how to use and it’s become our favorite. But that can give you tunnel vision.

Explore other websites as well. They may have the same or similar databases. Oft times they will give you slightly different results. So be sure and check out other options. What one isn’t giving you, another just might.

“History is who we are; Genealogy is who I am” sg



If any of these posts are helpful drop us a line in the comments section below. We just want to know if the information we provide to you is beneficial in anyway.




Juliette Low




March12
1496

The Jews are expelled from Syria.
1507

Cesare Borgia dies while fighting alongside his brother, the king of Navarre, in Spain.
1609

The Bermuda Islands become an English colony.
1664

New Jersey becomes a British colony.
1789

The United States Post Office is established.
1809

Great Britain signs a treaty with Persia forcing the French out of the country.
1863

President Jefferson Davis delivers his State of the Confederacy address.
1879

The British Zulu War begins.
1884

Mississippi establishes the first U.S. state college for women.
1894

Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
1903

The Czar of Russia issues a decree providing for nominal freedom of religion throughout the land.
1909

British Parliament increases naval appropriations for Great Britain.
1911

Dr. Fletcher of the Rockefeller Institute discovers the cause of infantile paralysis.
1912

Juliet Low founds the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Georgia.
1917

Russian troops mutiny as the "February Revolution" begins.
1930

Gandhi begins his march to the sea to symbolize his defiance of British rule in India.
1933

President Paul von Hindenburg drops the flag of the German Republic and orders that the swastika and empire banner be flown side by side.
1933

President Roosevelt makes the first of his Sunday evening fireside chats.
1938

German troops enter Austria without firing a shot, forming the anschluss (union) of Austria and Germany.
1939

Pius XII is elected the new pope in Rome.
1944

Great Britain bars all travel to neutral Ireland, which is suspected of collaborating with Nazi Germany.
1945

Diarist Anne Frank dies in a German concentration camp.
1959

The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in approving the statehood of Hawaii.
1984

Lebanese President Gemayel opens the second meeting in five years calling for the end to nine-years of war.
1985

The United States and the Soviet Union begin arms control talks in Geneva.
1994

The Church of England ordains women priests.
Born on March 12
1554

Richard Hooker, English theologian (Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity).
1858

Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher of The New York Times.
1862

Jane Delano, nurse, teacher, founder of the Red Cross.
1890

Vasav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer.
1922

Jack Kerouac, American novelist (On the Road).
1928

Edward Albee, American dramatist (Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf).
1946

Patricia Hampl, poet and memoirist (A Romantic Education, Virgin Time).

Patricia Hampl


Bristol fashion


PRONUNCIATION:
(BRIS-tl FASH-uhn)

MEANING:
adjective: In good order.
ETYMOLOGY:
We know the term is coined after Bristol, England, but we are not so certain why. Some believe the term alludes to the prosperity of the city from its flourishing shipping business. Others claim that the term arose as a result of the very high tidal range of the port of Bristol: at low tides ships moored here would go aground and if everything on the ship was not stowed away properly, chaos would result. The term is often used to describe boats and typically used in the phrase "shipshape and Bristol fashion".
USAGE:
"Everything was shipshape and Bristol fashion, the parallel bars looked spruce, the leaves had been raked out of the swimming pool, there was not a drop of horse poo on the riding course."
Patsy Crawford; Olympic Gold is a Little Tarnished; Sunday Tasmanian (Australia); Jul 18, 2004.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. -Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer (1917-2008)



Today’s Recipe
March - Breakfast Foods



These are mini quiches made with puff pastry for the crusts. I've seen similar ones also called baked egg souffle before (like the Panera version, which I love!). [Editor – comments come from the website where we got the recipe.]

Mini Quiches, makes 3
puff pastry
3-4 eggs
1/4 cup half and half or cream
salt + pepper
1/4 cup cheese (I used parmesan)
Preheat the oven to 350°F. In a bowl whisk together the eggs, cream, salt and pepper. Butter your baking dishes (I used large ramekins). Cut your puff pastry into large squares that will slightly hang over once placed in the baking dishes. Fill 2/3 full with the egg batter. Fold the edges in toward the center. Sprinkle on the cheese and bake for 35-40 minutes, until the egg looks set. 
These will appear quite puffy as you remove them from the oven, but they will settle a little as they cool.

Mar 12th Mini Quiche



ENJOY!


Now You Know!

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Legacy Family Tree News


Genealogy tip for today: Highlighting today’s genealogy blog






Genealogy Tip for today: This website is not a blog per se’. But it does post information on a frequent basis, - about every two days. However sometimes there is more than one ‘post’ on any given date. It is the “Press Room” for the software of the same name.


It announces new information, not only about their genealogy software, but also about other events that are happening, including webinars that you can sign up for and attend. It is associated with FamilySearch.org, the LDS church, so it also gives you the latest news from their website as well.


Take a look at this and I think you will be coming back to this site on a regular basis to keep up with news in the genealogy world.


Blogs Researched:

The Genealogy blog     
Ancestry.com/blog               



Today in History


1626 The Danes are crushed by the Catholic League in Germany, marking the end of Danish intervention in European wars.
1776 The Americans are defeated by the British at the Battle of Long Island, New York.
1793 Maximilien Robespierre is elected to the Committee of Public Safety in Paris, France.
1813 The Allies defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Dresden.
1861 Union troops make an amphibious landing at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
1862 As the Second Battle of Bull Run rages, Confederate soldiers attack Loudoun County, Virginia.
1881 New York state's Pure Food Law goes into effect to prevent "the adulteration of food or drugs."
1894 The United States congress passes an income tax law as part of a general tariff act, but it is found unconstitutional.
1910 Thomas Edison demonstrates the first "talking" pictures–using a phonograph–in his New Jersey laboratory.
1912 Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes first appears in a magazine.
1916 Italy declares war on Germany.
1928 Fifteen nations sign the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, outlawing war and calling for the settlement of disputes through arbitration. Forty-seven other countries eventually sign the pact.
1941 The Prime Minister of Japan, Fumimaro Konoye, issues an invitation for a meeting with President Roosevelt.
1945 B-29 Superfortress bombers begin to drop supplies into Allied prisoner of war camps in China.
1963 Cambodia severs ties with South Vietnam.
1975 Veronica & Colin Scargill of England complete tandem bicycle ride around the world, a record 18,020 miles (29,000.4 km).
1979 Lord Mountbatten is killed by an Irish terrorist bomb in his sail boat in Sligo, Ireland.
1984 President Ronald Reagan announces NASA Teacher in Space project, intended to inspire students and honor teachers and spur interest in the fields of science, mathematics and space exploration.
Chuck Berry
1989 Chuck Berry performs his tune Johnny B. Goode for NASA staff in celebration of Voyager II's encounter with the planet Neptune.
1991 Moldavia declares independence from USSR.
1993 The Rainbow Bridge, a 1,870-foot suspension bridge over Tokyo Bay, completed.
2003 Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing within 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km).
2008 Democrats nominate Barack Obama for president, first African American nominated by a major political party for the office of President of the United States.
2012 First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity.


Birthdays today:

1770 George William Hegel, German idealist philosopher
1871 Theodore Dreiser, novelist (Sister Carrie)
C.S. Forester
1899 C.S. Forester, novelist and author of the Horatio Hornblower series
1908 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of the United States (1963-1969).
1910 Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta and Nobel Peace Prize winner
1915 Walter Heller, economist; chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors (1961-64); suggested a "War on Poverty" to Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson and tax cuts to stimulate the economy.
1929 Ira Levin, author (Rosemary's Baby, The Boys from Brazil)
1931 Sri Chinmoy (Chinmoy Kumar Ghose), Indian spiritual leader whose teachings attracted a worldwide following; nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
1943 Tuesday Weld (Susan Ker Weld), actress; won Golden Globe for Most Promising Female Newcomer, 1960 (Looking for Mr. Goodbar).
1947 Barbara Bach, actress (The Spy Who Loved Me)
1949 Jeff Cook, musician, singer with the band Alabama
1950 Charles Fleischer, actor, (Laverne and Shirley TV series) comedian, voice-over actor best known as the voice of Roger Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
1952 Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens), actor (Pee-Wee's Playhouse children's TV series, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure).
1954 Derek Warwick, Formula 1 race car driver
1975 Jonny (Jonathan) Moseley, Olympic Gold Medal skier; first Puerto Rican on US Ski Team
Sarah Chalke
1977 Sarah Chalke, actress (Roseanne TV series)
1986 Mario (Mario Dewar Barrett), singer / songwriter ("Let Me Love You"), actor (Freedom Writers), dancer, model; included on Billboard magazine's Artist of the Decade list for the 2000s.
1988 Alexa Vega, actress, singer (Spy Kids movies, Ruby in Ruby & the Rockits TV series)


Word for the day:

syncope 

 


PRONUNCIATION:

(SING-kuh-pee)


MEANING:

noun:
1. The shortening of a word by omission of sounds or letters from its middle. For example, did not to didn't or Worcester to Wooster.
2. Fainting caused by insufficient blood flow to the brain.


ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin syncope, from Greek synkope (contraction, cutting off), from syn- (together) + koptein (to cut). Earliest documented use: c. 1400.


USAGE:

"There were important books on vowel syncope in Greek and Indo-European."
Robert Coleman; Oswald Szemerenyi -- Hungary's Eclectic Cockney Linguist; The Guardian (London, UK); Feb 24, 1997.

"'I'm no doctor, but they say I just fainted,' said Pavelec, who had what is termed a neurocardiogenic syncope episode."
NHL Report; The Philadelphia Inquirer; Oct 20, 2010.


Explore "syncope" in the Visual Thesaurus.

Quote for the day:

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. -John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)


August is Sandwich Month

Today’s Recipe
BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwich 



(makes 4+ servings)

Ingredients:
1 (3 pound) pork butt
1 cup bbq sauce
4 buns
2 cups coleslaw


Directions:
1. Put the pork in the slow cooker, pour 1/2 cup of the bbq sauce over it and cook on low heat for 8 hours.
2. Remove the pork from the slow cooker and let cool.
3. Meanwhile, skim the fat from the juices, place the juices in a sauce pan and simmer to reduce.
4. Mix as much of the juices as you want into the remaining bbq sauce.
5. When the pork is cool enough to work with, shred it with a pair of forks.
6. Mix the pulled pork bbq sauce.
7. Assemble sandwiches and enjoy.


ENJOY!


Now You Know!

Monday, August 26, 2013

Climbing My Family Tree


Genealogy tip for today: Highlighting today’s genealogy blog



Genealogy Tip for today:  I LIKE this blog! It’s easy to read and the blogger has interesting posts. A lot of her entries are about research on her family. But it tells you how she found her information. So, even though it is familial it is also educational. 

She also tells about going to the recent FGS conference (Federation of Genealogical Societies) which was held last weekend in Fort Wayne, Indiana. If you don’t recognize the significance of that town, it is home of the famous “ACPL” – Allen County Public Library which is nationally known (if not more so) for its genealogy department. It is one of three top genealogy collections/libraries in the country.  

Her blog is also full of pictures of family members. She has tabs at the top for the different lines she is pursuing in her family. This makes it easy, if you have a common line, to pop in and see if you connect.

Stop by today and have a look around. I think you’ll enjoy your visit. 

As always, if you like what you see here, and like where we send you, drop us a comment so we will know if we are reaching anyone or being of any help to you.


Blogs reviewed to date:
Dear Mytle

Today in History

1017 Turks defeat the Byzantine army under Emperor Romanus IV at Manikert, Eastern Turkey.

Joan of Arc
1429 Joan of Arc makes a triumphant entry into Paris.

1789 The Constituent Assembly in Versailles, France, approves the final version of the Declaration of Human Rights.

1862 Confederate General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson encircles the Union Army under General John Pope at the Second Battle of Bull Run.

1883 The Indonesian island of Krakatoa erupts in the largest explosion recorded in history, heard 2,200 miles away in Madagascar. The resulting destruction sends volcanic ash up 50 miles into the atmosphere and kills almost 36,000 people–both on the island itself and from the resulting 131-foot tidal waves that obliterate 163 villages on the shores of nearby Java and Sumatra.

1920 The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is officially ratified, giving women the right to vote.

1943 The United States recognizes the French Committee of National Liberation.

1957 Edsel
1957 Ford Motor Company reveals the Edsel, its latest luxury car.

1966 South African Defense Force troops attack a People's Liberation Army of Nambia at Omugulugwombashe, the first battle of the 22-year Namibian War of Independence.

1970 A nationwide Women's Strike for Equality, led by Betty Friedan on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment calls attention to unequal pay and other gender inequalities in America.

1977 The National Assembly of Quebec adopts Bill 101, Charter of the French Language, making French the official language of the Canadian province.

Pope John Paul I
1978 Albino Luciani elected to the Papacy and chooses the name Pope John Paul I; his 33-day reign is among the shortest in Papal history.

1978 Sigmund Jähn becomes first German to fly in space, on board Soviet Soyuz 31.

1999 Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.


Birthdays today:

1743 Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry who defined the role of oxygen and named it

1874 Lee De Forest, physicist, inventor, considered the father of radio.

Peggy Guggenheim
1875 John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, writer and governor general of Canada, famous for his book The Thirty-Nine Steps.
1898 Peggy Guggenheim, art patron and collector

1906 Christopher Isherwood, English novelist and playwright, author of Goodbye to Berlin, the inspiration for the play I am a Camera and the musical and film Cabaret.

1906 Albert Sabin, medical researcher, developed the polio vaccine.

Mother Teresa
1910 Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), missionary, Nobel Prize laureate for her work in the slums of Calcutta

Irving Levine
1922 Irving Levine, journalist; first American television correspondent to be accredited in the Soviet Union

1940 Donald Leroy "Don" LaFontaine, voice-over actor; recorded more than 5,000 film trailers and hundreds of thousands of television advertisements, network promotions, and video game trailers

Prince Richard,
Duke of Gloucester
1944 Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Richard Alexander Walter George).

1945 Tom Ridge, first US Secretary of Homeland Security

1952 Will Shortz, American puzzle creator and editor.

1957 Nikky Finey (Lynn Carol Finney), poet; won National Book Award (Head Off & Split).

1960 Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

1970 Melissa Ann McCarthy, comedian, writer, producer, Emmy-winning actress (Mike & Molly TV series)


Word for the day:  

apheresis


PRONUNCIATION:

(for 1: uh-FER-i-sis, for 2: af-uh-REE-sis)


MEANING:

noun:
1. The loss of one or more sounds or letters from the beginning of a word. For example, the change in pronunciation of knife from (k-nyf) to (nyf) or the formation of till from until.
2. A method in which blood is drawn from a donor, one or more blood components (such as plasma, platelets, or white blood cells) are removed, and the rest is returned to the donor by transfusion.


ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin aphaeresis, from Greek aphairesis (taking away), from aphairein (to take away), from apo- (away) + hairein (to take). Earliest documented use: 1550.


USAGE:

"Williams gives the Narragansett word in full [poquauhock], though common usage reduced it and Anglicized it through apheresis [to quahog]."
Ray Huling; Harvesting the Bay; Lyons Press; 2012.

"He had quartered in Memphis with Cynthia for weeks, giving over his stem cells through apheresis."
Jan Karon; In the Company of Others; Viking; 2010.



Quote for the day:

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live. -Holmes Rolston III, professor of philosophy (b. 1932)



August is Sandwich Month

Today’s Recipe



Ingredients

1/2 cup(s) (quartered seedless) red grapes
1/2 cup(s) (finely chopped) apple, such as Fuji or Gala
1/2 cup(s) (finely chopped) celery
4 tablespoon(s) (reduced-fat) mayonnaise
4 tablespoon(s) (plain nonfat) yogurt
4 (whole wheat) pita pockets, halved
8 large lettuce leaves
1 pound(s) (sliced oven-roasted) turkey breast


Directions
1. Mix fruit, celery, mayonnaise and yogurt in medium bowl until well combined. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour, or until you’re ready to prepare your lunch.

2. Line each pita half with a lettuce leaf and several slices of turkey. Stuff with a scoop of chilled fruit mixture. Wrap each pocket individually in plastic wrap.



ENJOY!


Now You Know!