Genealogy tip for today: Just What IS Genealogy?
This is actually a very broad
question which raises more:
Is it just a pedigree chart
showing who was the father or mother of whom?
Is it little stories you’ve
heard here and there?
Is it research?
Is it history?
Is it legend or documented
facts?
Is it personal or is it part
of a wider audience?
Genealogy as art |
James goes on to explain how
his family cultivated in his early life a desire to learn new things. It started
of all places with the family’s set of encyclopedias. When I was in high school
I had a girlfriend who was what we would call today a nerd. She got me
interested in learning a new word each day in High School study hall. I don’t
think we got out of the A’s, but that was my first introduction to what an
aardvark was!
Do you even read the dictionary?
Do you visit your library on a regular basis?
Do you try to educate yourself of new things?
Do you watch documentaries on television?
Do you have a sense of curiosity and wonder?
If you answered yes to any of these, you are on the right track. If this is not you, you are missing out on a whole 'nother world out there that is just waiting to be discovered. Your life is richer for it and so is everyone else’s when you do. Let me encourage you to do so, if you haven’t.
Do you remember having to
write those reports, essays and later papers when you were in school? That was
preparing you for the life before you and, obviously at that point
you had no way of knowing what lay ahead. Now that you’re interested in
researching your family history, you have probably already learned some of the
skills you need – note taking, notecards, outlines and basic composition. I guess you could call these "pre-skills" to doing genealogy.
There are a lot of
foundational things, habits if you will that all go into what genealogy is all
about. If you have these under your belt, you have a leg up on what this is all
about, already. This should boost your confidence!
Happy Hunting!
Our Library's Foundation board sponsors every year a Conversation With event, bringing in a well known author. This year's author is Debbie Macomber. It will be held at the Roger's Little Theater on Friday, October 11th. You can go online to www.rplfoundation.org or contact the library for your $39 tickets.
Tickets include meeting the author, 1 signed copy of Starry Night (not yet released), appetizers and drinks. Come join us, meet the author and help support our library as well.
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1470 Henry VI of
England restored to the throne.
1760 Austrian and Russian troops enter Berlin and begin burning structures and looting.
1760 Austrian and Russian troops enter Berlin and begin burning structures and looting.
A different perspective |
1781 Americans begin shelling the British surrounded at Yorktown.
1825 The first Norwegian immigrants to America arrive on
the sloop Restaurationen.
1863 Confederate cavalry raiders return to Chattanooga
after attacking Union General William Rosecrans' supply and communication lines
all around east Tennessee.
1888 The Washington
Monument, designed by Robert Mills, opens to the public.
1914 Germans take Antwerp, Belgium, after 12-day siege.
Moments before the assassination |
1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt requests congressional
approval for arming U.S. merchant ships.
1946 Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh opens
at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York.
1949 Harvard Law
School begins admitting women.1950 U.N. forces, led by the First Cavalry Division, cross the 38th parallel in South Korea and begin attacking northward towards the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1983 The president of South Korea, Doo Hwan Chun, with his
cabinet and other top officials are scheduled to lay a wreath on a monument in
Rangoon, Burma, when a bomb explodes. Hwan had not yet arrived so escaped injury,
but 17 Koreans–including the deputy prime minister and two other cabinet
members–and two Burmese are killed. North Korea is blamed.
2006 North Korea reportedly tests its first nuclear device.
1837 Francis Parker, educator and founder of progressive
elementary schools.
1859 Alfred Dreyfus,
French artillery officer who was falsely accused of giving French military
secrets to foreign powers.1873 Charles Rudolph Walgreen, "the father of the modern drugstore."
1879 Max von Laue, German physicist.
1899 Bruce Catton, U.S. historian and journalist, famous for his works on the Civil War.
1909 Jacques Tati, French actor and director.
1940 John Lennon, musician, singer, songwriter; one of the Beatles ("Imagine," "Give Peace a Chance").
1941 Brian Lamb, journalist, founder of C-SPAN cable network.
1941 Trent Lott, politician, Republican Senate Majority Whip (1995-96), Senate Majority Leader (1996–2001) and Minority Leader (2001-02); resigned during controversy over making remarks that praised Strom Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign that had called for preservation of racial segregation.
1948 Jackson Browne, singer, songwriter, musician, producer; member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ("Running on Empty," "Take It Easy").
1974 Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, writer, radio host; prominent figure in Modern Orthodox Judaism.
1979 Chris O'Dowd, comedian, actor (The IT Crowd and Family Tree TV series, Bridesmaids).
xanthodontous
PRONUNCIATION:(zan-tho-DON-tuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Having yellow
teeth.
ETYMOLOGY:
From
Greek xanthos (yellow) + -odon (toothed). Earliest documented use: 1862. Also
see Xanthippe.
USAGE:
"Nary
a xanthodontous smile in sight."Emme Nelson Baxter; Volunteers Deserve a Hand in Tough Times; The Tennessean; May 3, 2009.
Imagine there's no countries, / It isn't hard to do, / Nothing to kill or die for, / No religion too, / Imagine all the people / living life in peace. -John Lennon, musician (1940-1980)
Today’s
Recipe
Treats,
No Tricks!
These edible Jell0
Worms are a BIG hit for our Halloween Dinner. The first time I
served these up the kids really freaked out. My daughter couldn’t even look at
them at first, but after some coaxing and a little good natured teasing, she
ate one. Then much too her surprise, she liked them.
They take a little effort to make, but I think they are worth
it. Plan to make these at least a day ahead of time.
Jell-O Blood Worms
Ingredients:
100 flexible plastic straws
(The straws with a bendable neck make the most realistic worms
by adding ridges to the worm. Place bendable necks of straws at the bottom of
the container).
an empty, cleaned 1-quart milk or orange juice carton to hold
straws.
(The straws will fill up to the height of the container, the
taller the better.)
1 package (6 ounces) raspberry or grape flavor
gelatin
3 envelopes unflavored gelatin
3 cups boiling water
3/4 cup whipping cream
12 to 15 drops green food coloring
3 envelopes unflavored gelatin
3 cups boiling water
3/4 cup whipping cream
12 to 15 drops green food coloring
waxed paper
Instructions:
1. Combine gelatins in a bowl and add boiling water; stir
until gelatins completely dissolve. Chill until lukewarm, about 20 min.
2. Meanwhile, gently pull straws to extend to full length;
place in tall container. Wrap together with a loose rubber band to hold straws
together.
3. Blend cream and food coloring with the lukewarm gelatin
mixture. Carefully pour into container, filling straws.
4. Chill until gelatin is firm, at least 8 hours, or cover
and chill up to 2 days.
5. Pull straws from container or, if you’re using a
carton, simply tear the carton away from the filled straws. Pull straws apart.
Run hot tap water for about 2 seconds over 3 to 4 straws at a time. Starting at
the empty ends, push worms from straws with rolling pin, or use your fingers.
6.
Lay worms on waxed paper-lined baking sheets. Cover and chill until ready to
use, at least 1 hour or up to 2 days. Worms will hold at room temperature for
about 2 hours.
ENJOY!
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