Genealogy tip for today: Highlighting today’s
genealogy blog
Genealogy
Tip for today: This website is
explanatory right from the start with its name. From the beginning it
tells you exactly what this blog is about. Linda Elliot is the blogger and she
has 40 years of research experience. She herself said it was a shame to have
all this knowledge from her own research and not share it with others. So she
decided to start this blog, although it is not a blog in the typical sense.
It is a British website, but
the basics in learning how to do family history and genealogy are all the same.
When it comes to British records she is an expert in researching your English
ancestors. She provides in one spot, information on British records, what they are called, what began
when and how you go about accessing them, etc.
Her lessons are easy to read,
understand and follow. After you finish going through the beginner’s lessons
she then provides more advanced lessons. By the time you have gone through all
of them you have become an expert yourself.
Her site is easy to navigate
with “tabs” across the top that allow you to click and go to whatever section
of her site you wish to visit. It gives you a progression of lessons, but you
don’t have to travel through the beginner lessons to get to the more advanced
ones. This makes it quick and simple
when you come back for more lessons. You can just click on the tab you need and
go straight to the lessons on that page.
If you are an American and
you have reached the Atlantic Ocean in your
research and are ready to jump the pond, check out her website. Actually, it is
useful for anyone whose lines take them back to Merry Ole’ England
You may not have British roots, but this website can still be helpful to you if you are just starting out in genealogy. Go stop by for a visit and you will see for yourself just how helpful her website is.
You may not have British roots, but this website can still be helpful to you if you are just starting out in genealogy. Go stop by for a visit and you will see for yourself just how helpful her website is.
Blogs
Researched:
Dear Mytle
Today
in History
30 Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt,
commits suicide.
1617 Rosa de Lima of Peru
1721 The Peace of
Nystad ends the Second Northern War between Sweden
and Russia , giving Russia
1781 The French fleet
arrives in the Chesapeake Bay to aid the
American Revolution.
1813 Creek Indians
massacre over 500 whites at Fort Mims
Alabama
1860 The first British
tramway is inaugurated at Birkenhead by an
American, George Francis Train.
1861 Union General
John Fremont declares martial law throughout Missouri
1892 The Moravia , a passenger ship arriving from Germany , brings cholera to the United States
1932 Nazi leader
Hermann Goering is elected president of the Reichstag.
1944 Ploesti ,
the center of the Rumanian oil industry, falls to Soviet troops.
1961 President John F.
Kennedy appoints General Lucius D. Clay as his personal representative in Berlin
1963 Hot Line
communications link installed between Moscow and
Washington , DC
1967 US
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| Tom Brokaw |
1976 Tom Brokaw
becomes news anchor of Today Show.
1979 First recorded
instance of a comet (Howard-Koomur-Michels) hitting the sun; the energy
released is equal to approximately 1 million hydrogen bombs.
1982 Yasser Arafat,
leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) forced out of Lebanon after 10 years in Beirut
1983 Lieutenant
Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first African-American astronaut to
travel in space.
1986 KGB arrest
journalist Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report) on a charge of
spying and hold him for 13 days.
Birthdays
today:
1797 Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist best known for Frankenstein, or the Modern
Prometheus
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| Mary Shelley |
1871 Ernest
Rutherford, physicist who discovered and named alpha, beta and gamma radiation
and was the first to achieve a man-made nuclear reaction
1893 Huey P. Long, Louisiana politician who served as governor and U.S.
1918 Ted Williams,
Hall of Fame outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, the last man to hit .400 in a
season.
1919 Kitty Wells
(Ellen Muriel Deason), first female singer to top the Country Music charts in
US ("It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels," 1952).
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| Kitty Wells |
1930 Warren
1931 Carrie Saxon
Perry, 1st black mayor of a major US Hartford CT
1943 Robert Crumb (R.
Crumb), satiric "underground" cartoonist (Fritz the Cat),
musician
1944 Molly Ivins,
American political humorist, newspaper columnist.
1956 Jayne Irving, TV
broadcaster (Good Morning Britain)
1958 Anna
Politkovskaya (Anna Mazepa), New York-born Ukrainian journalist, writer, human
rights advocate best known for her reporting from Chechnya
1960 Hassan Nasrallah,
leader of the Lebanese political-paramilitary group Hezbollah since 1992
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| Cameron Diaz |
1960 US
1964 Gavin Fisher,
mechanical engineer; chief designer of the Williams Formula One racing team
(1997–2005)
1972 Cameron Diaz,
model, award-winning actress (The Mask, There's Something About Mary,
Any Given Sunday).
Word for the
day:
agglutinate
PRONUNCIATION:
(verb:
uh-GLOOT-n-ayt, adjective: uh-GLOOT-n-it, -ayt)
MEANING:
verb
tr., intr.:
1. To form words by combining words or word elements.
2. To join or become joined as if by glue.
3. To clump or cause to clump, as red blood cells.
adjective:
1. Joined or tending to join.
2. Relating to a language that makes complex words by joining words or word elements extensively. For example as in Turkish.
1. To form words by combining words or word elements.
2. To join or become joined as if by glue.
3. To clump or cause to clump, as red blood cells.
adjective:
1. Joined or tending to join.
2. Relating to a language that makes complex words by joining words or word elements extensively. For example as in Turkish.
ETYMOLOGY:
From
Latin gluten (glue). Earliest documented use: 1541.
USAGE:
"Like
Turkish, Tuyuca is heavily agglutinating, so that one word, hóabãsiriga means
'I do not know how to write.'"
Tongue Twisters: In search of the world's hardest language; The Economist (London , UK
"There were two kinds of blood on that laboratory floor, and they do not agglutinate."
Arthur B. Reeve; The Dream Doctor; Echo; 2007.
Tongue Twisters: In search of the world's hardest language; The Economist (
"There were two kinds of blood on that laboratory floor, and they do not agglutinate."
Arthur B. Reeve; The Dream Doctor; Echo; 2007.
Quote for the day:
Questions
show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. -Joseph Joubert, essayist
(1754-1824)
August
is Sandwich Month
Today’s
Recipe
Egg
and Broccolini Sandwiches
Ingredients:
3 tablespoons extra-virgin
olive oil
1 3/4 pounds broccolini (2 to 3 bunches), cut into 2-inch pieces
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
6 large eggs
8 slices sharp provolone cheese
4 hoagie rolls, split
Sliced pepperoncini, plus brine from the jar, for topping
Potato chips, for serving (optional)
1 3/4 pounds broccolini (2 to 3 bunches), cut into 2-inch pieces
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
6 large eggs
8 slices sharp provolone cheese
4 hoagie rolls, split
Sliced pepperoncini, plus brine from the jar, for topping
Potato chips, for serving (optional)
Directions:
ENJOY!
Now You Know!
PS - Thank
you for taking this journey with us. We hope you come here often. We would love
for you to leave us a comment with what you like best, what you would like to
see or any other suggestions and comments you may have. Today is the last entry
for sandwich recipes. We have tried to
find useful but different ones then the usual run-of-the-mill, boring sandwiches.
We will be
reviewing blogs for a couple more weeks then we will start talking about what
we have at the Rogers Public Library that you
may not know is here, or that is helpful in genealogy research but isn’t
necessarily thought of as a genealogy source.
Have a safe
and fun Labor Day Weekend and see you back here on Tuesday.
