Genealogy - December 23

Finding Your Roots Learning

Saturday, December 23, 2023

Today is Family Roots Day, Festivus, and Pfeffernusse Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Genealogy
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ON THIS DATE

• 1815 - Jane Austen's novel Emma is published.
• 1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore was first published, in the Troy (N.Y.) Sentinel.
• 1968 -  82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1745 - John Jay, first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
• 1805 - Joseph Smith, founder of the Morman church.
• 1867 - Businesswoman and the first black female millionaire Sarah Breedlove Walker 
• 1912 - Organic chemist and academic Anna J. Harrison
• 1939 - Sculptor and painter Nancy Graves
• 1964 - Singer-songwriter Eddie Vedder

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Sister Sledge - We Are Family - LISTEN
  

THEME:  Genealogy

• Grades 4-12 - Find A Grave - DO
• Grades 4-12 - Family Search - DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 1: Genetics and Genealogy Camp Overview (8:15) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 2: DNA Extraction(10:25)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 3: DNA Ancestry (11:29) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 4: Observable Traits (11:29)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 5: Natural Selection (935) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 6: Evolution of Skin Color (12:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 7: Genealogical Research (13:27) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 8: Classification (8:42) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 9: Final Presentations (10:39)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - History Detectives - Family History and Genealogical Research (17:06)  - VIEW and DO
• Grades 5-13 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Finding Your Roots - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - National Archives - U.S.Census Records - SEARCH and READ
• Grade 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots - Founding Mothers (3:20) - VIEW and DO

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