Genealogy
Finding Your Roots Learning
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Today is Festivus, National Roots Day, and, National Bake 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.
- 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
- 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 - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 2: DNA Extraction - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 3: DNA Ancestry - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 4: Observable Traits - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 5: Natural Selection - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 6: Evolution of Skin Color - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 7: Genealogical Research - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 8: Classification - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings: Episode 9: Final Presentations - VIEW and DO
- Grades 4-12 - PBS LearningMedia - History Detectives - Family History and Genealogical Research - VIEW and DO
- Grades 5-13 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Collection - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Genealogy Roadshow Collection - VIEW and DO
- Grade 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Finding Your Roots - Founding Mothers
- VIEW and DO
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KIDS HOLIDAY SPECIALS
- 6-7 am NHPBS - The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About Christmas!
- 1-2 pm NHPBS - Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
- 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Plants Behaving Badly - Murder & Mayhem
- 1-2 pm NH WORLD - Plants Behaving Badly - Sex & Lies
- 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Nova - First Man On The Moon
- 3-4 pm NH WORLD - Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory: American Experience
- 4-5 pm NH WORLD - Civilizations - God And Art
- 9-10 pm NHPBS - Nova - Pluto And Beyond
- 10-11 pm NHPBS - Nova - Flying Supersonic
- 7-8:30 pm NH WORLD - Independent Lens - Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World
- 8:30-10 pm NH WORLD - Guru Nanak: The Founder of Sikhism
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