Genealogy - December 23
Finding Your Roots Learning
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Today is Family Roots Day, Festivus, Metric Conversion Day, and Pfeffernusse Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Genealogy
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1745 - John Jay, first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, was born on this day in 1745.
1783 – George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
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 Mormon 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
Sister Sledge - We Are Family - LISTEN
- 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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