Genealogy - March 8

Saturday, March 8, 2025

Today is Girls Write Now Day, International Women's Day, Peanut Cluster Day, Proofreading Day, Retro Video Game Day, Genealogy Day, and UN Day for Women's Rights &  Peace.

Women's History Month Resource of the Day: National Women's History Museum

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Frogs and Toads

ON THIS DATE

• 1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
• 1971 - Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden in New York.
• 1983 - President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire" during a speech.
• 2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1841 - Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• 1859 - British author Kenneth Grahame
• 1922 - Actor and dancer Cyd Charisse
• 1947 - Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager
• 1953 - Baseball player Jim Rice

SONGS 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 - 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 - 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 - Genealogy Roadshow 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

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339