Monday, January 29, 2007
"Aaaoowah!" at the Superbowl
If you haven't heard already, Prince is playing the halftime show at the SuperBowl this weekend.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Looking for ancestors
A few websites while on the search for our pasts:My Leyvas family history
- family history report for Eric's class, 1995
- old family photos
General websites about genealogy
- Familysearch.org one of the only free family history webpages. Search thru birth, marriage, and death records, US census, and create your family tree. (This page is created by the Church of JC of Latter-Day Saints.)
- Genealogy.com includes a search for ancestors, US census information, and passenger records. Access if free for 14 days, then you have to buy a subscription. However, you can build a free family tree or look at a celebrity tree.
- Genealogy.org Ancestry.com include marriage and death records, plus US census reports. Also free for 14 days, then you have to pay for a subscription.
- National Archives include immigration, military, naturalization and land records
- Answers about genealogy, like finding a coat of arms, the Mayflower passenger list, and how to search at Ellis Island are at http://www.genealogyspot.com/ask/
- All info about genealogy http://genealogy.allinfoabout.com/features/starting.html
- Cyndi's List http://www.cyndislist.com/kids.htm
Fun activities
- Making a family quilt
http://familyfun.go.com/parenting/learn/activities/feature/famf0100famhistory/famf0100famhistory4.html - Asking your parents about love
http://childparenting.about.com/library/nlovehistory.htm - Meanings on tombstones
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maggieoh/tomb.html - US surname distribution
http://www.hamrick.com/names/ - Preserving old photos
http://www.genealogyspot.com/todo/photographs.htm
Coat of Arms
- Short list of names, just click on the section that your last name might be in
- You can order merchandise with your last name on it, like a flag, mug, or plaque :)
- then learn about what the Heraldry words on the coats of arms mean.
Medals
- from the National Archives, general information about military medals
- a list of Medal of Honor recipients
- search for more military information, like name and rank or personnel records
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Where are we dining tonite?
Oh no....I better start saving my money and some shelf space for the upcoming action figures, replicas, and other fun stuff. :)
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Crash!
So, my brother was sitting at home Tuesday night, watching TV, when all of a sudden there was a loud crash.
The corner of the house was crushed (hard to see in the pics). My brother says you can see inside the house from the outside. ---Insurance people are showing up today.
Here's a before picture of his house (Thanksgiving weekend), which recently went through a neighborhood beautification project. The house was featured on the front page of the local newsletter. You see, the whole neighborhood had come together this fall, painting & building fences, fixing roofs in preparation of the brand new elementary school that is being built across the street. The neighborhood received a grant to "fix up the place" so that kids had nice homes to walk by on the way to school.
He immediately called the police, secured his dog, and went outside. There was no driver in the car.
One of the neighborhood kids shouted out to him, "she ran that way! My mom went after her!" The driver was a young girl, who was detained a few blocks away by the mom. :) The police quickly came and stuck her in the back of their car, but she was taken away by the ambulance, claiming injury. No word yet about her or her condition while driving.
One of the neighborhood kids shouted out to him, "she ran that way! My mom went after her!" The driver was a young girl, who was detained a few blocks away by the mom. :) The police quickly came and stuck her in the back of their car, but she was taken away by the ambulance, claiming injury. No word yet about her or her condition while driving.
The corner of the house was crushed (hard to see in the pics). My brother says you can see inside the house from the outside. ---Insurance people are showing up today.
Here's a before picture of his house (Thanksgiving weekend), which recently went through a neighborhood beautification project. The house was featured on the front page of the local newsletter. You see, the whole neighborhood had come together this fall, painting & building fences, fixing roofs in preparation of the brand new elementary school that is being built across the street. The neighborhood received a grant to "fix up the place" so that kids had nice homes to walk by on the way to school.
Labels: "car crash"
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Spiders on Drugs
Cool video a co-worker shared with me.
Monday, January 01, 2007
Locked in
Made a video from our lock-in, held right before New Year's.
Large video and smaller video (for those on a slower connection)
just make sure that you right-click on the video link and save it your computer to watch!
Large video and smaller video (for those on a slower connection)
just make sure that you right-click on the video link and save it your computer to watch!
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