{"id":37942,"date":"2016-05-13T12:05:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=37942"},"modified":"2016-05-13T12:05:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:05:11","slug":"serendipity-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=37942","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

** Genealogy\u2019s Star: A Must-Read Blog (in my opinion) & YouTube Channel<\/span><\/p>\n

** Washington\u2019s Colville Tribes Selected For The Next U.S. Census Test<\/span><\/p>\n

**Insects: Future Or Past Food?<\/span><\/p>\n

**How To Ensure All Will Be Lost<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Gen<\/p>\n

James Tanner crafts his Genealogy\u2019s Star blog nearly two times per week and I read every post and learn something new each time. Back on 5 Mar 2016, he posted about the BYU Family History Library Channel on YouTube. He was discussing a new uploaded video titled, \u201cWhy You Can\u2019t Trace Your Family Back To Adam.\u201d Who would not want to view this video??<\/strong> Here\u2019s how: (1) Click to www.youtube.com<\/a>;\u00a0 (2) select the BYU Family History Library channel<\/u>; (3) Chose what you want to view from the list of over 400 videos; and (4) Click the subscribe<\/em> button to get notification of new videos as they\u2019re uploaded.<\/p>\n

May I, as your serendipity teacher today, give you two homework assignments today? First click to www.genealogysstar.blogspot.com<\/strong><\/a> (note the two \u201cs\u201d) and sign up for James Tanner\u2019s blog. Next click to www.youtube.com<\/strong><\/a> and get going with your home learning from there!<\/p>\n

**************************************<\/p>\n

An AP blurb in our local paper by Regina Garcia Cano, and from Sioux Falls, SD, read: \u201cThe Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation is one of two National American reservations selected as test sites ahead of the 2020 census, as officials mull whether to ask for the first tie about tribal enrollment.\u201d The two reservations are Standing Rock Indian Reservation, which straddles North and South Dakota, and the Colville reservation. \u201cBy selecting these geographic areas, we are allowing ourselves an opportunity to test our methods and procedures in areas where it is difficult to deliver questionnaires by mail,\u201d said Deirdre Bishop, chief of the bureau\u2019s Decennial Census Management Division.\u201d I found this tidbit fascinating for many reasons. I\u2019d not realized that the tremendous amount of decade-long work went into the taking of a census.<\/p>\n

For more information on this (census taking) Google \u201cDecennial Census Management Division.\u201d Or \u201c2020 U.S. Census.\u201d\u00a0 And ditto for more info on the two reservation test sites.<\/p>\n

***************************************<\/p>\n

\"LOLLI\"<\/p>\n

According to an article in the Delta Sky<\/em> magazine for April 2016, the foods in our future may include insects\u2026\u2026..bugs. Here is a link to a short video about Andrew Zimmern\u2019s views on eating insects:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.travelchannel.com\/shows\/bizarre-foods-celebrates-100\/video\/the-bug-eating-guy<\/a> from the Travel Channel. There has been plenty of buzz about \u201chow are we going to feed the hungry millions on our planet in the future\u2026and are insects the answer?\u201d in the media. But I was not prepared for the picture that accompanied that Delta Sky<\/em> article: a lollipop with a nice fat caterpillar inside of it! Yum??<\/p>\n

Now, you might say, what does this have to do with family history? Let me ask you this:\u00a0 Did our ancestors eat insects? <\/strong>I think they surely did but not in the way you think. I think poor eyesight, poor lighting in homes, and creepy-crawlies everywhere and in everything ensured that there were insects in our ancestor\u2019s food. Yum.<\/p>\n

**********************************************<\/p>\n

How to ensure that all your genealogy, your life\u2019s work, will be lost. Eight thoughts from Donna.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Do not ever make time to take to relatives and collect their memories and memorabilia.<\/li>\n
  2. Do not make time to share photos with relatives and get positive ID for them.<\/li>\n
  3. Do not bother to scan in old photos and memorabilia and certainly do not bother with backups.<\/li>\n
  4. Do not both to compile a list of who-in-the-family gets what of all the family treasures you\u2019ve collected over the years.<\/li>\n
  5. When cleaning out grandma\u2019s house after the funeral, just bring lots of big black plastic bags for everything to take to the dump or Goodwill.<\/li>\n
  6. Do not bother with transferring all the family information you have stored in binders and boxes to an online program.<\/li>\n
  7. Do leave so much stuff stuffed in your office that your kids will be overwhelmed and not really know what to keep and what to toss.<\/li>\n
  8. Don\u2019t make a plan for without a plan you surely will fail and your genealogy will be lost. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Sad Facts:\u00a0 Your local genealogy society DOES NOT WANT all your binders and boxes of un-organized papers and stuff. Neither does the Family History Library. And neither do your kids! They want the information<\/u> and not all the stuff<\/u> and they want it organized. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    ** Genealogy\u2019s Star: A Must-Read Blog (in my opinion) & YouTube Channel ** Washington\u2019s Colville Tribes Selected For The Next U.S. Census Test **Insects: Future Or Past Food? **How To Ensure All Will Be Lost     James Tanner crafts Continue reading Serendipity Day<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37945,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37942\/revisions\/37945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}