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This is a more-recent search than in most episodes, which made it closer to home for the celebrity.
Wilson's father, who passed away a few years ago, was born in 1920 in Oraion, Xanthi, Greece.
There was a lot to be sad about in this episode. Bulgaria occupied Xanthi dring World War II. Required to serve in the military, Allan was imprisoned for a petty crime.
After he was paroled and settled in Bulgaria, he married and had a son, Emil—news to Wilson. His wife died when the baby was three days old, and Emil died at four months.
After attempting to leave the country, Allan was detained by the occupying Communists and sent to a labor camp. This information was in a file in the "Secret Files Commission." A guard's report detailed his escape.
When Wilson traveled to Greece to meet her father's brother for the first time, he gives her a letter Allen wrote from America. He was making good money, going to school and having fun. It was the perfect hopeful ending for a tearful show.
If you missed it, you'll be able to watch it on NBC's website.
Got Greek roots? Here's our free online Greek Genealogy Toolkit. You'll find more Greek research advice in the May/June 2012 Family Tree Magazine, which starts mailing to subscribers in April.
This man is:A) Taking his 1940 census searching WAY too far.
B) Brilliant.
Also check out our upcoming Family Tree University course Finding Ancestors in the US Census: Online and Offline Strategies. This genealogy course is $39.99 for the April 30 session only—a $60 savings off the regular price!
The founders of Footnote—the site Ancestry.com acquired in 2010 and renamed Fold3—are now working for MyHeritage. Footnote founders Russ Wilding and Roger Bell are serving as chief content officer and VP of product, respectively, at MyHeritage. They'll be instrumental in the Israel-based company's recently announced initiative to develop its US historical records content. Read more about the hire here.
Remember to watch "Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr." this Sunday evening at 8 p.m. ET on PBS. It'll feature the family histories of tv journalist Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada, president of the Harlem Children's Zone.
Bonus: You'll also see New England Historic Genealogical Society senior researcher Rhonda McClure in action solving Canada's ancestral mysteries.
Here's a preview video in which Canada visits the farm where his enslaved ancestor Thomas lived.
Watch Both Sides of Slavery on PBS. See more from
Here, she meets her uncle for the first time. Word of advice: Grab a tissue.
Incidentally, Bulgaria can be a difficult place to research genealogy, as we pointed out in the September 2007 Family Tree Magazine. If your ancestors hail from there, this show may hold some valuable tips.
If you're on Twitter, go to the early bird tweet-up beforehand, where you can meet the ceremony speakers and chat with a genealogy expert. RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The archives also is hosting and participating in 1940 census workshops across the country. View the Washington DC events schedule here, and events around the country here and here.
Libraries and genealogical societies all over the United States are holding their own workshops to help you find ancestors in the 1940 census. Here's a sampling—check library and society websites for classes near you:
The Allen County, Ind., public library is holding Introduction to the 1940 Census workshops April 2 at 2:30 p.m. and April 7 at 10 a.m. Get more details on the library's events calendar.
Attend Searching for your ancestors in the 1940 Federal Census April Thursday, April 12, at 3:15 at the New York Public Library in New York City.
So I hear, anyway. I haven't actually used probate records. Like many genealogists, I'm not quite sure how to approach them. And I need to get my act together fast, because I'm headed to the Cuyahoga County Probate Court this month.
Good thing our Using Probate Records live webinar, presented by professional researcher Marian Pierre-Louis, is Thursday, April 5 at 8 p.m. ET.
Marian will show you:
Here's the basic info on the Using Probate Records webinar:
Your spouse:
Your kids:
Your coworkers:
Your boss:
Your friends:
Want to speed up your census search? Get tips and watch our free video on finding family in the 1940 census at FamilyTreeMagazine.com.
Check out our upcoming Family Tree University course Finding Ancestors in the US Census: Online and Offline Strategies. This genealogy course is just $39.99 for the April 30 session only—a $60 savings off the regular price!
Last night's "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.," traced several ancestors of Harry Connick, Jr., and Branford Marsalis. (Watch it here if you missed it or look for a rebroadcast this week on PBS.)
The show spent quite a bit of time on the two men's childhoods and friendship in New Orleans. I was especially excited to see them at the Musician's Village, a Habitat for Humanity community the two sponsor and where I got to help build houses several years ago.
The show also has Connick and Marsalis playing at Preservation Hall, which I visited on the same trip.
Back to the genealogy: Gates presented Harry and Branford each with a "Book of Life," basically, a scrapbook of the records the show's researchers found.
Researchers discovered that Marsalis' surname came from a white Dutch slave owner in Mississippi. A son of that man's slave married Marsalis' great-great-grandmother Lizzie—but her son Simion, Marsalis great-grandfather, was three years old when that marriage took place. Simion's father was likely Lizzie's previous husband, a man named Isaac Black.
I was glad we saw an archivist looking... and looking ... and looking for records of one of Marsalis' ancestors at the New Orleans Public Library and in cemeteries before he finally found something. That's reality.
Connick was relieved to learn his Irish ancestor, a famine immigrant named James Connick, didn't own slaves—but was disappointed that he fought for the Confederacy for three years.
Gates explains that it wasn't necessarily because James supported slavery. His work would've dried up during the war, and there may have been no other way to make a living. The researchers found a military pension record for James, though it doesn't seem to indicate what kind of injury he might've suffered.
Connick's fifth-great-grandfather, David McCullough from Pennsylvania, was an infamous privateer on the ship Rattlesnake. He captured ships in the West Indies and would send the bounties back to the United States. The British crown had a 5,000-guinea reward on McCullough's head.
To demonstrate how varied our heritage is, Gates had black friends from his local barbershop guess their percentages of African, White and Indian heritage, then had them take DNA tests (the show didn't explain margins of error). Most weren't too far on their white and black percentages, but had overestimated their American Indian blood.
Immediately after the Harry Connick Jr./Branford Marsalis episode was another featuring Newark, NJ, mayor Cory Booker and US Rep. John Lewis. I had to get to bed at that point. You can watch this one online, too.
"Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr." is airing Sunday nights at 8 ET on PBS.
Hunt's family tree seemed full of distinguished ancestors. She starts with her great-grandmother Florence Rothenburg—a name later changed to Roberts, which a historian explains would've made life easier for the Jewish-American family—in New York City in 1900.
After her husband died, Florence took her four small children to Pasadena, Calif., a move that seemed strange for a newly widowed woman. But it turned out that California was home for Florence.
Florence's father was one of the Scholle brothers, clothiers who started out in New York. Florence's father (Hunt's great-great-grandfather) William Scholle opened a branch in San Francisco to serve the Gold Rush pioneers.
He built the business to the point he was listed in a newspaper article about local millionaires. In 1890, he was an investor, along with Isaias Hellman, Levi Strauss and others, in the Nevada Bank (it merged with Wells Fargo in 1905).
That was Hunt's dad's mother's family. Next, in Portland, Maine, she learns about the paternal side. Her great-great-grandmother was Augusta Hunt, a local leader in the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Hunt was almost reluctant to learn more—her impression of the WCTU was that of a group of teetotalers who wanted to restrict everyone else's freedoms. But a historian explained the extent of alcohol abuse at the time and the suffering it caused, particularly for women and children.
As part of the WCTU, Augusta supported a variety of causes, including female suffrage—and she lived long enough to see the 19th amendment passed. An obituary stated she was the first woman in Portland to cast her vote.
I noticed Hunt's voice-overs in this episode would say "I'm meeting so-and-so, whom I've asked to research my ancestor so-and-so." Past episodes have been presented more as a collaboration between the celebrity and researcher (whether or not that was actually the case), with the celebrity doing more active searching. I wonder if this is a new approach?
I appreciated all the history in this episode and the lesson to learn historical context before making assumptions about your ancestors. Ironically, early on we learned that Hunt's grandmother—Augusta's daughter-in-law—was killed by a drunk driver when Hunt's dad was 5 years old.
The scene in which Hunt goes home to share everything she learned with her dad didn't make the final episode. For those who love this part of the show, here's the deleted scene:
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1. On April 2 at 9 a.m., the only place you'll be able to find online 1940 census records for the entire country is 1940census.archives.gov. This website was made possible through the National Archives' contract with genealogy company Archives.com.
2. Shortly after the initial release, other websites will begin adding the records as fast as they can. Those include:
3. For the first week to several weeks after April 2, the only way to find your ancestor's 1940 census record will be to browse by enumeration district.
You can find out what an enumeration district is and how to pinpoint the right one by watching our free video on FamilyTreeMagazine.com.
4. Three separate projects to index these census records by name will begin ASAP after the records are released:
The 1940 Census Community Project is recruiting volunteers to do the indexing; Ancestry.com and MyHeritage are using paid contractors to do their indexing work.
5. Each site will add its index one state at a time, as states are completed. No site has specified the order in which states will be indexed, so at this time there's no telling when a particular site will add your ancestor's state. It could be weeks or months before a given site posts the index you need (so you'll want to check all the above sites periodically).
6. Ancestry.com is completing its index in two phases: a basic name index to be released first on a state-by-state basis, then a more-detailed index with additional information to follow. This means you may have access to a searchable basic name index for your ancestral state earlier on Ancestry.com than on another site.
7. Watch out for sites that try to charge for access to 1940 census records. There is no need to pay for 1940 census records. They'll be available online, free, at the sites mentioned in No. 2.
Get help finding your ancestors in the US census with these resources from Family Tree Magazine:
In an interview yesterday, MyHeritage founder and CEO Gilad Japhet called the 1940 census announcement "the first serious signal from MyHeritage that it is strongly entering the historical records market."
"MyHeritage has always been about family trees and photos."
For at least a year, plans have been underway to change that.
MyHeritage.com has invested half a million dollars into new hardware and a data center to build its new SuperSearch system, which will be released with the site's 1940 census collection in April. It also will be available on FamilyLink and WorldVitalRecords.com, which MyHeritage acquired in November 2011.
The company also made a personnel acquisition I'm not free to go into detail about, but you'll hear more soon.
MyHeritage has used SmartMatching, which Japhet says is a good way to search trees for matches, but less effective when it comes to searching on a last name "in any direction the user wants to go."
The new search system will do a better job of matching trees to records by employing data in approximately 1 billion profiles in MyHeritage.com family trees from around the world.
The SuperSearch will first compare your tree to other trees, find matches and "imply" information from those trees—but not add it to your tree, Japhet emphasized. But the search will include that implied information to find historical records that match your ancestors.
For example, if your ancestor's profile lacks a death date, SuperSearch could find the same ancestor in someone else's tree—using other details such as children's names to make the match—and use the death date from the other person's tree to locate the ancestor's will in MyHeritage collections.
"This has a low false positive rate. It's a match Ancestry never could have done. Their technology doesn't use the knowledge of all its trees," Japhet said. He described the Ancestry.com "shaky leaf" technology as "a bit naïve" because it requires more similar information, such as name spellings or birth and death dates—information the tree owner might not know—to find matches.
"Whenever new data are added, we compare them to all the MyHeritage trees, so you can sit back and do nothing," Japhet says. "If you have a person's family tree, you can do a lot of research on behalf of the person."
Due to the resource investment, using the new SuperSearch engine will require a subscription, says Japhet. But current MyHeritage Premium and PremiumPlus subscribers, who've purchased subscriptions to build enhanced trees on the site, won't need to purchase an additional subscription to use the search engine for finding trees, photos and free collections (including the 1940 census and the SSDI). Pay-as-you credits also will be available for those who want to view only a few records or just dip a toe into genealogy research.
The 1940 census index also will be free to search via SuperSearch.
Trees will remain an important part of MyHeritage.
"We think family trees are the most important thing. They're the core of family history. We would love for users to grow their trees on MyHeritage, so we have invested many resources in building tools and services that work with the trees." Those include the MyHeritage mobile app, printable family trees, family calendars and more.
"Other sites focus on research," Japhet says, but added that users might give it up when it becomes too time-consuming. "Users discontinue [a subscription] when they can't use it," he says, "but they'll maintain a tree for life."
Trees also have been helpful in making MyHeritage a site that supports multiple languages—38, to be exact. Because trees can be bilingual, developers have been able to build a store of information about name equivalents in a range of languages.
"You can type in a Russian name and get an English match," Japhet says. "Or you could type in Alex and the site 'knows' Sascha is the translated Russian nickname, and it pulls up a newspaper article in Russian," he says.
The site translates between alphabets, too, such as the Latin alphabet English uses and the Cyrillic alphabet Russian uses.
To encourage the site's internationalism, MyHeritage focuses
on hiring bilingual individuals. They maintain blogs and provide
customer service in several languages.
The 1940 census is just the beginning of new content for MyHeritage. Japhet didn't name any specific collections coming to the site, but he emphasized the global nature of records to be added and said the site would employ crowdsourcing to acquire content. Those who assist with crowdsourcing efforts will gain SuperSearch privileges.
MyHeritage, a company based in Israel and with a US office in Provo, Utah, will provide the 1940 census free at myheritage.com/1940census, www.worldvitalrecords.com/1940census and www.familylink.com/1940census.
(MyHeritage acquired FamilyLink and its WorldVitalRecords site last November.)
As on other websites planning to offer the 1940 census, you'll be able to browse the record images by place as soon as they're added to the site.
A searchable index will be added throughout the year, as data from each state are transcribed. The MyHeritage 1940 census index will be created separately from both the FamilySearch/Archives.com/brightsolid 1940 Census Community Project and the Ancestry.com index. A company that specializes in historical transcription will develop the index, which Japhet says will be highly accurate.
Once MyHeritage has launched the index for a given state, you'll be able to search it by multiple criteria using the MyHeritage SuperSearch, a fast and sophisticated new search engine to be released in April. All searches will take less than half a second, Japhet told me.
The search engine will support 38 languages, the only 1940 census site to offer this feature.
You'll also be able to search the records using the MyHeritage mobile app.
If you have a family tree on MyHeritage.com, the site will automatically match it to 1940 census data as indexes are added and notify you about relevant results. This reduces the need to constantly repeat your searches to see if the index for your ancestor's state has been added.
The 1940 census is the first of additional historical content to come on MyHeritage. "This is the first serious signal from MyHeritage that it is strongly entering the historical records market," Japhet says.
Japhet shared a lot of detail with me, so I'll write another post about MyHeritage's plans for introducing new, global content and a sophisticated way to search it.
For more 1940 census information, including a free video on using Stephen Morse's One-Step tool for determining your ancestor's 1940 enumeration district, see FamilyTreeMagazine.com/info/1940census.
I was inspired to become a census preparedness expert 10 years ago, after seeing woefully underprepared genealogists try to use the 1930 census. Why, so many of them were waiting in line at the library without basics like tents, Bunsen burners or crossword puzzles. And watching them scroll microfilm without Dramamine—well, it was downright painful. You'll need different supplies for the 1940 census, as this release is entirely digital and you'll be examining the records on a computer. Under no circumstances should you start your 1940 census research without these nine absolute must-haves:
I was inspired to become a census preparedness expert 10 years ago, after seeing woefully underprepared genealogists try to use the 1930 census.
Why, so many of them were waiting in line at the library without basics like tents, Bunsen burners or crossword puzzles. And watching them scroll microfilm without Dramamine—well, it was downright painful.
You'll need different supplies for the 1940 census, as this release is entirely digital and you'll be examining the records on a computer.
Under no circumstances should you start your 1940 census research without these nine absolute must-haves:
1. An atomic clock to precisely signal the 9 a.m. ET release of the 1940 census records.2. Extra batteries for your mouse. Be sure to practice changing them fast, the way they change the tires on race cars. You don't want to lose census time on silly things like dead batteries. 3. A Netflix account for the kids. You can get 99 episodes of Sponge Bob on Netflix. That's 99 half-hours of uninterrupted census work. You can always smarten them back up later with some books or something.4. A cardboard cutout of yourself to keep your spouse company while you're spending quality time with your computer. This is the kind thing to do.5. A hands-free helmet hydration system. No need to pause in your scrolling to pick up a glass of water. 6. Peanut m&ms for sustenance (peanuts = protein).7. An alarm clock to remind you to eat the m&ms.8. No-Doze (it's not just for college students anymore). Stock up now before your local drugstore is overrun with census-checking grannies. You don't want to have to knock over those grannies.9. Vitamin D pills. Let's face it: You're not going to be seeing the sun anytime soon. That's okay, though. Vampires are very "in" these days. You're like a census vampire.
Um, thank you, Ida. I'm sure readers are rushing to the store right now.
Next up, we offer phrases you'll want to memorize in case your boss catches you searching the 1940 census at work.
And visit FamilyTreeMagazine.com for serious tips on finding your ancestors in the 1940 census—including a free video on using Steve Morse's One-Step 1940 ED tool.
We're hosting a free webinar next Tuesday about one of the most talked-about photo-preservation tools in genealogy: the Flip-Pal mobile scanner.
Presenters Thomas MacEntee and Diane Miller will show you:
Registered attendees will get access to the webinar to view again as many times as they like (we'll e-mail instructions after the webinar).
Plus, all registrants will receive a special product offer!
The free Flip-Pal webinar is Tuesday, March 27, at 2 p.m. Eastern (1 p.m. Central, noon Mountain, 11 a.m. Pacific).
The presentation is about 45 minutes, plus 10 minutes for Q&A.
Click here to register for our free webinar Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner for Fabulous Family Photos.
Gates, a Harvard history professor who's hosted previous genealogy shows for PBS including African-American Lives and Faces of America, will explore the roots of 24 well-known Americans including Harry Connick Jr., Barbara Walters, Kevin Bacon, Condoleezza Rice, Sanjay Gupta and Martha Stewart.
Here's the twist that makes this show different: Each episode will feature a pair of celebrities "bound together by an intimate, sometimes hidden link." DNA testing takes over where paper trails leave off.
The staff of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and Johni Cerny, co-author of The Source: Guidebook for American Genealogy, contributed research to the series.
You can watch several clips on the show's website, including this extended preview:
Watch Extended Preview on PBS. See more from Finding Your Roots.
We've gone over how to pinpoint your ancestors' 1940 census enumeration district(s) so you can zero in on their record.
Now, as a public service announcement to genealogists, we're carrying this important guest blog post from a noted expert in genealogical medicine regarding the 1940 census and avoiding research-related injury. Take it away, doctor:
Hello, I'm Dr. I.M. Enumerator, N.O.T.M.D. Significant clicking, scrolling and dragging will likely be required when you look for your ancestors in the 1940 census. And unfortunately, too much mousing can lead to a painful condition called 1940 Census Clicker's Wrist.
Hello, I'm Dr. I.M. Enumerator, N.O.T.M.D.
Significant clicking, scrolling and dragging will likely be required when you look for your ancestors in the 1940 census.
And unfortunately, too much mousing can lead to a painful condition called 1940 Census Clicker's Wrist.
Because the 1940 records constitute the first digital census release, we doctors aren't sure what to expect. But those of us familiar with the condition's close relative, 1930 Census Scroller's Elbow, believe it could cause a sore wrist and forearm, stiff "trigger finger" and inability to uncurl the fingers from a computer mouse.
Uncontrolled, 1940 Census Clicker's Wrist could sideline your census search and require professional extraction of the mouse. But there's no need to suffer. You can avoid the problem if you start this simple, three-step census training program now.**
Uncontrolled, 1940 Census Clicker's Wrist could sideline your census search and require professional extraction of the mouse.
But there's no need to suffer. You can avoid the problem if you start this simple, three-step census training program now.**
1. Perform two sets of 10 reps each, twice a day, with one of these:
2. Follow with three minutes of stretching.
2. Follow with three minutes of stretching.
3. Become ambidextrous. For optimal census searching speed and performance, remember to taper your training program during the last few days before Census Release Day.
3. Become ambidextrous.
For optimal census searching speed and performance, remember to taper your training program during the last few days before Census Release Day.
If 1940 Census Clicker's Wrist should strike you, stop mousing immediately and apply ice.
If 1940 Census Clicker's Wrist should strike you, stop mousing immediately and apply ice.
Don't let 1940 Census Clicker's Wrist stall your search for ancestors. Start your training program today!
**Consult your physician before beginning any census training program.
Thank you to the doctor for this crucial information. Next, we'll talk about important supplies to stock up on so you'll be ready on Census Day.
The Genealogist's Census Pocket Reference is now available. Learn more about it in ShopFamilyTree.com.
You're probably getting the gist by now: For the Amazing Deals Sale at ShopFamilyTree.com now through Sunday, lots and lots of genealogy how-to books, print back issues, CDs, article downloads and more are at least 50 percent off.
Click here to see everything included in the sale. Remember, in ShopFamilyTree.com you get free shipping on orders over $25 (and digital downloads count toward the total).
And this little guy is 1/32nd Irish:
So this St. Patrick's Day, Leo and I will have to make the most of our respective slivers of Irishness.
Whether you're a lot or a little Irish, you share heritage with the second-largest heritage group in the United States. Here are some more stats:
50,000 to 100,000 Irish came to America in the 1600s, and 100,000 more in the 1700s. Eight signatures on the Declaration of Independence belonged to men of Irish descent.
In the American colonies, up to 90 percent of indentured servants were Irish.
About 250,000 Scots-Irish settlers from Ulster province arrived in the United States during the Colonial era. They were descended from Scottish and English tenant farmers settled in Ireland during the Plantation of Ulster.
In the century after 1820, about 5 million Irish arrived on US shores. Irish made up almost half of all US immigrants in the 1840s and one-third in the 1850s, the decades of the Great Potato Famine.
Today, Massachusetts is the most Irish state, with about a quarter of the population claiming Irish roots.
FamilyTreeMagazine.com has some great advice for tracing your Irish roots:
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The Irish Ancestry Value Pack is just $49.99 this month.
Family Tree Magazine publisher Allison Dolan will share key facts about censuses, where to find free census records and what to expect when the 1940 census is released. She'll also show you how to use the major online collections to find your ancestors, using real examples from webinar viewers to demo census search strategies.
Click here to learn more about the Online Census Secrets webinar.
And our Indiana Crash Course webinar is right around the corner next Tuesday, March 20 at 8 p.m. ET. If you have Hoosier ancestors like I do, click here to find out more about this learning opportunity.
In addition to hearing fascinating tales of participants' old family homes with kitchens constructed from peach crates, cheese packaging used for insulation and old newpapers as wallpaper, I got tips for researching the cigar store and other ancestral homes, such as my great-grandparents':
And I smuggled some tips from the chat to share with you all! (The conference participants can download chat transcripts to keep.) Here they are:
If you missed the Virtual Conference, the 15 video classes (see a few of them listed here) will be available soon at ShopFamilyTree.com.
And if you're particularly interested in house histories, we also have a digital download guide to researching houses in ShopFamilyTree.com.
In this episode, former Pittsburgh Steelers player Jerome Bettis visits Kentucky to learn about his mom's roots. He didn't trace as many generations as in some other episodes, but I liked the attention spent on each person.
Bettis, an African-American, turned to newspapers for details not documented in official records. He found references to court cases for his great-grandfather being struck by his boss, and in a separate incident, his great-great-grandfather being hit by a train.
The deck was stacked against each man in his case, but Bettis discovered in court records that his great-great-grandfather Abe Bogard won his complaint against the Illinois Central Railroad. Bettis actually got to talk to someone who remembered hearing about the case from men employed by the railroad at the time.
One of my favorite aspects of this episode was the way a Western Kentucky University history professor showed Bettis how to trace his family into slavery. Presuming that the name Bogard was taken from a former owner, Bettis found a white Bogard family in the area and checked will records and slave dower lists (reports of slaves women had inherited).
They found a Jerry and Eliza, with a son Abe. I can't imagine the feeling that would hit you when you see a record showing that your family members were owned by other people, and monetary values placed on their heads.
The owner, Joseph Bogard, willed Bettis' ancestors to his wife. After she died, Abe and his parents were sold off to separate owners. The good news is that the 1870 census, the first US census to name former slaves, showed the family was reunited.
Here's a Western Kentucky University article about the professor's work with Bettis.
Here's a FamilyTreeMagazine.com article about making the jump from freed slaves in the 1870 census to enslaved ancestors in the 1850 and 1860 slave schedules.
Best records for finding female ancestors
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I'll be watching as part of our Virtual Conference viewing party (even though Bettis played for the Cincinnati Bengals rivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers).
In this video, Bettis visits the land where his enslaved third-great-grandfather lived and worked.
If you're recreating family recipes, you'll also want to refer to our list of old measurements and their modern equivalents.
Our book From the Family Kitchen: Discover Your Food Heritage and Preerve Favorite Recipes by Gena Philibert-Ortega, now available for pre-order in ShopFamilyTree.com, has tons of advice on finding vintage cookbooks and recreating recipes.
From the Family Kitchen also covers the social history of food and contains a recipe journal so you can write down how to make Mom's delicious banana bread.
Wondering what this Virtual Conference thing is? I'll tell you: It's an opportunity to improve your genealogy skills and network with other researchers while hanging out at home in your pajamas (or at the coffee shop, let's hope in your regular clothes).
You'll log in anytime during the weekend to watch video classes, participate in live chats, visit our virtual exhibit hall and pick up your swag bag.
We've got 15 video classes to choose from. Some of them are:
And chat topics include (but aren't limited to):
I watched the show online, which is a bit of a problem for me because I want to sit there and do research, so then I had to watch it again. The ratings are already out and apparently this episode did the best of any so far. Who doesn't love Reba McEntire?
Here's the full episode if you still need to watch it:
She started the show at her family ranch in Oklahoma and traveled to Aberdeen, Miss.; Raleigh, NC; Oxford, NC; Tappahannock, Va.; and England in pursuit of her mom's family tree.
I was surprised to see Josh Taylor (formerly of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), now of FindMyPast.com) walk into the library in Aberdeen. This scene was in the clip I posted Friday, but I had assumed they were at the NEHGS library in Boston.
One theme is McEntire's discovery of her family's slave-owning past. When she's confronted with her fourth-great-grandfather's life as a slave trader, I like what the archivist says, that slavery is part of all of our histories.
Later, she learns the same ancestor's grandfather (McEntire's sixth-great-grandfather) came to the country as a 9-year-old indentured servant. He was one of the fewer than half of all indentured servants who lived long enough to become free citizens—and became successful enough to purchase land.
When she learned the boy's father put him on the ship, McEntire cautions herself against drawing early conclusions. Good for her: Before making judgments about an ancestor's actions, it's a good idea to learn the context of their lives.
I like the variety of records used in this episode (though we didn't see where Josh found his information). Censuses, obituaries, land records, tax records, newspapers (she used GenealogyBank at the Granville County courthouse, but they didn't show the name of the site), slave bills of sale, deeds, baptismal registers and more.
You can read a litle about McEntire's ancestral journey in this Tulsa World article (McEntire grew up on a ranch in Chockie, Okla.).
Here's a preview of the show in which McEntire learns family information from D. Joshua Taylor, formerly of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and now chief genealogist at FindMyPast.com.
Taylor explains a bit about why names appear spelled differently in historical records and hints at some "very interesting things" happening in one of the counties where an ancestor of McEntire's lived—I guess we'll have to watch the show to find out what those things are.
And here's McEntire in Chesire, England, searching for records on an ancestor who was baptized there in 1688—and seemingly sent away to the American colonies at just 9 years old.
Watch "Who Do You Think You Are?" on NBC tonight at 8 /7 Central.
The Virtual Conference, sponsored by Flip-Pal mobile scanner, is next
weekend, March 9-11.
You can log in anytime over the weekend to take
classes, participate in live chats with genealogy experts, visit the
exhibit hall and more. (And there's a swag bag—who doesn't love swag?)
Newspapers are invaluable for getting details about your ancestors' lives and for tracing brick-wall ancestors (case in point: last Friday's "Who Do you think You Are?" with Blair Underwood). But historical newspapers can be hard to find and use—so you'll want to hear about the tools Lisa uses.
Learn more about the Spring 2012 Virtual Conference at FamilyTreeUniversity.com.
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On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Kevin J. McCann <kjm at kevinmccann.com> wrote:
> I have noticed the use of Directive in some of the graphics examples
> from Bob Hanlon, David Park, and others. I am curious about this
> command, since it does not appear to do much that is new.
> ...
> So, what is the benefit of Directive?
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Just two voices....hints and tips for going forward after diagnosis
Interview at 09.15 on 13 June with Anna King on BBC Radio Gloucestershire
GAP (Global Action on Personhood) in Dementia is an informal international network of expert practitioners, researchers, educators, people living with dementia and family care-givers who have in-depth understanding of person-centred approaches to care world-wide.
The aim of GAP is to promote the fact that personhood matters in dementia and that unless action is taken then the psychological, emotional and social needs of people living with dementia are unmet. There is a lot of knowledge about how to provide skilled care, support and assistance but there is a disconnect to this getting into practice.
Brian went into hospital for three weeks followed by three weeks at the very special Sue Ryder Hospice at Leckhampton in Gloucestershire.
He passed away peacefully at 9.10am on Monday, 22 July. Both Brian and June support the Dementia Brain Bank being run by Bristol University at Frenchay Hospital so both became donors for research purposes.'
Brian's funeral will be at 11am at Gloucester Crematorium on Friday 2 August followed by a Celebration of Brian's Life with a hot meal at Stonehouse Court Hotel from approx 12.15 until 4pm.
Embracing Dementia!
The charity Dementia Adventure organised an event at Newark Park NT on Valentine's Day to celebrate the love we have for each other and the love we have for our Dementia Adventure family. Very special thanks to the 3 couples who took part, Tony Vale for organising it, and the staff and volunteers at Newark Park in the beautiful Gloucestershire countryside, for making the day so special for our guests. The local U3A wrote poems, flowers were given, the couples enjoyed refreshments and the warm fires inside the house as well as the snowdrops in the grounds outside - and the sun shone! Thank you to Suzy Webster for taking the photos too, like the lovely one...
When daffodils greet each new Spring's dawn
and birds awake to charm each morn
I celebrate with unreserved cheer
dementia or not, I'm still here.
A sea of yellow and white and cream
Prevents my mood from being so mean.
Trumpets scanning the sky so high
bring a tear to this elderly, fading eye.
Breezes sway blooms into waves of delight
attracting brave insects away from their flights
and my smile remembers what my memory lacks
that with Dementia Adventure my life's still on track.
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June and Brian thank eldest son Mark and youngest son Craig, both of whom support them locally and have their own websites promoting their own specialties (their respective websites are below).
June and Brian thank also middle son Myles for his support. Myles and his family live in the South of England.
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The 2013 state-level ACCRA cost of living index ranked Louisiana as the 4th-lowest cost of living in the country.
Director, Film & Television
Assistant Director, Film
For more information, visit louisianaentertainment.gov
The program is open to all motion picture production companies headquartered and domiciled in Louisiana for the purpose of producing nationally or internationally distributed motion pictures with total Louisiana expenditures exceeding $300,000, and $50,000 for local Louisiana productions meeting certain qualifications.
Qualifying productions include:
Non-qualifying productions include:
Eligible Production Expenditures
Additional Credits:
Non-eligible Production Expenditures
Program Statutes & Rules:
All incentive program rules are in the Louisiana Administrative Code maintained by the Office of the State Register.
Apply online using FastLane and submit application fee and verification report fee.
Initial Certification (60 days from receipt of a complete application)
1. Applicant completes and submits the online application with supporting documents and fees in their entirety to Louisiana Entertainment. Supporting documents include the following:
2. Effective January 1, 2016, a deposit should be remitted to Louisiana Entertainment for the verification report. The applicant will be assessed the department's actual cost for the production expenditure verification report fee. The maximum fee for the report shall be $15,000 for verification of a cost report reflecting qualified production expenditures between $300,000 and $25 million, and the maximum fee shall be $25,000 for verification of a cost report reflecting qualified production expenditures in excess of $25 million.
At the time of the application, the applicant shall submit a deposit of the production expenditure verification report fee of $7,500 for a production with qualified expenditures projected to be between $300,000 and $25 million, and a deposit of $15,000 for those projected to be in excess of $25 million.
Final Certification requests after December 31, 2015:
For applications for initial certification or requests for final certification received on or after January 1, 2016, Louisiana Entertainment shall directly engage and assign a CPA to prepare a production expenditure verification report on an applicant's cost report on production expenditure. The applicant will be assessed Louisiana Entertainment's actual cost for the production expenditure verification report fee and shall make all records related to the tax credit application available to Louisiana Entertainment and the CPA.
Final certification requests before January 1, 2016:
State-certified productions initially certified prior to July 1, 2015, requesting final certification prior to January 1, 2016, may:
3. Once the application is complete, the project is evaluated for eligibility, and if Louisiana Entertainment determines that the project meets eligibility requirements in accordance with State law and the program rules and regulations, then an Initial Certification letter indicating that the project is now considered a "state-certified production" will be issued. The Initial Certification letter states that the project is eligible to receive potential tax credits and does NOT certify any expenditures for tax credits. Additional detailed guidelines are provided within the initial certification letter. Either an initial certification or denial will be issued by the department within 60-90 business days of receipt of a complete application.
4. The applicant signs the Initial Certification letter and returns it to Louisiana Entertainment.
Final Certification (120 Days from receipt of complete audit and requested support)
1. Once the minimum expenditure threshold is met and prior to the issuance of credits, the state-certified production must submit an audit to Louisiana Entertainment. The audit must be performed by an independent CPA licensed in Louisiana, selected by Louisiana Entertainment if performed on or after January 1, 2016. The audit must conform to GAAP/GAAS as well as the audit guidelines found in the initial certification letter. A final certification letter (credits) or denial will be issued by the department within 120 days of receipt of a complete package.
2. In addition to the audit report, the following should be submitted:
3. Louisiana Entertainment may require additional support and/or verification for certain expenditures.
4. After all supporting documentation is received and reviewed, Louisiana Entertainment and LED will issue a "Final Certification" letter approving the qualifying expenditures and certifying the tax credits.
5. The credits are now transferable.
Q. The film "Brangelina" needs enough wood and nails to build a replica of their French Quarter house on a soundstage facility in Louisiana. Do the wood and other items purchased from the Louisiana hardware store for the production qualify? Does the rental of the facility qualify?
A. Goods will qualify if purchased through a source in Louisiana. A source is a physical nexus with at least one full-time employee. The rental of the facility qualifies if the facility if physically located in Louisiana.
Q. "Brangelina" decides that they need to film at a beachfront casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. What doesn't qualify for Louisiana incentives?
A. Money that is spent outside of Louisiana or expenditures that are indirect or not production-related do not qualify for the tax credit. For example, money spent renting a Ferrari in Louisiana as a prop for the portion of the production in Louisiana may be eligible; however, if that Ferrari is used on the production in Biloxi, those costs will not qualify and the production must exclude that portion of the rental from the qualifying expenditures.
Q. Spending in Louisiana started before receiving Initial Certification. Can expenses still be claimed?
A. Yes. Eligible expenditures are creditable for 12 months prior to and 24 months after Initial Certification.
Q. What is the minimum threshold to qualify?
A. $300,000 in Louisiana expenditures, $50,000 for local Louisiana productions meeting certain requirements.
Q. What qualifies for credit?
A. Only expenditures made for tangible goods and services directly related to the state-certified production within the borders of the State of Louisiana. That includes production payroll for residents and non-residents alike, as long as it is for work performed in Louisiana.
Q. What qualifies for the additional 10% payroll tax credit?
A. To the extent that base investment is expended on payroll for Louisiana residents employed in connection with a state-certified production, each investor shall be allowed an additional tax credit of 10% for Louisiana resident payroll. The additional 10% credit is only allowed on the first $3 million of a resident's payroll. Any amount above that shall be eligible for the 30% credit only. It must be expended on a natural person (not a loan-out) in order to qualify for the additional 10%.
Q. How do I know if something is a Louisiana spend?
A. Services will qualify if performed in Louisiana. Goods will qualify if purchased through a source in Louisiana.
Q. What is a source within the state?
A. A source is a physical nexus with at least one full-time employee and posted business hours.
Q. I'm a Louisiana taxpayer and I earned these tax credits. Can I use the tax credit to offset my personal income tax liabilities?
A. Yes.
Q. I'm a Louisiana corporation and subject to corporate income taxes. Can I use the tax credit to offset my corporate income tax liabilities?
A. Yes.
Q. I've earned this tax credit and have no Louisiana income tax liabilities. Can I transfer the credit?
A. Yes. The credits are fully transferable.
Q. I've earned this tax credit and I cannot find anyone to transfer this credit to in Louisiana. What do I do?
A. You can opt to transfer the credit to the Louisiana Department of Revenue, who will then issue you a check for 85% of the face value of the credits. In other words, for $1 worth of credits, the State will issue you a check for $0.85; buy back suspended from July 1, 2015 to July 1, 2016.
Q. Must a certain percentage of crew be Louisiana residents?
A. No. However, Louisiana has a skilled and deep crew base and expenditures made on hiring Louisiana residents increases the potential tax credits that can be earned.
Q. Are fuel purchases eligible for tax credits?
A. Yes. However, any taxes charged by the State or any local governing entity in Louisiana are ineligible and must be removed from qualifying expenditures. These amounts are subject to verification by the CPA.
Q. Do fringes qualify?
A. Yes.
Q. Are payments made to loan-out companies subject to the $3 million salary limitation?
A. No.
Q. Are per diems eligible?
A. Yes.
Q. Are finance fees eligible?
A. No, unless paid to certain Louisiana companies, in which case fees may be allocated on a pro rate basis based on production activity occurring in and out of state.
Q. How is a Louisiana resident defined?
A. A legal resident who has been domiciled in the state of Louisiana for more than 12 consecutive months of each year within the state is considered a Louisiana resident. The resident must sign a declaration of residency and provide supporting documentation for the production.
Q. My spending in Louisiana started before receiving Initial Certification. Can some of these expenditures still be claimed?
A. The initial certification covers expenditures made 12 months prior and 24 months after the date of initial certification.
Q. What is the going rate for tax credits on the open market?
A. Tax credits usually sell between 80 and 90 cents on the dollar on the open market. Also, you can transfer the credits to the State for 85 cents on the dollar; however, the state buy back is suspended from July 1, 2015 to July 1, 2016.
Q. What if I have not secured distribution yet?
A. We only require that there be a commercial multi-market distribution plan, not a distribution agreement in place.
Q. What if I take a Louisiana crew to another state?
A. That is certainly permissible; however, credits can only be issued for the work performed directly in Louisiana.


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So as you know I recently bought the 2010 wrx yesterday. I went to the Subbie dealership to get it inspected and this is the story I got.
For one, before I start, none of the following was submitted to carfax. Fortunatly, the dealer I bought the subbie from has a buy-back policy.
OK, so I took it to the subaru dealership. They immediatly told me that there's history with the car. Apparantly the prior owner had come in and the turbo had sucked in a bolt and it blew. This could possibly have sent metal shavings into the engine. Apparantly, they replaced the turbo, drained the oil, etc.
However, they couldn't give me a straight answer about how this would affect my warranty. I asked them if they could contact Subaru headquarters and ask them directly, and they all shook their heads "no." They also said that they had the replacement and such in their computers labled as "abuse and neglected."
Now, I had forgotten to ask them for paperwork on the service history, as well as why it wasn't submitted to carfax. The carfax on this car is clean, and the latest update from that same dealer was a "manufacture recommended service / oil and oil filter change."
None of this makes sense to me. The car pulls great, boost is good. Also, from a mechanical standpoint, I don't see how metal shavings can get into the engine in the first place. They would have to go through the intercooler first, and my friend who has worked on turbo'd MR2's for the past ten years said that it was very unlikely that the metal shavings would get past the intercooler, and if it was on the exhaust side, it would simply go through the exhaust.
Also, I looked at the intake area, and can see no evidence of the screws being tampered with. At the same time, i can't see how a bolt can be sucked through the turbo even if the prior owner did put in an intake, unless he was a complete idiot. Finally, the rest of the car doesn't jive with the vehicle being thrashed. The tires are stock and look like a grandma drove the car. The rest of the body is good, except for the lower right corner where they probably drove over a parking berm at low speed (minor paint scratch.)
I know this is a long post, but please let me know if you guys can give me any advice. The manager at the dealer i bought the car from is gonna make phone calls tomorrow, and try to get to the bottom of this story. At the worst I can give them back the car and get my money back, but I really don't want to do that :/ *sigh*
Also, the dealer I bought the car from had no idea of any of this. It makes no sense to me how the subbie dealer could not report this kind of thing.


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I"m asking?
I screwed a girl silly one time - does that count?
You know all those posters who don't post here any more?
Yeah but they were all bad guys.
I killed many many many people...
Damn you, call of duty.
no I haven't...........but I had someone try and kill me.
This one time I was a neighborhood watch Capt and this kid...nvmd.
I just killed a turkey sandwich in like, 3 minutes.
I had two hunters hunt me one time when I was hiking in Georgia. I liked to hike at night, there is nothing like it, not being able to see very well and relying on other senses to get through the woods. Well there were these guys hunting deer out of season and I startled a deer that they were watching. They did not like that and fired a few shots in my direction, one shot hit the tree that I was hiding behind. They tried to follow me, actually did a good job of it for some time but I was finally able to outdistance them when I swam across a lake. Hearing bullets whiz past you is pretty scary and I feel for soldiers who have to deal with it every day.
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In just over a year and a half on the job, I have kept my promises to address critically important issues in our state. I've worked to
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Here are specific results so far. You can tell I'm serious about making Georgia a place that fosters economic growth and personal responsibility. Watch this space for more great results from my second term as your representative. And remember, I need your vote on July 31 to keep Georgia on the path to prosperity.
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A Life Both Blessed and Bruised
After a tumultuous ride, Rick Hendrick sits atop the world of NASCARat least for now.
Hendrick's life returned to near normal after that, as he continued to build his twin empires. His younger brother, John, had stepped in and assumed a big role in the dealer network and race teams, and he continued to play a major part even after Hendrick, banned during his yearlong house arrest from racing, was back at the helm. Similarly, son Ricky was learning both businesses and had showed substantial aptitude in managing the racing side. Ricky owned the NASCAR Nationwide Series car that Brian Vickers drove to a championship in 2003.
His life back on track, a healthier, happier Rick Hendrick had returned to the edge of the spotlight, which is as close as he has ever wanted to get. But on October 24, 2004, a Hendrick Motorsports Beechcraft 200 airplane crashed as it tried to find the fogged-in airport at Martinsville, Virginia, site of the Subway 500 NASCAR race, and the track where Hendrick Motorsports got that first victory in 1984.
All 10 people aboard died. They included Hendrick's son, Ricky, 24; his brother John, 53; and John's 22-year-old twin daughters, Jennifer and Kimberly. Also killed were Randy Dorton, the chief engine builder who had been part of Hendrick's team from the start; Jeff Turner, general manager of Hendrick Motorsports; an executive with DuPont, Jeff Gordon's sponsor; and three pilots. Hendrick was at home that day, not feeling well, or he might have been on the plane.
For Rick Hendrick, life would never be the same. "You live with it every minute of the day," he says. "Some days are worse than others—birthdays, anniversaries, holidays. Sometimes, it seems unbearable. I look at Ricky's little girl, or John's grandchildren. If you had said to me, 'You can live through that,' I would have said, 'No. No, I can't.' But until you have to do it, you don't know what you're capable of."
The two buildings where Hendrick's personal car collection is housed serve as steel and concrete family albums. One building has collectible cars, the other, cars that have a personal connection. It is poignant to watch Hendrick walk through that building. "These are important to me," he says, "but they'll probably end up on eBay as soon as I die."
There's a Toyota Land Cruiser that Ricky restored, a vintage dragster that Hendrick's late father, Papa Joe, built and raced, and next to the wall is the trailer that carried Ricky's late-model race car. Unbeknown to Hendrick, his staff quietly took the trailer and outfitted it as it was when Ricky raced. The inside is sort of a little museum of his brief career behind the wheel before he realized that, like his father, driving was not where the talent in the Hendrick family lay.
Ricky Hendrick was clearly the heir apparent. "If ever there was a kid with a license to have an attitude," says one Hendrick executive, "it was Ricky. But he never did." (Hendrick also has a daughter, Lynn, who is married to Marshall Carlson, now general manager of the race team.)
Hendrick is asked what he would change in his life if he could. He pauses even longer than usual.
"If I could change what happened to my family—if I could take a seat on that plane for any one of those folks—I'd do it in a New York minute. But I wouldn't change much else. I've had a great life. I've met so many wonderful people. I hope I can feel a little bit better every day, and fish a little more, watch them race a little more, let the young guys take over.
"If you can go through life and have people respect you, in the end, how many trophies you win just isn't that important."


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Macau drafts new building safety rules after casino-linked accidents
By Farah Master
MACAU (Reuters) - Macau is drafting new construction safety rules, officials said, after several workers died this month at casino sites amid a building boom in the world's largest gambling hub.
In an email to Reuters, the Labor Affairs Bureau of the southern Chinese territory said the new regulations would be submitted to the government this year. They would include a revision of existing occupation and laws to "safeguard workplaces for all workers".
Workers associations have asked the government to tighten labor safety laws after four workers died in industrial accidents this year, three in March alone. Last year, a total of seven workers were killed in industrial accidents.
While the fatality numbers are relatively low, and lag the 16 deaths in industrial accidents in Hong Kong last year, they are relatively rare in Macau, the only place where Chinese can legally gamble in casinos.
The spike in accidents also coincides with the rapid construction of eight multi-billion dollar integrated resorts including the Eiffel tower replica of U.S. billionaire Sheldon Adelson's Sands China Ltd and the $4.1 billion Wynn Palace by mogul Steve Wynn's Wynn Macau. All the resorts are slated to open in the next three years.
"Our government doesn't have adequate certification for the workers ... just simple training, not legislation for the workers or a more technical system," said Leo Lo, secretary general of the Macau Construction Association.
There are more than 60,000 construction workers in Macau, around half from mainland China, and workers and industry groups say pressure is intense.
While gaming revenues have tumbled for the past nine months and could post a 40 percent drop this month, construction remains on track, with Galaxy Entertainment's mega resort set to open in May and Melco Crown Entertainment's movie-inspired Studio City later this year. Continued...


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Kerry: George Bush drove a truck, too
posted at 8:24 am on January 18, 2010 by Pundette
Senator John Kerry, man of the people, used his talents to warm up the crowd for Obama yesterday in Boston:
"I've got news for you, Scott: George Bush drove a truck, too, and look where it got us," Sen. Kerry said, continuing to poke at the campaign ad. "I didn't know it was a qualification for being in the Senate."
No, the qualifications for US Senate are a knack for gaseous oratory, a taste for conspicuous consumption, and the absence of scruples when it comes to other people's money.
Thank you, God, for sparing us the calamity of a Kerry presidency.
More truck talk here from Obama and Coakley.
*Update: See Gateway Pundit for even more truck talk. He posts video of Obama displaying a staggering level of blindness, saying "Everybody can buy a truck." Reality from Scott Brown:
"Mr. President, unfortunately in this economy, not everybody can buy a truck," Brown said in a statement. "My goal is to change that by cutting spending, lowering taxes and letting people keep more of their own money."
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Last night I sat and watched Guns N' Roses in New York: Live at The Ritz 1988 - a bootleg DVD of a famous concert recorded as an MTV special just after Guns N' Roses had released its breakthrough debut album, Appetite for Destruction.
I consider Appetite for Destruction to be the greatest rock record released in my lifetime - which is to say it's the most special to me; the most relevant. I remember the impact of that album, its initial bite, every time I play it. It's also an album I still play - not just a nostalgic favourite to ponder; it's a record that gets better the more you play it.
There are plenty of clips of the Ritz concert on YouTube, but this was the first time I sat down to watch the entire show. I saw Guns N' Roses in Auckland in 1993 - I was still very much a fan but the pomposity of their double album Use Your Illusion I and II and the change of lineup - augmented with sexy saxophone ladies and backing singers - was far closer to the ego of W. Axl Rose than to the fire and attitude of the original quintet.
The original Guns N' Roses was everything a rock band - especially for that time - should be. They were lifted up above and beyond the other hair-metal/glam bands of the time. Deservedly. Guns N' Roses might have had the look, the attitude, the image, the "bad-boy" appeal making them desirable to men and women with the cliché that the men wanted to be them and the women wanted to be with them - but, most importantly, these guys had the chops. They could play. They were sloppy too - which is important.
There are several mistakes throughout the Ritz concert - guitars out of tune, a couple of fluffed drum-fills, some improvised sections - risks - that don't always pay off. And this all helps the feel of the concert - makes it real. Guns'n'Roses was a good band - a great band - and part of the reason the band was so great was because it offered a vital, raw, visceral experience.
It was also a band that worked because every single member contributed to the sound.
Steven Adler used to be written off as sloppy, a drunk, a junkie. He of course - due to all of those things - has now (mostly) written himself off. But he was a great drummer - the Ritz concert shows him in fine form. Those sloshy hi-hats driving the beat - he might be metal's Charlie Watts or Ringo Starr; underrated, maligned and for no real reason. Listen closely: this is an innovative player who never gets in the way of the song. He also had a great drum sound. I'd rather listen to him than Lars Ulrich or most of the shoebox-beating double-bass drum-hards that followed.
Izzy Stradlin is one of the great rhythm guitar players, important to the band for his songwriting contributions. He's also an anchor on stage - essentially the straight man (however ironic/inappropriate the term "straight" might be in conjunction with this band).
Duff McKagan gives the band a lot of its punk energy and feel. Check out the versions of Nightrain and Out Ta Get Me from the gig. It's Duff driving it - he embodies the punk feel that was an important (often overlooked) part of the G'n'R vibe/look/sound.
Slash might have a limited scope and might be killing his own legacy with everything he attempts to do post-GNR but hear (and watch) him in context. He is a huge presence - uber-cool - and he is the most distinctive, influential guitarist of his generation. He can widdly-widdly (that solo to Nightrain is a ripper) but he can also kick back and play simple. That oily riff to Sweet Child O' Mine is something every guitarist has a go at; a signature sound. And Slash has several signature riffs/solos - his voice is felt as a guitarist. In that sense you can draw a line - there's Hendrix and the Yardbirds gang (Clapton, Beck, Page) then there's Eddie Van Halen. After that it's Slash - and he's been the lasting presence in rock guitar. Really it's only Jack White that follows - and, well, he's not exactly breaking new ground.
Axl Rose lives inside every song during the Ritz performance, the way a lead singer (for this style of music) must. His sashaying snake on roller-skates dance might have some obvious antecedents (cf: Jagger, Mick and Tyler, Steven) but it's his move-set; he owns it. And that voice - as much as it polarises - watch him in his prime, he's a great rock vocalist.
Live at The Ritz is an important document - it's a simple, sweaty gig from a simple, sweaty rock band. Every song is a hit - it's essentially the Appetite album (minus a couple of songs) and an early version of their Knockin' on Heaven's Door cover. It's a band with the world at its feet. It's a band with nothing to lose and everything to prove - an arrogant nonchalance pervades it. There's a unity though - a solidarity in this group providing/creating a group-sound. It was always vulnerable too, always fragile. We know that it fell apart and it's easy to see why - but this moment, frozen in time, shows them to be the best.
Now, let's start a rumour because - well, why not?
I believe that despite all the bad blood, the comments directed toward one another from Axl and Slash, that the original Guns N' Roses lineup will re-form and tour. I believe this. I think it will happen. And I think it should happen.
Appetite for Destruction is the best kind of masterpiece: created for the need to put a lifestyle down on paper, on record. The distillation of influences - if it's not that good then there would be several albums that sound like it. But there are none that come close. This is perfectly imperfect rock'n'roll created by the imperfectly perfect rock'n'roll band of the 1980s.
The 1990s might have killed Guns N' Roses - and what's left of the legacy might be getting chopped up by all of them now (I blame Slash the most) but I think they'll give in and re-form. Not only that - I think they should.
What do you think? And since we're just dealing with a hypothetical here - would you be interested in seeing the original Guns N' Roses? Would you like to hear Appetite for Destruction in its entirety played live?
And while I'm interested in your opinion/s, let me end with this fact: Guns N' Roses was the last great rock'n'roll band - the last to deliver on record and live, the last to live the lifestyle and go from zero-to-hero (and back again).
Postscript: Don't worry about Steven Adler - he plays in a Guns N' Roses tribute band! He'll be able to deliver.
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The Gunners were great.
Them reforming - I can't see it happening, and I doubt they would be a patch on their former selves.
Fortuitous that you're posting this.... G'n'Fn'R tribute are playing at Medusa tonight. Stephen Adler definately has a lot more groove going on than Matt Sorum. But being a dark haired chap, I pull off the Sorum curls and bandana look much better ;)
Still have that ritz set on VHS somewhere. it's a good un.
Most of appetite is in our set too...
We're also playing at Gods of Rock on April 1st.
Agree. AWESOME album. Has never left my top 5 of all time. My mum didn't let me go in 1993 and is my one and only regret in life that I didn't just run away from home and go there...but I got to go a few years ago. GnR sans everyone sans Axl. So I get to tick the box, but not really. And Skid row opening at both gigs! Appitite is master piece, The Illusions had some great songs, but lost the raw, the noise, the appitite, the destruction.
I can see it happening simon, I think they would go with Matt Sorum on the drums though, steves to much of a junkie and untrustable. With matt frequently playing with slash and duff I just cant see them not using him.
To be honest I think the would still be able to kill it if they were to perform live, you dont forget over night how to be one of the best guitarists in the world etc...
haha - nice article. The Ritz footage is exceptional guys, check it out if you haven't yet! Steven Adler can do it? hope so
even if you are a semi fan you must read the autobiography 'Slash' and the bands biography 'Watch you bleed' by Steven Davis.
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I too cannot see it happening. But if it did I would be so very keen to see them play Appetite in full.... That would be the rock n roll gig of the century! If they managed to recapture the early days... Axl's ego won't let it happen though.
Also, I think Slash's post gunners stuff is great! I am so happy people like him and Nixxi Sixx (Via Sixx am) are keeping real rock alive.
If the original line reform and tour i will cr*p myself with joy. Would pay anything to see that
I think Axl's making a much bigger mess of the legacy than Slash, to be honest. Slash is, at least, happy doing his own thing. Axl, meanwhile, continues a solo masquerade under the GnR banner, producing stuff like Chinese Democracy (I'm not saying it was bad, but it's not GnR).
I really, sincerely doubt a reformation will happen. Not with Axl's ego as it is, and certainly not with his lawyers. If it was to happen, it would have to involve Duff McKagan as the main protagonist reconciling Axl and Slash - and frankly I think he's moved on too.
If it did I'd rather have Matt Sorum than Steven Adler who is barely a shadow of his former self.
Adler plays in a GnR tribute band? Oh dear.
Axl is a great singer and all, but he's got a massive ego.. In Slash's book he pretty much says the whole band had to tiptoe around Axl so they didn't upset him. I reckon that's crap if a band has to do that to please ONE member. They won't get back together unless Axl pulls his finger out of his butt and realises he's nothing without the orignial line-up.. And the same with the rest of the band - they wouldn't have made it without Axl's one-of-a-kind voice.
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INDIANA COUNTY: Officials hope to use radio towers to bolster cell service
With millions of dollars being invested in a new countywide public safety communication system, Indiana County officials are unveiling plans to use the network of radio towers for more than just police, fire and ambulance personnel.
The county board of commissioners on Wednesday approved an agreement between engineering firm L.R. Kimball and the Indiana County Emergency Management Agency to prepare the new emergency radio towers to accommodate cellular telephone service equipment.
For several years, county officials have been planning and developing upgrades to the radio network, aimed at reaching areas that have been "dark" to emergency radio signals because of the topography. The same hilly terrain has kept commercial cellphone service from effectively blanketing the county, officials said, and the action Wednesday will help to solve both problems at the same time.
From the outset of the planning, Chairman Rodney Ruddock said, this is what officials had in mind.
"We wanted to make sure the tower sites would be constructed in such as way that they would be able to provide additional harnessing not only of the microwave systems but any other commercial vendors that would want to come into Indiana County and extend their capabilities … specifically, we were looking at cellular service pro-viders," Ruddock said.
"Those of you who travel Indiana County know there are many, many dead spots in cellular signals," Ruddock said. "Rural sectors of Indiana County have many dark spots … and we need to find a way to close those dark spots. We are depending on these providers to do that.
"And we are saying to them, 'If we have the tower sites, we can reduce your cost and still provide a signal.'"
Officials said cellphone service is just as important as public safety radio in protecting lives and property.
"We had a gentleman drown up there (in Hemlock Lake) and we had no cell service. I had to travel 2ᄑ miles to a landline to try to get any help," said Ron Smith, a member of the Banks Township board of supervisors. "I'm not saying that if we had cell service we could have saved the man, but we could have rescued him quicker."
Two years earlier, Smith said, flooding washed out a couple of roads but he couldn't get fast response because his cellphone didn't work there.
"I had to run six miles back to my place to use the phone to call 911 and PennDOT to get the roads blocked. It's ridiculous," Smith said. "And out at our building, there's no service whatsoever."
The Banks Township issues are examples of problems in areas distant from Indiana, but Ruddock said the Indiana area has trouble, too.
"All you have to do is drive five miles from Indiana and White Township and you don't have signal," he said. "If you were in Blue Spruce Park ... and you had some sort of medical difficulty, you may not be serviced because you don't have the ability to make a call.
"It's absolutely critical to the quality of life for the people who enjoy Indiana County. We have a long way to go. But if we can get one tower ... to extend the signal and we save one life, that's all that matters."
Under the agreement, Kimball will be paid $12,097 to develop specifications "to guarantee that outside agencies leasing space on a county tower will not be interfering with public safety use at any site," said John Luko, the county information services director.
Kimball representative Steve Watt said that after developing technical specifications, his company would work out leases with the cell service providers, with rental fees determined by the elevation at which the cell equipment is placed.
Already, Luko said, Verizon is prepared to lease space and install cellular equipment on the tower serving Banks Township. He estimated the rentals would range from $2,000 to $3,000 a month; Ruddock said the rents would be divided between the county (60 percent) and the township where the tower stands (40 percent).
In other business, the commissioners:
• Awarded a contract to A. Merante Contracting, of Pittsburgh, for grading and utility relocation at the Joseph Land Development industrial park along Route 119 at Luciusboro Road in Center Township at a cost of $677,777.75 to be funded by a Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) grant.
• Approved an RACP grant contract with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for $1 million of reimbursements related to development of the Kovalchick Convention & Athletic Complex. The reimbursement applies to about $2.01 million of money secured several years ago from Indiana County, Indiana Borough, White Township and the Indiana County Development Corporation for construction of the Hawk's Landing parking lot associated with the KCAC.
The board then approved a cooperation agreement with Indiana University of Pennsylvania to establish compliance responsibilities for the RACP grant.
• Approved a cooperation agreement with Indiana Borough to outline the administration responsibilities for an RACP grant for $3.25 million under a contract with the state. The grant will provide reimbursements for eligible infrastructure improvements in the third phase of the Downtown Indiana Streetscape Project along Philadelphia Street between Sixth and Ninth streets.
• Approved a reimbursement agreement with Blacklick Township to spend about $32,000 of county liquid-fuels money to cover half of the township's share of the cost to rehabilitate the Aultman Bridge.
• Approved a revision of the budget for the Emergency Solutions Grant Second Allocation Program to reflect a change of $3,570 between line items within the program. The ESG program supports the Pathway Homeless Shelter administered by Indiana County Community Action Program.
• Approved a contract with Westmoreland County Regional Youth Services to provide service to the Indiana County Probation Department from July 1 to June 30, 2014, at a rate of $275.30 a day. Chief Probation Officer Michael Hodak said the rate is unchanged from the 2012-13 year.
• Approved a contract with Pressley Ridge for group home services to Indiana County Children and Youth Services at rates unchanged from the past year.
• Approved a contract with Indiana Psychology Associates for service to CYS at rates unchanged from the past year.
• Reported that the Indiana County veterans ID card program has so far enrolled almost 1,000 military veterans holding DD-214 certification.
Ruddock said Sam Smith, an outreach worker in the Indiana County Office of Veterans Affairs, has stepped up efforts to enlist more area businesses to offer discounts and other incentives to those carrying the county veterans ID card. The program soon will offer window and door stickers to identify participating businesses.
Indiana County Register & Recorder Patricia Streams Warman, a coordinator of the ID program, said some of those enrolled in the ID card program live outside Indiana County.
• Recognized the Indiana County 4-H Forestry Team, including Caleb Brady, Thomas Brady and Jesse Isenberg, who recently placed first in a national forestry skills competition. Team supervisor Debbie Beisel told the commissioners that the youths are the first 4-H team from Pennsylvania to win the national contest and the only team comprised of three members rather than four to take the title.


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'Low-carbon growth' seems to be mentioned all the time with regards to environment and development policy. As a theory this is great, but how can the theory be made more concrete? What might the practice of low-carbon growth look like when applied to urban environments?
This guest post was written by Phillip Bruner. Phillip is a PhD candidate in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.
The UN Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs noted in their 2007 report on prospects for world urbanisation, 'between 2007 and 2025, the urban areas of the world are expected to gain 1.3 billion people, including 261 million in China and 197 million in India, which account together for 35 per cent of the total increase' – that's quite an increase.
More people generally means more CO2 but are cities therefore carbon pariahs or could they be examples of low carbon living?
The IIED, alongside Green New Deal economists from the New Economics Foundation, has acknowledged that not only can we not blame cities for climate change, but one of the keys to successfully addressing global economic, energy and environmental challenges lies in urban planning. Cities may be concentrated sources of CO2 emissions but their density allows 'efficiencies of scale' for both energy use and carbon emissions that just aren't possible in rural areas.
Smart policymakers in Finland know this and have put together a project designed to attract global talent to figure out how we can live better, emit less and solve global problems simultaneously.
Sustainable design competition
The Low2No Sustainable Development Design Competition is a joint partnership between Sitra, (the Finnish Innovation Fund) and the city of Helsinki. Leading experts from around the world are brought together in teams. Their task is to come up with fresh and innovative ideas for making cities liveable and sustainable on the basis of four key objectives:
1) low- and one day no-carbon emissions
2) energy efficiency
3) high architectural, spatial and social value
4) sustainable materials and methods
Using a reclaimed harbour on the west end of Helsinki's central business district as a test lab, contestants are asked to put together proposals for the strategic redesign of a large building complex. In addition to top-notch and sustainable architectural models, a wide range of other socio-economic and climate-sensitive issues are considered.
Low2No stresses the need for designs that either emit little or not at all and can foster the growth of sustainable economic systems to account for enhanced mobility, environmentally conscious planning/energy policies and 'resilient' social capacity in terms of equity and access to resources.
A final selection of five teams will be invited to a two-day workshop in Helsinki. After four weeks to develop their proposals, the winner will be chosen by a local and international jury.
Ideas without borders
Knowledge and idea sharing across borders is at the heart of Low2No's [www.low2no.org] vision to produce models that could be adapted anywhere on the planet. The Finnish government, which established and now oversees Sitra, has taken bold steps towards creating a multinational forum in which practitioner experts from both the North and South can come together to discuss making real bottom-up changes in preparation for an urbanised future.
Similar projects, such as Architecture for Humanity and the Urban Age Institute are also keen to address many of the challenges related to sustainable urban development in overcrowded and crisis-ridden cities. But I'm not aware of any (though please do comment if you are) that can claim to facilitate the same type of integrated, co-operative approach to problem-solving that Low2No embodies at its core.
From Helsinki to...?
Ground-level networks need to be established in order to keep this conversation on sustainability honest and ongoing between Northern and Southern partners. The concept of growth and healthy living has different meanings across the globe. Although more than half of the world's population can be found in cities, every city, like every individual has its quirks and area-specific characteristics.
To be exportable, design models may require as much input from policy-architects as from architects themselves. Low2No, is still lacking in this respect. But as they point out, 'it is clear that no single organization, profession or nation can achieve the goals of sustainable global development.' And the idea of Low2No alone is enough to inspire us to keep thinking outside the box for ways to solve humanity's greatest challenges.
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Bird's Eye View - Topics from April, 2013
Friday, April 26. 2013
Friends of ours started a food garden foregoing chemicals. It's not easy to do. A naturally-grown (without chemicals) garden is more susceptible to weeds, pests and other perils. They have had such success with their plants they are now thinking of going into public sale of some of their food offerings, from arugula to kale, Boston bibb, Toscano (AKA Dragon kale), root veggies, herbs, starter plants, a juicer bag, all grown the natural way. [Full Story »]
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Friday, April 19. 2013
I sat around with a bunch of friends Monday evening, and the main topic of conversation was the terrible tragedy of the Boston bombs that earlier in the day had killed three people, including an eight-year old child, and injured more than 170. According to news reports, two bombs exploded within seconds of each other as a majority of the runners in the famous Boston Marathon reached the finish line. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has taken over the hunt for the perpetrators. Some 23,000 runners participated in the race. Officials say the attack may have been timed for maximum bloodshed since the four-hour mark of the twenty-six mile race is normally when the majority of runners reach the finish line and thousands of friends and relatives are crowded around the line cheering them in. [Full Story »]
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I was born on the leading edge of the baby boomer generation. I've always thought of myself as a young adult. It's getting harder to retain that self-image when I recently had to wend my way through the Medicare maze and am now facing the 'other' governmental unit. I've finally decided that the best way to survive all of this is to get some laughs from it. Many of you are already here, and many more will be facing these issues at some point in the future. I hope you can get some giggles out of these jokes I've found!
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If you are a nostalgic person, keep it since it was your first gun. If you are more a practical person and you don't see yourself putting more practice time with it, trade it off for something new to you.
I know that's not helpful, but it is one way to think it through.
If you are looking for opinions, I have a hard time parting with any good gun. I have only traded one away and that was because the gun was horrible (imported, pieced together CETME).


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McNeill was a former Pirate defensive back in the late 1970's and is East Carolina's 20th head coach. Now with ECU since 2010, McNeill led the Pirates to a win over Ohio in the 2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl.
East Carolina won their home opener against North Carolina Central 52-7.
The Pirates make their way down to Columbia to take on South Carolina Saturday, September 6 at William-Brice Stadium. Game time is set for 7 p.m. ET.


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The LSU Health Sciences Center, School of Nursing, Tenet HealthSystem/Jo Ellen Smith, BSN Chair of Nursing focuses on research and scholarly endeavors. This noted researcher and scholar will have the opportunity to engage in collaborative research within LSUHSC and the hospitals comprising the LSU Health Care Services Division to conduct clinical nursing and interprofessional research. These research findings are expected to support state-of-the-science clinical nursing practice and mission of the School of Nursing.
Become part of the dynamic efforts to re-envision nursing and health care in Louisiana. This Endowed Chair of Nursing will provide research leadership to improve healthcare in a post-Katrina environment still recovering from damage. The Endowed Chair, working closely with nursing faculty and partnering with area and system hospitals, will establish programs of study that are inclusive of the vulnerable groups represented in this underserved and medically needy area.
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The eight-track tape deck and format was conceived in the mid-1960s by Bill Lear of Learjet, who wanted to give his upscale customers a way to play music in their jets (reel-to-reel players were too large). Realizing that the tape deck would work just as well in automobiles, Lear successfully encouraged Detroit automakers to install them in their vehicles, which they did beginning in the 1966 model year.
Home eight-track players appeared a few years later (in the 1970s, companies such as Magnavox made receivers with eight-track players built right in), and while the format was always praised for the quality of its sound, the tape cartridges themselves were poorly designed. Although the eight-track persisted as a format for 23 years, it eventually gave way to the even more compact cassette tape.
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