Thursday, November 29, 2012

NADA

NADA

December Official Used Card Guide
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Passenger Cars
Lighty-Duty Trucks

The widest array of used vehicle values from one source.
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Hispanic Surnames and Family History







Hispanic Surnames and Family History



Demographics
The History of Surnames
Surnames and Heraldry
One Thousands Most Common Surnames
Major Research Sources








Genealogical Publishing Co

The Iron Men of Indiana's 44th Regiment

                        The Iron Men of Indiana's 44th Regiment
                    Biographies and Regimental Statistics
                                                            Margaret Hobson

Why They Fought     Commanders and Original Staff Officers     44th Composition
Muster in Dates         Nativity                                                       Residence
Politics                       Marital Status                                             Age
Days Served               Height                                                        Physical Description
Occupation                Service Record                                            Discharge Statistics

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

December Upcoming Events

                                           
                            




                            Christmas Around the World Doll Display
                                                   in the Reference Department
                                                 from the collection of Pam McDonald











                                              Steuben County Genealogical Society
                                               Monday December 17    7:00pm
                                         Christmas Party and White Elephant Gift Auction
                                           Bring a finger food to share in addtion to your
                                         wrapped gift to be auctioned to the highest bidder.
                                                       Auctioneer:Shirley Friel

                                                            Everyone Welcome!


       

           Steuben County Historical Society
         Open House   December 2, 2012
   1:00-4:00pm
      Madrigal Perform at 2:00pm
    Quilt Display
           at Cyrus & Jennie Cline Museum
      313 E Maumee
    Angola, IN
        Public Welcome!
            

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

November Salute to Local Veterans

November 2012
We Give Honor To Our Veterans


Find this book in our Indiana Collection
My Experience With U.D.T. At Luzon And Iwo Jima
by Arthur D. Hettema
Chief Carpenter's Mate
Sea Bees
World War II

Monday, November 12, 2012

HOW TO COOK A TURKEY





In the United States, turkey is the traditional dish on Thanksgiving Day, since the arrival of the first colonists who were saved from famine by the wild turkey.

Braised Turkey Legs:
bone the legs, fill with a suitable poultry stuffing, then roll them in small ballotines...

Daube Of Turkey A La Bourgeoise
Braise the bird in suitable brown stock; when three-quarters cooked, drain....

Roast Turkey
Season and truss a small turkey and bard the breast and back with bacon...

Roast Turkey Stuffed With  Chestnuts
Roast Turkey Stuffed With Dessert Apples
Stuffed Roast Turkey
Truffled Turkey

Finish reading the instructions in Larousse Gastronomique the World's Greatest Culinary Encyclopedia (Ref 641.3003 LAR)

November New Book List




Reference
Indiana  School Laws and Rules 2012-13
Family Law
D-Day Experience

Indiana Collection
Echoes of Freedom:Builders of the LST's

Local Collection
A Genealogy of the Goodales
History of the Descendants of John & Rebecca Farver
Early Pennsylvania Births 1675-1875
Steuben County Family Documents

Philanthropy
Legal Compendium for Community Foundations
Planning Special Events
Minding the Money
Gallery of Best Cover Letters

Colonial Book List

The Choice Books of 1772-75

Jonathan Edwards's Sermons
Witherspoon on the Gospels
Whitefield's Letters
Domestic Medicine or the Family Physician
Dissertations on the gout, essays on comets,
treatises on the keeping of bees
Bishop Burnet's History
Pope's Essay on Man
Dr. Priestley's Experimental Philosophy
Dean Swift
Claredon's History of the English Rebellion
Bailey's or Johnson's Standard Dictionary
or the Dictionary of Arts an Sciences
Mathematics
Grammar
Classics
Geography
A keen zest for theological disputation and polemic pamphlets prevailed,
and sermons of the native clergy...
The Frugal Housewife and Complete Woman Cook
Watt's psalms and hymns sold largely in America
Spelling books and primers
Among the imported books offered to the public  in 1765 was The Messiah
 and Providence.

Read more...Americans of 1776
Daily Life in Revolutionary America
James Schouler
Clearfield Company

The First Thanksgiving

                                                     The First Thanksgiving 1621



Our corn (wheat) did prove well, and God be praised, we had a good increase of Indian corn, and our barley indifferent good, but our peas not worth the gathering, for we feared they were too late sown...

At which times among other recreations we exercise our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massasoyt with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted....

Read the entire journal entry of Edward Winslow in Daily Life through American History in Primary Documents available in the Reference Department.
                                     
                              

Daily Life/American History in Primary Documents

Daily Life through American History in Primary Documents presents a large sweep of American history through the voices of the American people themselves. This multi-volume work explores the daily lives of American people from colonial times to the present through primary documents that include diaries, letters, memoirs, speeches, sermons, pamphlets, and all manner of public and private writings from the people.                                               

                                                    Volume One
                      The Colonial Period through the American Revolution


*Historical Overview
* Domestic Life
*Economic Life and Material Life
*Intellectual Life
*Political Life
*Recreational Life
*Religious Life







Greenwood
An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC

Volume II
The American Revolution to the Civil War
VolumeIII
The Civil War to World War I
Volume IIII
World War I to the Present