September 2007

September 5 — Call of the Wild - Semper paratus, Always Ready, is our guide, and so is Professor Jason Moulenbelt where we each create a survival wrist band and learn how to use it.

September 12 — Rockin' on the Prairie Live - Clap your hands and slap your thighs to this live performance of Blues meets Motown. Maestro Thomas Meloncon directs this Precinct One musical extravaganza. Joint Program with the Academy of Lifelong Learning Center in the ARTS Recital Hall 102.

September 19 — Clayton Library Comes to Cy-Fair College - Sue Kaufman, Manager Clayton Library, Houston Public Library, presents tips on how to research our forebears using Houston's world famous genealogical collection in library computer lab 203.

September 26 — Presidential Assassins and Funerals with Alex Smith and Sandra Harvey - Don't miss this historical journey into the intricacies and minutiae of macabre presidential happenings.

Sept 19 - Clayton Library comes to Cy-Fair College

Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research

Your key to your family history

Sue Kaufman, Manager

5300 Caroline St / Houston, TX / 77004 / 832-393-2600

http://www.houstonlibrary.org/branches/cla_home.html

Internet sites mentioned in presentation

www.geni.com

Social networking genealogy site. You load your information and relative are asked to invite

www.houstonlibrary.org

To access Ancestry.com you must be in an HPL location

To access HeritageQuest you must have a HPL Powercard to use from home

www.hcpl.net

To access Ancestry.com you must be in an HCPL location

To access HeritageQuest.com you must have a HCPL Knowledge Card to use from home

www.familysearch.org

The website of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (LDS – Mormons)

At this site you can search events, pedigree charts, and LDS library catalog.

www.usgenweb.com

A geographic driven

www.cyndislist.com

This is a directory to genealogical societies on the web

http://www.houstonlibrary.org/branches/cla_home.html

Clayton Library home page – click on the “Following Pages” link for more information and databases

Next Reads:

Click on “Readers Connect @ HPL” from the library home page. Choose the Next Reads icon. Click the subject newsletters you would like to subscribe to. You will be guided through the sign up process

September 5th - Call of the Wild

Today we made survival bracelets with Jason Moulenbelt. If you would like more information check out Jason’s survival bracelet blog: http://www.tfgear.blogspot.com/.

Titles of survival book soon to come…

In the mean time here is one website I just noticed that has some survival information: http://www.captaindaves.com/guide/intro.htm#contents

In case you did not finish your bracelet here is a reminder of how to do the cobra knot.

The cobra knot:

Take your ‘starter’ side (see below to determine starter side) and go under the double center line. Still with the same rope lay it over the other single rope. Now switch ropes. Take the new single rope and go over the double rope and into the loop made from the first rope. Make sure when you pick up the new single rope that you are not undoing the cross over that starter rope did. (click on a picture to enlarge it)

Pictures modified from http://stormdranespbtutorial.blogspot.com/ blog site.

How to determine which side to start with:

When you look at the bracelet from the underside (or what will be the inside when it is done) you will see one side has a hump and the rope under it is going away from you. The other side is a loop (not a hump) which the rope comes out of and towards you. The ‘starter’ side will be the one that is coming towards you and opposite the hump side.

For the very first knot you can begin with either side.