Archive for July 28th, 2010
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 | news | No Comments
- Write On Top of the Internet With New Firefox Add-On | ReadWriteWeb » http://bit.ly/bYIigQ #
- E-Readers Bring The World's Library to Rural Africa | ReadWriteWeb » http://bit.ly/9b7nyx #
- Readers Are Abandoning Print, Yet Don’t Trust the Web – NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/9o7DXI #
- Justice Department Weighs Putting Web Sites Under Disability Rules – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/ad5gmP #
- Letting Us Rip: Our New Right to Fair Use of DVDs – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/cefb0W #
- Check the Original Sources: Digital Manuscripts Online | ReadWriteWeb » http://bit.ly/bl4bqJ #
- My Literary Genes | Tengrrl.com » http://bit.ly/bkain8 #
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My Literary Genes
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 | American Lit, classroom activity | No Comments
I’ve written before about my literary claim to fame: I’m slightly related to Ralph Waldo Emerson, through my great-great-grandmother Anne Emerson.
While I know that Anne was Ralph’s third cousin once removed, I’m not exactly sure what that makes me. Genealogy isn’t exactly my area of expertise.
That’s why I’m loving the relationship in Wolfram|Alpha. I entered the information I knew, and got a lovely chart that made everything clear:
Depending upon how I described the relationship, I’m Emerson’s 4th cousin 3 times removed or his 3rd cousin 5 times removed.
Either way, it appears that I share a 1/8192, or 0.012207%, blood relationship. We share a 13th degree of kinship, which apparently means I’m free to marry him or serve on a jury considering his fate. I don’t think either of those situations is likely to arise. But enough of my poetic cousin.
The relationship query in Wolfram|Alpha could be used in the classroom to help clarify family relationship students read about as well. If you’re reading Faulkner, you may well need complete family trees. If you’re just trying to explain third cousins, this may be just what you need.
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