YouTube many hour ambient videos

 Found the most beautiful ambient video to cool off in summer : Morning to Night in French Polynesia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11GbY-ttqMQ

These are some of my favorite YouTube videos for sleep or meditation

Escape Stress with Virtual Fireplace & Crackling Sounds by Beautiful Relaxation. This is my favorite, it is just as effective as meditation for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTHHsWcx7Wc

This is the one that got me started on walking tours:

Walk in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, Provence, One of the most beautiful French Villages, South of France

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is1Q9D_T0o4

Some of my favorite walking tours:

Inside Louvre Museum Paris, Mona Lisa (Part 1) 🇫🇷 France [4K HDR] Walking Tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vuFh6NNa70

Inside Louvre Museum Paris, Napoleon Apartments (Part 2) - 🇫🇷 France [4K HDR] Walking Tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRmvCQM-XGU

Central Park, New York Walking Tour 4K60fps with Captions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AU9_H47w7k

I've also heard that "space station", "European Blizzard" and waterfall are good searches but I haven't looked for my favorites there yet.

I've done walking tours of every major city. They are all good. I think I liked Mexico City the best.

I also like to search "grocery stores" and see what grocery stores are like in other countries.

Startpages

 RefDesk

https://www.refdesk.com/

Arts & Letters Daily

https://www.aldaily.com/

ASK

 

Loc Ask a Librarian

https://ask.loc.gov/

Ask Metafilter

https://ask.metafilter.com/

Ask Reddit IDK, there are 45 million members. I don't know if this is a good place to ask a question. I have never tried it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/

AskHistorians at Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/

Snopes - pretty good to check on rumors

https://www.snopes.com/

Seattle Pacific Library Ask A Librarian

https://spu.edu/library/research-help/ask-a-librarian

https://spu.edu/library/about-the-library/faculty-and-staff/librarians-by-discipline

Ask New York Public Library

https://www.nypl.org/get-help/contact-us

at Goodreads

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/185-what-s-the-name-of-that-book

Evernote Search Shortcuts for Windows

 

Ctrl Alt F = Search 

Ctrl Alt 7 = search tags (2024)

Ctrl F = search within note

If you want to see if you have any notes without tags search for:

-tag:*

WASHINGTON History Resources

 Washington Digital Archives

https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/

Washington State Library

Ask a Librarian

https://www2.sos.wa.gov/library/ask_form.aspx

Washington State Genealogical Society

https://wasgs.org/

https://wasgs.org/cpage.php?pt=85 list of regional societies

https://wasgs.org/cpage.php?pt=87  list of museums

https://wasgs.org/blog/

Washington Museum Association

https://washingtonmuseumassociation.org/

Fiske Genealogical Library - Seattle

https://fiskelibrary.org/index.html

https://fiskelibrary.org/browse/default.htm

North Central

Wenatchee Area Genealogical Society

https://www.wags-web.org/

https://www.wags-web.org/?page_id=241 search archives

https://www.wags-web.org/?page_id=19514 photos

Eastern Washington

https://www.newgs.org/

https://www.facebook.com/NortheastWashingtonGenealogicalSociety

Eastern Washington Genealogical Society 

Eastern Washington Genealogical Society covers Ferry, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane and Stevens County (Region 7 of Washington State Genealogical Society).

https://www.ewgsi.org/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/807287173025976/

https://stevenscountyhistoricalsociety.org/

https://www.facebook.com/StevensCountyHistoricalSocietyMuseum

https://stevenscountyhistoricalsociety.org/photo-collection/

https://stevenscountyhistoricalsociety.org/contact-us/

FORAGING & Wildcrafting

 Does foraging need its own link list? 

Inland Northwest Foraging (Eastern Washington & North Idaho)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/427469761051349

Wild Food & Foraging Community

https://twitter.com/WildfoodLove

https://www.instagram.com/wildfoodlove

The Wild Food Assoc

https://twitter.com/wildfoodassoc

Cooking with Wild Plants & Fungi

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cookingwithwildfood/

WILDCRAFTED - Botanical Medicines & Foods Ethically Collected 5k

Identifying plants

Idaho Plants 12.1k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/262442567460388/

Identifying Mushrooms - there are so many mushroom groups on FB. I will just list the ones with the most members

Mushroom Identification Page (worldwide) 261k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/352940311570379/

Pacific Northwest Mushroom Identification Forum 63k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1752805481661732/

CHEWELAH

 I guess I should start a post of Chewelah links

Historical Records of Washington State: Records Papers held at Repositories

https://www2.sos.wa.gov/_assets/archives/wasrab.pdf

Crossroads photo archive

https://crossroadsarchive.net/collections/browse

Historic Eastern Washington

https://www.facebook.com/historiceasternwa

Chewelah Historical Society (museum)

https://www.facebook.com/ChewelahHistoricalSociety

You Know you are from Chewelah when...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/228129233894899/

Northern Lights Public Radio

https://www.kchw.org/index.html

The Beauty of Stevens County, WA

https://www.facebook.com/groups/478068993676530

WATER

 A good YouTube video on water:

Emergency Water: How to Find, Store and Treat Water With Jim Phillips by The Provident Prepper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDBNndG7TCo

Jim Phillips recommends this pdf from FEMA:

Food & Water in an Emergency

https://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/f&web.pdf

Jim Phillips recently passed away (may he rest in peace) but here is his website and YouTube for more of his wisdom:

https://www.jimsway.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@SafeHarborAlliance/videos

Worldwide charities : there are so many I will try to find the best. Working from this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_water-related_charities

local to me

Spokane Riverkeepers

https://www.spokaneriverkeeper.org/

https://www.facebook.com/SpokaneRiverkeeper

Search for Books

these are the main sites to search for books

archive.org

https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?

Digital Public Library of America

https://dp.la/

Google Books

https://books.google.com/

Hathi Trust

https://www.hathitrust.org/

https://search.worldcat.org/

Journals

https://www.jstor.org/

Online Books Page (search for where a book can be found online)

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Bookfinder (books for sale compares prices)

https://www.bookfinder.com/?ref=bf_s2_hd_1

Here is a link to the World Digital Library that is somehow connected to the LOC. I don't understand this at all. Did it used to exist and this is just an archive you can access? Did they stop uploading to this?

https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-digital-library/about-this-collection/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Digital_Library

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FamilySearch.org you can search for family history books, many can be read online

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog

https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/

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ancestry.com book search

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/catalog/#

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If you can't find the book you need to read right now you could see if the kindle edition is available at Amazon https://amzn.to/3ScSlhQ (Affiliate Link)

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My Heritage search in books

link

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this link is just for me (log in to my local library)

Green Roofing

 I want to install a green roof this summer.

Green Design Ideas - Plants, Living Walls, Indoor Gardens, Green Roofs 7.4K members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/GreenDesignIdeas/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_roof

https://greenroofs.org/

Herbalist and Ethnobotany Associations

 Herbalists without Borders

https://hwbglobal.org/

https://www.facebook.com/Herbalistswithoutborders

United Plant Savers - Medicinal Plant Conservation (Rosemary Gladstar)

For the research, education, and conservation of native medicinal plants, fungi, and their habitats.

https://unitedplantsavers.org/

https://www.facebook.com/unitedplantsavers

International Herb Symposium (Rosemary Gladstar)

https://www.internationalherbsymposium.com/

Sustainable Herb Program - American Botanical Council

https://sustainableherbsprogram.org/

Herbalists

https://www.facebook.com/groups/herbalistss/ 29.5k members

American Herbalist Guild

https://www.americanherbalistsguild.com/

https://www.facebook.com/americanherbalistsguild

Herbal Research Chapter of the American Herbalists Guild

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1900310653543876/

The Practical Herbalist

https://www.facebook.com/thepracticalherbalist

Herbal Medics: Field Medicine and Community Enrichment 30k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ahgherbalmedic

World Herbalists Sharing Web

https://www.facebook.com/groups/herbalistsweb/

Wild Medicine Conference

https://www.wildmedicineconference.com/

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

https://maps.org/

Society for Ethnobotany (formerly Economic Botany)

https://ethnobotany.org/

Herb Rally roundup of herb education

https://www.herbrally.com/

https://www.facebook.com/herbrally

https://www.instagram.com/herbrally *****

https://www.youtube.com/@HerbRally

Learning Herbs

https://learningherbs.com/

https://www.facebook.com/LearningHerbs

https://www.instagram.com/learningherbs/?hl=en  *****

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Groups local to me

Idaho Herbalists

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1010954230264206

Idaho Native Plant Society

https://idahonativeplants.org/

https://www.facebook.com/IdahoNativePlants/

Four Season Herbal Guild - Spokane (works with Herbalists Without Borders)

https://www.fourseasonsguild.com/

https://www.facebook.com/FourSeasonsHerbalGuild

The guild sponsors the annual herbal faire as a way of fundraising for their work with Herbalists without Borders

Northwest Herbal Fair

https://www.nwherbalfair.com/

https://www.facebook.com/NWHerbalFair

associated with:

Michael Pilarski "Skeeter" Friends of the Trees Botanicals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EKBQxkJoeM

https://friendsofthetreesbotanicals.com/

Podcasts

Real Herbalism

Herb Rally

Herb Mentor by Learning Herbs

Permaculture?, homesteading?, sustainability?

 I'm trying to find a name for all the organic gardening, homesteading, fruit & nut tree growing, greenhouse, root cellaring interests I have so I can find my people. Well, it's all chaos right now. I guess "Permaculture" is close but it doesn't really cover everything. Hmmm. I think I will try to organize some resources and then figure it out later!

Permaculture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture

Permies - Permaculture & Homesteading Goofballs

https://permies.com/

Permaculture Practical Designs 78k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2491499617529478/  

Permaculture Association (UK)

https://www.permaculture.org.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/PermacultureAssociation

Women's International Permaculture Association

https://www.facebook.com/groups/womensinternationalpermacultureassociation/

One of my favorite permaculture farms

Matt Swarbrick and his wife Jenny decided to leave behind city life to “grow cabbages and children” on 80 acres of former quarry land at the North West corner of Wales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul2kfTpZBw0

https://linktr.ee/henbant

https://www.youtube.com/@kirstendirksen

Permaculture - Local to me

Inland Northwest Permaculture

https://inlandnorthwestpermaculture.com/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064342972968

Northeast Washington Permaculture Guild

https://www.facebook.com/NEWAPermGuild

Spokane Permaculture

https://www.facebook.com/SpokanePermaculture

Sustainability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability

Sustainable Herb Program - American Botanical Council

https://sustainableherbsprogram.org/

Small Farm, Sustainability & Homestead Living 204.5k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/SmallFarm/

Small Acreage Sustainability & Homestead Living 87k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Smallacreage/

Sustainable Homes

Earthships

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._Reynolds

https://earthship.com/

Green homebuilding Ask the Experts

https://www.greenhomebuilding.com/ask_the_experts.htm

Natural Building Blog

https://naturalbuildingblog.com/

Kirsten Jacobsen

https://www.ecobuildlab.com/

https://linktr.ee/ecobuildlab

https://www.instagram.com/ecobuildlab

AirBnB

The Off Grid Guru

https://theoffgridguru.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd-H_38-JCLboV8bxiBGrrw

Tiny Homes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny-house_movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurt

Homesteading

U.S. Homesteading for Beginners- Off the Grid, Canning, Gardening & more! 956k members (that's insane)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/homesteadingforbeginners/

Mary Jane's Farm

https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/

https://www.farmgirlsisterhood.org/

Ladies Homestead Gathering

https://www.nlhg.org/

https://www.facebook.com/NLHGorg

there is a local group in Sandpoint but I don't have a link for them

North Idaho Off Grid & Homesteaders

https://www.facebook.com/groups/156632968250358

North Idaho Homesteaders 17.7k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/877411085614776

Homesteaders United

https://homesteadersofamerica.com/home/

Stevens County HOMESTEADING CLASSIFIEDS 7.9k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/227393401918497/

Homestead Rescue

https://www.discovery.com/shows/homestead-rescue

I do think that Mother Earth News covers a lot of my favorite topics

https://www.motherearthnews.com/

Virginia & West Virginia History Resources

 Note: Virginia Historical Society (is now Virginia Museum of History and Culture), and Virginia State Library (is now the Library of Virginia)

Virginia Genealogical Society

https://www.vgs.org/

Virginia researchers for hire

https://www.vgs.org/va_researchers/

Library of Virginia

https://www.lva.virginia.gov/

https://www.facebook.com/LibraryofVA

Search Virginia Newspapers - Virginia Chronicle - (Library of Virginia)

https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=p&p=home&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------

Research Guides and Indexes

https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/#_guides-VirginiaLandOfficePatentsandGrants

Search Virginia Land Patents

https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/land-grants

Library of Virginia

Resources on Virginia Indians at the Library of Virginia

link to pdf

researchers to hire

https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/proresearchers.pdf

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The Chancery Records Index (CRI) is a result of archival processing and indexing projects overseen by the Library of Virginia (LVA) and funded, in part, by the Virginia Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP).

https://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/chancery/

Virginia Museum of History and Culture

https://virginiahistory.org/

https://www.facebook.com/VirginiaHistory

University of Virginia Library

https://library.virginia.edu/

William & Mary

https://libraries.wm.edu/spaces/special-collections-research-center

Virginia Colonial Records

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Virginia_Colonial_Records

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FACEBOOK

Virginia Genealogy Network 14k members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/219540584747499

Virginia Genealogy 8k

Virginia Genealogy Facebook Group 4k

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Tazewell County, Virginia Genealogy at familysearch.org

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Tazewell_County,_Virginia_Genealogy

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Spotsylvania County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia_Compiled_Genealogies

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West Virginia Vital Records - online

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Virginia

Linkpendium

Cyndi's List

familysearch.org

The Ancestor Hunt

West Virginia

Linkpendium

Cyndi's List

familysearch.org

Idaho History resources

Idaho State Archives

https://history.idaho.gov/archives/

Idaho State Historical Society

Idaho State Museum   610 Julia Davis Dr, Boise, ID

https://history.idaho.gov/

https://www.facebook.com/IdahoStateMuseum/

Museum of Idaho

https://museumofidaho.org/ 200 N Eastern Ave, Idaho Falls

Museum of North Idaho

https://museumni.org/

List of Museums in Idaho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Idaho

University of Idaho digital collection

https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/

https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/archivalidaho/browse.html

RICE

 While trying to find out the best way to preserve rice, I stumbled on this video, Which Rice Is The Healthiest? It's Not What You Think. by Dr. Liu. Her YouTube channel is Healthy Immune Doc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wCtPZ1bK9Y

She covers everything!

VIDEO TOPICS: ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 00:00 Introduction 01:14 Glycemic Index 01:37 Lower The Glycemic Index of Rice 02:18 Amylose vs amylopectin 02:43 Retrogradation & resistant starch 02:59 Storage 03:37 Which Rice Is Healthier: Long or Short Grained? 04:56 Blood Sugar & Hemoglobin A1c 06:40 Diabetes & Rice 07:44 Insulin & Insulin Resistance 11:05 Lose weight with rice? 12:46 Fat 13:53 Which is Healthier: White or Brown Rice? 15:39 Beri Beri & White Rice 16:10 Vitamin B1, thiamine 17:48 Arsenic 18:25 Which Country Has the Highest Arsenic In Their Rice? 19:05 How To Remove Arsenic

Preserving

I'm still trying to find out the best way to preserve rice. I did not know that canning and preserving is a highly controversial right now! I did learn, for a fact, that you can't, so far, preserve brown rice because the oils in it will just make it go rancid quickly. Damn! If I find the best way to preserve rice I will post it here.

Rice: Types and Storage by RedRose Homestaead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8mf0EDIhLM

Dr Liu talks about this at 02:59 but here is more detailed information at Foodnetwork:

https://www.foodnetwork.com/healthyeats/healthy-tips/2020/04/is-it-safe-to-eat-leftover-rice

misc links Ethnobotany and herbalism

 I'm working through a couple pages of gazillion links

https://www.henriettes-herb.com/goodlink.html

Michael Moore's legacy page

https://www.swsbm.com/HOMEPAGE/HomePage.html

https://www.swsbm.com/ManualsOther/ManOther.html

Master list of botanical archives

https://moplants.com/master-list-of-botanical-archives/

Castenea

Books about Ethnobotany, botanical illustration, herbalism

Peonies (this is a direct link to purchase from Amazon)

I was really surprised at how many books on the subjects are available at archive.org

https://archive.org/details/books?query=ethnobotany

https://archive.org/search?query=%28botanical%20illustration%29

https://archive.org/details/books?query=herbal

found this link and it is daunting, will have to do some research to figure out what is really there

Botanicus is a freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.

http://www.botanicus.org/browse/titles

You can borrow this book on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/treasuresofbotan0000sher

https://dp.la/search?q=herbal

https://dp.la/search?q=ethnobotany

https://dp.la/search?q=botanical+illustration

Herbariums

 

A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbarium

The Royal Horticultural Society in London, UK

https://collections.rhs.org.uk/

Emily Dickinson Herbarium at Harvard

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:4184689$1i

The largest herbaria in the world (list from Wikipedia), in approximate order of decreasing size, are:

• Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (P) (Paris, France)
• New York Botanical Garden (NY) (Bronx, New York, US)
• Komarov Botanical Institute (LE) (St. Petersburg, Russia)
• Royal Botanic Gardens (K) (Kew, England, UK)
• Missouri Botanical Garden (MO) (St. Louis, Missouri, US)
• Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève (G) (Geneva, Switzerland)
• Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland) (AMD, L, U, WAG) (Leiden, Netherlands)
• The Natural History Museum (BM) (London, England, UK)
• Harvard University (HUH) (Cambridge, Massachusetts, US)
• Museum of Natural History of Vienna (W) (Vienna, Austria)
• Swedish Museum of Natural History (S) (Stockholm, Sweden)
• United States National Herbarium (Smithsonian Institution) (US) (Washington, DC, US)
• Université Montpellier (MPU) (Montpellier, France)
• Université Claude Bernard (LY) (Villeurbanne, France)
• Herbarium Universitatis Florentinae (FI) (Florence, Italy)
• National Botanic Garden of Belgium (BR) (Meise, Belgium)
• University of Helsinki (H) (Helsinki, Finland)
• Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universität Berlin (B) (Berlin, Germany)
• The Field Museum (F) (Chicago, Illinois, US)
• University of Copenhagen (C) (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Chinese National Herbarium, (Chinese Academy of Sciences) (PE) (Beijing, People's Republic of China)
• University and Jepson Herbaria (UC/JEPS) (Berkeley, California, US)
• Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (E) (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
• Herbarium Bogoriense (BO) (Bogor, West Java, Indonesia)
• Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden (Central National Herbarium (CAL), Howrah, India)
• Herbarium Hamburgense (HBG) (Hamburg, Germany)

This is mind blowing. The New York Botanical Gardens has a map of all known herbariums

https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/

Society of Herbarium Curators

https://www.herbariumcurators.org/

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LOCAL TO ME

list from the Idaho Native Plant Society (link)

Regional Herbaria

• Ray J. Davis Herbarium, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
• Stillinger Herbarium, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
• Harold M. Tucker Herbarium, College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho
• Snake River Plains Herbarium, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
• The Lewis & Clark Herbarium
• The Intermountain Herbarium
• Rocky Mountain Herbarium
• Oregon State University Herbarium, Corvallis, Oregon
• University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley
• The Marion Ownbey Herbarium, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
• University of Washington Herbarium, Seattle
• Whitman College Herbarium, Walla Walla, WA