Saturday, February 14, 2015

Meeting Reminders:

Former first lady Laura Bush speaks about family during her speech at the RootsTech Conference on Friday.
She said, "Make your life what you want it to be right now." and "Time goes so quickly."
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Meeting Reminders:
Picture from a recent Irish SIG Meeting
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Italian Genealogy SIG Meeting
1 PM in the Atlanta Room at the Savannah Center
Here is your chance to savor historical content of Sicily/Italy with webmaster of “My Sicilian Family Tree”, Jennifer Petrino.  A Power Point presentation of vital records in different time periods of Sicily & Italy; how to order microfilms from Family Search; writing to Italy; and dual citizenship will be discussed with time for questions and answers.  Handouts will be provided with helpful websites.
This invitation is open to all VGS members and we ask for a $5.00 donation to cover the expense of our speaker.

Thursday, February 19, 2015
New England Genealogy SIG Meeting
12 Noon in the New Smyrna Room at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center

Friday, February 20, 2015
Scandinavian Genealogy SIG Meeting
10 AM in the Clearwater Room Sea Breeze Recreation Center

Ancestry Announces 2015 Product and Content Lineup

Industry Leader Talks Innovation and New Collections at Annual RootsTech Conference
PROVO, UT--(Marketwired - February 11, 2015) - Ancestry, the world's leading family history service, is ushering in the next generation of family history, with the debut of an updated story centric website, groundbreaking advancements in AncestryDNA that will revolutionize how people discover their ancestors, and the anticipated addition of nearly 1 billion new records to the largest collection of historical records online in 2015.

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