Today: April 1, 2015:
French Canadian Genealogy SIG
Meeting:
John DeAngelo, guest speaker.
9:30 AM in the Julio Iglesias
Room at the La Hacienda Recreation Center.John DeAngelo, guest speaker.
Meeting Reminder - Tomorrow, April 2:
Eastern European Genealogy SIG
Meeting:
1:00 PM in the Triple Crown Room at Churchill Recreation Center.
April Fools Day:
Today is April Fools Day. Have you been pranked today?
April Fools' Day (sometimes called All Fools' Day) is celebrated every year on the first day of April as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other. The jokes and their victims are known as "April fools". Hoax stories may be reported by the press and other media on this day and explained on subsequent days. Popular since the 19th century, the day is not a national holiday in any country, but it is well known in Canada, Europe, Australia, Brazil and the United States.
As well as people playing pranks on one another on April Fools' Day, elaborate practical jokes have appeared on radio and TV stations, newspapers, web sites, and have been performed by large corporations. In one famous prank from 1957, the BBC broadcast a film in their Panorama current affairs series purporting to show Swiss farmers picking freshly-grown spaghetti, in what they called the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest. The BBC were later flooded with requests to purchase a spaghetti plant, forcing them to declare the film a hoax on the news the next day.
Watch this TV Hoax... Really, I'm not trying to prank you.
What’s New on FamilySearch.org—March 2015:
Each month, FamilySearch publishes a list of new changes and updates to the FamilySearch.org website. This list includes changes to Family Tree as well as other parts of FamilySearch.org.
Read more...
Listen to this episode...
Super Cheap Storage Space in the Cloud for Your Files:
Dick Eastman writes that "prices keep dropping in technology and especially for services on the Internet. Everyone needs to make backups of their critical files and many people, myself included, make those backups to web-based services such as DropBox, SugarSync, iCloud, Google Drive, and numerous others. Some of those services even give away a modest amount of storage space free of charge."
Read more...
This Day in History:
1 April 2006: the Serious Organized Crime Agency, dubbed the "British FBI", is created in the United Kingdom.
1 April 1976: Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
1 April 1789: in New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its 1st quorum elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its 1st House Speaker
Today is April Fools Day. Have you been pranked today?
April Fools' Day (sometimes called All Fools' Day) is celebrated every year on the first day of April as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other. The jokes and their victims are known as "April fools". Hoax stories may be reported by the press and other media on this day and explained on subsequent days. Popular since the 19th century, the day is not a national holiday in any country, but it is well known in Canada, Europe, Australia, Brazil and the United States.
As well as people playing pranks on one another on April Fools' Day, elaborate practical jokes have appeared on radio and TV stations, newspapers, web sites, and have been performed by large corporations. In one famous prank from 1957, the BBC broadcast a film in their Panorama current affairs series purporting to show Swiss farmers picking freshly-grown spaghetti, in what they called the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest. The BBC were later flooded with requests to purchase a spaghetti plant, forcing them to declare the film a hoax on the news the next day.
Watch this TV Hoax... Really, I'm not trying to prank you.
What’s New on FamilySearch.org—March 2015:
Each month, FamilySearch publishes a list of new changes and updates to the FamilySearch.org website. This list includes changes to Family Tree as well as other parts of FamilySearch.org.
Read more...
March 2015 Podcast with Lisa Louise Cook:
This month’s theme is Mapping Mania. Lisa interviews guests about mapping strategies, websites to find and use old maps like HistoryGeo, David Rumsey and Google Earth, and the brand new Family Tree Historical Maps Book: Europe.Listen to this episode...
Super Cheap Storage Space in the Cloud for Your Files:
Dick Eastman writes that "prices keep dropping in technology and especially for services on the Internet. Everyone needs to make backups of their critical files and many people, myself included, make those backups to web-based services such as DropBox, SugarSync, iCloud, Google Drive, and numerous others. Some of those services even give away a modest amount of storage space free of charge."
Read more...
This Day in History:
1 April 2006: the Serious Organized Crime Agency, dubbed the "British FBI", is created in the United Kingdom.
1 April 1976: Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
1 April 1789: in New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its 1st quorum elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its 1st House Speaker
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