VGS Latest News & Tips: 20 Apr 2015

Meeting Reminder - Tomorrow, April 21:

Italian Genealogy SIG Meeting

1:00 PM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center

Getting More From Your Autosomal DNA: Genetic Family Trees"

Origin Hunters
"For years, genealogists have been able to use Y-DNA to validate paternal pedigrees and sort surnames into family groups.  This has been a great advantage for the world of genealogy, but it has been restricted to men and paternal lines.  Autosomal DNA is more inclusive."
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Conquering William's DNA:

Origin Hunters
"One of my favorite aspects of y-DNA is that it’s used to prove or disprove that two men with the same last name are closely related. Two family lines with a similar surname can figure out if they have a common ancestor."
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Note: We have 5 male members of The VGS with the Williams surname.

Frustrated with Facebook? 5 Tips to Reclaim Your Sanity:

Briallyn Smith
"The real-world social implications of Facebook make it difficult to deal with frustrating online situations. Here are five tips to help you keep your Facebook feed drama-free."
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Free Historic Book Collection Online Hits 200,000th Milestone:

Familysearch.org
Imagine a free virtual online library of rare historic books from all over the world to help you discover rich, unknown details about the lives of your ancestors. What if the historic book collections held by significant public libraries and venerable societies were the sources of these contributed books? You’d have a dynamic, priceless online repository of some of the greatest hidden historic treasures predominantly unknown to man. International, and a growing host of partnering libraries and organizations and volunteers, have announced today that they’ve reached the milestone of publishing 200,000 historic volumes online for free at books.FamilySearch.org. The growing online collection, which began in 2007, is invaluable to genealogists and family historians in finding their ancestors.
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FamilySearch Adds More Than 2.3 Million Indexed Records and Images for the Czech Republic, Mexico, New Zealand, Ukraine, and the United States:

Familysearch.org
"Notable collection updates include 771,097 images from the New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1843–1998 collection; 417,808 indexed records and 417,808 images from the US, BillionGraves Index collection; and 411,325 indexed records from the Mexico, San Luis Potosí, Civil Registration, 1859–2000 collection."
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This Day in History:

1912: The Boston Red Sox played their first game at Fenway Park. They beat the N.Y. Highlanders (who in 1913 would become known as the Yankees) 7-6.
1902: Marie and Pierre Curie isolated radium.
1841: The first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was published.