Today: May 11, 2015
Family Tree Maker Uses SIG Meeting
This meeting has been cancelled.
How to Extend Your iPad’s Battery Life When You’re Not Using it:
How to Geek
"In reality, iPads tend to get really good battery life with little adjustment, but that’s not to say it couldn't be better. There are things you can do to wring more time from a single charge, particularly if you use tablets in a way that we feel is typical: for short periods, in evening, perhaps sitting on the couch or lying in bed."
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Beyond “The Wet Dog Effect”: Telling Your Story with the New Ancestry:
"Have you ever had one of those days when you made a major breakthrough in your family history? What do you do? You corner one of your kids, a spouse, or even a stranger walking down the street and tell them all about how cool it was that you finally realized there was a transcription error in the census and that led you to search differently in the Ohio death records and when you saw the witness on the death certificate you knew it was Molly and not Mary! What do they do?"
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5 Tips for Resolving Evidence Conflicts:
Michael Leclerc: Mocavo
"One of the great benefits of online research has been the search hints offered by websites like Mocavo and Findmypast. These are tremendously helpful, and can point you in directions you might not have thought to look. But at the same time, it is critically important to review this hints before blindly adding the information and/or individuals to your family tree."
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Reading hard-to-read gravestones.
OrganizeYour FamilyHistory.com
"I’d learned just the prior week about using aluminum foil to make reading hard-to-read gravestones much easier."
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The Re:Create Coalition brings together various groups from the technology, trade, and library industries:
The alliance will advocate for less-stifling copyright laws that foster innovation.
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FindMyPast Adds Dublin Workhouse Records:
FindMyPast.com
"FindMyPast has added the Dublin Workhouse Admission and Discharge Registers, 1840–1919 to its database, placing online for the first time what appears to be some 1.5million records."
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This Day In Histroy:
1987: in Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart-lung transplant take place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
1846: Pres. James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War.
1502: Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
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