Genealogy Website Ancestry.com Explores Sale:
Reuters: by Linda B. Baker and Greg Roumeliotis
"Ancestry.com LLC, the world's largest family history website helping users trace their heritage, is exploring a sale that could value it at between $2.5 billion and $3 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter."
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Do you know that there are WWII Color Photos?
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"When many of us think of photos from World War II, we think of black-and-white images. After all, most of the iconic photographs from the war—like those capturing the flag raising on Iwo Jima or the VJ Day kiss in Times Square—are in that medium. But actually, color photography had slowly been becoming more popular and available in the years leading up to the war."
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Americans’ Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance:
PewResearch Center: Mary Madden & Lee Rainie
"The cascade of reports following the June 2013 government surveillance revelations by NSA contractor Edward Snowden have brought new attention to debates about how best to preserve Americans’ privacy in the digital age. At the same time, the public has been awash with news stories detailing security breaches at major retailers, health insurance companies and financial institutions. These events – and the doubts they inspired – have contributed to a cloud of personal “data insecurity” that now looms over many Americans’ daily decisions and activities. Some find these developments deeply troubling and want limits put in place, while others do not feel these issues affect them personally. Others believe that widespread monitoring can bring some societal benefits in safety and security or that innocent people should have “nothing to hide.”
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A Match List Does Not an Ancestor Make:
DNAeXplained
"I can’t tell you how many people write to me and tell me that we must be related because they share a match with several people at the testing companies that have the surname Estes, either today or in their family history. And, they’d like to know what I think about that list. A name, alone, does not a match make. And a list of names doesn’t make an ancestral connection either."
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How to Create a Shareable CD, DVD, or Jump Drive of Your Family Info:
LFT Video Quick Tip
"Learn 1) how to create a CD, DVD, or jump drive of your family's information, 2) how to include photographs, sound bytes, or videos, and 3) how to view a slide show of your ancestors' pictures. "
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This Day In History:
1972: President Richard Nixon became the first American president to visit Moscow. Four days later, Nixon and Soviet Russia's leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a pact pledging to freeze nuclear arsenals at current levels.
1967: The children's program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiers.
1859: Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born at Edinburgh, Scotland.
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