Sunday, June 14, 2015

VGS News & Tips: 14 June 2015

New Member Registrations: May 2015
Kinseeker Genealogical Society Meeting:
Tomorrow: 15 June 2015
Location & Time: Leesburg Library 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Topic: "Beginning Genealogy Overview using Free Genealogy Websites."

Meeting Reminder - Friday, June 19:
Scandinavian Genealogy SIG Meeting
10:00 AM in the Clearwater Room Sea Breeze Recreation Center.

The Next Summer Series Workshop will be held on Wednesday, June 24th at the Eisenhower Recreational Center at 10:00 a.m. As usual, a recent educational webinar will be presented. 
Note: Meeting Location Change

This Day In History:
1935: In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 underdog James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and becomes the heavyweight champion of the world.
1893: Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
1865: William Butler Yeats, and Irish writer and Nobel laureate was born; he died in 1937.



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