Today: Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Summer Series Workshop Meeting
"Tips on using Google for Genealogy"
10:00 AM in the Atlanta Room at the Savannah Rec. Center.
How to Configure OneDrive to Sync Only Certain Folders in Windows 10:
How-to-Geek
"OneDrive provides 15 GB of free cloud space for you to store photos, music, documents, and other files. These files can be synced among multiple devices such as smart phones, tablets, and PCs. However, you may not want to download all your content to certain devices."
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April 1939: WRNS re-established:
FindMyPast
"During World War I, the Royal Navy became the first branch of the British military to recruit women with the foundation of the Women’s Royal Naval Service in 1917. At war’s end, the Service – in which those who served became known as the Wrens."
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Ancestors, Inc.: Inside the remarkable rise of the genealogy industry.
Technology
"My Heritage asked its 80 million members for photos of ancestors that strongly resembled them, and the family-tree business grew yet again."
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Digitization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Personnel Service Files – Update of July 2015:
Library and Archives Canada Blog
"As of today, 171,771 of 640,000 files are available online via our Soldiers of the First World War: 1914–1918 database. Please visit the Digitization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Service Files page for more details on the digitization project.
Library and Archives Canada is digitizing the service files systematically, from box 1 to box 10686, which roughly corresponds to alphabetical order.
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This Day In History:
1587 - 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC
1775 - George Washington takes command of US troops
1918 - Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park
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