VGS Latest News & Tips: 29 July 2015

Genealogy Center, Allen County Public Library:
YouTube: 7:30minutes
"Part two of this informative tour of the Genealogy Center in the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana."
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Getting Genealogy Records Online: My Clean-Up Plan:
GenealogyBank
"Looking at my genealogy research notes and files accumulated over the past 50+ years, I am wondering: what should I do with all this stuff?"
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U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007:
Ancestry.com
Most are familiar with the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) but at you familiar with the Applications and Claims Index?
"This database picks up where the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) leaves off by providing more details than those included in the SSDI. It includes information filed with the Social Security Administration through the application or claims process, including valuable details such as birth date, birth place, and parents’ names."
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Volunteers Aim to Preserve 1,000 Pictures of Local WWII Veterans:
WTTV-TV
"The work is incredibly tedious, time consuming, and rewarding. Three people in Greenfield spend time every week preserving hundreds of pictures of local World War Two veterans."
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This Day In History:
1830: Liberals led by the Marquis of Lafayette seize Paris in opposition to the king’s restrictions on citizens’ rights.
1915: U.S. Marines land at Port-au-Prince to protect American interests in Haiti.
1945: After delivering parts of the first atomic bomb to the island of Tinian, the U.S.S. Indianapolis is sunk by a Japanese submarine. The survivors are adrift for two days before help arrives.