Today is the 95th anniversary of American women gaining the right to vote in all state and federal elections when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on August 18, 1920.
How to Research Legal Notices in Newspapers for Genealogy:
Genealogy Bank
"When doing your family history research, have you ever given much thought to those legal notices found at the back of the newspaper? Legal notices in newspapers have an important purpose..."
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Android’s Stagefright Exploit: What You Need to Know and How to Protect Yourself:
How-to-Geek
"Android has a massive security bug in a component known as “Stagefright.” Just receiving a malicious MMS message could result in your phone being compromised. It’s surprising we haven’t seen a worm spreading from phone to phone like worms did in the early Windows XP days — all the ingredients are here."
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NatGeo Upgrades Genographic Consumer Genomics Service, Pledging Better Y, mtDNA Coverage:
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – National Geographic's Genographic Project this week introduced the next version of its SNP chip-based ancestry testing service. Dubbed Geno 2.0: Next Generation, the new offering relies on a higher-density array containing five times as many markers as its previous Geno 2.0 service.
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Advanced Research Tip: Always Cite Your Sources and What does that Mean Anyway?
Ancestry.com
"A source citation tells you where you found the information. You remember those papers you wrote in college and high school and all the footnotes you wrote? Yep. Those things."
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Italian woman reunited with daughter taken away during WWII:
DW.com
"A 92-year-old Italian has met her daughter, fathered by a married German soldier, after more than 70 years of separation. The daughter, Margot Bachmann, has said she was forbidden from asking about her mother."
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August 18: This Day In History
1587: In the Roanoke Island colony, Ellinor and Ananias Dare become parents of a baby girl whom they name Virginia, the first English child born in what would become the United States.
1590: John White, the leader of 117 colonists sent in 1587 to Roanoke Island (North Carolina) to establish a colony, returns from a trip to England to find the settlement deserted. No trace of the settlers is ever found.
1898: Adolph Ochs takes over the New York Times, saying his aim is to give "the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is permissible in good society, and give it early, if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other medium."
1922 Birthday: Shelly Winters, actress who won an Academy Award for The Diary of Anne Frank.
Genealogy Bank
"When doing your family history research, have you ever given much thought to those legal notices found at the back of the newspaper? Legal notices in newspapers have an important purpose..."
Continue reading...
Android’s Stagefright Exploit: What You Need to Know and How to Protect Yourself:
How-to-Geek
"Android has a massive security bug in a component known as “Stagefright.” Just receiving a malicious MMS message could result in your phone being compromised. It’s surprising we haven’t seen a worm spreading from phone to phone like worms did in the early Windows XP days — all the ingredients are here."
Continue reading...
NatGeo Upgrades Genographic Consumer Genomics Service, Pledging Better Y, mtDNA Coverage:
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – National Geographic's Genographic Project this week introduced the next version of its SNP chip-based ancestry testing service. Dubbed Geno 2.0: Next Generation, the new offering relies on a higher-density array containing five times as many markers as its previous Geno 2.0 service.
Continue reading...
Advanced Research Tip: Always Cite Your Sources and What does that Mean Anyway?
Ancestry.com
"A source citation tells you where you found the information. You remember those papers you wrote in college and high school and all the footnotes you wrote? Yep. Those things."
Continue reading...
Italian woman reunited with daughter taken away during WWII:
DW.com
"A 92-year-old Italian has met her daughter, fathered by a married German soldier, after more than 70 years of separation. The daughter, Margot Bachmann, has said she was forbidden from asking about her mother."
Continue reading...
August 18: This Day In History
1587: In the Roanoke Island colony, Ellinor and Ananias Dare become parents of a baby girl whom they name Virginia, the first English child born in what would become the United States.
1590: John White, the leader of 117 colonists sent in 1587 to Roanoke Island (North Carolina) to establish a colony, returns from a trip to England to find the settlement deserted. No trace of the settlers is ever found.
1898: Adolph Ochs takes over the New York Times, saying his aim is to give "the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is permissible in good society, and give it early, if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other medium."
1922 Birthday: Shelly Winters, actress who won an Academy Award for The Diary of Anne Frank.
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