Today: Monday, September 14, 2015
Family Tree Maker Uses SIG Meeting
2:30 PM at the Chatham Recreation Center
Note: Due to renovations at Mulberry Grove this month's meeting time and location have been changed.
Tomorrow: U.S. Probates and Will Records LIVE Facebook Chat:
Ancestry.com
"Join us for a live Facebook chat with our professional genealogists to have your U.S. Probates and Will questions answered! We will host a one hour chat on Tuesday, September 15th at 12PM PT / 3PM ET to 1PM PT / 4PM ET."
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How to Use Google Photos to Store an Unlimited Amount of Photos:
How-to-Geek
Note: Due to renovations at Mulberry Grove this month's meeting time and location have been changed.
Tomorrow: U.S. Probates and Will Records LIVE Facebook Chat:
Ancestry.com
"Join us for a live Facebook chat with our professional genealogists to have your U.S. Probates and Will questions answered! We will host a one hour chat on Tuesday, September 15th at 12PM PT / 3PM ET to 1PM PT / 4PM ET."
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How to Use Google Photos to Store an Unlimited Amount of Photos:
How-to-Geek
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7 Reasons Why You Can’t Find Your Ancestors Online:
Crestleaf
Can’t Find Your Ancestor? Avoid These Online Research Mistakes...
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1906-1912: Ellis Island Portraits
Mashable.com
"While most entrants to Ellis Island answered a few questions and passed through to the mainland within a few hours, some were detained on the island for longer periods. Augustus Francis Sherman was the chief registry clerk at Ellis Island, and an avid amateur photographer. He had special access to the immigrants who were temporarily detained while waiting on escorts, money or travel tickets. Sherman persuaded many of these immigrants to pose for his camera, encouraging them to put on their finest clothes or national dress."
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Legal battle over manuscript kept under lock and key since 1836:
The Guardian
"François-René de Chateaubriand instructed his memoir draft be destroyed and gave it to lawyers for safe keeping, now the firm wants to sell it. It has been described as a courtroom battle from beyond the grave: a complex literary saga of locked safes, secret keys and the 160-year-old question over who owns the original manuscript of the memoirs of the great French Romantic writer François-René de Chateaubriand."
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1812: Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of Russia reaches its climax as his Grande Armee enters Moscow–only to find the enemy capital deserted and burning, set afire by the few Russians who remained.
1814: Francis Scott Key writes the words to the "Star Spangled Banner" as he waits aboard a British launch in the Chesapeake Bay for the outcome of the British assault on Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.
1847: U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott capture Mexico City, virtually bringing the two-year Mexican War to a close.
1921 Birthday: Constance Baker Motley, first African-American woman to be appointed a federal judge.
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