Tomorrow: Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Brick Wall SIG Meeting
8:30 AM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center
Tomorrow: Wednesday, September 23, 2015
General Monthly Meeting
10:00 AM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center
New Collection: UK Apprentices Indentured in Merchant Navy (1824-1910):
Ancestry.com
More than 340,000 historic Merchant Navy apprentice records have been published online for the first time – shedding light on life at sea during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Historic records detail apprentices and their masters in the Merchant Navy
Collection features famous ships such as the RMS Britannia and the Cutty Sark, which can still be viewed in Greenwich today
Victoria Cross winners Frederick Daniel Parslow and Archibald Bisset Smith appear in the record.
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ANCESTRY.COM RECONSTRUCTS GENOMES OF 19TH-CENTURY COUPLES USING CUSTOMERS' DNA
Popular Science
"David Speegle was a preacher in Alabama in the 1800s. Apparently he was very serious about the Bible's charge to "be fruitful and multiply." He had 26 children and more than 150 grandchildren. From there, the numbers of his descendants expanded. Today, there are so many Speegle descendants in the United States that a popular family history website, Ancestry.com, was able to reconstruct large portions of Speegle's and his spouses' genomes using only data from its customers."
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How to Introduce Yourself to Other Genealogists at a Genealogy Conference:
Olive Tree Genealogy
"Whether or not you are attending RootsTech or another Genealogy Conference or Convention, whether you're going as a participant (speaker, presenter, etc.) or as an attendee, you should have a card."
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10 Quick Ways to Speed Up a Slow Windows PC:
How-to-Geek
"Windows PCs don’t have to slow down over time. Whether your PC has gradually become slower or it suddenly ground to a halt a few minutes ago, there could be quite a few reasons for that slowness."
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About #AncestryHour:
#AncestryHour is a Twitter base where everyone, professionals and amateurs alike, with an interest in Genealogy and Family History can meet, exchange tips, promote their services, ask questions etc. Participants are expected to reciprocate by following other contributors on Twitter and re-tweeting their tweets using the hashtag #AncestryHour in order to reach the widest audience possible.
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This Day In History: September 22
1776: American Captain Nathan Hale is hanged as a spy by the British in New York City; his last words are reputed to have been, "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
1862: President Lincoln issues a proclamation calling for all slaves within the rebel states to be freed on January 1, a political move that helps keep the British from intervening on the side of the South.
1869: The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team, arrive in San Francisco after a rollicking, barnstorming tour of the West.
1791 Birthday: Michael Faraday, English physicist, inventor of the dynamo, the transformer and the electric motor.
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