Today: Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Brick Wall SIG Meeting
8:30 AM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center
Today: Wednesday, September 23, 2015
General Monthly Meeting
10:00 AM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center
Family Traditions and Memories from the Kitchen:
Ancestry.com
Each recipe in my family is like a piece of fabric. When sewn together, they become a quilt of sorts, woven with a myriad of memories."
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4 Free Online Photo Editing Tools to Restore Your Family Photos:
Crestleaf
"So you’ve scanned your family photos and created backups using a flash drive, CD or cloud photo backup software to preserve your family memories. Good for you! The next step is to restore your older, discolored family pictures to keep your family tree sitting pretty."
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How-to-Geek
"Recently released iOS 9 added a long-awaited feature to the iPad and iPhone: the ability to have multiple apps on-screen at the same time. iPads support three different types of multitasking: Slide Over, Split View, and Picture in Picture. The other app-switching gestures on an iPad still work, too.
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Here's What Happens When You Order an AncestryDNA Test:
Nextadvisor Blog
"DNA testing has been around for quite some time now, and increasingly more genealogy services are offering people the chance to learn more about their origins and ethnicity by providing mailable DNA testing kits. But how exactly do these tests work? And what all do you receive in the mail when you order one? We decided to explore the growing curiosity behind these tests by ordering one and testing it for ourselves. Ancestry is one of the most well-known genealogy services, so we opted to start with its DNA test first. Here's how it works."
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Drumming Out:
Fold3
"Are you familiar with the historical military practice of drumming a soldier out of the army?
This process of dishonorably discharging a soldier had its origins in the British army in the 17th century and was later picked up by the American military. Soldiers could be drummed out for a variety of reasons, from thievery to desertion."
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1779: The American navy under John Paul Jones, commanding from Bonhomme Richard, defeats and captures the British man-of-war Serapis.
1805: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike pays $2,000 to buy from the Sioux a 9-square-mile tract at the mouth of the Minnesota River that will be used to establish a military post, Fort Snelling.
1806: The Lewis and Clark Expedition arrives back in St. Louis just over three years after its departure.
63BC Birthday: Augustus Caesar, first Roman Emperor, who introduced Pax Romana, the era of peace.
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