Italian Genealogy SIG Meeting
1:00 PM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center
Tomorrow: Wednesday, October 21, 2015
New to Genealogy SIG Meeting
2:30 PM in the Chateaugay Room at the Chatham Recreation Center
Best Family Tree Software & Websites to Share Your Genealogy:
GenealogyBank
"If a genealogist falls in the forest—does he or she make a sound? What are you doing to ensure that your decades of family history research are preserved and passed down so that others can build on your expertise?"
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New Library Hours!
"Sumter County Library System has revised hours increasing weeknight and weekend hours at all five branches."
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TinEye Reverse Image Search:
SassyJane Genealogy
"TinEye is an image search company in Toronto, Canada. Their website (and related browser plug-ins) offer innovative ways to link specific images in your collections with their locations on the Internet. Don’t remember where you got that great family photo? Not even sure it’s Great-Aunt Myrtle and her sisters? Try TinEye!"
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Legal News & Records in Newspapers & Your Ancestors:
"TinEye is an image search company in Toronto, Canada. Their website (and related browser plug-ins) offer innovative ways to link specific images in your collections with their locations on the Internet. Don’t remember where you got that great family photo? Not even sure it’s Great-Aunt Myrtle and her sisters? Try TinEye!"
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Legal News & Records in Newspapers & Your Ancestors:
GenealogyBank
"One of the reasons I love newspapers for my family history research is that they tell the story of a community, the entire story both good and bad. Legal news and records of all types can be found in the newspaper including arrests, court cases (criminal and civil), as well as investigations into crime. Unlike other types of newspaper topics, those involving the law result in numerous follow-up articles as court cases are heard over days and weeks, or as an offender is arrested multiple times."
Notarial Archives Tell Story of New Orleans in Thousands of Historic Documents:
NewOrleansAdvocate
"Opening a weighty volume of yellowing paper, Sally Reeves gently unfolded a cloth drawing of an elaborate burial chamber at Metairie Cemetery.
The drawing, attached to an agreement to build the tomb, is one of hundreds of thousands of carefully preserved documents dating back to the 1730s that provide details of life in New Orleans throughout its history. And, whether for purposes of genealogical research, historical scholarship or simple curiosity, they’re all available for the public to peruse."
This Day In History: October 20
1818: The United States and Britain establish the 49th Parallel as the boundary between Canada and the United States.
1903: The Joint Commission, set up on January 24 by Great Britain and the United States to arbitrate the disputed Alaskan boundary, rules in favor of the United States. The deciding vote is Britain’s, which embitters Canada. The United States gains ports on the panhandle coast of Alaska.
1924: Baseball’s first ‘colored World Series’ is held in Kansas City, Mo.
1931 Birthday: Mickey Mantle, baseball great who played for the New York Yankees.
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