Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day:
I have a homework assignment for you tomorrow. Don't worry, it's very easy to do.Take a picture of you with family or friends and write a one or two line paragraph about your day and add it to your genealogy database. That one picture will tell a lot about you and your life lets say when your grandchildren are now working with your data that you preserved for them.
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This Couple Takes Their Christmas Portrait for 40 Years From 1900 – 1942:
History Daily
"Just like many families today, Richard and Anna Wagner took annual holiday portraits. Taken every Christmas Eve, from the year they were married in 1900 until just a year before Richard’s death in 1943, the photos were sent out as Christmas cards to friends and family."
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StoryCorps App Lets You Record a Story for the Great Thanksgiving Listen:
GenealogyInsider
"The Great Thanksgiving Listen is an initiative of the national oral history project StoryCorps to encourage high school students to spend part of Thanksgiving weekend interviewing an elder and preserving his or her story."
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StoryCorps App Lets You Record a Story for the Great Thanksgiving Listen:
GenealogyInsider
"The Great Thanksgiving Listen is an initiative of the national oral history project StoryCorps to encourage high school students to spend part of Thanksgiving weekend interviewing an elder and preserving his or her story."
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Resolution Rules of Thumb for Scanning Old Family Photos and Documents:
GenealogyInsider
"Anyone undertaking a genealogy scanning project, or just scanning a single old picture for Throwback Thursday, might have wondered what resolution is best for the particular thing about to be scanned. Wonder no more!"Continue reading...
Genealogy Research: Conquering Your File Cabinets:
GenealogyBank
"I have five multi-drawer file cabinets packed with correspondence and genealogical notes gathered over the past 50 years.
Keeping this old genealogical correspondence in just one spot means that I am the only one with access to it. I decided that it’s time to get it online and, where appropriate, available to everyone."
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This Day In History: November 25
2348 BC: Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood.
1914: German Field Marshal Fredrich von Hindenburg calls off the Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lose 90,000 to the Germans’ 35,000 in two weeks of fighting.
1923: Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences for the first time.
1914 Birthday: Joe DiMaggio, Hall of Fame baseball star who led the New York Yankees to ten World Series.
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