VGS Latest News & Tips: 28 November 2015

Ann Mohr Osisek was our November guest speaker

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

French Canadian Genealogy SIG Meeting:

9:00 AM in the Julio Iglesias Room at the La Hacienda Recreation Center

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Eastern European Genealogy SIG Meeting:

1:00 PM in the Triple Crown Room at Churchill Recreation Center

Friday, December 4, 2015

British Genealogy SIG Meeting

9:30 AM in the Courageous Room at the Lake Miona Recreation Center

"Grandparents tell the best stories": Get ready for the Great Thanksgiving Listen
TED Blog
"James Kennicott’s life advice for his granddaughter: “Just roll with it.” The two recorded an interview using the StoryCorps app while sitting in an Applebee’s parking lot. StoryCorps’ Dave Isay, the winner of the 2015 TED Prize, wants hundreds of thousands to interview a grandparent over Thanksgiving weekend."
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This Day In History: November 28
1520: Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan, having discovered a strait at the tip of South America, enters the Pacific.
1861: The Confederate Congress admits Missouri to the Confederacy, although Missouri has not yet seceded from the Union.
1868: Mt. Etna in Sicily violently erupts.
1757 Birthday: William Blake, English poet.