Today: Thursday, November 5, 2015
Eastern European Genealogy SIG Meeting:
1:00 PM in the Triple Crown Room at Churchill Recreation Center
Tomorrow: Friday, November 6, 2015:
British Genealogy SIG Meeting
9:30 AM in the Courageous Room at the Lake Miona Recreation Center
If You Don’t Care About Genealogy, Skip This Post:
BCG
Do you know that...
- you cannot obtain a death record in Oklahoma during the seventy-five years after a death unless you are the subject of the record, i.e., the deceased;
- entries are no longer added to the Social Security Death Index until three years after the death occurs;
- state vital records officers have a Model Act which, if passed in your state, will close access to birth record for 125 years, marriage records for 100 years, and death records for seventy-five years?
Continue reading...
Digging for Answers with Find A Grave:
Ancestry
Find A Grave is the world's largest website devoted to memorializing the loved ones who came before us and their graves. Come take a cemetery walk with Michael Lawless, learn how to further your family research and become an active contributor of Find A Grave.
This is a 10 session video educational course. All sessions are under 10 minutes in length.
Continue reading and take the course...
Gates of 'Finding Your Roots' hopes to inspire love of STEM through genealogy camp:
Orange County Register
"Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. speaks at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 2, 2013. Gates Jr. loves exploring people's family roots, and hoping that type of digging by middle-school and college students will also ignite interest in science and math. Gates and his colleagues just got a funding grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to create a genealogy and genetics summer camp for middle school children and another grant from the National Science Foundation for college-level courses. The summer camps will start at Penn State University and the University of South Carolina this summer and at the American Museum of Natural History in 2017."
Continue reading...
Why Does Welsh Singer Tom Jones Want a DNA Test?
USA Today
"He's 75 now and has just written an autobiography, so it's not unusual he'd be promoting it in the London press. What is unusual is what he said in The Times of London over the weekend, when he declared that he's planning to get a DNA test to prove once and for all whether he might be black. Or part black. Or at least have some African ancestry dating back hundreds of years or ...well...millennia."
Continue reading...
1814: Having decided to abandon the Niagara frontier, the American army blows up Fort Erie.
1862: President Abraham Lincoln relieves General George McClellan of command of the Union armies and names Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside commander
of the Army of the Potomac.
1872: Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote.
1913 Birthday: Vivien Leigh, British actress famous for her role as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind.
No comments:
Post a Comment