Today: Thursday, January 21, 2016
New England Genealogy SIG Meeting
Noon in the New Smyrna Room at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center
This Is A "Best Kept Secret" That Needs To Be Shared!!
Ancestry by reader Ann"Dear Ancestry Insider,
While I use these logos for searching on FamilySearch, I also use a Chrome extension called RootsSearch, which can search, not only from FamilySearch, but also from..."
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This Day In History: 21 January
1648: In Maryland, the first woman lawyer in the colonies, Margaret Brent, is denied a vote in the Maryland Assembly.
1785: Chippewa, Delaware, Ottawa and Wyandot Indians sign the treaty of Fort McIntosh, ceding present-day Ohio to the United States.
1790: Joseph Guillotine proposes a new, more humane method of execution: a machine designed to cut off the condemned person’s head as painlessly as possible.
1737 Birthday: Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary commander.
Ancestry by reader Ann"Dear Ancestry Insider,
While I use these logos for searching on FamilySearch, I also use a Chrome extension called RootsSearch, which can search, not only from FamilySearch, but also from..."
Continue reading...
Editor's Note: If you're a Chrome user, this is a wonderful research assistant.
100 Best Photographs Without Photoshop:
While this has nothing to do with genealogy, I think many of us also like to take photographs. Compare your phtography work with the results of these images.
If You Don’t Put It Online – Your Descendants Will Not Find It!
GenealogyBank
"With the New Year now started, here’s a genealogy resolution you can keep in 2016: preserve your family history records online so that future generations can find them. Take your records – prepare now to begin scanning them and putting them online."
Follow-Up Story: Good News about the Italian State Archives L’Aquila:
GenealogyBank
"In 2009 I wrote about the destruction of the Archivio di Stato (State Archive) L’Aquila, Italy, building that was destroyed by an earthquake on 6 April 2009.
The earthquake itself destroyed some records, and it also exposed the entire collection – centuries of records – to further destruction from the weather.
This Day In History: 21 January
1648: In Maryland, the first woman lawyer in the colonies, Margaret Brent, is denied a vote in the Maryland Assembly.
1785: Chippewa, Delaware, Ottawa and Wyandot Indians sign the treaty of Fort McIntosh, ceding present-day Ohio to the United States.
1790: Joseph Guillotine proposes a new, more humane method of execution: a machine designed to cut off the condemned person’s head as painlessly as possible.
1737 Birthday: Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary commander.
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