VGS Latest News & Tips: 27 January 2016

Today: Wednesday: January 27, 2016

Brick Wall SIG Meeting

8:30 AM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center
Today: Wednesday: January 27, 2016
Informational meeting for the Mid-Atlantic States SIG

8:30 AM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center

Today: Wednesday: January 27, 2016

General Monthly Meeting

Guest Speaker: Debra Fleming "Using FamilySearch.org"
10:00 AM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center

What is the Rural Diary Archive?
RDA
"ABOUT THE PROJECT: Our archive showcases over 130 Ontario diarists from 1800 to 1960. Discover and Meet the Diarists are good places to get acquainted with these people from the past. Learn how to unlock the riches within their daily entries and escape into the past. You can read and Search through typed nineteenth-century diaries."
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One Month to a First Draft:
Armchair Genealogist
"Have you ever wondered how writers do it? How they write a book in one month? Would you like to complete a family history story in 30 days? Would you like to complete a family history story in our upcoming Family History Writing Challenge in February?
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18 Things You May Not Have Known Google Photos Can Do:
How-to-Geek
"Google Photos may seem like a simple image hosting service, but it’s actually quite powerful. Google Photos bridges the gap between cloud storage, image hosting, and image sharing services, giving stiff competition to Flickr, iCloud, Dropbox, and OneDrive."
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DutchessNY.gov: Ancient Document Search
"This enhanced County Clerk system allows customers to search and view digital images of 12,000 pages of eighteenth-century legal documents. Drawn from the Dutchess County Ancient Documents Collection, these records comprise the oldest surviving manuscripts from the Dutchess County Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions, which began operation in 1721. These documents detail daily life in Dutchess County as seen through both civil and criminal cases that came before the judges and justices of the peace. These documents were digitally imaged with support from the New York State Archives Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund Grant.
The search portal enables customers to examine this collection through:

• Keyword searches
• Party (which includes individual names and party identifiers)
• Record type
• Offense type
• Primary location of the incident (defaults to Poughkeepsie unless otherwise specified)
• Year in which the document was created"

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Genealogy Research: Newspapers Round Out the Story
GenealogyBank
"I was looking at the 1919 marriage certificate of my cousin George Henry Kemp and his wife Augusta Betty Ehlers. Looking at the information for George, I saw that he was living at 1581 Mayflower Avenue in the Bronx at the time of their marriage. I wondered if that home is still standing?
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This Day In History: 27 January
1862: President Abraham Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1, setting in motion the Union armies.
1900: Foreign diplomats in Peking fear revolt and demand that the Imperial Government discipline the Boxer Rebels.
1916: President Woodrow Wilson opens preparedness program.
1900 Birthday: Hyman Rickover, American admiral who is considered the “Father of the Atomic Submarine.”