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| January 2016 General Meeting |
On Wednesday January 27, 2016, 411 members attended the general monthly meeting to hear guest speaker, Debra Fleming, discuss the new features of FamilySearch.org. Our previous record attendance was in January of 2015 when 395 attended that meeting.
Two Women Abandoned By Parents Reunited As Sisters 50 Years Later:
PalmBeachPost
"Liz Kellner and Tammy Makram didn’t know they had a sibling. Both women were abandoned by the same parents four years apart."
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Tracing American Deaths Abroad:
Ancestry
"Arthur Amson of St. Louis, Missouri was a student of philology at the University of Leipsic in Germany. He died there on July 7, 1875. While we commonly think about “traditional” death records, there is a special group of records created for Americans who died abroad."
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The Insider’s Take on the New Ancestry:
Ancestry Insider
"Several of you have asked what I thought about the “New Ancestry.” I promised I would talk about it after my holiday break. So, here it is. First, let me say that my opinions on the matter don’t count. Why? Because Ancestry provides me with a complimentary subscription and a complimentary copy of Family Tree Maker. I don’t have the same skin in the game as you. So take my comments with that in mind."
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"As you rummage through those huge stacks of family photo albums for the perfect photos to add to your family tree, it can be pretty overwhelming when deciding which ones to scan and share. But the good news is that there are simple, effective ways to scanning your entire printed photo collection if you decide to do so."
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Genealogists Share Heirlooms and Tell Stories from Their Family Tree:
FamilySearch
"All families have heirlooms they hold dear. We cherish these physical objects because they represent a link to our past, a way to understand more about the people responsible for us being here today. To explore the power of these objects, we asked family historians to share a favorite family heirloom."
This Day In History: 29 January
1861: Kansas is admitted into the Union as the 34th state.
1926: Violette Neatley Anderson becomes the first African-American woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
1929: The Seeing Eye, America’s first school for training dogs to guide the blind, founded in Nashville, Tennessee.
1737 Birthday: Thomas Paine, political essayist (The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason).
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