Today: Tuesday: February 16, 2016
Italian Genealogy SIG Meeting
1:00 PM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center
Tomorrow: Wednesday: February 17, 2016
Mid-Atlantic States SIG Meeting
9:30 AM in the Jasmine Room at the Hibiscus Recreation Center
Tomorrow: Wednesday: February 17, 2016
New to Genealogy SIG Meeting
Should You Use the Balanced, Power Saver, or High Performance Power Plan on Windows?
How-to-Geek
"Windows sets all PCs to a “Balanced” power plan by default. But there are also “Power saver” and “High performance” plans. Your PC manufacturer may have even created their own power plans. What’s the difference between them all, and should you bother switching?"
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Here Come the Brides:
Ancestry
"If you think searching for a marriage record can be frustrating, keep in mind that finding a husband or wife hasn’t always been a straightforward proposition, either."
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Stephen Decatur Burns the USS Philadelphia: February 16, 1804
Fold3
"On February 16, 1804, American naval lieutenant Stephen Decatur led a covert mission to burn the USS Philadelphia, an American ship that had fallen into Tripolitan hands, during the First Barbary War."
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Neanderthal DNA May Raise Risk For Some Modern Human Diseases:
ScienceNews
"Finding Neanderthal ancestors in the human family tree was shocking enough when researchers announced it in 2010. Now the implications for modern-day people carrying surviving Neanderthal DNA may prove just as stunning."
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US Can't Ban Encryption Because Most Of It Comes From Overseas:
ZDNet
"Because the majority of encrypted products today are developed abroad, any effort by the US government to strong-arm companies away from providing secure products would put them "at a competitive disadvantage in the information security market," concluded the Harvard report, written by security researchers Bruce Schneier, Kathleen Seidel, and Saranya Vijayakumar."
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This Day In History: 16 February
1804: US Navy lieutenant Steven Decatur leads a small group of sailors into Tripoli harbor and burns the USS Philadelphia, captured earlier by Barbary pirates.
1937: Dupont patents a new thread, nylon, which will replace silk in a number of products and reduce costs.
1957: A U.S. flag flies over an outpost in Wilkes Land, Antarctica.
1838 Birthday: Henry Adams, U.S. historian, son and grandson of the presidents.
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