Today: Friday: February 19, 2016
Scandinavian Genealogy SIG Meeting
10:00 AM in the Clearwater Room Sea Breeze Recreation Center
4 Free Online Photo Editing Tools to Restore Your Family Photos:
Crestleaf
"So you’ve scanned your family photos and created backups using a flash drive, CD or cloud photo backup software to preserve your family memories. Good for you! The next step is to restore your older, discolored family pictures to keep your family tree sitting pretty."
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A Growing Source for Free Genealogy: Digital Public Library of America:
Amy Johnson Crow
"What’s better than a website that gives access to more than 11 million digitized items? A website that does it for free. That’s just what the Digital Public Library of America does. DPLA is constantly growing and fast becoming a “must visit” website for free genealogy resources."
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Touch Screen Laptops Aren’t Just a Gimmick. They’re Actually Useful:
How-to-Geek
"Touch on Windows laptops, in one form or another, has been around for quite some time. For most of that time, it was bad. No wait, bad is too generous–it was nearly unusable. But as much as no one wants to admit it, that’s all changed. Touch is quite good on Windows 10."
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Today: John Bartram DAR Chapter Monthly Meeting:
"John Bartram DAR Chapter monthly meeting will be held on Friday, Feb. 19 from 10 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. at the Eisenhower Recreation Center with the program ‘George Washington as a Spymaster’ followed by optional prepaid luncheon."
This Day In History: 19 February
1807: Vice President Aaron Burr is arrested in Alabama for treason. He is later found innocent.
1902: Smallpox vaccination becomes obligatory in France.
1925: President Calvin Coolidge proposes the phasing out of inheritance tax.
1473 Birthday: Nicholas Copernicus, Polish astronomer who introduced the idea that the earth revolved around the sun.
PA-Roots Photographs Now Over 38,000 Images:
PA-Roots
Are you from Pennsylvania? You may be interested in this website that contains over 38,000 images from every county in the state. Photos include portraits, tombstones, landscapes, buildings and more.
Crestleaf
"So you’ve scanned your family photos and created backups using a flash drive, CD or cloud photo backup software to preserve your family memories. Good for you! The next step is to restore your older, discolored family pictures to keep your family tree sitting pretty."
Continue reading...
A Growing Source for Free Genealogy: Digital Public Library of America:
Amy Johnson Crow
"What’s better than a website that gives access to more than 11 million digitized items? A website that does it for free. That’s just what the Digital Public Library of America does. DPLA is constantly growing and fast becoming a “must visit” website for free genealogy resources."
Continue reading...
Touch Screen Laptops Aren’t Just a Gimmick. They’re Actually Useful:
How-to-Geek
"Touch on Windows laptops, in one form or another, has been around for quite some time. For most of that time, it was bad. No wait, bad is too generous–it was nearly unusable. But as much as no one wants to admit it, that’s all changed. Touch is quite good on Windows 10."
Continue reading...
Today: John Bartram DAR Chapter Monthly Meeting:
"John Bartram DAR Chapter monthly meeting will be held on Friday, Feb. 19 from 10 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. at the Eisenhower Recreation Center with the program ‘George Washington as a Spymaster’ followed by optional prepaid luncheon."
This Day In History: 19 February
1807: Vice President Aaron Burr is arrested in Alabama for treason. He is later found innocent.
1902: Smallpox vaccination becomes obligatory in France.
1925: President Calvin Coolidge proposes the phasing out of inheritance tax.
1473 Birthday: Nicholas Copernicus, Polish astronomer who introduced the idea that the earth revolved around the sun.
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