Today: Thursday: February 11, 2016
German Genealogy SIG Meeting
9:30 AM in the Reliance Room at the Late Miona Recreation Center
Check your Google Security, Receive an Additional 2 Gigabytes of Storage Space on Google Drive for FREE:
Dick Eastman: eogn.com
"If you use Google Docs, Gmail, and/or Google Search (and who doesn’t?), Google wants you to check your security settings on the service. If you do, you will receive an additional 2 gigabytes of storage space on Google Drive free of charge."
You can check your Google security settings at https://goo.gl/7KmDBk.
Tomorrow: Friday: February 12, 2016
Genetic Genealogy SIG Meeting
10:00 AM in the Rhett Butler Room at the Savannah CenterDick Eastman: eogn.com
"If you use Google Docs, Gmail, and/or Google Search (and who doesn’t?), Google wants you to check your security settings on the service. If you do, you will receive an additional 2 gigabytes of storage space on Google Drive free of charge."
You can check your Google security settings at https://goo.gl/7KmDBk.
New Collection: Alberta, Canada, Homestead Records (1870-1930)
Ancestry
"This valuable land record collection includes the names of approximately 200,000 people who applied for homesteads in Alberta under the Dominion Lands Act – an 1872 law aimed to encourage the settlement of the Canadian Prairies."
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Time Capsule From 1905 Found In Mayo Hotel:
The Irish Times
"When Dominick Sidney Browne placed a time capsule into a wall in south Mayo in February 1905, the world was in turmoil with the Russo-Japanese war in its second year."
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Human Evolution Is More A Muddy Delta Than A Branching Tree:
aeon
"Until recently, anthropologists drew the human family tree in the same way that my 10-year-old son solves a maze. He finds it much easier to work from the end to the beginning, because blind alleys lead with depressing sameness away from the start. In just this way, scientists once traced our own lineage from the present into the past, moving backward through a thicket of fossil relatives, each perched upon its own special branch to extinction."
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Human Evolution Is More A Muddy Delta Than A Branching Tree:
aeon
"Until recently, anthropologists drew the human family tree in the same way that my 10-year-old son solves a maze. He finds it much easier to work from the end to the beginning, because blind alleys lead with depressing sameness away from the start. In just this way, scientists once traced our own lineage from the present into the past, moving backward through a thicket of fossil relatives, each perched upon its own special branch to extinction."
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Upgrade Now or Upgrade Tonight: How Microsoft Has Aggressively Pushed Windows 10 to Everyone:
How-to-Geek
"This week, Microsoft made Windows 10 a “recommended update” that will automatically download for many Windows 7 and 8.1 users. This is just Microsoft’s latest move in aggressively pushing Windows 10–here’s how we got to this point."
This Day In History: 11 February
1531: Henry VIII is recognized as the supreme head of the Church of England.
1805: Sixteen-year-old Sacajawea, the Shoshoni guide for Lewis & Clark, gives birth to a son, with Meriwether Lewis serving as midwife.
1910: Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Alexander announce their wedding date–June 20, 1910.
1847 Birthday: Thomas Alva Edison, prolific American inventor who jointly or singly held over 1,300 patents.
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