Tomorrow: Wednesday: March 2, 2016
French Canadian Genealogy SIG Meeting:
9:00 AM in the Julio Iglesias Room at the La Hacienda Recreation Center5 Tips for Getting the Most from City Directories:
Ancestry
"City directories are useful for the year-by-year portrait they can paint of our ancestors. They document their moves, changes in occupation, and may note the widowed status of a wife who has recently lost her husband. All of this information can be obtained by simply looking up an ancestor’s name. But consider the other types of information..."
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Genealogy Research Trip to Dublin, Ireland:
Donna Moughty Announcement
"The trip includes 7 nights accommodations (including breakfasrt) at Buswell's Hotel, two hours of pre-trip concultation, orientation and assistance at the research facilities, two dinners and admission to the Back to Our Past Conference."
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Getting Real with Naming Patterns:
Legacy Family Tree
"I've been following some online genealogy discussions recently and noticed that we genealogists often answer questions with an emphatic point of view. Very often the answer is an extreme leaning one way or the other, with no middle ground or room for a “perhaps…”
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Quickly Type Numbers and Symbols on the iPhone with This Shortcut:
How-to-Geek
"Normally, the default iOS keyboard presents you with the alphabet. When you want to access the numbers, you just tap the “123” key, and then the numbers and symbols will appear. In order to revert to the letters, you have to then press the “ABC” key. There’s a faster way to type numbers, though."
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This Day In History: 1 March
1642: York, Maine becomes the first incorporated American city.
1692: Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are arrested for the supposed practice of witchcraft in Salem, Mass.
1932: The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped from the Lindbergh home near Princeton, New Jersey.
1904 Birthday: Glenn Miller, big band leader during the 1930s and ’40s.
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