Today: Wednesday: March 16, 2016
Board of Directors Meeting
9:00 AM at the Pinellas Library
Today: Wednesday: March 16, 2016
Mid-Atlantic States SIG Meeting
9:30 AM in the Jasmine Room at the Hibiscus Recreation Center
Today: Wednesday: March 16, 2016
New to Genealogy SIG Meeting
2:30 PM in the Chateaugay Room at the Chatham Recreation Center
Tomorrow: Thursday: March 17, 2016
New England Genealogy SIG Meeting
Noon in the New Smyrna Room at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center
6 Tools to Make Archival Research More Efficient:
Inside Higher Ed
"As an historian, I spend a lot of time in the archives, rifling through dusty old boxes in search of treasure for my dissertation. Learning how to do archival research has been an exercise in learning to work more efficiently. Because grant budgets can only go so far, it’s important to make use of every minute when visiting faraway libraries and repositories, capturing as much information as possible to bring home with me. Here at GradHacker, we’ve featured many tools for organizing your research data once you’ve already collected it."
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Get Ready For St. Patrick's Day! Finding Your Irish Roots in Irish Catholic Parish Registers :
Ancestry
"I feel like the doors to my Irish ancestry have suddenly been opened wide with the recent addition of more than 10 million Irish Catholic Parish Registers on Ancestry. For many of us, this collection represents the best chance of discovering a written record of our ancestors and their families online."
Continue reading...
Are you familiar with Ancestry Academy?
Ancestry (The academy is a separate subscription service.)
"Ancestry Academy's online course library continues to grow! Check out this new courses taught by experts in the genealogy community:"
"Effective Searching for Canadian Records, by Lesley Anderson"
This course is a basic overview of how to use Ancestry’s Canadian website, Ancestry.ca, but there are many useful hints for anyone starting out on Ancestry no matter which country you're researching in. Topics include family trees, hints, and DNA, which cross a broad spectrum of other Ancestry websites besides Ancestry.ca. Who knows? You may also discover that you have a family member or distant cousin who once lived in or visited Canada.
View course details...
Why Do TV Shows and Movies Cover Up Logos?How-to-Geek
"Have you ever wondered why some TV shows go to great lengths to obscure logos on laptops and other well-known products? The reasons are seemingly simple, but not necessarily clear cut."
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This Day In History: 16 March
1621: The first Indian appears to colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1833: Susan Hayhurst becomes the first woman to graduate from a pharmacy college.
1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is published.
1751 Birthday: James Madison, fourth President of the United States (1809-17).
6 Tools to Make Archival Research More Efficient:
Inside Higher Ed
"As an historian, I spend a lot of time in the archives, rifling through dusty old boxes in search of treasure for my dissertation. Learning how to do archival research has been an exercise in learning to work more efficiently. Because grant budgets can only go so far, it’s important to make use of every minute when visiting faraway libraries and repositories, capturing as much information as possible to bring home with me. Here at GradHacker, we’ve featured many tools for organizing your research data once you’ve already collected it."
Continue reading...
Get Ready For St. Patrick's Day! Finding Your Irish Roots in Irish Catholic Parish Registers :
Ancestry
"I feel like the doors to my Irish ancestry have suddenly been opened wide with the recent addition of more than 10 million Irish Catholic Parish Registers on Ancestry. For many of us, this collection represents the best chance of discovering a written record of our ancestors and their families online."
Continue reading...
Are you familiar with Ancestry Academy?
Ancestry (The academy is a separate subscription service.)
"Ancestry Academy's online course library continues to grow! Check out this new courses taught by experts in the genealogy community:"
"Effective Searching for Canadian Records, by Lesley Anderson"
This course is a basic overview of how to use Ancestry’s Canadian website, Ancestry.ca, but there are many useful hints for anyone starting out on Ancestry no matter which country you're researching in. Topics include family trees, hints, and DNA, which cross a broad spectrum of other Ancestry websites besides Ancestry.ca. Who knows? You may also discover that you have a family member or distant cousin who once lived in or visited Canada.
View course details...
Why Do TV Shows and Movies Cover Up Logos?How-to-Geek
"Have you ever wondered why some TV shows go to great lengths to obscure logos on laptops and other well-known products? The reasons are seemingly simple, but not necessarily clear cut."
Continue reading...
This Day In History: 16 March
1621: The first Indian appears to colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1833: Susan Hayhurst becomes the first woman to graduate from a pharmacy college.
1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is published.
1751 Birthday: James Madison, fourth President of the United States (1809-17).
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