British Genealogy SIG Meeting
9:30 AM in the Courageous Room at the Lake Miona Recreation CenterTomorrow: Friday: April 1, 2016
NEHGS Conference in The Villages: For those who have registered, the conference will be held at the Waterfront Inn, tomorrow, beginning at 9:00. Remember to bring your ticket.
Law Enforcement Agencies Are Demanding Access To Private DNA Databases:"THE HURDLES FOR THIS SHOULD BE EXTREMELY HIGH, LIKE GETTING A WARRANT FOR A WIRETAP, BECAUSE IT IS AN INVASION OF PRIVACY.”
Editor's Note: This is a news article that was news months ago but for some reason has been reprinted on many websites this pass week.
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Using Death Records to Find Hidden Children and Married Daughters:
Ancestry
"Birth records are wonderful, but they don’t always give us the complete picture of the family. There could be children listed without first names (which can make it harder to find them in a search). There’s also the sad reality that some infants who were stillborn or who died shortly after birth weren’t recorded in the births."
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Colored Postcards From The Turn Of The 20th Century:
Mashable
"In the 1880s, Hans Jakob Schmid, an employee of Swiss printing company Orell Gessner Füssli, developed a process to produce colorized images from black and white photographic negatives."
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How to Remove a Word From the Google Chrome Spelling Dictionary:
How-to-Geek
"Chrome’s spellcheck feature is handy, and works just like you’d expect: it underlines misspelled words, which you can right-click to see suggested spellings. You can even add a word to the dictionary. But what do you do when you accidentally add a misspelled word? "
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This Day In History: 31 March
1880: The first electric street lights ever installed by a municipality are turned on in Wabash, Indiana.
1889: The Eiffel Tower in Paris officially opens on the Left Bank as part of the Exhibition of 1889.
1917: The United States purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.
1915 Birthday: Henry Morgan, comedian, radio performer.
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