Tuesday, March 8, 2016

VGS Latest News & Tips: 8 March 2016

Tomorrow: Wednesday: March 9, 2016
Irish Genealogy SIG Meeting
10:00 AM in the Osceola Room at the Chula Vista Recreation Center

The Battle of Hampton Roads: March 8–9, 1862:
Fold3
"On March 8–9, 1862, the ironclad CSS Virginia attacked the Union blockade squadron in Hampton Roads, Virginia, changing the course of naval warfare forever."
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Recent Updated Records: Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963:
Ancestry
"Pennsylvania’s Department of Health started keeping statewide death records on January 1, 1906. Now you can find them in this collection."
TOTAL RECORDS: 22,483,673   View this collection

How to Search for Files from a Certain Date Range in Windows 8 and 10:
How-to-Geek
"Say you’re searching for a file, and you know it was last modified during a certain period of time. You can limit your searches to date ranges in Windows, but it’s not immediately obvious."
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Can we really make assumptions about African American DNA admixtures?
Genealogy Adventures
"I caught up  with some of the geneticist team who were going to be a part of my first proposed television series the other day. Skype truly is a wondrous thing!  We chatted about my YDNA Haplogroup, E1b1a1a1f1a. There’s something about this haplogroup in particular that has confused me."
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Ray Tomlinson, The Creator Of Email, Has Died:
CNN
"Ray Tomlinson, widely credited as the creator of email, has died, his employer, Raytheon, told CNN on Sunday. He was 74."
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This Day In History: 8 March
1790: George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address.
1855: The first train crosses Niagara Falls on a suspension bridge.
1880: President Rutherford B. Hays declares that the United States will have jurisdiction over any canal built across the isthmus of Panama.
1841 Birthday: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice


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