Today: Thursday: April 14, 2016
German Genealogy SIG Meeting
9:30 AM in the Laurel Manor Room at the Rohan Regional Recreation Center
View From Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America:
New York Times"A thousand years after the Vikings braved the icy seas from Greenland to the New World in search of timber and plunder, satellite technology has found intriguing evidence of a long-elusive prize in archaeology — a second Norse settlement in North America, further south than ever known."
Continue reading
Tomorrow: Friday: April 15, 2016
Scandinavian SIG Meeting
10:00 AM in the Clearwater Room at the Sea Breeze Regional Recreational Center
View From Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America:
New York Times"A thousand years after the Vikings braved the icy seas from Greenland to the New World in search of timber and plunder, satellite technology has found intriguing evidence of a long-elusive prize in archaeology — a second Norse settlement in North America, further south than ever known."
Continue reading
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry Reached 1 Million Records of Holocaust Survivors’ and Victims’ Now Searchable Online:
Ancestry
Nearly five years after the launch of the World Memory Project, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry announce that the one millionth name of individuals persecuted by the Nazis are now searchable online for free, thanks to the efforts of contributors to the innovative crowdsourcing initiative."
Exploring Pension Application Files:
AncestryAcademy
"Military pension application files contain rich detail, revealing post-war experiences. Laws dictated eligibility. Explore who awarded pensions, pension types, eligible parties, and locating pension application files. Survivors applying for pensions had to prove relationship to a veteran, creating valuable documents which include evidence of kinship. Affidavits, pages from family Bibles, and medical examination records are examples of the types of items found in pension application files."
You do not need to register to view these videos.
Go to the Class...
How to Enable Right-Clicking on Web Sites That Block It:
How-to-Geek
"Though it’s less common these days, many sites still use JavaScript or an HTML attribute to disable right-clicking on their pages. It’s a practice we hope goes away, but in the meantime, it’s not too hard to get around those restrictions."
Continue reading...
This Day In History: 14 April
1828: The first edition of Noah Webster’s dictionary is published.
1860: The first Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco with mail originating in St. Joseph, Missouri.
1865: President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
1866 Birthday: Anne Mansfield Sullivan, teacher who educated Helen Keller.
Continue reading...
This Day In History: 14 April
1828: The first edition of Noah Webster’s dictionary is published.
1860: The first Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco with mail originating in St. Joseph, Missouri.
1865: President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
1866 Birthday: Anne Mansfield Sullivan, teacher who educated Helen Keller.
No comments:
Post a Comment