Saturday, May 14, 2016

VGS Reminders: 16-20 May 2016

Thank you to all our meeting volunteers...
Tuesday: May 17, 2016
Genetic Genealogy SIG Meeting
10:00 AM in the Rhett Butler Room at the Savannah Center
Wednesday: May 18, 2016
Mid-Atlantic States SIG Meeting
9:30 AM in the Jasmine Room at the Hibiscus Recreation Center
Wednesday: May 18, 2016
New to Genealogy SIG Meeting
2:30 PM in the Chateaugay Room at the Chatham Recreation Center
Thursday: May 19, 2016
New England Genealogy SIG Meeting
Noon in the New Smyrna Room at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center
Friday: May 20, 2016
Scandinavian Genealogy SIG Meeting
10:00 AM in the Clearwater Room Sea Breeze Recreation Center

Kinseekers Genealogical Society Meeting Announcement:
Leesburg Library at 1:30 p.m.
Monday, May 16, 2016
100 East Main Street
Leesburg, FL
Presentation by Lee Gordon on “Using Findagrave.com”
Lee is an LSCS US Member and volunteer Photographer and longtime user of Findagrave.com
Lee will offer tips and hints to utilize this wonderful genealogy tool allowing access to cemetery research across the United States and around the world. He will also demonstrate how to create a memorial, creating links to other family members, placing flowers on a grave, how to become a volunteer, and how to upload photographs to the memorial site.
Everyone is welcome to attend their meetings.

My first look at FindMyPast's new 100 million marriage records:
LegacyFamilyTree
"FindMyPast has been known as the leader for genealogy in the British Isles, but with their recent announcement of their addition of 100 million United States marriage records, they are beginning to attract attention from this side of the pond as well - including mine. In February they published the first 33 million of these records, and just this week they announced the availability of the next 10 million records."
Continue reading...

This Day In History: 14 May
1796: English physician Edward Jenner gives the first successful smallpox vaccination.
1804: Explorer William Clark sets off from St. Louis, Missouri.
1897: Guglielmo Marconi sends first communication by wireless telegraph.
1686 Birthday: Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, German physicist, instrument maker, inventor of the thermometer.


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