Friday, June 10, 2016

VGS Latest News & Tips: 10 June 2016

Ancestry.com New Support Center Explained:
The Ancestry Insider:
"In my bi-polar view of the world, sometimes a thing is either wonderful beyond belief, or an awful hunk of junk. Of the new Ancestry.com help system, I recently placed it in the latter category."
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Exploring the Ancestry Support Center:
Ancestry
"Join Crista Cowan for a quick tour of the Ancestry Support Center. Learn how to browse categories and search for specific answers. And, make sure you understand the difference between discussions and articles."
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Ancestry’s Newspapers.com at #NGS2016GEN
The Ancestry Insider
"Ancestry search is tailored to historical records and search results return most historical records. But newspapers.com is tailored for newspapers so its search engine does a great job handling newspapers."
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How to Set Up and Use Open365, an Open Source Alternative to Office 365:
How-to-Geek
"If you use the LibreOffice suite of programs, you’ll be happy to learn about Open365. Just as LibreOffice is the free, open source alternative to Microsoft Office, Open365 is the free counterpart to the cloud-based Office 365."
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This Day In History: 10 June
1692: Bridget Bishop is hanged in Salem, Mass., for witchcraft.
1801: Tripoli declares war on the U.S. for refusing to pay tribute.
1854: The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, holds its first graduation
1735 Birthday: John Morgan, physician-in-chief of the American Continental Army.

State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Wisconsin:
1763: Green Bay settled
1783: United States takes possession
1788: Added to the Northwest Territory

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