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| An exhibit from our 2010 VGS Expo |
Have you considered displaying some of your research, history, artifacts, books or charts at the upcoming Expo that will be held on Wednesday, September 28, 2016. If the answer is yes, you need to reserve a table. Download a table reservation form...
Monday: June 13, 2016
Family Tree Maker Uses SIG Meeting
1:00 PM in the Patriot Room at the
Mulberry Grove Recreation Center
Wednesday: June 15, 2016
Board of Directors Meeting
9:00 AM at the Pinellas Library
AncestryDNA: How One Match Uncovered 46 Years of Questions:
Ancestry
"Leslie H. was adopted at birth in El Paso, TX in 1970. Her adopted parents had tried unsuccessfully for years to have a child without any luck. It was at a dinner party one night they were discussing the possibility of adoption when another guest, an OB/GYN, said he knew a woman wanting to give up a baby. A few months later, Leslie was picked up from the local hospital by the family attorney and brought to her parents at only 3 days old.Adult daughter and her mother. Old and young holding hands indoor.
Leslie shares..."
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What’s the Difference Between Do Not Disturb and Mute on the iPhone?
How-to-Geek
"You probably know about the mute switch on the side of your iPhone, and you may even know about the Do Not Disturb feature. These features may seem to do more or less the same thing–keep notifications from bugging you–but they have a few distinct differences."
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This Day In History: 11 June
1895: Charles E. Duryea receives the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.
1927: Charles Lindbergh, a captain in the US Army Air Corps Reserve, receives the first Distinguished Flying Cross ever awarded, for his solo trans-Atlantic Flight.
1930: William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, dives to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda, in a diving chamber called a bathysphere.
1880 Birthday: Jeannette Rankin, U.S. Representative from Montana, the first woman in Congress.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Kansas:
1803: Becomes part of the Louisiana Purchase
1825: Indians gave right-of-way for the Santa Fe Trail
1843: First settlement of Kansas City area
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Kansas:
1803: Becomes part of the Louisiana Purchase
1825: Indians gave right-of-way for the Santa Fe Trail
1843: First settlement of Kansas City area
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