Great New Features at Family Tree DNA:
Kitty Cooper
"Family Tree DNA has some terrific new features for its Family Finder matches as well as for its tree. The most exciting addition is the ability to automatically assign matches to your mother’s and father’s sides via close relatives, even if you do not have a parent tested."
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Register for Webinar Wednesday - Organize Your Online Life by Lisa Louise Cooke
LegacyFamilyTree Webinar
"Join us and Lisa Louise Cooke for the live webinar tomorrow, Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 2pm Eastern U.S. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day."
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Autosomal DNA Tests for Genealogy: Learn About…
Enchanted Family
"Contained in the nucleus of each cell are twenty-three pairs of chromosomes. Twenty-two of these matched pairs of chromosomes are called “autosomes,” while the 23rd pair determines your sex (male or female). Autosomal DNA is inherited from both parents, and includes random contributions from their parents, grandparents, and so on. Therefore, your autosomes essentially contain a complete genetic record, with all branches of your ancestry at some point contributing a piece of your autosomal DNA."t have a parent tested."
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But I KNOW My Great Grandma's Name! So Why Am I Stuck?
Live Tree Genealogy
"Many of us know our great grandparents' names. One of my great grandmothers was a Vollick. I knew that, and I had proof (baptism, marriage, census records)which I had found over 30 years ago.
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Take Time to Understand Online Records:
Ancestry Insider
"It is important that we understand the records we find online. Consider an example. Suppose we are trying to find the birth and death dates of Eleanor Kendall, daughter of Isaac and Eleanor from early Ashford, Connecticut. We search Ancestry.com and find the database record below. We snip the image, slap a URL on it, and we’re done. Right?
Not so fast!
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How to Get Notifications Whenever Your Friends Post Anything On Facebook:
How-to-Geek
"If you want to stay on top of your friend’s Facebook activity with the same kind of alerts you get when someone mentions you in a post or tags you, it’s easy to do so if you know where to look."
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This Day In History: 19 July
1799: The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, is found in Egypt.
1848: The first Women’s Rights Convention convenes in Seneca Falls, N.Y, organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
1975: Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts dock in orbit.
1860 Birthday: Lizzie Borden, teacher, famous murder suspect.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Rhode Island:
1657-1658: Protection given to Quakers and Dutch Jews
1665: Quakerism outlawed
1709-1807: Nearly 1000 ships left Rhode Island to import more than 100,000 slaves from Africa.
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