Only 2 More Days To Upgrade to Windows 10 For Free:
Legacy Family Tree
Did you miss the webinar on Windows 10 survival?
It's available online for free until July 29, 2016
"The Windows 10 operating system is not so much a choice as it is an inevitability. As Microsoft continues to remove support from Windows 8 and earlier versions, you should get on board the Windows 10 upgrade train now! Learn the new features of Windows 10, how it will impact how you research genealogy, and more. You’ll also learn which default Windows 10 settings to change as well as how to fix common “annoyances” experienced by most users."
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Free UK Genealogy, Freereg, FreeBMD and Freecensus Might Not be Free Much Longer:
Dick Eastman eogn.com
"Economics may have caught up with Free UK Genealogy, Freereg, FreeBMD and Freecensus. After all, it costs a lot of money to offer “free” services. The trustees of those web sites now have proposed to change the availability of data transcribed by volunteers from being “free” to “pay to view.”
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Ancestry.com LLC Reports Second Quarter 2016 Financial Results:
Ancestry
"Ancestry's performance continued to accelerate in the second quarter," said Tim Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer of Ancestry. "The combined value proposition of our market-leading family history and DNA offerings has helped deliver over $750 million in revenue in the last four quarters. We are excited about the opportunities ahead and remain focused on execution and investing in the long-term growth of the company."
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The First American in Space Wore a Pee-Soaked Spacesuit:
Mashable
"Fifty three years ago on May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard blasted off in a Freedom 7 capsule atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket to become the first American in space.
A little known fact about this flight is what took place before it."
Editor's Note: Do you have stories about any of your ancestors? I'm sure you have many. Newspapers may also have stories about them. Here is an example of a story that should be added to the ancestor's facts or events section of your genealogy database. It helps make a person not just a name with a few dates.
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Second Cousins Are Magic:
Ancestry
“How in the world did you find those great old photos?”
“I wish my family had photos like that.”
“I’m so jealous, all our family photos were lost in the flood.”
Hint: Second cousins have all the best photos.
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Family History And The Search For Identity:
Ancestry
"Questions about our identity, our personalities, and our selves are fundamental to the pursuit of family history. We want to know where we come from, what we are, what made us who we are. The biggest TV programme about our subject poses the question as a challenge: ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ The implication is that family history might change this."
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How to Make a Shortcut Icon to Create a System Restore Point in Windows:
How-to-Geek
"Windows’ System Restore doesn’t get as much praise as it once did, even though it’s still an incredibly useful feature. Judging by the feedback on our own forums, it saves people from certain destruction on a nearly daily basis. The only problem is that it takes far too many steps to manually create a new restore point. Can’t we just make a shortcut icon for it? Turns out, yes, there are a couple of ways to do it."
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This Day In History: 27 July
1663: British Parliament passes a second Navigation Act, requiring all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports.
1905: The International Workers of the World found their labor organization in Chicago.
1909: Orville Wright sets a world record for staying aloft in an airplane–one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds.
1906 Birthday: Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
South Carolina
1738: Measles epidemic and again in 1747
1751: Diphtheria outbreak
1753: Influx of settlers from Antigua
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