Ancestry.com is Used to Catch a Florida Man Living Under an Assumed Name for More Than 20 Years:
Dick Eastman eogn.com
"Terry Jude Symansky was a Florida man who drowned in 1991 at age 33. However, his nephew recently was working on a family genealogy project and found his uncle’s information on Ancestry.com. Knowing the uncle died in 1991, the nephew was shocked to find a later marriage license associated with his name. After some investigation..."
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Instantly Colorize Your Black-And-White Photos:
Dick Eastman eogn.com
"Do you have old black-and-white family photographs? A new service on Algorithmia uses a deep learning algorithm to add color to the photos. Yes, it works."
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Canadian Headstone Photo Project:
Canadianheadstones.com
"The mission of this project is to capture digital images and the complete transcription of headstones of our ancestors. As decades pass, it is becoming harder - if not impossible - to read the inscriptions these stones originally contained. By archiving the images and transcriptions, these important records are saved."
Note: You can currently search over 1.5 million records online.
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Finding The Changing Boundaries Of Counties:
FamilyTree.com
"When attempting to narrow down hometowns for our ancestors you will quickly see that some towns no longer exist, were incorporated into another town, had a name change or is now part of a different county. When looking about the name and location of a county, it is boundaries that have changed the most over the decades within the United States."
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Genealogists shall not live by Google alone...
LegacyFamilyTree
"After my experience with Google and Cyndi's List this weekend, I'm ready to create the genealogist's version of the "...man shall not live by bread alone..." scripture to read "...genealogists shall not live by Google alone..."
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What to Do (and Not Do) If You Find a Lost Smartphone:
How-to-Geek
"At some point or another, you might lose your phone. It’s always good to know what to do when that happens, but there’s another side to that story: what if you’re the person who finds a lost phone? You’d be surprised at how many people don’t know what to do when they find someone else’s phone—and really, there isn’t a single “right” answer. But there are a few things to keep in mind to make it easier for that person to get their phone back."
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This Day In History: 28 July
1615: French explorer Samuel de Champlain discovers Lake Huron on his seventh voyage to the New World.
1868: The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees citizenship to all those born or naturalized in the United States, is adopted.
1932: The Bonus Army of impoverished World War I veterans is violently pushed out of Washington, D.C.
1929 Birthday: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, wife of President John F. Kennedy.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
South Carolina
1754: First cotton exported
1756: Cherokee uprising
1776: Became on of the original 13 states
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