Tomorrow: Friday: July 8, 2016
Genetic Genealogy SIG Meeting
10:00 AM in the Rhett Butler Room at the Savannah CenterFamilySearch & ALA’s Digital Public Library Announce Partnership:
GenealogyBlog
"In concert with the American Library Association national conference in Orlando, Florida, this week, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and FamilySearch International, the largest genealogy organization in the world, have signed an agreement that will expand access to FamilySearch.org’s growing free digital historical book collection to DPLA’s broad audience of users including genealogists, researchers, family historians, students, and more."
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Do You Have Any Genealogy Documents Hiding In Your Home?
Janine Adams
"In an extreme example of the perils of letting household filing pile up, I found my grandfather’s birth record over the weekend."
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Canadian Homestead Grant Registers Join Ancestry:
The Genes Blog
"Ancestry has added another collection of use if your ancestors emigrated, this time to Canada:
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, Homestead Grant Registers, 1872-1930"
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MyHeritage Reunites 93-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor with Her Relatives:
My Heritage Blog
"Nata Gattegno, a Holocaust survivor from Corfu, Greece could never have children of her own as a result of what she endured in Auschwitz during WWII. Although she thought she was alone in the world, research done by the MyHeritage team uncovered cousins, that Nata either never knew existed, or with whom she had lost touch many years ago."
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Watch the emotional reunion that took place recently when we introduced Nata to her new-found relatives in this video, in Hebrew with English subtitles:
How to Make Windows Troubleshoot Your PC Problems for You:
How-to-Geek
"The Windows Control Panel includes a variety of “troubleshooters” designed to quickly diagnose and automatically solve various computer problems. Troubleshooters can’t fix everything, but they’re a great place to start if you encounter a problem with your computer."
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This Day In History: 7 July
1777: American troops give up Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, to the British.
1795: Thomas Paine defends the principal of universal suffrage at the Constitutional Convention in Paris.
1981: Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
1940 Birthday: Ringo Starr, musician, one of the Beatles.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Indiana:
1876: Gas discovered at Eaton near Muncie
1886: First gas well in state drilled at Portland
1889: Standard Oil Company build refinery in Whiting
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