Today: Friday: July 8, 2016
Genetic Genealogy SIG Meeting
10:00 AM in the Rhett Butler Room at the Savannah CenterHow FindMyPast Helped Identify My Immigrant Ancestors:
FindMyPast
The following is a guest post written by James Tanner, genealogy educator and writer of the well-known Genealogy's Star blog.
"One of the major genealogical research challenges in the United States, unless your ancestors were native Americans, is identifying the place of origin of your original immigrant ancestors."
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Genealogy Roadshow:
Have you missed any episodes of "Genealogy Roadshow" or forgot to set your DVR?
You can watch them on PBS online.
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Decoding Your Life, Growing Family Trees With DNA Tests:
Wisconsin Gazette
"You’re not who you think you are, and now science can prove it."
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Ports of Embarkation and Arrival: Brief Passages in U.S. Immigration History:
NY Public Library
"In recent weeks, as the end of Immigrant Heritage Month neared, trends in political news headlines seemed to prove that a not insignificant number of people in the United States believe that an “American” is one who finds tradition and bloodline in a single indigenous ethnicity bound to a longstanding, native region. But even the flightiest peep into the slimmest textbook on U.S. history demonstrates otherwise, and one will perceive that America, like most inhabited places on the planet, is the result of the happenstance of population movements."
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New Partnership Between the California State Archives & the Google Cultural Institute:
Genealogy Blog
"On June 28, 2016, Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced a new partnership between the California State Archives, a division of the Secretary of State’s office, and the Google Cultural Institute.
This partnership will make State Archives exhibits available to a global audience online. "
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Is Your PC Running Smoothly? Make Sure with a System Diagnostics Report:
How-to-Geek
"The Performance Monitor is one of many useful tools buried deep in Windows. It can generate a System Diagnostics Report with information about problems and suggestions of how to fix them. If your computer isn’t performing well or is experiencing another problem, this quick report might be able to help."
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This Day In History: 8 July
1608: The first French settlement at Quebec is established by Samuel de Champlain.
1879: The first ship to use electric lights departs from San Francisco, California.
1918: Ernest Hemingway is wounded in Italy while working as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross.
1839 Birthday: John D. Rockefeller, financier, philanthropist, founder of Standard Oil.
1908 Birthday: Nelson Rockefeller, U.S. vice president to Gerald Ford.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Indiana:
1906: US Steel build plant & founded Gary
1913: Floods in Indiana and Ohio kill 732
1917: Tornado in New Albany kills 46
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