Today: Monday: August 8, 2016
Family Tree Maker Uses SIG Meeting
1:00 PM in the Patriot Room at the Mulberry Grove Recreation Center
Tomorrow: Tuesday: August 9, 2016
Genealogy Writers SIG Meeting: (Our newest SIG)
2:30 PM in the Churchill Downs Room at Pimlico Recreation Center
What Can a Hacker Do with Your Genetic Information?Motherboard
"Learning about the genetic markers stored in your DNA can be an illuminating experience, even a life-altering one. Now that direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies such as 23andMe have made these tests more accessible and affordable, it’s no wonder that more than 1 million people have shipped their spit off to be genotyped, and have all their genetic information cataloged (and sold) in the process.
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Archives Open Up Houston’s History Since 1880s:
Houston Herald
"More than 83,000 pages of past issues of the Houston Herald are available on the publication’s website this week, marking the completion of a project that started last fall.
It is believed to be the most complete digital archive among weekly newspapers in the state."
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How to Take Better Pictures with Your Phone’s Camera:
How-to-Geek
"They say the best camera is the one you have with you, and most smartphone cameras can now easily replace a point-and-shoot. For users who have experience taking pictures, the move from a “real” camera to a smartphone can be an easy one, but for users with no photography experience, it can be a real challenge to get a decent looking shot from your phone. Fortunately, smartphone cameras are often more intuitive than more traditional cameras, and landing the best possible shot just take a few considerations."
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An Amateur DNA Detective Helps People Find Family They Never Knew:
Boston Globe
"ON A BRIGHT DAY THIS SPRING, Denise Lutz wheeled her suitcase through Logan Airport on the way to meet a stranger. As she walked through the terminal’s sliding glass doors, she felt nervous yet joyful. On the curb waited a woman named Geraldine Riendeau, holding flowers. “We just stood there and hugged and cried,” says Lutz. The women, sisters in their 60s, had never met because Lutz, though younger, had been given up for adoption for reasons unclear to both of them."
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This Day In History: 8 August
1844: Brigham Young is chosen to head the Mormon Church, succeeding Joseph Smith.
1876: Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph.
1899: The first household refrigerating machine is patented.
1901 Birthday: Ernest Orlando Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron and winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize for physics.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Oregon:
1792: Robert Gravy discovers the Columbia River
1804-05: Lewis & Clark explored the region
1811: Astoria settled
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