NARA
"Today’s post comes from Sonia Kahn in the National Archives History Office. It is part three of a series on the history of some of the seized foreign records housed at the National Archives."
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Is My Family’s ‘Slave Name’ the Wrong One?
The Root
"I have been working on my family tree for years, and cannot find anyone on my father’s side earlier than my great-grandparents Texas Williams, 1871-1951, and his wife, Nettie Howard Williams, 1875-1912."
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5 Things to Remember When We Email DNA Matches:
Georgia Genealogist
"1. Make it personal. DNA matches are family. Our email tone should be warm and engaging. Warm fuzzy rather than cold blunt emails are much more likely to elicit a reply. Use "Hello there!" "Hi! We're cousins!" or other less formal email introductions.
Ancestry
"The story was not a new one for Dale Frye. He had grown up knowing about a half-sister who was conceived in California, 20 years before he was born, following a short stay there by his father.
Dale took an AncestryDNA test with the hopes of finding some clues on his sister."
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How to Shut Down a Windows PC Without Installing Updates:
How-to-Geek
"You’re working on your laptop and you realize that it’s time to go. So, you shut down your laptop, but Windows insists on updating. Ten minutes later, you’re still waiting for Windows to update and you’re going to be late."
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How to Share a Google Calendar with Other People:
How-to-Geek
"We all lead busy lives, and keeping track of appointments and events is key to maintaining your sanity. Lots of people use Google Calendar to manage their schedules, which means it’s very useful to share some of your calendars with other people, like co-workers or family members."
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This Day In History: 6 September
1522: One of the five ships that set out in Ferdinand Magellan’s trip around the world makes it back to Spain. Only 15 of the original 265 men that set out survived. Magellan was killed by natives in the Philippines.
1901: President William McKinley is shot while attending a reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, by 28-year-old anarchist Leon Czolgosz. McKinley dies eight days later, the third American president assassinated.
1972: The world learns an earlier announcement that all Israeli athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympics had been rescued was erroneous; all had been killed by their captors from the Black September terrorist group; all but 3 terrorists also died in shootout around midnight.
1800 Birthday: Catherine Esther Beecher, educator who promoted higher education for women.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
California:
1782: Los Angeles settled
1830: Russians began to settle
1841: First immigrant train reached California
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