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| Family Tree Maker Coordinator Rita Greenwood at the VGS Expo 2016 |
Family Tree Maker Uses SIG Meeting
1:00 PM in the Patriot Room at the Mulberry Grove Recreation Center
Tomorrow: October 11, 2016
Genealogy Writers SIG Meeting
2:30 PM in the Churchill Downs Room in the Pimlico Recreation Center
Fact-Checking Family Folklore With DNA Tests
Wall Street Journal
"Americans are digging up surprises about their immigrant ancestors using DNA testing and online genealogy research.
WSJ's Cameron McWhirter, who recently researched his family's genealogy, joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero and explains discrepancies he discovered regarding his family's heritage over the course of generations. He also explains why many ancestors lied about their background when first entering the United States.
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Ancestry V1 vs V2 Test Comparison:
DNAeXplained
"In May, Ancestry changed the chip that they use for autosomal DNA processing and comparison. They removed roughly 300,000 of their roughly 682,000 locations and replaced them with medical SNPs. That means that people who tested before the middle of May, 2016 are only being compared to a little more than half of the SNPs on the chip of the people who tested on the V2 chip after the middle of May, 2016."
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Miami Man Discovers Bride Is His Own Granddaughter, No Plans To Divorce:
Florida Sun Post
"A 68-year old man from Miami’s Golden Beach neighborhood has reportedly had a ‘terrible shock’ after discovering his new bride, a 24-year old woman from Jacksonville, is actually his own biological granddaughter."
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Searching for Your Rebel Gene?
Ancestry
"Do rebels run in your family? Is there a gene to detect that? Not quite, but below are 4 of the many things you can find out from the AncestryDNA test, and who knows you may just find a rebel ancestor. You have a cousin in Ireland Eli grew up saying he was Irish, but..."
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Dark Days:
Ancestry
"My grandfather died when his wife and children were still quite young and America was in the grip of the Great Depression. At the time, fatherless families had few options for financial assistance. My grandmother turned to the church for help and placed her children in a Catholic orphanage. This fact was never exactly a secret in my family, but it was never discussed in detail either."
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Why Did My iPhone Emoji Keyboard Disappear?
How-to-Geek"Sometimes, the emoji keyboard mysteriously disappears from your iPhone. But don’t fret–here’s why it goes away, and how easy it is to get it back."
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This Day In History: 10 October
1845: The U.S. Naval Academy is founded at Annapolis, Md.
1863: The first telegraph line to Denver is completed.
1877: Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer is buried at West Point in New York.
1946 Birthday: Ben Vereen, actor (Roots miniseries).
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Florida:
1513: Ponce de Leon explored Florida
1564: French Huguenots established Fort Caroline on St. John River
1565: Spanish settled St. Augustine
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