Today: October 20, 2016
New England Genealogy SIG Meeting
Noon in the New Smyrna Room at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center
Topic: Webinar: "Get What You Came For" by Tom Kemp
Topic: Webinar: "Get What You Came For" by Tom Kemp
Tomorrow: October 21, 2016
Scandinavian Genealogy SIG Meeting
10:00 AM in the Clearwater Room Sea Breeze Recreation CenterTopic: This month will be an open discussion. Bring your questions to help you get started with your Scandinavian research.
Genealogy News Episode 91:
Geneatopia
Topics:
New DNA Test Living DNA
FamilyTreeDNA Introduces Pedigree View
New Records at FamilySearch and more...
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Civil War Signal Corps:
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"Both the Union and the Confederacy developed an army Signal Corps during the Civil War. The job of the Signal Corps in both the North and South was to quickly and accurately relay information and orders between the commanders of different units within the two forces (which was especially crucial during battles). The main way they did this was through the use of a flag system called wig-wag (not to be confused with semaphore), which was invented by Albert J. Meyer, an army surgeon, shortly before the war."
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Find A Grave Community Weekend Adds 211,655 New Photos:
Ancestry
"The third annual Find a Grave Community Weekend took place on October 7th through October 9th across the globe. Thanks to the hundreds of volunteers across 175 cemeteries who:
- added 211,655 new photos
- fulfilled 8,232 photos requests
- added 203,448 new memorials"
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To the letter: Tracing The Footsteps Of A Victorian Postman:
Ancestry
"Born in Wollaston, a Northamptonshire shoe-making village in 1802, he’d settled in Leicester by the mid 1820s. Invariably he appears in the records as a shoemaker or, in his later years as a shoe warehouseman. His was a working life spent cutting leather, sewing uppers, nailing on soles ¬– one of thousands working in the boot and shoe industry for which Victorian Leicester was renowned.
It all seemed straightforward, until I spotted him in the 1851 census listed as a ‘Letter Deliverer’."
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Collection Spotlight: Matagorda County Texas School Records:
FamilySearch
"Most children, ages 4–5, in the United States attend free public schools beginning with preschool or kindergarten. While newer school records are not available to the public, some older public records created by schools are beginning to become available to researchers. Records kept by teachers may be found at historical societies or..."
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How to Stop Apple Pay from Opening on Your iPhone All the Time:
How-to-Geek
"If you don’t use Apple Pay, there’s no reason you should have to see it on your iPhone’s lock screen every time you accidentally double-click the Home button. Here’s how to turn that shortcut off, while still allowing access to Apple Pay when you need to."
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This Day In History: 20 October
1818: The United States and Britain establish the 49th Parallel as the boundary between Canada and the United States.
1903: The Joint Commission, set up on January 24 by Great Britain and the United States to arbitrate the disputed Alaskan boundary, rules in favor of the United States. The deciding vote is Britain’s, which embitters Canada. The United States gains ports on the panhandle coast of Alaska.
1924: Baseball’s first ‘colored World Series’ is held in Kansas City, Mo.
1931 Birthday: Mickey Mantle, baseball great who played for the New York Yankees
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Georgia:
1776: Became one of the 13 original colonies
1785-1820: Passports issued into Indian lands
1805: First land lottery when Creek Nation ceded land to United States
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