VGS Latest News & Tips: 24 October 2016

Today: October 24, 2016

Technology SIG Meeting:

10:00 AM at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center
Topic: "Insight into Genealogy Software Programs: Beyond Data Entry"

Genealogy Tip: Always Dig Deeper:
GenealogyBank
"When you find an article about your ancestor, dig deeper – in GenealogyBank each clue can lead you to more details, filling in the stories of your family and saving you valuable research time."
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Review of Gigamons - a Game for Family Time:
Olive Tree Genealogy
"When I first opened Gigamons (from Blue Orange) I thought "Oh it's just a fancier variation of the game of Concentration" I was wrong! It is much more than that."
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Reviews: New Guide to DNA Testing:
Judy G. Russell, The Legal Genealogist
"A winner of a guide to DNA testing. Informative. Understandable. Solid. Highly recommended."
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DNAsleuth-Ann Raymont 
"I give a number of genetic genealogy presentations, as part of the Indiana DNA Central Interest Group, and I can tell you that nearly all of the questions we get at these sessions are answered in this book. It is comprehensive. It is also full of screen captures so you can see in the book what you’ll be looking at online.  And the pages are in color!!! I can’t stress enough how valuable that is in trying to understand this material."
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Geneabloggers: Tom MacEntee
"The “guide” is comprehensive and will help every genealogist no matter what the level of DNA knowledge. From an overview of Genetic Genealogy Basics to advice on select the right test, Bettinger covers all the questions I had about DNA and genealogy."
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Editor's note: I purchased my copy on Kindle; 14.99

How to Change the Windows 10 Logoff, Logon, and Shutdown Sounds in Windows 10:
How-to-Geek
"Before Windows 10 came along, we were free to change the sounds that played when we shut down, logged off, or logged on to Windows. For some reason, Microsoft hid those sound actions from being modified in Windows 10. Here’s how to get them back."
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This Day In History: 24 October
1861: Western Union completes the first transcontinental telegraph line, putting the Pony Express out of business.
1863: General Ulysses S. Grant arrives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to find the Union Army there starving.
1901: Annie Edson Taylor, 43, is the first woman to go safely over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She made the attempt for the cash award offered, which she put toward the loan on her Texas ranch.
1930 Birthday: The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.), singer, songwriter, musician; an early star of rock ‘n’ roll (“Chantilly Lace”), he died in the same plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the pilot, Roger Peterson.

State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Hawaii:
1778: Captain Cook names them the Sandwich Islands and in 1779 he is killed by natives
1782: Kamehameha began campaign to unite islands
1804: Capital moved to Waikiki