Today: October 7, 2016
British Genealogy SIG Meeting
9:30 AM in the Courageous Room at the Lake Miona Recreation Center
6 Funeral Traditions Your Ancestors May Have Had:
FindMyPast
"Funeral traditions vary from family to family and the practice of laying your dead relatives to rest has been around for thousands of years. Many of the funeral traditions your family may practice today were practiced many years ago. The practice and tradition of putting flowers on a grave date back all the way to the Ancient Greek civilization. But there are a few, less common, funeral traditions that many practiced in the past, but seem to have fallen out of tradition since."
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Newspapers Help Identify an Old Family Photo:
GenealogyBank
"I didn’t know that my grandmother’s cousin, Eloise M. Jordan, was the “maid of honor” – and who was Arthur M. Twaddle, the best man? I’ll have to find more information about him."
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6 Websites To Download Copyright Free Images:
123Reg
"No matter if you’re a designer, a programmer or a blogger, you probably need to use photos every day in your projects. While most commercial photos are not so expensive, there are times when you might not want to pay for photos when there are so many sites that offer copyright free images for download."
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Library of Congress Magazine’s Map Issue:
TheMapRoom
"Library of Congress Magazine’s September-October 2016 issue is almost entirely dedicated to maps, with several feature articles on the Library’s map holdings, profiles of Library cartographers, and other map-related items."
Download issue... pdf magazine 30 pages
iOS’ “Define” Feature Is Now “Look Up”, and It Can Do a Lot More:
How-to-Geek
"The “Define” feature in iOS has been renamed to “Look Up” in iOS 10, and has been enhanced to provide more than just definitions. Look Up now presents you with results from the App Store, Apple Music, websites, and Wikipedia."
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This Day In History: 7 October
1765: Delegates from nine of the American colonies meet in New York to discuss the Stamp Act Crisis and colonial response to it.
1913: In attempting to find ways to lower the cost of the automobile and make it more affordable to ordinary Americans, Henry Ford took note of the work of efficiency experts like Frederick Taylor, the “father of scientific management.” The result was the assembly line that reduced the time it took to manufacture a car, from 12 hours to 93 minutes.
1957: A fire in the Windscale plutonium production reactor (later called Sellafield) north of Liverpool, England, spreads radioactive iodine and polonium through the countryside and into the Irish Sea. Livestock in the immediate area are destroyed, along with 500,000 gallons of milk. At least 30, and possibly as many as 1,000, cancer deaths were subsequently linked to the accident.
1849 Death: Edgar Allan Poe, aged 40, dies a tragic death in Baltimore. Never able to overcome his drinking habits, he is found in a delirious condition outside a saloon that was used as a voting place.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
District of Columbia:
1835: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad opened to Washington and the Supreme Court building is completed
1849: Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle" is opened
1862: Slavery abolished
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