VGS Latest News & Tips: 14 November 2016

Today: November 14, 2016

Family Tree Maker Uses SIG Meeting

1:00 PM in the Patriot Room at the Mulberry Grove Recreation Center

Tomorrow: November 15, 2016

Board of Directors Meeting

9:00 AM at the Pinellas Library

Tomorrow: November 15, 2016

Italian Genealogy SIG Meeting

1:00 PM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center

Upcoming Free Webinars:

Legacy Family Tree
Dating Family Photographs - 1900-1940

November 16:

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Great News! 

The Villages Genealogical Society Special Interest Group "Genealogy Writers" is happy to announce that we now have our own Facebook page. We can use it  to keep in touch between meetings. We will post helpful information relating to writing your family history, book reviews, information about publishing your project, writing prompts, blogs, newsletters and writing classes in the area. We encourage alll of you to make yourself familiar with our page an to contribute to it whenever you are moved to do so. Let's have fun. Let's write! See you on Dec 13th at 2:30 at Pimlico Recreation Center. Thanks. Anne Berg, Annie Harnett
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MyHeritage DNA: Your Questions Answered:

MyHeritage
"Following the recent launch of MyHeritage DNA, we’ve received a lot of positive feedback, and many questions about the new service. Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore brought some of these questions to our attention and others were posted on social media.
We’re delighted to bring you an interview with MyHeritage’s Founder and CEO, Gilad Japhet, who candidly answers the questions and provides more information."
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Genetic Genealogy Ireland 2016 - Six Videos Online:

IGN
"Six lectures presented at the Genetic Genealogy Ireland (GGI) conference last month have joined the online library of lecture videos from the two previous conferences and are now freely available to view on the GGI's YouTube channel."
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Create A Simple Table To Resolve Family History Conflicts:

Tampa Bay Times
"When genealogists think they can't go any further on an ancestral search, they use a tired old saying that they've "hit a brick wall.
Actually, another adage might be more appropriate. Perhaps they just "can't see the forest for the trees."
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How to Add Website Links to the Windows 10 Start Menu:

How-to-Geek
"Windows 10’s Start menu is very customizable. Add website shortcuts to your Start menu and you can quickly access your favorite websites by clicking a tile. This works with Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, or any other browser."
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This Day In History: 14 November

1851: Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick is published in New York.
1882: Billy Clairborne, a survivor of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, loses his life in a shoot-out with Buckskin Frank Leslie.
1910: Lieutenant Eugene Ely, U.S. Navy, becomes the first man to take off in an airplane from the deck of a ship. He flew from the ship Birmingham at Hampton Roads to Norfolk.
1900 Birthday: Aaron Copeland, American composer whose works include Billy the Kidd, Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man.

State Timelines:

Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Kansas:
1827: Fort Leavenworth established
1830: First wagons took the Oregon Trail
1843: First settlement of Kansas City area