Today: November 2, 2016
French Canadian Genealogy SIG Meeting:
9:00 AM in the Julio Iglesias Room at the La Hacienda Recreation Center
Tomorrow: November 3, 2016
Eastern European Genealogy SIG Meeting:
1:00 PM in the Daytona Room at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center
Upcoming Free Webinar:
Legacy Family Tree
Annual Seminar Update:
Wow! It's only the beginning of November and we have already sold more than half the available seats for our February All-Day Seminar. It's going to be a big event with the one and only Cyndi Ingle, owner and webmaster of Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet.
When: February 22, 2017
Where: La Hacienda Center, The Villages, Florida
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m
Cost: $40.00 Lunch included
Ancestry
"When it comes to historical items and hand-me-downs, we tend to be very cautious. We want to preserve them, honor them and respect them—which often means not using them. But what if we simply displayed them?"
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Families Reunited Thanks To Link From DNA Testing:
Cleveland Daily Banner
"Newfound relatives recently gathered to recount the story of how they found each other using an ancestry website and DNA testing."
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Family Tree DNA and 20th Century Fox Team Up for Historical Adventure:
PR Newswire
"Genetic genealogy pioneers announce exciting partnership with the theatrical release of Assassin's Creed"
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When An Ancestry DNA Green Leaf Is Wrong:
Kitty Cooper
"Ancestry.com does a great job of finding common ancestors between DNA matches when both parties have trees. The layout is easy to navigate, intuitive, and well integrated, but sometimes the WRONG person or couple is shown as providing the shared DNA."
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Why Is My Battery Estimate Never Accurate?
How-to-Geek
"There are two webs. There’s the normal web most people use every day, which is easily accessible and indexed by search engines. And then there’s the “dark web”–hidden websites that won’t show up when you search Google, and can’t be accessed without special software."
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This Day In History: 2 November
1869: Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok loses his re-election bid in Ellis County, Kan.
1880: James A. Garfield is elected the 20th president of the United States.
1920: The first radio broadcast in the United States is made from Pittsburgh.
1734 Birthday: Daniel Boone, American frontiersman and explorer.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Idaho:
1860: Gold discovered near Pierce and first permanent settlement established at Franklin
1860-62: More gold discoveries
1863: Idaho territory established
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