VGS Latest News & Tips: 28 November 2016

Today: November 28, 2016

Technology SIG Meeting:

10:00 AM in the Destin Room at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center
Topic: "Auditing Your Genealogy Data" also "An Overview of Scanners"

Save 30% on AncestryDNA:

Ancestry
This offer ends tonight at 11:59 p.m.
$69.00
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New Historic Records on FamilySearch: Week of November 21, 2016:

FamilySearch
"Maybe one of your ancestors is in one of the newly published 1916 Denmark census records, civil registrations from Hungary, Sweden church records, Ohio death, South Carolina birth, or Wyoming obituary records. Search these free records and more at  FamilySearch.org"
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5 More Reasons to Attend RootsTech 2017:

FamilySearch
"RootsTech 2017 is just around the corner. With more than 30,000 people expected to make the trek to Salt Lake City and the Salt Palace Convention Center, RootsTech has quickly grown to become one of the largest and most recognizable genealogy conferences in the world."
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Do You Have Your Great-Great-Great-Grandfather’s Nose?

FamilySearch
"DNA gave you the gift of your mother’s eyes or your father’s hair, your grandmother’s freckles or your grandfather’s nose. It’s fun and sometimes easy to see strong family traits connect the generations."
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English Parish Records: How to Access, Use, and Interpret Them:

FamilySearch
"Presented by Paul Milner Genealogy Vital records can be difficult to find, but the parish registers of England are excellent resources providing information on baptisms, marriages, and burials. They have remarkably good coverage because by law, everyone except Quakers and Jews was required to be married in the Church of England regardless of religious affiliation."
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How to Add Custom Text Shortcuts to iOS:

How-to-Geek
"Typing the same text over and over–email addresses, phone numbers, and so on–can get old. If you find yourself saying the same stuff repeatedly on your iPhone, there’s an easier way. By adding text shortcuts to the system, you can type full sentences with just a few letters."
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This Day In History: 28 November

1868: Mt. Etna in Sicily violently erupts.
1919: Lady Astor is elected the first woman in Parliament.
1925: The forerunner of the Grand Ole Opry, called the WSM Barn Dance, opens in Nashville, Tennessee.
1907 Birthday: Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (The Conformist, Conjugal Love).

State Timelines:

Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Louisiana:
1699: French & French Canadian Catholics migrated into area
1718: New Orleans settled by French Acadians
1751: Missionaries introduced sugar cane