VGS Latest News & Tips: 30 November 2016

Tomorrow: December 1, 2016

Eastern European Genealogy SIG Meeting:

1:00 PM in the Daytona Room at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center

Google’s new PhotoScan will Scan Your Photos and Automatically Remove Imperfections, No Scanner Needed:

Dick Eastman: eogn.com
"PhotoScan is a new smartphone app used to “take a picture of your pictures.” That is, it will snap photos of all those old pictures you have stored in photo albums or in Fotomat envelopes. It will then create enhanced digital scans, with automatic edge detection, perspective correction, and smart rotation. Even better, it also automatically recognizes the four corners of the frame and displays circular overlays on each corner of the scanned image."
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Legacy Tip - How To Create A Relationship Chart

LFT
Legacy Family Tree's Relationship Chart shows how two people are related. It's is a very simple process to complete  this chart. Most genealogy software have similar features.
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Genealogy Products And Services Market : Increasing Number Of Social Media Users To Play Crucial Role In Driving Demand For Genealogy Products And Services:

Military Technologies
"DNA tests are providing a lucrative market to the genealogy products and services. There are many other driving factors for the growth of this market, which include continuous innovations in technology, rapidly increasing interest towards genealogy, and increasing usage of social networking sites worldwide. "
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Researching the Past to Ensure a Healthy Future:

FamilySearch
"This year my business partner and I founded a production company that creates short documentary films commissioned by families and individuals. Being a documentary filmmaker has given me the opportunity to meet so many incredible people and hear their inspiring stories. Among the numerous stories that I have been fortunate enough to document, one in particular hit close to home: the film about my younger sister, Liora, and her courageous journey as a BRCA gene carrier."
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How to Fix Windows Update When It Gets Stuck:

How-to-Geek
"Windows Update is supposed to work silently in the background, but it may refuse to continue if it can’t install an individual update."
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This Day In History: 30 November

1861: The British Parliament sends to Queen Victoria an ultimatum for the United States, demanding the release of two Confederate diplomats who were seized on the British ship Trent.
1919: Women cast votes for the first time in French legislative elections.
1835 Birthday: Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), American writer best remembered for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
1900 Death: Oscar Wilde dies in a Paris hotel room after saying of the room’s wallpaper: “One of us had to go.”

State Timelines:

Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Louisiana:
1803: Part of the Louisiana Purchase
1805: Loisiana divided into 12 counties
1807: Orleans Territory divided into 19 parishes