VGS Reminders: 28 November - 2 December 2016

Coming Events:

Monday: 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"

Thursday: December 1, 2016

Eastern European Genealogy SIG Meeting:

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

Friday: December 2, 2016

British Genealogy SIG Meeting

9:30 AM in the Courageous Room at the Lake Miona Recreation Center

Image from our 2016 Annual Seminar

2017 Annual Seminar News Flash:

VGS
Our annual seminar is just over 12 weeks away from today. Here's the News Flash... It's almost sold out! If you plan on attending I suggest that you register today before it's to late.
Download the registration packet from HERE...

Genealogy Intensive™ – The Write Stuff Spring 2017:

Hack Genealogy
"Is “write up all of my years of genealogy research” one of your goals for 2017? Are you looking for more than just the standard genealogy report . . . do you want something that you can publish and share with family? Are you interested in crafting ancestor profiles and allowing their stories to “pop” off the page? Then you need to be a part of The Write Stuff – a Genealogy Intensive™ offering."
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My German Second Cousin’s DNA Results are In!

Kitty Cooper
"Second cousin DNA tests are my favorites. You share enough DNA with a second cousin to be really useful for genetic genealogy. When someone matches your second cousin, you know which of your four pairs of great-grandparents they are related to, so it identifies the family line they are on."
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Building Your Personal Mitochondrial Tree:

DNAeXplained
"People who test at Family Tree DNA and receive mitochondrial DNA full sequence results often have questions about how they can use their results to further their understanding of their ancestors."
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Take Control of Your Smartphone’s Automatic Photo Uploads:

How-to-Geek
"Modern smartphones and cloud photo services want to automatically upload every single photo you take to the cloud. This ensures all those photos you take are safely backed up somewhere, but it isn’t ideal for every single photo. Unfortunately, companies like Apple and Google haven’t gotten that message. Here’s how to control which photos get uploaded, and to where."
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This Day In History: 26 November

1789: George Washington proclaims this a National Thanksgiving Day in honor of the new Constitution. This date was later used to set the date for Thanksgiving.
1825: The Kappa Alpha Society, the second American college Greek-letter fraternity, is founded.
1863: The first National Thanksgiving is celebrated.
1876 Birthday: Willis Haviland Carrier, inventor of the first air conditioning system to control both temperature and humidity.

State Timelines:

Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Kentucky:
1890: Standard Oil Refinery Explosion in Louisville
1901: Gas discovered at Menafee Gas Field
1933: Tennessee Valley Authority began building dams in Kentucky