VGS Reminders: 7-11 November 2016

Reminder: November 12, 2016

20th Annual Central Florida Family History Conference.

You must be pre-registered to attend this event.
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The bus leaves Walmart on Route 441 at 7:20 a.m. sharp!
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Monday: November 7, 2016
Jewish Genealogy SIG Meeting:
10:00 AM in the MacArthur Room at the Eisenhower Recreation Center
Topic: Resources for Jewish Genealogy
Tuesday: November 8, 2016
Genealogy Writers SIG Meeting

This meeting has been cancelled due to Election Day

Wednesday: November 9, 2016

Irish Genealogy SIG Meeting

10:00 AM in the Osceola Room at the Chula Vista Recreation Center

Thursday: November 10, 2016

German Genealogy SIG Meeting

9:30 AM in the Reliance Room at the Late Miona Recreation Center

Topic: Member stories of "Big Breakthroughs" or "Climbing Brickwalls"

Upcoming Free Webinar:

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Library Wants Your Help Decoding Thousands of Civil War Telegrams:

Real Clear Life
"A California library wants your help in sifting through, transcribing, and decoding thousands of Civil War–era documents. The Huntington Library has launched a crowdsourcing project to attempt to crack 15,971 Civil War–era telegrams—including 100 to and from President Abraham Lincoln himself."
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Nine Kinds of Ancestor Death Records You Should Look For:

GenealogyInsider
"Genealogists start with death—meaning that we generally research ancestors from their deaths and moving back in time. But death-record searches can be challenging for several reasons, including when relatives died before statewide vital record-keeping or their names were recorded oddly. "
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Our Stories: Mysteries From Beyond The Grave:

MyHeritage
"Since joining MyHeritage a few years ago, Jean Park has encountered some incredible surprises. After believing that her mother was an only child, it was a revelation to discover that, in reality, she had an entire family branch she never knew existed."
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Ancestry.com Releases We’re Related App:

Ancestry Insider
"Ancestry.com has released a new smartphone app: “We’re Related.” The app appears squarely aimed at capitalizing on social media to spread interest in genealogy in general and Ancestry in particular. Ancestry has tried to do this before. Somehow, sharing census documents hasn’t proven to be a big draw. But they’ve always understood that people are jazzed to find they are related to some big celebrity. Enter: We’re Related."
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How to Sync Your Mac’s Desktop and Documents to Other Devices with iCloud:

How-to-Geek
"Over time, your Mac has inevitably amassed a lot of files in the Desktop and Documents folders. If you have more than one Mac, you can now share them easily over iCloud, and you can also access these files anywhere, on any device."
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This Day In History: 5 November

1872: Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote.
1911: Calbraith P. Rodgers ends first transcontinental flight–49 days from New York to Pasadena, Calif.
1917: General John Pershing leads U.S. troops into the first American action against German force.
1913 Birthday: Vivien Leigh, British actress famous for her role as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind.

State Timelines:

Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Idaho:
1890: Idaho admitted to the Union
1896: Clashes between cattlemen and sheep herders
1906: Largest saw mill in the U.S. established in Oitlach