Today: December 12, 2016
Tomorrow: December 13, 2016
2:30 PM in the Churchill Downs Room in the Pimlico Recreation Center
Tomorrow: December 13, 2016
Genealogy Writers SIG Meeting
2:30 PM in the Churchill Downs Room in the Pimlico Recreation Center
Upcoming FREE Webinar!
Legacy Family Tree"Tracing Your European Ancestors"
December 16, 2016
“All I Ever Wanted Was To Meet My Biological Family”:
My Heritage"It was only when Joanne Perkins was sitting on the train to Toledo, Ohio on her way to meet her biological family for the very first time that she grasped the significance of this journey. The train was taking her to the family she hadn’t seen since she was eight years old."
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Minor RootsMagic Update (7.2.2.0) Available:
Roots Magic"We have released a new minor update for RootsMagic 7 users, version 7.2.2.0. This update addresses a problem with changes in FamilySearch which caused RootsMagic to display other relatives as spouses and children on the Share Data screen. It also adds a couple of recently dedicated LDS temples."
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Avoid Being Overwhelmed By Your Genealogy Research:
LegacyFamilyTree"How could genealogy possibly be overwhelming? You might be saying to yourself after reading the title of this post, that genealogy is what in fact keeps me from feeling overwhelmed. While genealogy is fun and relaxing, it also challenges us to process a lot more data and information then we may normally encounter. Our brain doesn’t treat genealogy like any other part of our daily life; when it’s overwhelmed, it lets us know. This can make us feel frustrated, defeated, and less interested in genealogy then we once were. So how does someone work to avoid this? Try some of these suggestions to prevent this from happening:"
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The Best Free Ways to Share Photos With Friends and Family (Other Than Facebook):
How-to-Geek"Facebook might be the default platform for sharing photos, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only free and easy to use option out there. Here are some other solid photo sharing options to make it easy to share photos with friends and family the way you want to."
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This Day In History: 12 December
1753: George Washington, the adjutant of Virginia, delivers an ultimatum to the French forces at Fort Le Boeuf, south of Lake Erie, reiterating Britain’s claim to the entire Ohio River valley.1901: Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio transmission in St. John’s Newfoundland.
1985: Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff at Gander, Newfoundland; among the 256 dead are 236 members of the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division.
1745 Birthday: John Jay, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who negotiated treaties for the United States.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.Michigan:
1803: Became part of the Indiana Territory
1805: Michigan Territory organized
1818: Public lands attracted New York & New England settlers
1819: Flint established and six million acres of Indian land ceded to white settlers
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