VGS Latest News & Tips: 13 December 2016

Today: December 13, 2016 (Note date change...)

Mid-Atlantic States SIG Meeting

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

Topic: "Maryland Research"

Today: December 13, 2016

Genealogy Writers SIG Meeting

2:30 PM in the Churchill Downs Room in the Pimlico Recreation Center

Tomorrow: December 14, 2016

Irish Genealogy SIG Meeting

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

Genealogy Changed Dramatically in 2016. I Can Prove It:

Clue Wagon
"If you’re wondering why most of your DNA matches don’t have trees or a list of surnames or any of the other standard genealogical icebreakers, I have the answer. It’s because they did DNA first. The fastest DNA growth is at AncestryDNA, and most people who test at AncestryDNA are not genealogists (yet)."
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7 Surprising Genealogy Mistakes Even the Pros Make:

My Canvas
"When just beginning the genealogy journey, there are common pitfalls new genealogist need to watch out for. However, there are mistakes that can catch even pro genealogists unless they are careful. Are you making any of these surprising genealogy mistakes in your family history research?"
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From Day Laborer to Poet: The Struggles of an Italian Immigrant in the City of Dreams:

Ancestry
"When Pasquale D’Angelo arrived in New York in April 1910 from Introdacqua, a mountainous village eighty miles east of Rome in the Abruzzi region of central Italy, he discovered that life in America as a day laborer would not be as easy as he had imagined."
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John Iron Moccasin, The Story of a Sioux Man:

DNAeXplained
"Occasionally, the project administrators of the American Indian project are presented with a rare opportunity to test an individual who is either full-blooded Native or nearly so. Recently, a Native Sioux man, John Iron Moccasin, born Earl White Weasel, stepped forward."
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How to Stop Microsoft Edge’s Pop-up Notifications:

How-to-Geek
"Microsoft is now more aggressively pushing taskbar and action center ads for Microsoft Edge. These are just one of the many types of advertising in Windows 10. Here’s how to make Edge stop nagging you."
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This Day In History: 13 December

1814: General Andrew Jackson announces martial law in New Orleans, Louisiana, as British troops disembark at Lake Borne, 40 miles east of the city.
1951: After meeting with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, President Harry S. Truman vows to purge all disloyal government workers.
1972: Astronaut Gene Cernan climbs into his lunar lander on the moon and prepares to lift off. He is the last man to set foot on the moon.
11818 Birthday: Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.

State Timelines:

Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Michigan:
1837: Admitted to the Union
1842: Cooper mining began in Keweenaw Peninsula
1845: State's first iron ore mining began in Negaunee at New York docks
1852: Michigan Central Railroad opened in Chicago