VGS Latest News & Tips: 22 December 2016

Our Annual All-Day Seminar is Sold Out!

Wow! Our annual seminar in February is sold out!!!  This is by far the quickest we have sold all available tickets.  We currently are accepting a limited number of waiting list registrations and there are some names already on that list. For more information about the seminar or the waiting list, contact the seminar registrar HERE

A Guide To Manchester & Lancashire Genealogical Research:

Family Tree Tips
"A lot of my personal research has been around the Manchester and Lancashire area. So I’ve used a lot of sources in my research, these “Extra” resources used along with the usual suspects (Ancestry, FamilySearch etc.) can yield some very colourful results."
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Help Make the FamilySearch Blog Better:

FamilySearch
"To make it easier for you to find these resources, we are reorganizing and simplifying our blog categories. Can you help us?"
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New Historic Records On FamilySearch: Week of December 12, 2016:

FamilySearch
"Major additions have been made to record collections in Ireland as well as the Find A Grave index. New indexed records were also added to the Freedmen's Bureau collection."
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How to Replace 5 Major Yahoo Services and then Delete your Yahoo Account:

Privacy Blog
"This is a follow-up to yesterday’s article of Hackers Breach a Billion Yahoo Accounts at https://goo.gl/BgVMPZ. If you have had enough with Yahoo’s multiple security problems, you might want to take action now. Ian Paul has written a guide to replacing Yahoo’s major services with alternative options, then deleting your Yahoo account."
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How to See Other Devices Logged in to Your Google Account:

How-to-Geek
"Feel like you forgot to log out of Gmail on your friend’s computer? Google makes it easy to see all the devices—laptop, phone, tablet, and otherwise—logged into your Google account. You can view both a list of IP addresses that have accessed it, and a list of devices that have actively used your account in the last 28 days."
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This Day In History: 22 December

1807: Congress passes the Embargo Act, which halts all trading completely. It is hoped that the act will keep the United States out of the European Wars.
1829: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad opens the first passenger railway line.
1918: The last of the food restrictions, enforced because of the shortages during World War I, are lifted.
1921 Birthday: Hawkshaw Hawkins (Harold Hawkins), country singer; he died along with country stars Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas when the small plane that was carrying them crashed in 1963.

State Timelines:

Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Missouri:
1860: Pony Express began in St. Joseph
1874: Eads Bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis opened
1904: St. Louis hosted World's Fair & first Olympic games