Monday, December 5, 2016

VGS Latest News & Tips: 5 December 2016

Today: December 5, 2016
Jewish Genealogy SIG Meeting:10:00 AM in the MacArthur Room at the Eisenhower Recreation Center
Topic: "Navigating JewishGen - Family Finder and Town Finder"

USC To Store, Digitize 10,000 Vintage Marine Corps Films:

The State
"For most of the 20th Century, the Marine Corps archived film footage of that recruit training along with Marines fighting in wars, including World War II, the Korean and Vietnam wars and various public relations activities."
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Genealogy DNA Test Now Available for the Lowest Price We’ve Ever Seen:

Family History Daily
"Family Tree DNA, a leader in genetic testing for genealogy, has temporarily dropped the price of its Family Finder test to the lowest we’ve ever seen for an autosomal test for this purpose – $59. You can find the deal here." 
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Closing Death Records — The Logical Flaw:

RPAC
"One of the misconceptions with which we have repeatedly had to wrestle in recent years has been that ALL Personally Identifiable Information (PII) by default must be safeguarded.  For many legislators in recent years, it is almost a reflexive belief that the best or only way to fight identify thieves is to close the records that thieves might have used.  At this level of thinking, rarely do current decision-makers distinguish between the active PII of the living from records of deceased individuals."
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Hero Lost at Pearl Harbor Comes Home After Years in an Unknown Grave:

National Geographic
"Thanks to the tireless efforts of a comrade and the military’s use of DNA, family members of a sailor who died nearly 75 years ago are getting closure."
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The American Civil War: Brother against Brother:

Brotmanblog
"One of the most puzzling things to me about that 1856 passenger ship manifest for the ship that brought my great-great-grandfather Gerson Katzenstein and his family to America was the entry for a sixteen year old boy named Heinemann Mansbach."
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Where Are My Outlook PST Data Files, and How Can I Move Them Somewhere Else?

How-to-Geek
"Most people know that Outlook stores email for each account in a personal table storage (PST) file, but figuring out where that file is located depends on what version of Outlook you’re using. Here’s where Outlook stores your files and how you can move them if you need to."
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This Day In History: 5 December

1861: Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna.
1909: George Taylor makes the first manned glider flight in Australia in a glider that he designed himself.
1921: The British empire reaches an accord with the Irish revolutionary group the Sinn Fein; Ireland is to become a free state.
1791 Death: Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna.

State Timelines:

Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Maryland:
1649: Colony granted rights to anyone affirming belief in the Trinity
1671: Slavery encouraged
1729: Baltimore established
1776: Becomes one of the thirteen original states

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