Coming Events:
Monday:
January 2, 2017Jewish Genealogy SIG Meeting:
10:00 AM in the MacArthur Room at the Eisenhower Recreation Center
Topic: "Finding Relatives in Surprising Ways"
Guest: Mike Schwartz, Jewish Genealogical Society of New Jersey
Wednesday: January 4, 2017
French Canadian Genealogy SIG Meeting:
9:00 AM in the Julio Iglesias Room
at the La Hacienda Recreation Center
Thursday: January 5, 2017
Eastern European Genealogy SIG Meeting:
1:00 PM in the Daytona Room at the
Sea Breeze Recreation Center
Friday: January 6, 2017
British Genealogy SIG Meeting
9:30 AM in the Courageous Room at
the Lake Miona Recreation Center
"Sometimes you might inherit photographs from family members that have passed away and not know who they are. My father inherited a box of old photographs from his grandmother, the problem is he doesn’t know who most of the really old ones are. When I scanned them all on to my computer I started to wonder who they were. So I tried to find ways of figuring out who they were. I’ll start with this photo of a family."
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"There are lots of tools out there for taking screenshots in Windows. However, you may not need to install a third party app. Snipping Tool, included in Windows Vista and later, allows you to take screenshots, as well as edit and annotate them."
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1852: The richest year of the gold rush ends with $81.3 million in gold produced.
1911: Helene Dutrieu wins the Femina aviation cup in Etampes. She sets a distance record for women at 158 miles.
1910 Deaths: John B. Moisant and Arch Hoxsey, two of America’s foremost aviators, die in separate plane crashes.
New Hampshire:
1722: Manchester settled
1739-41: Eastern and southern borders with Massachusetts settled
1890: Twenty granite quarries employed 1000
1935: Amoskeag Mills in Manchester closed
Figuring Out Who Is In Old Photo’s:
Family Tree Tips"Sometimes you might inherit photographs from family members that have passed away and not know who they are. My father inherited a box of old photographs from his grandmother, the problem is he doesn’t know who most of the really old ones are. When I scanned them all on to my computer I started to wonder who they were. So I tried to find ways of figuring out who they were. I’ll start with this photo of a family."
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How to Use the Snipping Tool in Windows to Take Screenshots:
How-to-Geek"There are lots of tools out there for taking screenshots in Windows. However, you may not need to install a third party app. Snipping Tool, included in Windows Vista and later, allows you to take screenshots, as well as edit and annotate them."
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This Day In History: 31 December
1775: George Washington orders recruiting officers to accept free blacks into the army.1852: The richest year of the gold rush ends with $81.3 million in gold produced.
1911: Helene Dutrieu wins the Femina aviation cup in Etampes. She sets a distance record for women at 158 miles.
1910 Deaths: John B. Moisant and Arch Hoxsey, two of America’s foremost aviators, die in separate plane crashes.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.New Hampshire:
1722: Manchester settled
1739-41: Eastern and southern borders with Massachusetts settled
1890: Twenty granite quarries employed 1000
1935: Amoskeag Mills in Manchester closed
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