VGS Latest News & Tips: 24 January 2017

Reminders:
Tomorrow: January 25, 2017

Brick Wall SIG Meeting

8:30 AM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center

Tomorrow: January 25, 2017

General Monthly Meeting

10:00 AM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center

Guest Speaker: Drew Smith
Topic: "Organizing Your Genealogy Files and Correspondence."
"Overwhelmed with too many paper documents, digital files, and email messages? Learn to organize these so that you'll quickly find just the one you need."

Gen News:

An Intimate Look at Life During the Great Depression:

Ancestry

"For many Americans, Dorthea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” photo is the defining image of the Great Depression. But it’s just one of over 170,000 commissioned by the U.S. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information during the 1930s and early 1940s. Meant to boost public support for FDR’s rehabilitation initiatives after the Great Depression, the FSA-OWI hired photographers such as Lange and Walker Evans to visit poor rural farmers and document their hardships."
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Calling HOGWASH on 23andMe’s Ancestry Timeline:

DNAeXplained
"Every now and then, I’m aghast when I look at a product and wonder how the devil it ever escaped the lab.  Is there no quality control?  And who thought it was a good idea, anyway, and why?
23andMe’s new Ancestry Timeline, released last week, is one of those."
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Keep Sharing Small Bites!

The Finlay Family
"No one in my family is interested in our genealogy.
I don’t know what will happen to all of my research after I die… no one else cares about it.
These types of statements break my heart! Over the years I have had my own doubts about anyone else in my family sharing my same love for our ancestors. But, I have come to a conclusion:"
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Tech:

How to Use Facebook’s Search to Find Anyone or Anything:

How-to-Geek
"When you think of Facebook, search probably isn’t the first thing to come to mind. And to be fair, for a long time Facebook’s search function was pretty terrible.
That’s not the case anymore, though."
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How to Download Wikipedia for Offline, At-Your-Fingertips Reading:

How-to-Geek
"Have you ever wished you could download Wikipedia in its entirety, and have a copy of it on your personal computer or Android tablet? There’s actually an easy way to do this, though you will need some extra disk space and a little time."
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Education:

5 Minute Find: Clues from the Graveyard

Ancestry
"Cemeteries are a great place to find birth and death dates of your ancestors. Spend Five Minutes with Juliana Szucs Smith and discover other clues you might be missing."
Watch video... 4.53 minutes