Thursday, January 5, 2017

VGS Latest News & Tips: 5 January 2017

Reminders:
Today: January 5, 2017
Eastern European Genealogy SIG Meeting:
1:00 PM in the Daytona Room at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center
Tomorrow: January 6, 2017
British Genealogy SIG Meeting
9:30 AM in the Courageous Room at the Lake Miona Recreation Center

Gen News:

New Record Collections:

Ancestry
Germany and Surrounding Areas, Address Books, 1829-1974
This database is a collection of city address books for select cities in Germany and surrounding areas for the years 1829-1974.
TOTAL RECORDS: 10,558,225   View this collection

Hesse, Germany, Deaths, 1851-1955
This collection contains death records and name directories from Hesse in Germany.
TOTAL RECORDS: 5,629,826   View this collection

Ohio, County Marriages, 1774-1993
This collection consists of county marriage records from various counties in Ohio.
TOTAL RECORDS: 18,873,749   View this collection

Indiana, Marriages, 1810-2001
This collection includes marriage records from Indiana.
TOTAL RECORDS: 11,859,180   View this collection

New Historic Records On FamilySearch: Week of December 19, 2016:

FamilySearch
"New historic church records from Bolivia, Ecuador, and England are now available along with cemetery, census, civil registration, and probate records from Africa, South America, and France. Search these free historic records and more at FamilySearch by clicking on the links in the interactive tables."
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Tipperary Studies Releases Gravestone Inscriptions For 62 Burial Grounds:

Irish Genealogy News
"Digitisation has been carried over the last several months and has resulted in a wonderful package of graveyard inscriptions covering no less than 62 burial grounds in North Tipperary and the parishes of Killenaule and Moyglass. These are now available as a library of downloadable parish-by-parish pdfs (most of them seem to be 1.5 to 4Mb)."
Go to their website...

Tech:

Do LED Light Bulbs Really Last 10 Years?

How-to-Geek
"LED bulbs are bit a more expensive than other types of light bulbs, but they claim to last a lot longer. But do LED bulbs actually last the 10 years that many manufacturers claim?"
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How Do Outlook and Outlook.com Relate?

Ask Leo
"The short answer is, they don’t. Not at all. They have only two things in common: they’re both related to email, and have the word “Outlook” in their names."
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Education:

5 Minute Find: Wife Hunting:

Ancestry
"Ways to find the maiden name of your ancestor:."
Watch video...  3.43 minutes

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