VGS Latest News & Tips: 17 February 2017

Reminders:
Today: February 17, 2017

Scandinavian Genealogy SIG Meeting

10:00 AM in the Clearwater Room Sea Breeze Recreation Center
Topic: "Arkivverket - The Norwegian Online Digital Archive."

Gen News:

6 Reasons You Should Join Or Start A One Name Study:

Family Tree Tips

"If you’ve ever stumbled across an unusual name in your research and ended up whacking it in to Google then you’ve probably come across The Guild Of One Name Studies (Goons). If not, it’s a Website that offers a different outlook to the conventional Family Tree."
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New Free App to Help Visitors in Dublin Trace Their Irish Ancestors:

Ancestor Network
"Ancestor Network, Ireland’s leading provider of professional genealogy and probate research, has just released at RootsTech 2017 a free, new and interactive Irish Genealogy Research App; Your Dublin Map Guide to Irish Genealogy and History Sources. This ‘Ancestor Network’ App displays a list of the leading Dublin-based libraries, archives, research centres, historic sites and museums."
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OraSure Settles Lawsuit With Ancestry.com Over DNA Testing:

Business Circle

"Genealogy website Ancestry.com has agreed to pay Bethlehem-based OraSure Technologies Inc. and its Canadian subsidiary DNA Genotek $12.5 million to settle claims it stole patented DNA testing technology to produce its own saliva-based DNA test."

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Tech:

How to Optimize Your iPhone’s Music Storage to Automatically Free Up Space:

How-to-Geek
"Despite the increasing storage size of each generation of iPhones and other iOS devices, it’s really easy to stuff them full. If your storage management problem is a result of too much music, there’s a new feature introduced in iOS 10 that makes it easy to optimize your storage and free up space."
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How to Restart Windows’ Explorer.exe (Along with the Taskbar and Start Menu):

How-to-Geek
"If your Taskbar, System Tray, or Start menu acts up, you might be tempted to restart your PC. Instead, you can usually just restart Windows Explorer—and Windows makes it pretty easy."
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Education:
Granite Mountain Records Vault, Part 2 - FamilySearch Genealogy Records:
YouTube

"Understand the technologies and processes used to "unlock" the collections of genealogy records preserved in the Granite Mountain Records Vault. This video explains how records stored in microfilm and other formats are digitized, indexed, and published online in a searchable format, where they can be accessed by researchers around the world at http://www.familysearch.org."
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