VGS Latest News & Tips: 22 February 2017

Reminders:

Today: February 22, 2017

Annual All-Day Seminar

9:00 AM at the La Hacienda Recreation Center

Doors Open at 8:15 a.m.

This event is sold out and you must have a reservation to attend.

Note: There is no regular monthly meeting in February and there is no Brick Wall SIG meeting prior to the seminar.

Gen News:

It’s Complicated: Unique Relationships in Historical Records

FamilySearch
"Each of us has plenty of these messy relationships in our family tree. Sometimes the juicy details get lost in the abyss of history, but other times family stories that offer glimpses into our ancestors’ complicated relationships survive."
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OldNews USA Wins Top Honors at RootsTech 2017 Innovator Showdown:

FamilySearch
"Old news, it seems, is actually “new” news. Very innovative news in fact. Today at RootsTech, the world’s largest family history technology conference, OldNews USA took top honors in the 2017 Innovator Showdown, walking away with $95,000 in cash and in-kind prizes."
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TLC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” Returns March 5:

Ancestry
"Get ready for a brand new season of TLC’s hit show “Who Do You Think You Are?” with an inspiring celebrity lineup that includes film and TV stars Jessica Biel, Courteney Cox, Jennifer Grey, John Stamos, Liv Tyler, Noah Wyle, Julie Bowen and music icon Smokey Robinson."
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Tech:

How to Get Rid of AVG’s Notifications and Bundled Software:

How-to-Geek
"AVG Antivirus includes browser extensions, notifications, and other features sure to distract you. If you just want an antivirus to silently protect your system in the background, here’s how to slim AVG down."
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How to Disable and Edit Safari’s AutoFill on macOS and iOS:

How-to-Geek
"Safari’s AutoFill will automatically complete information for contacts, passwords, credit cards and more. Today we’re going to discuss how to turn off or edit those AutoFill entries on macOS and iOS."
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Education:

5 Ways To Tell If Your Genealogy Research Is Accurate:

Ancestral Findings
"There is a lot of guesswork and uncertainty in genealogy. People in the past may have put the wrong information on old records, either from genuinely not knowing, or from having something they wanted to hide. Mistakes can be made in transcriptions of documents from one location to another; even tombstones are known to sometimes have mistakes on them from the stone cutter."
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