Thursday, February 23, 2017

VGS Latest News & Tips: 23 February 2017

Gen News:

Does Distance Make the Heart Grow Fonder? 

Ancestry
"With modern technology like dating apps, quick cross-country flights, FaceTime and more, it’s easy for us to find our soulmate across the country, or even across the world.  For Valentine’s Day, the team at Ancestry did a little digging into the history of international –or even just inter-county– couples to discover that over time, couples’ birth locations are becoming farther apart."
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DNA Transfers To Family Tree DNA Are Back!

Kitty Cooper
"You can upload your DNA test results from Ancestry.comand/or 23andme to Family Tree DNA again! You get a free look and then can pay a mere $19 to get all the tools and information."
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Locating DNA Results:

Ancestry
I recently got a question regarding where a person could find their DNA results. It's very easy. Follow these instructions...
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Tech:

How to Cancel or Delete a Stuck Print Job in Windows:

How-to-Geek
"Sometimes, documents you’re printing get stuck in the printer’s queue, preventing further documents from being printed. Here’s how to fix it when that happens."
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How to Pin and Unpin Tabs in Chrome and Firefox with a Keyboard Shortcut:

How-to-Geek
"If you tend to open a lot of tabs in your browser, it can become difficult to find the tabs with your most used websites. Pinning tabs in your browser moves those tabs to the left and shrinks the tabs to only show the favicon, and you can do it with a simple right-click."
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Education:

Drawing Those Hesitant Relatives into Your Family Tree Research:

Ancestral Findings
"Are your relatives reluctant to help with your quest for family history information? Join me today on the Ancestral Findings Podcast and I’ll give you some great tips to get them on board the search train today!"
Listen now... 5.27 minutes

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