VGS Latest News & Tips: 27 February 2017

Reminders:

Today: February 27, 2017

Technology SIG Meeting:

10:00 AM in the Destin Room at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center
Topic: "Managing Your Computer files: Making Sense of the Chaos."

Gen News:

RootsChat is the Largest Free Family History Forum Site in the UK:

RootsChat
"RootsChat is a community of people who help each other with their family history. It has many millions of postings and hundreds of thousands of members worldwide.
The idea is simple. You ask your question, and others try and answer it for you. It is totally free."
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Validating Old Place Names That No Longer Exist:

FamilyTreeTips
"Often when looking for ancestors, you will come across a place name that you don’t recognise and when you try to look it up, it doesn’t exist anymore." Now what?
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DNA Shared Between Two People Checklist:

FamilyTreeTips
"Whether you are looking up the percentage you share between a known relationship or have just got back your DNA results and want to know what the possible relationships are between you and your matches the checklist below will help you figure out the possibilities."
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Tech:

The Complete Guide to Mastering Tabs in Google Chrome:

How-to-Geek
"You like tabs, we like tabs. Tabs are the coolest thing to happen to web browsers since private browsing and bookmark syncing, but just how much of a tab guru are you?"
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How to Change the Firefox’s Default Search Engine Back to Google:

How-to-Geek
"The Search box to the right of the address bar in Firefox allows you to quickly search the web without opening a search engine website on a tab. Yahoo is now the default search engine when you install Firefox, but that’s easily changed."
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Education:

Modern Genealogical Problems and How to Solve Them:

Ancestral Findings
"Some genealogical issues are more prevalent in modern times than they were in the past. In today’s episode of the Ancestral Findings Podcast, I’ll give you some ways you can get past these issues in your research."
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