VGS Latest News & Tips: 3 February 2017

Reminders:
Today: February 3, 2017

British Genealogy SIG Meeting

9:30 AM in the Courageous Room at the Lake Miona Recreation Center

Gen News:

Navajo Nation Library To Digitize 1960s Oral History Archive:

Library Journal
"The Navajo Nation Library (NNL) is working to secure the funding necessary to digitize and catalog thousands of hours of stories, songs, and oral histories of the Navajo people, originally recorded in the 1960s by the Navajo Culture Center of the Office of Navajo Economic Opportunity (ONEO)."
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What To Do Once You Have Your Dna Test Results:

Family Tree Tips
"So you’ve just received your chosen DNA Tests results. Now what? A lot of people don’t realise that you can do a lot more with the raw test results than what is shown on any of the sites that test DNA."
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How to Opt Out of the Most Popular People Search Sites:

Lifehacker

"Genealogy site Family Tree Now made waves when people discovered it can be used to look up almost anyone’s personal information, even if they’d never heard of the site before. Addresses, family members, and known associates are free for anyone to find. Here’s how to protect yourself from Family Tree Now, Whitepages, Spokeo, and other popular free people search engines just like it."

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Tech:

How to Set Up the Luma Home Wi-Fi System:

How-to-Geek
"If your home’s Wi-Fi signal is not the greatest, you might be looking at mesh solutions like the Luma Home Wi-Fi System. Luma consists of multiple Wi-Fi extenders that you spread across your house in order to cover every nook and cranny with an excellent Wi-Fi signal. Here’s how to set it all up and how to configure it to deliver the best Wi-Fi possible all around your home."
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What Is Snapchat?

How-to-Geek
"Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve probably heard someone mention the social network/chat app Snapchat. Depending on how you measure things, it’s now more popular than Twitter and Pinterest, with only Facebook and Instagram having more users daily. The difference is that most of Snapchat’s users are millennials and teens, so it’s flown under the radar of a lot of older internet users."
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Education:

Irish Genealogy - Part 6 - Irish Records

Finding Grandpa
"This is part 6 in a series of 9 videos called "Building the Bridge Back to Ireland". Using various websites to find documents that might show where in Ireland your ancestors are from, and where to look once you get "across the pond"."
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Conferences:

International German Genealogy Partnership Conference:

IGGP

The website for the International German Genealogy Partnership (IGGP) has just gone live at www.IGGPartner.org.  As of February 1 the registration is open for its first international conference in Minneapolis, July 28-30 on line.  As a VGS member we enjoy the early bird discounted rate of $225 until April 1, but early sign-ups are recommended due to the high interest shown worldwide for this first-ever conference