VGS Latest News & Tips: 8 February 2017

Reminders:
Today: February 8, 2017

Irish Genealogy SIG Meeting

10:00 AM in the Osceola Room at the Chula Vista Recreation Center

Tomorrow: February 9, 2017

German Genealogy SIG Meeting

9:30 AM in the Reliance Room at the Late Miona Recreation Center

Topic: Ken Weaver of the Southwest Florida German Genealogy Society will present: "Getting Through that !@#@!? German Handwriting"

Gen News:

9,686 Nazi SS Commanders & Auschwitz Guards Names & Photos Posted Online:

Genealogy Blog
"The Polish Institute of National Remembrance (INR) has posted the names of nearly 10,000 Nazi SS commanders and guards who helped in the extermination of more than a million Jews at Auschwitz. It’s been claimed that many of the guards were Poles – and the INR set about disproving this theory."
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Disposessing Loyalists and Redistributing Property in Revolutionary New York:

NY Public Library
"The American Revolution was a civil war. It may have given rise to a republic in which the foundation for government legitimacy is a democratic citizenry offering its voluntary consent to law. But that was the hard-won outcome of a violent conflict during which loyalty to the Revolutionary cause was often coerced at bayonet point. Revolutionary governments likewise met non-allegiance with punitive measures. The lingering effects of coercive state policies enacted in the 1770s and early 1780s muddled the transition to consensual government. Nothing makes this clearer than the widespread seizure of property owned by known loyalists."
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What Sources You Should Be Looking At In 15th-17th Century English Research:

Family Tree Tips
"Most people can trace their tree back to at least the 1800s using conventional methods such as Birth/Marriage/Death and Census records but not many realise they can go back a lot further than this using other record collections. Most records still need a visit to an Archive especially older more specialist ones as they aren’t often digitised, and when they are they haven’t always been transcribed to be searchable."
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Tech:

How to Take Good Travel Photos:

How-to-Geek
"Whether you want to document a family holiday or aspire to shoot for National Geographic, there are some simple things you can do to take better travel photos."
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How to Take a Screenshot of an Entire Webpage:

How-to-Geek
"A simple screenshot is great for capturing what’s immediately visible on your monitor, but what if you need to capture an entire webpage? Here are three simple ways you can capture a long web page as one continuous image and, in the process, preserve it exactly as it appears to the viewer."
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Education:

How to do Custom Searches with Google for Genealogists: Part One Introduction:

Genealogy's Star
"As genealogists, our basic activity is the process of searching for information about our ancestors. This process centers on historical documents and records. Because our families very likely moved from one place to another, to find these historical documents and records we are compelled to do wide searches in a large number of repositories, archives, and libraries."
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