VGS Latest News & Tips: 9 February 2017

Reminders:
Today: 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"

Tomorrow: February 10, 2017

Genetic Genealogy SIG Meeting

10:00 AM in the Rhett Butler Room at the Savannah Center
Topic: "DNA Show & Tell"

Gen News:

Websites To Help You Find Old Local Maps:

Family Tree Tips
"Whilst it’s great learning about your ancestors, a lot of people neglect to learn about the places they lived or even the land they they might have owned or worked on. The majority of us will have ancestors that lived and worked in rural areas, be it in the United Kingdom, Europe or the USA. There are websites dedicated to preserving and displaying old local maps."
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How to Build a Genealogy Research Plan: 

Amy Johnson Crow
 "A research plan is more than a to-do list. It’s a way of approaching a genealogy problem and working out a way to solve it."
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37 Million Online Obituaries Available from FamilySearch!

Ancestor Hunt 
"All but 2 collections have searchable indexes, and there are collections with images from newspapers, images from index card transcriptions only, and collections that are indexes only."
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Tech:

How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space:

How-to-Geek
"Apple offers 5 GB of free iCloud space to everyone, but you’ll run up against that storage limit sooner than you’d think. Device backups, photos, documents, iCloud email, and other bits of data all share that space.  If you have multiple iOS devices, you’ll run out even faster."
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How to Control What Other People Can See About Your Google Profile:

How-to-Geek
"If you use any Google services—Gmail, Drive, Photos, Google+, etc.—then you undoubtedly have a Google Profile. When you set up your Gmail account, you included information about yourself, like your name, birthday, and even places you’ve lived. If you haven’t taken the necessary steps to ensure this information stays private, then it could be out there for the whole world to see."
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Education:

How to do Custom Searches with Google for Genealogists: Part Two Filters:

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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