Saturday, February 25, 2017

VGS Reminders: 27 February - 3 March 2017

Annual Seminar 2017-50/50 Volunteers
Thanks to all our volunteers...
Reminders:
Monday: 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."
Wednesday: March 1, 2017
French Canadian Genealogy SIG Meeting:
9:00 AM in the Julio Iglesias Room at the La Hacienda Recreation Center
Thursday: March 2, 2017
Eastern European Genealogy SIG Meeting:
1:00 PM in the Daytona Room at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center
Friday: March 3, 2017
British Genealogy SIG Meeting
9:30 AM in the Courageous Room at the Lake Miona Recreation Center

Gen News:

Distribution Maps of Autosomal Admixtures in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa:

Eupedia
"The following maps were created based on the data from the Dodecad Project and Eurogenes."
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Post-WWI and Post-WWII Immigration to the United States:

Ancestry
"This year, 100 years have passed since the U.S. entered World War I, and 75 years have passed since the U.S. entered World War II with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Each day, more people begin investigating their family’s role in these wars by researching their American soldier."
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7 FamilySearch Record Collections You Shouldn’t Miss:

FamilySearch
"The wealth of records on FamilySearch is constantly growing—sometimes so quickly that even experienced researchers aren’t aware of everything that’s available. There’s no way one article could cover all of FamilySearch’s record collections. Instead, I’ve chosen to highlight a few of the most exciting collections:"
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Tech:

How to Digitize Old Photos with Your Smartphone:

How-to-Geek
"We all have old photos that are important to us. Vacations, family members who are no longer with us, good times in our lives—you know, important stuff. The thing is, pictures fade. The best way to keep these precious memories safe is by digitizing them, and what was once a lengthy process can now be done—with pretty exceptional results—directly from your phone."
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Pluto.TV Brings Channel Surfing to Cord Cutters—for Free:

How-to-Geek
"Five hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, so you’ll literally never be able to watch everything. The real challenge is sorting through everything that you could be watching and deciding what sounds good—like you could in the old days of TV."
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Education:

Things You Should Know Before Using Someone Else’s Research:

Ancestral Findings
"Are you a beginning genealogist? Don't make the same mistakes at the start that I did. In today’s episode, I’ll give you advice to help you make your research solid from the start"
Listen now... 7.30 minutes

Legacy Family Tree Webinars:
LFT

"Apprentices, Indentured Servants, and Redemptioners: White Slavery in America"
"It is frequently assumed that the only enslaved Americans were those brought on the slave ships from Africa. Yet, an estimated one-half of early immigrants came to America as apprentices, indentured servants, and redemptioners."
2:00 p.m. March 1, 2017
Register HERE...

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