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Today: March 13, 2017
Family Tree Maker Uses SIG Meeting
1:00 PM in the Patriot Room at the Mulberry Grove Recreation Center
Tomorrow: March 14, 2017
Genealogy Writers SIG Meeting
2:30 PM in the Churchill Downs Room in the Pimlico Recreation Center
Topic: “Compiling a Book of Your Descendants.”
2:30 PM in the Churchill Downs Room in the Pimlico Recreation Center
Topic: “Compiling a Book of Your Descendants.”
Gen News:
Access Findmypast’s Irish records for Free:
FindMyPastFindmypast is making ALL of its Irish records FREE to access starting Monday, March 13th through Friday, March 17th!
To coincide with St Patrick’s Day 2017, Findmypast are making their entire collection of more than 116 million Irish records free for five days! From 13-17 March 2017, your users’ can access the largest collection of Irish records online for FREE.
Click HERE to check out the various records available...
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries at Newberry.org
Sassy Jane Genealogy"From the Newberry Library, a wonderful research tool for genealogists researching U.S. locations: the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries at Newberry.org."
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Better Quality Translations on Google Translate:
Genealogy à la carte"Lately, it has seemed Google Translate’s translations from French to English have been pretty good about 90 percent of the time. I wasn’t sure if the translation methodology had improved or if I was becoming more tolerant of odd phrasing.
Apparently, it wasn’t my imagination."
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Tech:
Windows 10’s Settings Are a Mess, and Microsoft Doesn’t Seem to Care:
How-to-Geek"It’s been over four years since Microsoft first released the PC Settings interface with Windows 8, but the Control Panel and Settings app are still a confusing, split experience. There still isn’t a single interface, as there is on other operating systems, and Microsoft is seriously dragging their feet on consolidating them."
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Could Your iPhone Explode?
Lifewire
"When it comes to something as serious and potentially dangerous as a smartphone exploding, it's essential that you have all the facts and understand the whole situation. No one wants to endanger their safety for a gadget.
But let's cut to the chase: do you have to worry about your iPhone exploding? Almost certainly not.
Genealogy Basics: Cemetery Research Advice for Beginners
Ancestral Findings Podcast"Here's the latest genealogy podcast... Cemetery research is an important part of genealogy research. The two go hand in hand. Here's how to get started with it, and what it can help you discover about your ancestors"
Listen now... 6.58 minutes
Webinars:
Why Are Irish Records So Weird?
Legacy Family Tree"Not all Irish records were destroyed in 1922, but the burning of the Public Record Office in that year did leave an immense gap. As a result, Irish genealogical research has to deal with idiosyncratic, fragmentary and sometimes marginally relevant records in ways that can seem very strange to those used to British, US or Australian sources. In addition, Ireland came late to digitization and has done it unsystematically. To be polite. This talk unravels the ways in which marginal records have become essential for Irish research, and the peculiarities in using them online."
March 15, 2017 at 2:00 p.m.
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