VGS Latest News & Tips: 21 March 2017

Reminders:

Tomorrow: March 22, 2017

Brick Wall SIG Meeting

8:30 AM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center

Tomorrow: March 22, 2017

General Monthly Meeting

10:00 AM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center

Guest Speaker: Mary Tedesco one of the hosts from "Genealogy Roadshow"

Topic: "Underused Resources and Record Types for Genealogists"

Tomorrow: March 22, 2017

Italian Genealogy SIG Meeting

2:00 - 3:20 PM in the Atlanta Room in the Savannah Center

Guest Speaker Mary Tedesco from "Genealogy Roadshow" 

Topic: "Italian Genealogy: Records & Resources in Italy"

Note: This is a different time and date for this event. The usual March 21st meeting is canceled.

Gen News:

The Power Of Ancestry DNA Circles:

Kitty Cooper
"My cousin DM got a new 3rd cousin match, DB, on her Ancestry.com DNA page that was listed in two of her DNA circles even though those ancestors did NOT appear on that match’s tree! Wow, is ancestry really able to make this call just from the DNA?"
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An Adoptee’s Dream Come True:

My Heritage
"During the past five months, MyHeritage has been engaged in a special project in partnership with Israeli Member of Parliament Nurit Koren, to help family members who were separated in the 1940s and 1950s in Israel, to find each other and reconnect through the use of DNA. The project is one of MyHeritage’s pro bono initiatives and is being carried out at no cost to the participants, with the goal of reuniting families."
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Family Migration Patterns Just Got a Big Bump with DNA!

Lisa Louise Cooke
"Do you need help solving your family migration patterns? A groundbreaking new scientific study uses DNA and family trees to map migration routes across North America."
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Tech:

How Facebook’s News Feed Sorting Algorithm Works:

How-to-Geek
"Facebook doesn’t use a chronological feed, like Twitter does (or like Facebook used to). Instead, what you see in your News Feed is determined by an algorithm that sorts things based on what Facebook thinks you want to see. This is a cause of some consternation."
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How to Recover Deleted iMessages from an iPhone or iPad:

How-to-Geek
"If you’ve ever deleted iMessages and then wanted to get them back, it’s not necessarily easy to do. But it is possible."
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Education:

Resources for Tracing Your Canadian Ancestors Online:

Ancestral Findings Podcast
"Are you starting your Canadian genealogy search and aren't sure where to find the good record sources? In this episode of the Ancestral Findings Podcast, I’ll show you the top Canadian research sites online."
Listen now...  5.48 minutes