VGS Latest News & Tips: 6 March 2017

Reminder:

Monday: March 6, 2017
Jewish Genealogy SIG Meeting:10:00 AM in the MacArthur Room at the Eisenhower Recreation Center

Topic: "Finding the Immigrants - Using the Ellis Island Website and the Steve Morse One-Step site"

Gen News:

Durham Records Online:

"Looking for ancestors in Northeast England? Durham Records Online provides records from County Durham and Northumberland for genealogists and historians.
Search our 3,424,884 Durham & Northumberland parish & census records containing 8,465,642 names."
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New Native American Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups:

DNAeXplaied
"As DNA testing has become more mainstream, many people want to see if they have Native ancestry. While autosomal DNA can only measure back in time relative to ethnicity reliably about 5 or 6 generations, Y and mitochondrial DNA due to their unique inheritance paths and the fact that they do not mix with the other parent’s DNA can peer directly back in time thousands of years."
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How to Save Grandma’s Love Letters:

Ancestry
"For most of us who only knew grandparents as much-older adults, discovering the hope and exuberance of youth in a stack of old letters can be an eye-opening experience that makes them more human and less like long-gone ancestors."
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Tech:

How to Prevent Your Nest Cam from Capturing Sound:

How-to-Geek
"The Nest Cam can capture audio whenever it’s recording video so you can hear what’s going on. However, if you don’t need audio, you can disable it to save just a little bit of bandwidth and data."
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How Big of a Photo Can I Print from My Phone or Camera?

How-to-Geek
"There’s something special about a printed photo. Sure, you can share thousands of photos on Facebook, but none of them will ever be as special as the one photo you hang on the wall in your living room."
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Education:

Gustave Anjou: An Intriguing Career of Genealogical Fraud:

Ancestral Findings
"Are you familiar with the name Gustave Anjou? If you aren't, you should be. He is a famous genealogical con man. In today’s episode of the Ancestral Findings Podcast, I’ll give you his story, and how he did it."
Listen now... 7.54 minutes