VGS Latest News & Tips: 24 April 2017

Reminders:

Today: April 24, 2017

Technology SIG Meeting:

10:00 AM in the Destin Room at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center

Presentation: "Basic Photo Repair Using Photoshop and Photoshop Elements"

Gen News:

Trusted Sources: Why Museums And Libraries Are More Relevant Than Ever:

Smithsonian Insider
"More and more, the trustworthiness of information is based on the perceived trustworthiness of the source. Since our founding, this nation has consistently placed that trust in its museums and libraries. Even today, libraries and museums are considered honest purveyors of information and places for conversation on issues of local and national significance."
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How Clues in Your Old Family Photos Can Keep You Out of Trouble:

Photo Detective
"It's time for another installment of Mikael Hammerman's mystery photo, which shows a mother and a daughter—and just might shed light on his family legend about a young mother who ran away with her employer to America."
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Green Students Help Preserve Historical Cemetery:

Akron.com
"To better understand this historical place and the people buried there, University of Akron Professor Timothy Matney teamed up with 38 Green High School science students April 8-9 to survey the ancient cemetery, utilizing modern technology to gain further knowledge of the site."
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Tech:

How to Enable Night Shift in macOS to Reduce Eyestrain?

How-to-Geek
"Night Shift is a new feature introduced in macOS Sierra 10.12.4, and you might already be familiar with it if you’re an iOS user. Here’s how to enable it and set it up on your Mac."
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How to Optimize Mozilla Firefox for Maximum Privacy?

How-to-Geek
"Like other modern browsers, Firefox includes a few features that send your data over the Internet. Firefox contacts Mozilla, Yahoo, and Google’s servers by default. We don’t recommend you disable all these features, as they do useful things. But we’ll explain what the various options are so you can make informed decisions."
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Education:

How to Make Your Written Family History More Exciting:

Ancestral Findings
"How can we make our written family history more exciting? In today’s episode of the Ancestral Findings Podcast, I’ll show you how to inject some fascinating readability into your family history that will make it more appealing to a wide audience."
Listen now... 4:28 minutes