VGS Latest News & Tips: 3 April 2017

Reminder:

Monday: April 3, 2017
Jewish Genealogy SIG Meeting:10:00 AM in the MacArthur Room at the Eisenhower Recreation Center
Topic: Diane Jacobs: "Preview of the IAGJS Conference in Orlando"

Gen News:

How To Prevent Your Facebook Profile from Being Spoofed:

Olive Tree Genealogy
"Facebook accounts get spoofed all the time. But what does this mean? Has your account been hacked? Do you need to change your password?"
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AncestryDNA Personal Discoveries Project:

Ancestry Insider
"I visited my DNA page last Saturday to see if the new Genetic Communities feature has launched yet. It hasn’t. But I did see something new. Ancestry gave me the opportunity to take a survey. It is part of the “Personal Discoveries Project.”
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Home Sources: Searching through Mom’s Old Papers:

GenealogyBank
"Digging through Mom’s old papers, I found this poem she wrote for old family friends Forrest and Betty Perkins when they moved from our area in the late 1950s."
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Q. When will the new Family Tree Maker 2017 start shipping?

A. FTM 2017 has new technology for connecting Family Tree Maker to Ancestry which we call FamilySync — which allows an Ancestry tree to be synced with multiple computers running FTM. We had planned to release FTM 2017 on March 31, 2017, but have been delayed a few days as we work with Ancestry to make final adjustment to FamilySync. We expect to release very soon. Click www.familytreemaker.com for updates on our progress.
Editor's Note: I would wait a week or two on this latest version to see what problems they may run into. This is a free update only if you have the latest MacKiev FTM 2014.1 version already installed.

Tech:

How to Make Windows Show File Extensions:

How-to-Geek
"Windows doesn’t show file extensions by default, but you can change a single setting and make Windows 7, 8, or 10 always show you each file’s full file extension."
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How to Save Money with the Walmart App’s Savings Catcher:

How-to-Geek
"Walmart has billed itself as the low-price leader, and they are usually hard to beat…but they don’t always have the lowest prices. Using the Walmart app is a great way to “catch” them when they don’t."
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Editor's Note: I have been refunded over $100 so far using this app...

Education:

Historical Maps Reveal Much More Than We Think:

Ancestry
"Certified Genealogists, Pamela Boyer Sayre & Rick Sayre share why maps reveal more than meets the eye along with their favorite online and offline resources to find maps to use in your family history research."
Listen now...  7.49 minutes

The New World of Self - Publishing:

Sumter Library
"Author Dorothy May will delve into the amazing world of self publishing and its meteoric rise to success as a giant in the publishing world."
Belvedere - Monday, April 10 @ 3pm
Registration not required