VGS Latest News and Tips: May 24, 2017

Reminders:

Today: May 24, 2017

Brick Wall SIG Meeting

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

Today: May 24, 2017

General Monthly Meeting

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

Topic: Our guest speaker is Donna Bachowski "Forget Me Not: Preserving Legacies with EPOCH"

Gen News:

A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials:

Smithsonian
 "The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the Devil's magic—and 20 were executed."
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Homo Naledi’s Surprisingly Young Age Opens Up More Questions On Where We Come From:

Scienmag
"Johannesburg – Scientists today announced that the Rising Star Cave system has revealed yet more important discoveries, only a year and a half after it was announced that the richest fossil hominin site in Africa had been discovered, and that it contained a new hominin species named Homo naledi by the scientists who described it."
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Free Ancestry.com Databases:

Ancestry
Do you know that Ancestry.com has over 1800 free database collections?
The 1940 and 1880 censuses, SSID and the England & Wales, Civil Marriage Indexes to name a few.
See what's free...  Note: You need at least a free guest account to view this list...
What's a Guest account? Learn more HERE...

Tech:

How to Embed Web Videos, Music, Documents, and More in OneNote:

How-to-Geek
"OneNote is simple at first glance: it’s a place to write notes and maybe clip articles from the web for future reference. It’s an organizational tool, and a good one. But unlike other Office products, Microsoft offers OneNote for free and is constantly adding new updates."
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How to Automatically Free Up Disk Space with Windows 10’s Storage Sense:

How-to-Geek
"Windows 10’s Creators Update adds a handy little feature that automatically cleans out your temp files and stuff that’s been sitting in your Recycle Bin for more than a month. Here’s how to enable it."
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Latest Update: Family Tree Maker 2017

Software MacKiev: May 19, 2017
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Education:

Finding Unnamed Ancestors on the 1790-1840 Censuses:

Ancestral Findings
"The 1790-1840 census records only listed heads of household by name. However, that does not mean you can't put together a list of who was in the household. You just look at other clues like these."
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Today's Webinar Reminder:

WikiTree: Free for All without a Free-for-All:

Legacy Family Tree Webinars
"This presentation gives a general overview and introduction to the free collaborative family tree site, WikiTree. It will cover the site's mission and Honor Code, privacy versus open collaboration, genetic genealogy features, cousin bait, becoming a part of the community, and the benefits of membership."
Today, May 24, 2017 at 2:00 p.m.
Presenter: Eowyn Langholf
Learn more or Register for this webinar...